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All hands on deck
Having found success as a more traditional tabletop card game, the artist formerly known as The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game has finally made the transition to the world of virtual decks. Having emerged from Early Access on PC, The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game arrives on consoles with cross-play and all the story...
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Tuesday2nd Dec 2025
News Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Credits Reveal A Plethora Of Assist Devs, Including Next Level Games
And Samus has a brand new voice
When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond landed with Retro Studios back in 2019, we're not sure anybody was truly shocked by this turn of events. Retro is, after all, the original developer of the Prime series, and while many of the veteran team members have since left, the sheer quality of the fourth entry on Switch 2...
Sunday20th Jul 2025
News Switch Port Specialist Virtuos Confirms 270 Layoffs
It released Oblivion Remastered earlier this year
The Switch port specialist Virtuos – known within the Nintendo space for its work on games like The Outer Worlds – has officially laid off 270 employees across its studios worldwide. This is "approximately 7%" of the company's "global workforce", with 200 roles in Asia and 70 roles in Europe...
Sunday6th Jul 2025
News Switch Port Experts Share Thoughts About Switch 2's "Raw" Performance
The Virtuos team chimes in
Even now that we've got our hands on the Switch 2, there are still developers sharing their thoughts about the power of the system and where it fits in. In the same interview with Wccftech, the Virtuos team was asked how the new Nintendo device holds up in terms of "raw console performance" and if it's closer to an Xbox...
Saturday5th Jul 2025
News Switch Port Specialist Believes Switch 2 Can Surpass Its Predecessor's Success
"The handheld market is growing right now"
One company that backed the Switch throughout its life was the port specialist Virtuos – working on games like Dark Souls and The Outer Worlds for the hybrid platform. It might just be the beginning of the Switch 2's life, but the same team is already sounding confident about the new hardware's future...
Saturday5th Nov 2022
Ah, but did that stop Joker?
Crashing onto the scene back in 2017, NieR:Automata was a breakthrough moment for Yoko Taro. Though the director gained infamy for the Drakengard series — including the original NieR on PS3 and Xbox 360 — and his unusual interviews, Automata is the game that truly put him and his team on the m
Tuesday20th Sep 2022
Video NieR:Automata For Nintendo Switch Gets A New Trailer
See the game running on Nintendo hardware
NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition will make its debut on the Nintendo Switch next month, and ahead of release, Square Enix has shared a brand new trailer at the 2022 Tokyo Game Show. It's another look at the Switch version in action. This port of the game is being handled by the team over at Virtuos...
Tuesday2nd Feb 2021
News Adaptation Expert Virtuos Is "Excited" About New Switch Projects "This Summer And Beyond"
"There’s plenty more to come from the Switch family"
Switch's release schedule might be looking a little light at the moment, but it would be fair to assume that there are projects in the pipeline which have yet to be announced – and we've arguably had confirmation of that assumption from Christophe Gandon, Managing Director of Games at Virtuos,...
Monday4th Jan 2021
News Our Switch Ports Will Keep Getting Better, Says Conversion Specialist Virtuos
"I’d say we’re several levels higher than less experienced teams"
Virtuos, alongside Panic Button Games, is one of the leading lights in the field of handling ports to the Nintendo Switch. The company has been involved with titles such as Dark Souls: Remastered, L.A. Noire and BioShock: The Collection, and clearly has a solid understanding of...
Thursday22nd Oct 2020
News The Outer Worlds On Switch Has Been Updated To Version 1.2
Visual changes and more...
Update (Thu 22nd Oct, 2020 01:30 BST): The long-awaited patch for The Outer Worlds is finally here. It bumps the game up to version 1.2 and includes a bunch of features, changes and fixes. Below are the full patch notes from the official game site: The next time you launch The Outer Worlds on your Nintendo Switch, you...
Tuesday13th Oct 2020
News A Follow-Up To The Outer Worlds Is Already In Pre-Production, Says Industry Insider
Is Obsidian gearing up for a second adventure?
Obsidian Entertainment is supposedly already working on a sequel to its action-RPG The Outer Worlds, which made its debut on the Nintendo Switch in June this year after multiple delays. The scoop comes courtesy of industry insider and Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad, who says the follow-up is...
Friday24th Jul 2020
News New Story DLC For The Outer Worlds Is Coming To Nintendo Switch In The Future
"No confirmed date"
Obsidian Entertainment has officially revealed its first expansion for The Outer Worlds. Peril on Gorgon is coming to the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 9th September, so what about a Switch release? According to the publisher Private Division, Nintendo's hybrid system will also be receiving this DLC in the future (thanks,...
Friday26th Jun 2020
News A New Patch Is In The Works For The Switch Version Of The Outer Worlds
Virtuos investigating how to "further improve" performance
Following on from The Outer Worlds' big release on the Switch earlier this month, the game's publisher Private Division has revealed a patch is currently in the works, and that the team at Virtuos is investigating how to "further improve" the performance. Here's the full announcement from...
