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News Dark Souls: Remastered Will Still Have An Early Network Test
It’ll just be late, like the game
It came as quite the unexpected and strange blow when Namco randomly delayed the Switch version of Dark Souls: Remastered to some undefined point in the summer, citing “the nature of causality” as the reason for the delay. Many fans were understandably distraught at the news, but it also wasn’t made clear...
News Get Your Wiggle On As Spectrum Gets A Switch-Exclusive Local Multiplayer Race Mode
Platforming with pals
Following on from news that 3D Avenue's colourful platformer Spectrum is wiggling its way onto Nintendo Switch, publisher Digerati has now revealed an extra special addition to sweeten the deal - a new Race mode that's exclusive to Ninty's handheld machine. This new local multiplayer model will enable you and a mate (or a...
News Nihilumbra Will Make The Journey From Wii U To Switch On 3rd May
Something wicked this way comes
Following a run of success on mobile since its original release back in 2012 - and a 2015 port on Wii U - puzzle adventure Nihilumbra is set to make its way to Nintendo Switch next month. Barcelona-based BeautiFun Games will be handling its own port, which will arrive on the Switch eShop on 3rd May. The original...
News NBA Playgrounds 2 Will Take To The Court On Switch In 2018
Ballin'
Following a listing by the Australian Classification Board - which all but confirmed its existence - Saber Interactive has finally made it official. NBA Playgrounds 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch, although it's currently got a vague 2018 release window attached. The original NBA Playgrounds - which offered a cross between NBA Street and
News Dark Souls: Remastered Succumbs To Delay On Switch, Along With Solaire amiibo
"Forgive me… I am impure"
Bandai Namco has revealed that Dark Souls: Remastered on Switch has been delayed until the summer, along with the special Solaire amiibo. The May 25th release date still applies to the other versions, however. It would seem that whatever issue has occurred, it only impacts the Switch edition. With no solid release date...
News The Musical Mind Madness Of Figment Skips Onto Nintendo Switch On 31 May
A beautiful hand-drawn platformer/puzzler
We first reported on the unusual platforming world of Figment back in January 2017, when news broke that the game was making the delightful jump from PC to Nintendo Switch. Well, surprise, it's arriving on 31 May, direct from the Switch eShop. The award-winning musical adventure - which mixes classic...
Video Feast Your Eyes On This New Trailer For Octopath Traveler
Even if it is in Japanese...
With its breathtaking visual style and RPG mechanics that throw back to the glory days of Final Fantasy, Octopath Traveler has understandably become one of the most anticipated titles coming to Nintendo Switch this year. With a release date set for 13th July, Square Enix has released a brand new overview trailer...
News Snack World: Trejarers Gold On Switch Will Upgrade Visuals And Add In Surround Sound
It's snack time
Some more details surrounding the upcoming port of The Snack World from 3DS to Nintendo Switch, with a report from 4Gamer revealing a host of new improvements that will upgrade the food-minded adventure for a new generation. Snack World Trejarers Gold will include improved graphics, support for 5.1 Surround Sound and the use of a...
News Top-Down Roguelike Shooter Juicy Realm Will Blast Onto Switch This Summer
Juicy
X.D. Network Inc has revealed some fresh details and a gameplay video for its upcoming title Juicy Realm, along with an updated release date window of 'Q2 2018'. Supporting two-player local co-op, and available to play in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, Juicy Realm is a top-down roguelike game featuring...
News Venture Kid Is Coming To Nintendo Switch, And It's A Console Exclusive
A platformer of the retro variety
Indie studio FDG Entertainment has confirmed its retro platformer Venture Kid is headed to consoles. Well, to one console, that is - and it's only Nintendo Switch! The 8-bit throwback - which is currently in Early Access on Steam - will place you in the shoes of the titular 'Kid' as you battle the evil Dr. Teklov...
News Sega AGES Is Officially Coming to Nintendo Switch In The West
With five classic titles to boot
With its official Japanese reveal last week - and confirmation that Alex Kidd and Ground Gain are joining the lineup - Sega has now officially confirmed Sega AGES (the revived retro collection) is headed to Nintendo Switch in the West sometime in the summer of 2018. As we've previously reported, the first five...
News My Hero Academia: One's Justice Gets New Name And Some Juicy New Details
And justice for all
The game once known as My Hero Academia: One's Justice is getting a slight name change for its western release, adopting the new moniker My Hero One's Justice. With a title that's far less of a mouthful, Bandai Namco has also unveiled some of the new gameplay features set to appear in the anime-based brawler. This being a game...
News Chose Your Own Adventure And Solve The Case As Late Shift Arrives On Switch This Month
FMV for the win
Hot on the heels of its recent release on PC and other console platforms, British publisher Wales Interactive has confirmed FMV-based crime thriller Late Shift is headed to Nintendo Switch as well - and it'll be sidling onto the eShop on 26th April. Created by developer CtrlMovie - and written by screenwriter Michael R...
