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Acclaimed indie title is making the switch four years later
Between games like Stardew Valley and Iconoclasts, we've seen a few efforts by solo developers on Switch so far. Joining their ranks next week is Sally Face, which is set to launch on January 21st. Featuring a hand-drawn visual style and developed by Steve Gabry – AKA: Portable Moose –...
News A New Trailer For Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Is Airing Later Today
Two minutes of action-packed goodness!
Nintendo has announced it will be airing a new trailer for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury later today. The post over on Twitter notes how "Bowser's Fury will be unleashed", so we guess we'll finally get to learn about this new add-on content joining the Switch version of the game over the course of two...
News Brawl In The Family Creator's Award-Winning Music Game Tadpole Treble Is Coming To Switch
Time for an encore
Matthew Taranto – creator of the webcomic Brawl in the Family – released a music action title by the name of Tadpole Treble on Wii U not so long ago, scoring a 9/10 review from this very site. The game is now coming to Switch in an enhanced form under the title Tadpole Treble Encore. The updated game is due for launch on the...
News Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story Gets New Physical Switch Edition, Pre-Orders Live This Week
Only 2,000 copies will be available
Publisher eastasiasoft has announced that it'll be launching a brand new physical edition of Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story for Nintendo Switch, with pre-orders opening later this week. The studio will launch this special new release in partnership with developers Suzaku Games and Top Hat Studio. It'll go up for...
News Horror Shooter Crossbow: Bloodnight Will Have You Fighting For Survival On Switch
"Hunt. Die. Hunt Again."
Launching later this month on Nintendo Switch is Crossbow: Bloodnight, a "frantic score-attack arena shooter" with some spooky horror vibes thrown in for good measure. From Hyperstrange, the developers behind Postal: Brain Damaged and Elderborn, Crossbow: Bloodnight has you making use of an automatic crossbow to mow down...
News Nintendo DS Platformer Monster Tale Is Making A Comeback On Modern Consoles
Years after an 'Ultimate' version was promised
Majesco Entertainment has announced that it will be giving Nintendo DS platformer Monster Tale a fresh spin on current hardware. Currently only teased for "modern game platforms" – although, you'd imagine Switch is a safe bet with the original being a Nintendo exclusive – Monster Tale will be...
News Frame Rate And Resolution For Monster Hunter Rise Demo Revealed
What's the verdict?
Capcom has launched the highly anticipated demo for its upcoming Nintendo Switch release Monster Hunter Rise. Now that the download issues on the eShop have been sorted, VG Tech - the same YouTube channel that investigated the performa
News Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game Gets A Physical Release And Two Limited Editions
Time to get a little buy-curious
Hello, again. Friend of a friend. Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game - based on the hugely successful graphic novel series rather than the Edgar Wright movie of the same name - is finally getting a physical release, and it is fiiiine. Featuring music from Anamanaguchi and visuals based on artist Bryan Lee...
News Get A Peek At A New Harvest Moon: One World Bachelor And His... Camel?
Rural romance
Every month or so, the Harvest Moon: One World website gives us a look at one of the eligible bachelors and bachelorettes that will be available to woo in the game. With the advent of a new year, that means a new boy or girl ready for us to feast our eyes upon, and decide whether or not they will make the cut. Harvest Moon is a...
News Shiren The Wanderer Gets Physical Release, Pre-Orders Start January 12th
2020's longest title gets even longer
Limited Run Games - of Harvest Moon chicken plushie fame - are back at it again with a new physical release, complete with a ton of goodies. This time, it's Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate, also known as the winner of our "Most Long
News Capcom Wants To Know What You Thought About Its Monster Hunter Rise Digital Event
Share your innermost thoughts
Capcom's Monster Hunter Rise Digital Event showed off some new information relating to the upcoming Nintendo Switch title, and also gave us the exciting news that a demo is now available which lets you get to grips with the beast-bashing adventure. If you have any thoughts on the event, then Capcom is interested. The...
News Multiplayer Survival Game Project Winter Coming Soon To Switch
Time to betray everyone. Again.
Project Winter, a brutal eight-person survival/betrayal game set in the unforgiving snowy wilderness, has been confirmed as a Switch release "coming soon". Other Ocean Interactive, also responsible for the 3DS Minecraft and the Wii U port of Costume Quest 2, released the game on PC in February of 2019, and have also...
News S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters Is A Dungeon-Crawler That'll Test Your Maths Skills
Launching on Switch next week
Some heroes are super-strong, some have special powers or are brave and fearless, but some... Well, some are just pretty good at maths. Launching on Switch next week is S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters, a dungeon-crawler from Doomster Entertainment. In the game, you'll play as various heroes who must fight their way...