Monday25th May 2020
Feature XCOM 2 Collection Port Specialists Virtuos On Bringing The Series To Switch
"This process is like squeezing water from a sponge"
Virtuos has made a name for itself with Switch gamers as one of the premier developers of quality ports on the platform. With impressive Switch versions of L.A. Noire, a clutch of Final Fantasy remasters, Starlink: Battle for Atlas and
Saturday4th Apr 2020
"we are charged up and full of talent"
Port specialist Virtuos has made quite a name for itself during the Switch generation - helping bring across games like Starlink: Battle for Atlas, Dark Souls: Remastered and L.A. Noire. The company's vice president of games, Elijah Freeman, has also previously told other developers not to treat Nintendo
Friday7th Feb 2020
News The Outer Worlds Switch Release Gets Delayed Due To The Coronavirus Outbreak
Physical version on cartridge also confirmed
After already failing to release alongside other versions of the game in October last year, The Outer Worlds for Switch has now been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Private Division, the publisher who is handling the release, explained on Twitter how Virtuos – the talented team working on the...
Thursday30th Jan 2020
News Schedule A Trip To The Outer Worlds On Switch This March
Release date confirmed. Digital only, mind
We've known it was incoming for quite a while, and Take-Two told investors last November that the Switch version of Obsidian's action-RPG The Outer Worlds would be launching before the end of March 2020, but it has now been confirmed to arrive on 6th March, just over a month from now. The game has been...
Sunday12th Jan 2020
Feature Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Love To See In 2020
We ain't beggin'
Last year we let our imaginations run wild and picked 30 third-party ports we'd like to see come to Switch. Despite our wishes, Cuphead still surprised us when it arrived on Switch with Microsoft's blessing (along with Ori And The Blind Forest later in the year), but there are still a large number of games - some of them far more...
Tuesday29th Oct 2019
News Port Specialist Virtuos Convinced Obsidian To Bring The Outer Worlds To Switch
"We weren't sure it could be done"
It turns out a Switch version of The Outer Worlds might not have even happened if it wasn't for the port specialist Virtuos presenting Obsidian with a proof of concept. During a recent US Gamer interview, co-game director Leonard Boyarsky said the Nintendo port came as something of a surprise to the team: We...
Saturday26th Oct 2019
News The Outer Worlds Won't Be Released On Switch Until Next Year
Will it be worth the wait?
This week, Obsidian Entertainment's anticipated action RPG The Outer Worlds launched on every modern platform but the Switch. So, what's happened to the Nintendo release? According to a new press release from the game's publisher Private Division, the hybrid version of the game will be arriving in 2020. Yep, so next...
Friday4th Oct 2019
News Port Specialist Virtuos Advises Other Devs To Not Treat The Switch "As A Secondary Platform"
"Switch is a great way to invest in the future"
In the same interview with GameIndustry.biz, Virtuos' vice president of games Elijah Freeman advises the video game industry to not treat the Nintendo Switch as a secondary platform, as it is an investment in the future and in many cases can rejuvenate brands. The first thing we recommend is not...
News Virtuos Only Interested In Offering Switch Players The Best Ports Possible
"we view 'bespoke' versions as tailored versions"
One of the best port specialists in the video game industry right now is Virtuos. On the Switch front, it has helped bring games like Starlink: Battle for Atlas and Dark Souls: Remastered to the hybrid platform, and most recently assisted with The Outer Worlds. In an interview with G
Thursday19th Sep 2019
Rumour Switch Port Specialist Virtuos Believed To Be Working On Alan Wake Remaster
Reawakening
According to YouTuber Doctre81 – best known in recent times for uncovering evidence of The Witcher 3 on Switch prior to its official announcement – a LinkedIn profile for the former lead software engineer at Virtuos reveals the developer has been working on an unannounced triple-A "action adventur
Tuesday3rd Sep 2019
News Exclusive Versions Of "Beloved" IPs Are Coming To Nintendo Switch, Says Virtuos Games VP
A return to the days of the Wii?
If you cast your mind back to the days of the Wii, one of the things Nintendo fans had to endure as a consequence of the power gap between the console and the PS3 and Xbox 360 was the existence of Nintendo-exclusive "reimaginings" of popular cross-platform titles. Some of these were surprisingly good, such as Call of...
Tuesday30th Jul 2019
News Journey To The Outer Worlds When Obsidian's Space RPG Lands On Switch
Surprise!
Yep, you read that right! Obsidian Entertainment is bringing The Outer Worlds to Switch in partnership with Virtuos. Senior Producer Matthew Singh appears in the above video detailing the announcement and discussing the story and setting of the game. While we shouldn't really be surprised to see big ports coming to the Switch, this one...
Saturday26th Jan 2019
Feature How Virtuos Solved The Technical Challenge Of Bringing The Final Fantasy Remasters To Switch
"This requires a fair amount of skill"
Singapore-based Virtuos is a studio that has already made quite a name for itself on Switch thanks to its superb ports of L.A. Noire, Dark Souls and Starlink – a trio of third-party efforts which have done much to enhance the library of Nintendo's hybrid system. However, the company's next project could be...
































