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News Second Story DLC For South Park: The Fractured But Whole Arrives On 31st July
Includes new campaign and a new class
In addition to the news about South Park: The Stick of Truth arriving on the Switch eShop some point before September, Ubisoft and South Park Digital Studios have announced the second story DLC pack for South Park: The Fractured But Whole will be released on the Nintendo Switch on 31st July. ‘Bring the...
News No Joke, South Park: The Stick Of Truth Is Heading To The Switch eShop This Year
Embark on an epic quest
Earlier this year in April, Ubisoft released South Park: The Fractured But Whole on the Switch. As satisfying as the bad-mannered turn-based RPG might have been, it didn’t hide the fact the original game was still unplayable on Nintendo’s latest device. Now, in its latest financial report, Ubisoft looks to be rectifying...
News BAFTA-Nominated Interactive Drama 1979 Revolution: Black Friday Hits Switch Next Month
Based on true events
Indie publisher Digerati has announced that 1979 Revolution: Black Friday will be coming to Switch following its initial PS4 and Xbox One-only reveal. Created by iNK Stories, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday immerses players in the turbulent real-world events of the Iranian uprising. Based on true stories and historical...
News A Digital Copy Of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Will Use Up Over Half Of Your Switch's Memory
Bigger than Smash on Wii U
Nintendo fans around the world are positively bursting with excitement about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at this point; the latest entry to the series will re-introduce every character that has ever graced the franchise's games and we only have a handful of months to wait until it releases. If you're hoping to buy...
News Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Will Be Playable At San Diego Comic-Con This Week
And you might be able to skip the queues...
Nintendo will be making an appearance at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con from 19th July to 22nd July, bringing several awesome games along for the ride for attendees to enjoy. The star of the show will no doubt be the highly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but other titles available to...
News Runbow Deluxe Edition Sprints Towards 10th August Release Date On Switch
Includes that wonderful soundtrack
Runbow finally made its way over to the Switch on 3rd July, bringing its chaotic multiplayer mayhem to a whole new audience, and the long-promised Deluxe Edition is now just around the corner, too. This fancy boxed version contains a physical version of the main game, the Satura's Space Adventure DLC, all four...
News '80s-Inspired Side-Scrolling Shmup Black Paradox Is Headed To Nintendo Switch
With a synthwave soundtrack
Italian indie developer Fantastico Studio has revealed that its synthwave-styled, sci-fi shoot 'em up Black Paradox will be making its way to Switch later this year. In the game, you play as Black Paradox, a fierce bounty hunter who must defeat the biggest criminal organization in space, The Hellraisers. The game blends...
News Nintendo's Long Lost Arcade Game Sky Skipper Flies Onto Switch This Week
A slice of history
During the Nintendo Treehouse Live events at E3 this year, Nintendo revealed that Sky Skipper - an almost-forgotten arcade game from the '80s - would be coming to Switch. The time has finally come for us to try the game out for ourselves, with a 20th July release date now confirmed for Japan. In case you haven't heard the story...
News Guts And Glory Brings Bonkers Death-Defying Action To Switch This Week
And the "deadly Kangaroo Avengers"
tinyBuild Games has revealed that Guts and Glory is making its way to Nintendo Switch this week, probably taking the title of being the most bonkers game on the platform to date. Guts and Glory describes itself as "the craziest game show on earth" and essentially features a cast of very ordinary people competing...
Video Check Out The Story And Mission Modes In My Hero One's Justice On Switch
Wham!
Bandai Namco has released a brand new trailer for the quirky anime fighter My Hero One's Justice, giving us more info on the game's story and mission modes. In Mission Mode, players will face a variety of different scenarios and challenging opponents, competing under special rules for each. As you fight through and complete these...
News Retail Release Of The Banner Saga Trilogy Requires Net Download And microSD Card
A struggle with constraints
The Banner Saga games have been positively received on the Nintendo Switch thus far, so it’s no surprise last week’s announcement of the retail version - The Banner Saga Trilogy - was welcomed with open arms by fans of the turn-based RPG. Now, the box art for the retail version of the game has
News Story-Driven Puzzle Game WILL: A Wonderful World Is Aiming For 2018 Switch Release
A mature story
CIRCLE Entertainment has announced that it will be bringing WMY Studio's WILL: A Wonderful World to Nintendo Switch, targeting a 2018 release. WILL: A Wonderful World is a story-driven puzzle game featuring a unique mechanic that has you influencing the game's tale through viewing and altering letters. As a ‘god’ you...