News Bethesda Busy Optimising Wolfenstein II On Switch, No News On DLC Yet
Spanish inquisition
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on Nintendo Switch is shaping up nicely - check out our recent hands-on preview at PAX East for confirmation of that - but we're still waiting on a firm release date and more details regarding post-release content. One fan took to Twitter to ask Bethesda what its plans were for releasing the...
News 2D Platforming Throwback Kemono Heroes Is Headed To Switch In 2019
Animal instincts
While Nintendo Switch's schedule is already filling up for 2018 (and we're not even at E3 2018 yet), it's also starting to get a handful of titles slated for 2019. Kemono Heroes, the new 2D platformer from studio Mad Gear Games, is one of the first, and it's bringing some 16-bit multiplayer action to Switch's digital library. With...
News Looks Like Playtonic Is Ready To Reveal Its Next Game
Plus "extra content" for Yooka-Laylee
UK studio Playtonic has broken its silence to celebrate the first birthday of Yooka-Laylee, as well as hint that it's about to lift the lid on its next project. In a recent blog post, Playtonic said: Yes, hands up, we’ve been a bit quiet for a while. But we promise it’s because we’ve been far too busy...
News Valkyria Chronicles Is Coming To Switch
Valkyria Chronicles 4 has been postponed, though
Sega has announced that the Nintendo Switch version of Valkyria Chronicles 4 won't launch until Fall 2018. To soften this blow, the company has confirmed that the original game will release alongside it in digital form. Let us know if you're excited about playing both by leaving a comment...
News Wii U Viking Epic Jotun: Valhalla Edition Is Reborn On Switch
Return to life
The superb Wii U title Jotun: Valhalla Edition is headed to Switch, according to a listing on the European eShop. The release date for this reheated version is April 27th. We awarded the Wii U version a whopping 9/10 back in 2016, and had this to say: From the Icelandic voice over that plays as you read the plight of Thora to...
News Football Manager Touch 2018 Kicks Off Today On Nintendo Switch
Back of the net
The tease was indeed true; the million-selling Football Manager series is coming to Switch - in fact, it launches today on the eShop. Publisher Sega has confirmed the news, as well as revealing that Football Manager Touch 2018 has been jointly developed by Sports Interactive and Hardlight. The game has a unique interface...
News Agatha Knife Is A Satirical Adventure Game Where You Create A Meat-Eating Religion
"Carnivorism"
Mango Protocol has announced Agatha Knife, a dark and satirical narrative adventure game launching on Nintendo Switch on April 26th. Agatha is a seven year old insomniac torn between her friendship with animals and her love for eating steaks and sausages. Stumbling across religion, Agatha realises it could be just the tool she...
News Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Comes Out Fighting On Switch Next Week
Calling out all special wolves
HAMSTER's admirable Neo Geo streak returns next week with Real Bout Fatal Fury Special showing up in the Switch eShop on April 19th. In case you're wondering what makes this one 'Special', we are here for you. Along with the entire roster of the original Real Bout Fatal Fury, the game sees the return of fan...
Feature Chatting To Fishing Cactus About Shift Quantum Ahead of EGX Rezzed
"We can’t wait to see the crazy and arty levels players will make"
With a combination of mind-bending puzzles and an intriguing cyber noir setting, Belgian developer Fishing Cactus’ second title Shift Quantum has been on our radar for a while. By transforming barriers into escape routes and manipulating negative space in the monochromatic...
Rumour Did Bethesda Just Tease DOOM 2 For This Year's E3?
"Hell on Earth"
E3 is rapidly approaching with only two months separating us from some (hopefully) great gaming reveals, but one publisher that hasn't been building the hype for the latter half of this year is DOOM and Skyrim wonder-studio, Bethesda. Until now... In a conversation with Dualshockers, Bethesda Softworks’ Senior Vice President...
News Retro-Style Aerial Combat Sim Sky Rogue Is On Target For A Switch Release This Month
Ace!
Fractal Phase's Sky Rogue has been listed on the North American Switch eShop, with a release date of April 26th. The retro-style arcade combat sim - which has a "Very Positive" rating on Steam - looks a lot like Namco's Ace Combat and Sega's Wing War, and will retail for $19.99. Sky Rogue is a fwooshy rogue-lite action flight...
News Studio Ghibli-Inspired Adventure Way To The Woods Could Be Switch-Bound
"I would love for the title to be on the Nintendo Switch"
Way To The Woods - a whimsical adventure game about a deer and its offspring - could be headed to Switch in the fullness of time, according to its teenage creator, Anthony Tan. Tan started the game when he was just 16, and is hard at work putting the finishing touches to the title, which is...
