Welcome to our latest recap of what’s going on in the indie game space. This week, the revived Acclaim held a very fun showcase (and we’ll get to some of the games from that). But on Friday, Nintendo soaked up all the attention with an hour-long Direct. Sure, it included some first-party games, such as data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/mario-tennis-fever-hits-the-court-on-february-12-134227490.html” data-ylk=”slk:Mario Tennis Fever;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Mario Tennis Fever, data-i13n=”cpos:2;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/metroid-prime-4-will-be-released-on-december-4-for-switch-1-and-2-134718933.html” data-ylk=”slk:Metroid Prime 4: Beyond;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and a data-i13n=”cpos:3;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/donkey-kong-bananza-is-getting-a-dlc-expansion-today-140016430.html” data-ylk=”slk:Donkey Kong Bananza;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Donkey Kong Bananza expansion. But Nintendo highlighted several indie games in the data-i13n=”cpos:4;pos:1″ href=”https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/mario-metroid-virtual-boy-and-more-all-the-biggest-announcements-from-todays-nintendo-direct-165722897.html” data-ylk=”slk:newsy showcase;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>newsy showcase, too.
Hades 2 is arguably the highest-profile name among…

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