News Co-Op Party Shooter NoReload Heroes Is Firing Onto Switch This Week
"No friends? No problem."
An eShop listing has revealed that Forever Entertainment's NoReload Heroes is making its way to the Nintendo Switch this week. Developed by Stupid Stupid Games, NoReload Heroes is a chaotic co-op party shooter that has you fighting your way through randomly generated rooms filled with various types of enemies. As a...
News The Shapeshifting Detective Will Bring Murder Mystery FMV Action To Switch This Year
Shapeshift to solve the crime
Wales Interactive has announced The Shapeshifting Detective for Nintendo Switch with an expected release window of "Q4 2018". The game is a supernatural, noir, murder mystery FMV, created by the team behind The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. Dorota Shaw is dead, and the prime suspects are...
News Pixel-Art Escape Thriller STAY Will Be Breaking Out On Switch This Summer
Can you escape in real time?
PQube has announced that STAY, an award-winning, pixel-art escape adventure, will be arriving on Nintendo Switch "this summer". The game, which launched on Xbox One and PC this spring, follows the path of Quinn - a therapist who wakes up alone in a strange, locked room with nothing but a computer hooked up to an...
Rumour Go Vacation For Switch Might Include Online Play Based On eShop Listing
Multiplayer madness
Since Bandai Namco's Go Vacation was announced earlier this year, there's been a number of retailers listing online multiplayer. It's already been confirmed the title has co-op and competitive local multiplayer for up to four people, and now the Switch eShop is also noting online play for two to four players. The title is due...
Much-needed clarification
When Japanese mobile developer, Colopl, announced a new White Cat Project game (also known as Shiro Neko Project) for the Switch last week during its 4th anniversary live stream, there was widespread confusion as to how it even got the go-ahead. At the start of this year in January, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against this...
News Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 And 2 Has Got Rookies Covered With New Easy Mode
Mega Easy
As fun as Capcom's Mega Man series is, it's never exactly been a forgiving platformer. With this in mind, a recent post by Siliconera suggests the company's upcoming Switch titles, Mega Man X Legacy Collection and Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2, will make play sessions less of a struggle this time around with the inclusion of a new 'Rookie...
News The Bat Looks To Be Back On Switch As Batman: The Enemy Within Receives M Rating From The ESRB
Return to Gotham City
Earlier this year we reported Batman: The Enemy Within had received a rating by Germany's USK. While there's still no official word from Warner Bros. about the game coming to the Switch, there's now another rating for the title, this time from the ESRB. The dark and gritty game was originally released in 2017 and...
News Daemon X Machina Producer Believes A Lot Of Modern Games Look The Same
Is this the case?
The annual video game convention E3 is commonly associated with dark, gritty and seemingly cutting-edge reveals. Whilst many of these titles do in fact go on to be huge successes, the producer of Daemon X Machina, Kenichiro Tsukuda, is of the belief there's nothing particularly distinctive - from a visual standpoint - about a...
News Mega Man 11 Developers Wore Robot Armour To Get In The Right Frame Of Mind
Creativity at its finest
In the lead-up to the release of Mega Man 11 on multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch, Capcom has been running a video series providing an insight into the game’s development. In the final episode sound design was the topic, with the attention on how a suit of armour was actually worn by staff to help them...
Feature Talking Super Smash Bros. Ultimate With Nintendo's Bill Trinen And Nate Bihldorff
Ridley, Sakurai and defusing the 'happy accident' myth
We've known about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for quite some time ahead of its reveal at E3 2018. What we didn't know was just how massive it would end up being, featuring every character from the series' history, all wrapped up in a conveniently portable package. We recently had the...