We're ready and waiting!
Nintendo's first major release of 2021 is Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. This Wii U port - with a little bit extra tacked on - will be arriving next month on 12th February. To build up some excitement ahead of the game's launch, Nintendo has sent its teaser webpage live - with the "full site" coming soon. While...
News New Story Of Seasons Video Shows Photo Mode, Museum, And Eggs With Faces
EGGS WITH FACES!
Step aside, Animal Crossing! It looks like the new Story of Seasons game, Pioneers of Olive Town, is going to let us befriend eggs. It's all we've ever wanted! Granted, we don't know exactly what the Japanese says in this new gameplay video, but do we need context for egg friends? That's right, we don't. Let's have a look at those...
News Heaven's Vault Comes To Switch 28th January 2021
Translater this month
Heaven's Vault, a translate-em-up narrative adventure game from the makers of Sorcery! and 80 Days, is finally coming to Switch on the 28th January. Developers Inkle are no strangers to cleverly branching dialogue and plot - as you'll know if you played any of their previous games - and Heaven's Vault is no different. You'll...
News Ambitious Open-World RPG Skyclimbers Is Coming To Switch, Subject To Crowdfunding Success
Base-building, resource management and monster-taming ahoy!
Paratope has revealed plans to bring its open-world RPG Skyclimbers to the Switch, but before you get too excited at the prospect, it's worth noting that the game is still a long way from release – the Kickstarter campaign required to fund full development is yet to go live. Skyclimbers...
News Dark Fantasy Game Gods Will Fall Gets New Gameplay Trailer And Valiant Edition Release
Launching on Switch this month
Deep Silver has shared a brand new gameplay trailer for upcoming fantasy action title Gods Will Fall, providing details on a fancy Valiant Edition release and a pre-order bonus in the process. The game follows the story of the few remaining Celtic warriors of a destroyed army on their way to overthrow "the diabolical...
News Stardash Brings Challenging Game Boy-Inspired Platforming To Switch This Week
But it's considerably cheaper elsewhere
Developer Orangepixel has confirmed that its tough, retro-style platformer Stardash will be jumping onto the Nintendo Switch eShop later this week. Described by the studio as a love letter to the classic platformers available on Nintendo's beloved Game Boy, Stardash is pretty simple on the surface. Players...
News My Time At Portia Sequel To Offer Revamped Character Customisation, Still On Track For Switch
100,000 Steam wishlists unlocks new treats
Back in October, Pathea Games announced that it's working on My Time at Sandrock, a sequel to My Time at Portia that's planned to launch on Switch. Now, thanks to fans eagerly anticipating the new release, the team has confirmed that a new set of customisation features will be added to the game, too. My...
News Journey Developer Is Bringing Sky: Children Of The Light To Switch This Spring
Downloaded 50 million times on smartphones
Thatgamecompany – the studio behind the critically-lauded Journey – has revealed that it is releasing Sky: Children Of The Light on Switch this spring. Described as a "social indie adventure game", Sky: Children Of The Light launched on iOS in 2019 and on Android the following year. It was first...
News Heck Yeah, Dood! There's A New Gameplay Video For Disgaea 6: Defiance Of Destiny
You could also win a custom Pro Controller
One of the many upcoming titles we're looking forward to in the new year is Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny. In case you forgot, this 'Summer 2021' game will be launched in the West exclusively on the Switch, while in Japan, it'll be getting a PlayStation 4 release, too. To build up some excitment ahead of...
News Another Ghost-Filled Mansion Comes To Switch In New Puzzler Ghostanoid
With no Poltergust in sight
Mario's bumbling brother may well have sucked up and defeated a whole bunch of ghosts in Luigi's Mansion 3, but this latest Switch game will give you yet another ghost-filled mansion to clean up (and yes, we know Luigi's Mansion 3 is technically set in a hotel, but just go with it). Ghostanoid is a block-breaker arcade...
Feature Horace Developers On Die Hard, Britishness, And Finding The Right Genre Label
"Maybe a AAA SNES game?"
The term 'hidden gem' is one that, unfortunately, crops up all too frequently these days. With wave upon wave of quality titles hitting digital storefronts every week, more games than ever risk getting carried away by the tide before you've had the chance to pick them up. Horace — ostensibly a 16-bit-inspired platformer,...
News Capcom To Share "Brand-New Information" About Monster Hunter Rise This Month
"So please stay tuned"
Ahead of Monster Hunter Rise's exclusive Switch launch this March, the game's producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Yasunori Ichinose have issued a special new year message. The team intends to share some "brand-new information" at the beginning of this month and asks fans to keep an eye out for that. Monster Hunter Stories...
