Ubisoft has revealed details of their Switch release for Star Link. The standard game will be $75. It will include a physical Arwing and Fox McCloud figurine. As previously discussed, Star Link optionally uses these figurines to affect the game in real time, somewhat like Skylanders, but the game can be played fully without using them.

The Switch release also comes with the following.

• 1 Starlink Video Game
• 1 Zenith Starship
• 1 Mason Rana Pilot
• 1 Shredder Weapon
• 1 Flamethrower Weapon
• 1 Frost Barrage Weapon
• 1 Controller Mount
• 1 Poster

There are additional preorder bonuses and DLC for purchase. Preorders are open now!

In a surprise announcement during today's Ubisoft E3 presentation, the team behind Star Link: Battle for Atlas (announced last year), revealed cameo appearances by the Star Fox team, with playable Arwings and Star Fox characters (at least Fox McCloud).

Turns out, the team always wanted to get Star Fox in their game, and they managed to do it with Nintendo's.

Mr. Miyamoto made an appearance and was given a prototype Arwing and Fox figurine from the game's toys-to-life style components.

Star Link launches October 16th with Star Fox content coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch release.

It's E3 season, friends! Microsoft and some other companies have already had their reveals. Nintendo will be presenting their Nintendo Direct last, on Tuesday morning at 9AM Pacific (12PM Eastern), followed by three straight days of streaming games from the Treehouse. There will also be a Splatoon 2 tournament (on Monday afternoon) and a Smash Switch tournament right after the Nintendo Direct on Tuesday.

This year's announcements will prove to be very interesting, with lots of games expected to be on display including Super Smash Bros. for Switch, Metroid Prime 4, maybe the new main-line Pokémon games for Switch (not the Let's Go games, new ones for 2019), and VERY maybe, the next Star Fox game, which might just be that rumored racing game.

Be sure and join us on the Krystal Archive Discord Server to watch the streams live with all of us.

• Nintendo's E3 Site
• Nintendo's Twitch Channel

Edit: "Nintendo's E3 at 2018"?! Apparently I can't grammar when I'm tired.

I commissioned RattyCreations a while back to do a Krystal fanart for me. I asked that she do Krystal in an Ōkami-like style that she's used before, like in this example, but otherwise, told her to "have fun." The image at the top of the post is a preview she sent. I don't know if she will be continuing it or doing something completely different. Whatever she does, she'll be streaming it tomorrow, live for all to enjoy!

Watch the stream with me on June 7th 2018 at around Noon (central time).

Ratty's DeviantArt account

Enjoy SchattenKitsune666's artistic rendition of the events just prior to the start of Star Fox Command. Seems about right.

Speaking of upcoming Star Fox games, UndyingNephalim is seeking feedback on how or if he should continue pursuing Star Fox projects. His Zelda fangame, Hyrule Conquest, is far more popular with his patrons and has received the bulk of his development time. Though he would like to continue working on a Star Fox project, he questions whether to continue working on Star Fox: Event Horizon, cancel it to work on his Zelda title, or retool his Star Fox assets into a real-time strategy game, which was what he was working on before building Star Fox: Event Horizon.

Please take a moment to let you opinion be known by commenting on his Patreon post, DeviantArt post, or YouTube video.

The biggest rumor of the year! Several groups claim that Retro Studios is secretly working on a Star Fox title for the Nintendo Switch: one that is styled as a racing game of some sort, rather than focusing on space/air combat. This rumor has apparently been making the rounds behind the scenes in different game journalism groups, but surfaced publicly around May 14th.

Meanwhile, on the same day, Nintendo's registration/renewal of their Japanese trademark for Star Fox (and other series) went through.

While I was initially much more skeptical, it has since been reported as probably true by multiple, independent sources, including one source I trust more than most because they rarely even comment on rumors unless they at least partially verify it. Certainly, this is feasible, as Retro Studios is largely responsible for the level design in Mario Kart 7. Another wrinkle: Nintendo might actually be hiding what aspects of projects Retro Studios helps with to prevent fan outcry about them "wasting their time" on games other that Metroid and Donkey Kong.

The game is supposedly "like Diddy Kong Racing mixed with F-Zero", and "It will have an adventure mode of some kind (think Diddy Kong Racing) and there will be some boss fights and a hub world like it too."