News Manticore: Galaxy On Fire Finally Cleared For Take-Off On April 19th
No longer lost in space
Those of you who were expecting to play the promising-looking Manticore: Galaxy on Fire back in March will have no doubt been disappointed when it was delayed at the last minute. Manticore's lead designer Patrick Imbusch issued an apology for the delay, which was caused by an "unexpected issue" that "occurred at...
News Quad Fighter K Will Bring Retro Co-Op Shooting Action To Switch This Summer
Total annihilation
Aksys Games has announced Quad Fighter K for Nintendo Switch, a 4-player co-op shooter set to launch this summer. Set far into the future, the game sees a mysterious alien race setting its sights on the conquest of the Earth, hoping to destroy the entire human race. Despite humanity's best efforts, the alien invaders' superior...
News Action RPG Die for Valhalla! Will Raid The Switch eShop Next Month
Norse code
Indie developer Monster Couch has confirmed that Die for Valhalla! will hit the Switch eShop on May 29th. Pre-loading is already live in Australia and should (fingers crossed) be hitting other regions shortly. We assume the release date will be the same in North America and Europe, too. Described as an action RPG with arcade beat 'em up...
News Defeat Zombie Hordes When Bouncy Bob Bounds Its Way Onto Switch This Month
Bob's your uncle (not literally)
A European Nintendo eShop listing has revealed that Bouncy Bob will be making its way to Nintendo Switch on 27th April. The game sees you take control of a gnome called Bouncy Bob, and you'll be defeating an army of the undead in its single player mode. When you've mastered the one-button control scheme, you...
News Souls-Like Sinner: Sacrifice For Redemption Coming To Switch In 2018
Pain & gain
Until recently, the Dark Souls-esque Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption was only slated for release on PC and other console platforms, but a recent delay in development brought with it a rather surprising silver lining - namely that a Nintendo Switch version is also in the works. Huzzah! The game is an action-RPG all about facing eight...
News Senran Kagura Reflexions Brings The World Of Japanese Massage To Switch
You'll never look at your Joy-Cons the same way again
The mainline Senran Kagura series has never shied away from the obvious sexual overtones of its female 'fronted' games - even creator Kenichiro Takaki refers to them as 'busty brawlers' - so it's hardly a shocker to see this new spin-off taking an equally adult route. Known as Shinobi Refle:...
News Shadow Archery Is A Brand New Game For Wii U, And It Will Launch For Free
The Wii U lives!
Just when you thought the poor Wii U was well and truly finished, enjoying its early retirement sipping margaritas on the balcony of a Spanish villa somewhere, indie developer Ultra Dolphin Revolution has called the console back into action. Shadow Archery is an endless arcade-style light gun shooter inspired by 8-bit games of...
News Horror Comes In Many Forms In Closed Nightmares For Nintendo Switch
It's headed to Japan on 19th July
Once upon a time the FMV was all the rage in video games, especially back on PC in the '90s. Well, it's having something of a comeback on Switch. First, there's the recently released The Bunker, and now Japanese handheld owners are getting another live-action romp in the form of horror outing, Closed Nightmare...
News PvP Battle Shmup Rival Megagun Is Coming to Nintendo Switch In 2018
Shmup with friends
Publisher Degica has confirmed Spacewave Sofware's competitive shmup title Rival Megagun will be arriving on Nintendo Switch alongside the PS4, Xbox One and PC versions at the end of 2018. The split-screen battler takes the classic top-down shmup template and adds a few neat competitive twists. The coolest feature is the ability...
Rumour Sounds Like Football Manager Will Finally Be Calling The Shots On Switch
The beautiful game
If all the signs are to be believed, the Football Manager series is finally going to walk out onto the field known as Nintendo Switch. A recent listing on a Korean retailer first broke the news, then franchise director Miles Jacobson took to Twitter to make an Eric Cantona-esque cryptic tweet. Now, according to a source close to...
News Iconoclasts Is Coming To The Switch Later This Year
With new features, too!
The Switch has proven itself to be quite the haven for indie developers, yet there’s been plenty of popular games from Steam and other platforms that have yet to make the leap to the platform. Iconoclasts is one such game—produced by one man team Joakim Sandberg—although he’s hinted in the past about interest in...
News Bethesda Talks Plans For Future Support On The Switch
Fallout, please?
Lots of noise has been made about third party support on the Switch, with many claiming that this is finally the generation that Nintendo reobtains the trust of major third-party publishers and starts getting big hitter releases alongside other consoles. While the jury is still out on how this is going to pan out, Bethesda is one...
News Dragon Quest XI Switch Port Development "Still Unclear At This Moment In Time"
In other words, it's a long way out
As recently as last month, Square Enix made it very clear that the Nintendo Switch iteration of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was going to release much later than the PC and PS4 versions (which are slated for release this September). Well, turns out progress on the handheld port has hit a few more...