News Top Hat Studios Issues Statement Regarding Demands To Censor Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
"We categorically refuse"
Update: Top Hat has now shared a series of tweets highlighting the messages circulating on social media about Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story and the studio. You can see them in full over on Twitter. Attached to this is a follow-up response: We originally did not want to make this post, as to not accidentally incite a...
News Skunkape Games Confirms Remasters Of Sam & Max Season 2 And 3
The comic book crime-fighting duo will return
Update [Wed 30th Dec, 2020 00:00 GMT]: Skunkape Games was nice enough to reach out to us, and well, it turns out it has already teased Season 2 on Twitter. Below is an "early look" at a remastered location from the first ep, Ice Station Santa. "We hope that playing Sam & Max Save the World gives...
News Level-5 Boss Teases 2021 Announcement, Says He Loves Cyberpunk 2077
New game is unlikely to come to the West
Forgive us this moment of subjective praise in a news story, but Level-5 really is one of the best studios out there. They brought us our beloved, behatted mystery-solver, Professor Layton, as well as the underrated gem that is Fantasy Life, and somehow they also managed to develop Ni No Kuni, Yo-Kai Watch,...
News Hideki Kamiya Says Bayonetta 3's Development Is "Going Very Well"
Why does this sound so familiar?
The last update we got about Bayonetta 3 was back in August, when series creator Hideki Kamiya said development was going fine. So what's the latest on this highly anticipated Switch exclusive? Japanese video game outlet Famitsu recently spoke to Kamiya in an end-of-year interview looking ahead to 2021, and once...
News Development Of Disaster Report 5 Is Already Underway
Granzella teases next project
The Switch might have only got Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories in April, but series' developer Granzella has seemingly already begun work on the fifth game. In a 2020 retrospective article on its official website, the end of a section about the fourth game discusses the fifth title. It's mentioned how "planning and...
News Smash-Like Brawler Indie Pogo Is Coming To Switch With All DLC Included
And Meat Boy joins as a new fighter
Platform brawler Indie Pogo is heading to Nintendo Switch early next year, it's been confirmed. The news arrives alongside a very timely new character reveal in the shape of Super Meat Boy Forever's Meat Boy. The game is a Smash-like arena fighter for one-to-four players which stars a number of indie favourite...
Video Square Enix Releases New Trailer For Switch Exclusive Bravely Default II
Introducing the country of Wiswald
Following on from the release of a 'final demo' last week, Square Enix has now shared a new clip for Bravely Default II. Although the entire video is in Japanese, the source Gematsu gives us some insight about the location on show: "Wiswald is a country established by mages. Mages have dedicated themselves to...
News Cube Life: Island Survival Comes To Switch On 26th December
Making Boxing Day even boxier
Ah, December 26th. The one day of the year when it is fully acceptable to lie on the sofa all day, playing video games. (What do you mean, that's every day?) When we're all pickled from booze, rounder than a Christmas pudding, and totally gifted out, there's nothing we love more than... more shopping? Well, get used to...
News Capcom Shows Off More Footage Of Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection
And it's looking really promising
The announcement of Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection certainly came out of the blue. While the franchise was once one of Capcom's most famous efforts, it has fallen by the wayside in recent years, so it was a nice surprise to see the Japanese veteran dust this one off for another adventure. The hosts of the Japanese...
News 1999 Neo Geo Fighter Fatal Fury: First Contact Has Just Surprise-Launched On Switch
Terry's back with another '90s classic
Fatal Fury: First Contact, a fighting game that released on the Neo Geo Pocket Color back in 1999, has just appeared out of nowhere on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Merry Christmas! Heavily based on arcade fighter Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, which launched just a year before it in 1998, the game features the likes of...
News "Steamy" Otome Visual Novel Bustafellows Is Coming To Switch Next Year
Dangerous romance and murder mystery collide
UK-based publisher PQube has revealed that it is bringing Nippon Cultural Broadcasting Extend's Bustafellows to Switch in 2021. Originally released in Japan in 2019, the game is described as "a gripping Otome visual novel with an incredible urban noir aesthetic" and features "stunning character and...
News Shadow Gangs Is Like Shinobi, But With Freddie Mercury As An End-Of-Level Boss
And yes, it's coming to Switch
Back in the '80s and '90s, you couldn't move for side-scrolling action platformers packed with ninjas. Shinobi. Shadow Dancer. Bad Dudes. Taking inspiration from Hollywood's late-'80s obsession with all things ninja, these titles became arcade smash hits and captivated a whole generation of players. Ninjas in 2020,...