News Koei Tecmo Confirms Western Release For The Next Atelier Title, Due Out This Winter
Welcome to Westwald
Following the game’s reveal in the Japanese publication Famitsu last month, Koei Tecmo has now confirmed Gust’s new entry in the Atelier series for Switch will receive a physical release in the west this winter. As previously noted, Nelke And The Legendary Alchemists is more of a spin-off about top-down town building an
News Break Some Balls When Spheroids Arrives On The Switch eShop Later This Month
Save the world from alien blobs
Eclipse Games will release its platform title Spheroids on the Switch eShop later this month. The game will be made available to download in America on 20th July, with the European release a week later on 27th July. If you haven’t heard about this game before, it was originally released on the Wii U eShop last...
Collector's items
If you like having physical boxes of games to add to your ever-growing, beautiful collection of joy, but also like the convenience of having your games stored within your Switch's internal memory for quick and easy access, you'll likely be pretty jealous of Nintendo's latest offerings in Japan. On the official Japanese Nintendo...
News Panic Button Says It Has "Tons" Of Switch Projects Coming Up
That's a lot of projects
Panic Button's name is one that has seemingly popped out of almost nowhere, suddenly grabbing the attention of gaming fans around the world thanks to a series of high quality, and rather surprising, Switch ports from the studio. We've already seen the likes of Rocket League, DOOM, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus arrive...
Video Jessie And James Are Confirmed For Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu And Eevee
Prepare for trouble...
Another brand new trailer has arrived for Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, this time revealing that fan-favourite antagonists Jessie and James will appear in the game. Yesterday we shared a video that showed off an utterly gorgeous new rendition of the Kanto region map, alongside other feat
News Psikyo Collection Vol. 1 Will Bring Four Arcade Shooters To Switch In One Package
Currently confirmed for Korean release
Arc System Works has revealed that Psikyo Collection Vol. 1 is heading to Nintendo Switch, squeezing four currently available eShop titles into one juicy bundle. The four titles included are Strikers 1945, SOL Divide, Samurai Aces, and Gunbird, all of which are classic, arcade-style...
News Fall Of Light Brings Action-RPG To Switch With A New Darkest Edition
Brightest day, darkest knight
Nintendo Switch will be getting a new action-RPG in the form of Fall of Light: Darkest Edition. This isometric adventure sees a brave knight fighting through a world of darkness to protect his daughter. There 20 different battle stances to choose from, 10 weapon classes and new enemies that are exclusive to the Darkest...
News Futuristic Thriller State Of Mind Secures A 15th August Release Date On Switch
And a brand new trailer
Daedalic Entertainment has announced that its upcoming 'futuristic thriller' State of Mind will launch on Nintendo Switch - and other platforms - on 15th August. The game delves into the technological promise of the world we live in by jumping forward to Berlin in 2048. You'll be taking on the role of Richard Nolan, a...
News Cosmic Star Heroine Brings 2D RPG Action To Switch Next Month
Pre-order available now
Limited Run Games and Zeboyd Games have announced that Cosmic Star Heroine will arrive on Nintendo Switch next month. The game takes inspiration from the classic 16-bit era, but mixes things up by adding features seen in more modern RPGs. There are three exotic planets to explore containing aliens, robots, and magic, and...
News An Inazuma Eleven Ares Presentation Is Coming, Original Game Releasing For Free To Celebrate
Original Inazuma Eleven to be available as free download
This month’s CoroCoro magazine has revealed that a presentation for Inazuma Eleven Ares will be held on 26th August, potentially meaning that we'll finally find out the game's Japanese release date. The game is currently planned to release in the west sometime next year, but the...
News Control The Flow Of Time In Upcoming Switch Puzzler The Gardens Between
"An homage to the enduring power of friendship"
The Voxel Agents has announced that its upcoming adventure puzzle game The Gardens Between will arrive on Switch in Q3 2018, coinciding with its release on PS4 and PC. The game tasks players with manipulating time to guide two best friends through a series of puzzles and a grand adventure. It all...
News You Can Pre-Order Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate On Switch From The Nintendo UK Store Now
Monster deal!
If you're keen to get your hands on Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate then you'll be pleased to learn that pre-orders have just gone live on the Nintendo UK Store. Not only can you lay down some cash to secure your copy of the game - which launches on August 28th - but you can also show your love for the series by buying lumps...