The idea that Star Fox characters could drive high speed vehicles has already been explored by one of Star Fox Command's endings: "The Curse of Pigma". And, of course, there is a indirect cameo appearance of James McCloud (as a human-like character) in the F-Zero series, pictured above.

So, still a rumor, but looking more likely. E3 is just around the corner, so we'll know pretty soon if it's going to be shown off. Also, there's the possibility that the game could enter development, but then get canceled before any public appearance. Such a thing would be incredibly difficult to confirm, as was what happened with the LAST huge Star Fox rumor.

• Initial Public Reddit Post
• Eurogamer concurs using their own sources
• More potential details from a podcast

Super Nintendo World is an collaboration between Nintendo and Universal studios to open up a series of Nintendo theme parks. The first is planned to open in Universal Studios Tokyo to coincide with the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020. Future parks will also open in Hollywood and Florida inside renovated portions of Universal Studios parks at those locations.

Staffers working with on the park programming announced several planned attractions today. In addition to the previously leaked Mario Kart racing track, there are plans for a Donkey Kong barrel-themed roller coaster and a sort of forest-like maze with moving rooms to simulate the Lost Woods from various Zelda games.

Nintendo will also be focusing heavily on virtual reality technology in the park, which is why I'm posting this here. The existing Mario Kart VR experience will be brought in and expanded upon, but more importantly to us, they also are working on a Star Fox VR experience. Details are scarce, but it seems that they are reworking some of the technology and levels from Star Fox Zero to work in a VR space, where aiming is done with head motions, and flight is handled with a joystick. Riders will be elevated in a flight simulator-style enclosure that will visually mimic the real cockpit of an Arwing, and move around and shake in time with the gameplay in the goggles. Also cool: the mockup images show the line to the attraction will wrap around a 1-1 scale replica of an Arwing, and the entire attraction takes place inside an area designed to look like the Great Fox's hangar bay.

Other details are few and far between, but we did get a look at an artist's animated mockup of the Star Fox attraction.

Update: False alarm people! Sorry about that. It seems that this news story was a fake! No doubt the devious, intelligent, yet handsome individual responsible for this report was able to pull a fast one on us, and on April Fools' Day no less! How could I have been so deceived?

The Krystal Lovers Association is a Krystal-focused forum that's been around in one form or another since (I think) before Star Fox Adventures launched in 2002, created during the hype surrounding the announcement of the yet unreleased game Dinosaur Planet. Eggman9713, the admin of the site since BEFORE THE KRYSTAL ARCHIVE EVEN EXISTED, just announced that the site would be shutdown one week from today on March 16th, 2018. The forum has been relatively inactive for quite a while, and the release of Star Fox Zero did not see a revival of the fandom that we hoped for. Plus, technology has moved on. No longer do people get their news and community through forums. Now it's all about blogs, social media, and dedicated chat apps like Discord.

The forum has been running for at least 15 years. I joined it prior to creating the Krystal Archive, and many of the initial contacts and assets I discovered were thanks to the conversations and people I met through the KLA. Though I haven't been visiting the KLA much in the last few years, it holds a very special place in my heart, and was somewhat of an unofficial Krystal Archive forum for a while.

Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. The KLA will continue to live on in the hearts of Krystal fans everywhere.

We were expecting something simple and fun for today's Nintendo Direct. We got a lot of cool announcements, but we ALSO got the totally unexpected announcement of the long desired Super Smash Bros for Switch. At the very end, they had a teaser trailer for the game to announce that it was in development.

About the only thing we can say for sure is that it looks like Splatoon's Inklings will become fully playable characters with their ink mechanics intact. Also, the Breath of the Wild version of Link was shown, so there definitely changes to the existing characters. Does this mean a port with additional functionality like in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, or is this a new game entirely? We don't know at this point. But, I'm sure the speculation will go even wilder now than there's something to look forward to.

As usual, Krystal has historically been a popular request, especially among female character choices. However, I would advise against getting your hopes too high, in spite of the parody art I made for this post (based on Smashified Krystal artwork).

In health news, I am sometimes better, sometimes worse with recovery. However, I have some good news in that I'm quickly learning how to type and program with my voice instead of my hands. This will be instrumental in allowing me to continue working on the site and other things. In the meantime, please join our Discord (invite link), if you want to see ongoing Krystal news and discussion with other site visitors and Krystal fans.