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Beyblade X XONE Game Launches in English on Switch

Beyblade X XONE, the newest game in the Beyblade franchise, launched in English on the Nintendo Switch eShop on Thursday alongside its Japanese release.

The game launched for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam in Japan on Thursday.

The game includes a single-player mode with a new story and characters, as well as online multiplayer. Players can customize Beyblades and use them to fight. The game features stadiums with X Lines and the X Dash from the Beyblade X anime. There is also an "Active Gauge" that is original to the game. The game has a special Beyblade "Shinobi Knife 4-60LF Metal Coat: Blue" exclusive to physical copies of the Switch version.

The television anime of Takara Tomy's Beyblade X project premiered globally on July 13. The Beyblade X anime premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo and its affiliates in October 2023.

Takara Tomy announced the Beyblade X project in March 2023. Takara Tomy describes the project as the "4th generation," after the original 1999 Beyblade (Bakuten Shoot Beyblade), 2008's Beyblade: Metal Fusion (Metal Fight Beyblade), and 2015's Beyblade Burst.

Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui), Hikaru Muno (High Card), and Posuka Demizu (The Promised Neverland) launched the Beyblade X manga in Shogakukan's Monthly Coro Coro Comics magazine in June 2023. Kawamoto and his younger brother Muno are credited with the original story, and Demizu is drawing the manga.

Beyblade Burst QuadStrike, the seventh season of the Beyblade Burst anime series, premiered on Disney XD in April 2023 and on Hulu that May in the U.S. Episodes streamed on YouTube following the U.S. premieres. The anime also aired on the company's additional regional broadcast partners. The show had 26 22-minute episodes.

Sources: Nintendo's eShop via @MyNintendoNews