Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle Is Out In August Is Kind Of Like Xcom Somehow

Nintendo heavyweight Miyamoto joined Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot on stage at Ubisoft’s E3 conference, and showed off Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. It’s coming to the Switch on Agust 29, 2017. 

In Kingdom Battle, the Rabbids have been teleported into the Mushroom Kingdom, making everything unstable (also a lot of the scenery has ears).

This seemingly inexplicable crossover has long been rumoured, and now we have some gameplay. It switches from exploration to turn based combat arenas. There’s cover and half-cover. The battles seem to play out like XCOM. None of this is a joke.

Miyamoto-san and Yves celebrated the reveal with some giant replica guns.