During their E3 2018 Press Conference, Ubisoft revealed that in their upcoming action-adventure title, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Nintendo’s iconic fox, Star Fox, will make be making an appearance exclusively on the Nintendo Switch version of the game!
Starlink: Battle for Atlas is set in the Atlas star system. The game kicks off with the player’s mothership, the Equinox, being ambushed by “The Forgotten Legion”, causing the player to crash land on a nearby planet. Players will have to journey across Atlas to prevent Grax, the leader of The Forgotten Legion, from finding the ancient technology left behind by an extinct race known as “The Wardens”.
Additionally, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂) made an appearance at Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference as an audience. Ubisoft co-founder and CEO gifted a special Star Fox prototype.
Starlink: Battle is due out 16th October for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.