Feature Here's What Pro Players Want From Super Smash Bros On Switch
Making the proper leap to eSports
If you’re a casual Super Smash Bros. player like most of us, it can be pretty interesting to see how the Smash Bros. franchise operates from the vantage point of the best players in the world. Yes, the announcement of Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo Switch is still fresh in our minds, but that’s more than enough...
Video See, Blighttown Really Does Run At 30fps On Nintendo Switch
Hollowed, but stable
Last week we reported on how FromSoftware and Chinese studio Virtuos had reportedly managed to wrestle Blighttown - a notorious location in Dark Souls, known for its brutal boss fights and crippling frame rate issues - to a stable 30fps on Nintendo Switch. Well, PAX East has come and gone, and now we have some actual footage to...
News Disgaea Refine Launches On Switch Later This Year In Japan
A remake of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
The latest issue of Dengeki PlayStation has revealed that the previously-mooted remake of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is called Disgaea Refine, and it will be hitting Switch this July in Japan. The original game was released on the PlayStation 2 way back in 2003, and established a series which continues to...
Feature Escaping An Alien Invasion Any Way We Can With Mugsters Developer Reinkout
'You'll be running away and go 'Nope. it's time to start exploding things'.
Mugsters is a quirky action puzzler focused on 'saving everything' from a robot alien invasion. We had some hands-on time with the title, and suffice to say it's shaping up to be a very interesting experience. As a tasty little extra, Finnish developer Reinkout sat down with...
News Etrian Odyssey Is Mapping Out One Final Adventure On Nintendo 3DS
The 3DS isn't dead yet
The Switch may be Nintendo's main focus now but that doesn't mean the 3DS is on the way out - in fact, the console is continuing to get software throughout 2018. Atlus has just confirmed that Etrian Odyssey X will launch on the Nintendo 3DS on August 2nd, with a price of ¥6,998 in Japan. It is being billed as the final...
News Dead Road To Canada To Battle The Walking Dead Later This Month
World War Z
Death Road To Canada has been on our radar for a while, with its top-down mixture of roguelike survival and zombie-filled streets, and now developer Rocketcat Games has confirmed the pixel-happy title is headed to the Nintendo Switch eShop on 25th April. The game will be available for $14.99, €14.99, £11.99 with a 20% launch discount...
News Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 And 2 Confirmed For Switch
X Gon' Give It to Ya
Capcom announced that all of the Mega Man X games would be coming to Switch late last year, but stopped short of actually explaining how they would be distributed. We now confirmation that these titles will be released in two packs, thanks to Japanese publication Famitsu. Mega Man X Legacy Collection will include Mega Man...
News Award-Winning Mobile Puzzler Kenshō Is Bringing Its Chilled Out Conundrums To Switch
Natural selection
Another day and another mobile port making its way to the Nintendo Switch eShop. And while we can see you rolling your eyes at the screen from here, we're actually quite excited for this one. Kenshō, from Finnish studios FIFTYTWO and Jetdogs Oy, combines colour-matching elements with a striking visual style that shifts and changes...
News Mercenaries Saga Chronicles Will Be Marching Onto Retail With A Boxed Edition This Summer
Three for the price of one
Mercenaries Saga Chronicles dropped onto the Nintendo Switch eShop this past February, and earned itself a respectable 7/10 from our very own news reporter, Ryan Craddock. Well, if you're a physical edition collector, or if you've yet to try Circle Entertainment's turn-based strategy trilogy, then you'll be pleased to know...
News Animal Super Squad, The New Game From PewDiePie, Is Headed To Switch
The latest offering from the dev who brought you Goat Simulator
Developer DoubleMoose - a studio featuring Armin Ibrisagic, one of the devs who brought you practical joke turned actual gaming hit, Goat Simulator - has announced its upcoming physics-based adventure game Animal Super Squad is coming to Nintendo Switch. The game is the first...
Video The Delightful Dystopian Platforming of PikuNiku Gets A Colourful New Trailer
Colour us excited
PikuNiku first came to our attention back in August 2017, with its bizarre and beguiling mix of platforming, puzzles and oddball humour. It was pegged with a 2018 release date, and while that vague window hasn't been made any more specific, developer Sectordub and publisher Devolver Digital hope to ease the wait with a brand...
Video See How Well Gravity-Defying Racer GRIP Performs On Nintendo Switch
Rolling the cage
Nintendo Switch has plenty of exciting titles headed its way in 2018, including a flurry of new racers looking to give Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a run for its racing money. That includes the gravity-defying action of GRIP, which is due to burn rubber and level buildings later this year. YouTuber duo The Nintendo Power Couple was able to...