News Platforming Shooter Gravity Heroes Comes To Switch In January
Won't have to weight too long for this
Gravity Heroes is a 2D retro-styled arena shooter with a twist: not only do you control the little guy with a gun, but you also control gravity itself. By switching up the gravitational pull of the room, you can walk on the walls and the ceiling, and even dodge incoming hurt. You'll also have the option to...
News $2 Puzzle Game Kolumno Will Help You Pass The Time On Christmas Eve
Cheap, but challenging
Launching on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 24th December is Kolumno, a simple yet challenging puzzle game. As you can see from the trailer above, the idea itself is pretty straightforward – players must wait for the right moment before making a ball fall through a series of intricate moving columns. There's more to it than...
News Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart Of The Forest Brings The Tabletop RPG To Switch
Launching early next year
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest has scored an early 2021 launch on Nintendo Switch, it's been confirmed. Inspired by the fan-favourite tabletop RPG Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Heart of the Forest launched on Steam just a couple of months ago to 'very positive' user reviews. It's said to be a "beautifully...
News River City's Kunio And Riki Join 3D Arena Brawler Mighty Fight Federation
"New warriors approaching"
If there weren't already enough brawlers, one other upcoming release you might want to keep an eye on the 3D arena game, Mighty Fight Federation. If you've played anything like Capcom's Power Stone, you'll probably be familiar with the concept. In the latest update, developer Komi Games announced a collaboration with Arc...
News Thunderful's Say No! More Has Been Pushed Back To 2021, New Trailer Appears
Say No! More says 'No!' to 2020
Thunderful Publishing and developer Studio Fizbin have announced that Say No! More will no longer be launching this year as planned. The game, which sees players rediscovering how to say 'no' in a world which has forgotten how to stand up for itself, will now launch in 2021. A new 'Say No! To 2020' trailer has been...
Reminder Buy DOOM Eternal Early On Switch To Get DOOM 64 And 'Rip And Tear' Pack Free
Update: Only a few days left!
Update: If you're still yet to pick up DOOM Eternal on Switch, consider this a friendly reminder that you may want to do so pretty sharpish. This weekend will be your final chance to claim a digital copy of DOOM 64 and the DOOM Eternal: Rip and Tear Pack by purchasing the game early. You have until 22nd December to...
News New Harvest Moon Trailer Shows Off Bachelors To Woo And Animals To Wuv
Camels and reindeers and goats, oh my
The Harvest Goddess has disappeared again, and she's taken all the crops in the world with her. For someone who literally has one job, she's not very good at it. But that's how Harvest Moon: One World starts, and at least it gives your farmer avatar something to do: restore the land, find all the harvest...
News Oops! Among Us' 2021 Airship Level Is Playable Now On Switch Thanks To A Glitch
Update: And it's patched out...
Update: It's been patched. Oh well. Among Us might have come out on PC first, but Switch players can play the upcoming airship level before release - and before anyone else - as long as they don't mind exploiting a glitch in the system. As shown in the GameXplain video above, impostors and innocents alike are...
News Piratical Action-Adventure Game Olija Confirmed For January Launch
Magic hats? Magic hats.
Get ready for some pixel pew-pew platforming - the stylish action-adventure-platformer Olija has finally been given a release date! On January 28th, we'll all be able to figure out the various mysteries that the trailer presents. What's that shipwreck all about? Where exactly is this strange place filled with monsters? And...
News Delisted Switch Title Save Me Mr Tako Will Return Better Than Ever, Says Creator
Rebalanced and retuned for 2021
Remember Save Me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San? This Game Boy-style adventure was given a glowing 8/10 review by us in 2018 and seemed destined to receive a lovely physical edition at one point. But sitting here right now, in The Year of Our Lord 2020, it's currently impossible to purchase
Update: Sega has denied it is involved
Update: Sega has since denied it is involved with Taxi Chaos. Original Story [Thu 17th Dec, 2020 12:40 GMT]: Sega's Crazy Taxi is one of those titles which is begging for a revival of some kind. The arcade original was a revelation upon release and was followed by two excellent sequels, as well as a GBA...
News You Can Now Download Bravely Default II's 'Final Demo' From The Switch eShop
Grab it before launch to receive 100 platinum points
One game arriving exclusively on the Nintendo Switch early next year is Bravely Default II by Team Asano and Square Enix. Although a demo was already released earlier this year, there's now a "final demo" up on the eShop in North America. This will give you a taste of the game's "vivid art,...
C'mon, Doug - give us an update!
Nintendo and its partners have a lot of exciting games in development at the moment, the problem is, we don't really know anything about them or the status of each project. The most anticipated titles include Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2. For a few years now, Hideki...
