The Nintendo of America Twitter account confirmed that Paladins is coming to the Nintendo Switch on June 12th. Consumers can purchase the Paladins Founder’s Pack for $29.99 on the North American eShop.
A trailer for the game is available on Nintendo’s YouTube channel now. You can watch it by clicking here.
The free-to-play edition of Paladins will be available later this summer–according to the eShop. The game runs at 60fps and you can cross-play with Xbox One consumers too.
According to the Nintendo Switch’s eShop, here’s all you need to know about the game.
Join 25+ million players in Paladins, the free-to-play fantasy team-based shooter sensation. Wield guns and magic as a legendary Champion of the Realm, customizing your core set of abilities to play exactly how you want to play.
Fantastic Champions
Paladins is set in a vibrant fantasy world and features a diverse cast of Champions ranging from sharpshooting humans to mech-riding goblins, mystical elves, and jetpack-clad dragons. Each Champion brings a unique set of abilities to the battlefield and new Champions are regularly added to Paladins, keeping the game exciting.
Free-to-Play
Paladins is completely Free-to-Play. Anything that affects gameplay can be unlocked simply by playing, with cosmetic items available for purchase.
Build Your Deck
No matter what your playstyle is, you’ll find it in Paladins. With Paladins’ deckbuilding system, you can become an iron sights sniper, a grenade-slinging explosives expert, or a track star with an assault rifle – all as the same Champion. Choose from dozens of cards to customize your abilities and make each Champion your own.
Customize Your Champion
Ancient Goddess. Interstellar bounty hunter. Cutthroat pirate. Frost giant. You can be all of these and more in Paladins. Choose from hundreds of skins already available in Paladins or find a new favorite in each update.
Paladins will be available as a free-to-play game later this year. Founders get early access, immediately unlock all Champions and their voice packs now and forever, and receive exclusive cosmetics.
The Paladins Founder’s Pack takes up 5.8GB of space on your Nintendo Switch system.
With all the lead up to E3 2018; it seems Nintendo is making up for the lack of third party support from the Wii U console generation. What other third party games will we see appear before or during E3 for the Nintendo Switch? We’ll have to wait and see.
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