News The Roguelite Platforming Of Dead Cells Has A 7th August Release Date On Switch
Dead good news
August is just around the corner and there are already plenty of new titles headed to Nintendo Switch, including the roguelite platforming action of Dead Cells. The 'roguevania' indie is already available via Early Access on Steam, but it'll be getting a full release everywhere on 7th August. Developer Motion Twin has also teamed...
Thanks Reggie!
Star Fox's shock arrival in Ubisoft's Starlink: Battle for Atlas was one of the major highlights for Nintendo fans at this year's E3 - despite the fact that the news came during Ubisoft's conference - and it turns out that we may well have Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé to thank for it. The most recent issue of...
News Sausage Sports Club Brings Its Co-Op Party Goodness To Switch On 19th July
But will it be a banger?
Looks like Sausage Sports Club's certification with Nintendo went well, because the originally Kickstarted multiplayer party game finally has a release date, which is set for 19th July on Nintendo Switch. The game will enable you and up to three other players to control all manner of animals, all of which have been given a...
News Wasteland 2: Director's Cut Will Bring Its Turn-Based Strategy To Switch This Fall
From the producer of the original Fallout
inXile Entertainment has announced that Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is "expected to arrive on the Nintendo Switch this August" - and we've got a brand new trailer to celebrate. The game comes from the producer of the original Fallout and is an enhanced version of Wasteland 2 - which launched back...
News Smash Bros. Meets Basketball In Slam Land, Coming To Switch This August
"Dunk your friends"
Bread Machine Games has announced that its upcoming competitive party game Slam Land will be slam-dunking its way to Switch on 7th August. Slam Land is a fast-paced, chaotic brawler where a bizarre blue giant instructs competitors to dunk one another into hoops for his amusement. Players must grapple, lunge, and dodge their way...
News More Pre-Order Cancellations Cast Serious Doubt Over Anti-Grav Racer Redout On Switch
Update: Developer confirms things are still going ahead
Update: The game's developer 34BigThings has taken to Twitter to shed some light on the situation, revealing that the game is indeed still coming to the platform. Original Article: Redout was one of the very first third-party titles to be announced for Switch, first mentioned...
News Japanese Job Listings Suggest A New 3D Fighter Is In Development For Switch
Get ready for the next battle!
Nintendo Switch is slowly but surely amassing quite the library of fighting games, but most of them happen to be from the 2D corner of the market. Well, that could all be about to change with a recent Japanese job listing hinting that a 3D fighter is in development across PC and consoles, including Nintendo...
News Game Boy Title Sagaia Coming To Darius Cozmic Collection As Amazon-Exclusive DLC In Japan
Shooting heaven
We won't dwell too long on the fact that the Virtual Console isn't part of Nintendo's plans for Switch, but the desire for retro games on the console remains as high as ever - which is why the news that a Game Boy game is coming to the system is such big news for the wears of rose-tinted specs. However, before you get too excited,...
News Nintendo Still Has More To Share On Switch Online Before Launch
What could it be?
Nintendo’s upcoming paid online service has been a much talked about topic for the last year, as fans have speculated over what kind of value it will offer and whether Nintendo will finally get online ‘right’ this time. The company has revealed most of the features that will be included, with cloud saves, online play, and a...
News Nintendo Talks Maintaining Momentum And More Announcements Coming This Year
Another game for the holiday season?
Nintendo by many metrics had a strong E3 showing, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the new Pokémon games stealing the show. Even so, the company stock fell a considerable amount in the days after its showcase event, spurred on by a perceived lack of momentum on Nintendo’s part. After all, where was the...
News '80s Arcade Classic Toki Makes A Comeback On Switch With Physical Arcade Cabinet
Part of the 'Retrollector' edition
Microids has re-affirmed the news that Toki is headed to Nintendo Switch later this year with an awesome looking special edition that features a physical arcade cabinet. Initially released in 1989 on arcade machines, Toki had players flinging their coins into cabinets to help a warrior - who had been turned into a...
News Super Volley Blast Smashes Onto Nintendo Switch On 12th July
Life's a beach
Nintendo Switch might not be getting a Madden, a new NFL game or the next instalment in the WWE 2K series (which is probably something of a blessing in disguise), but it is getting another new sport simulation in the form of Super Volley Blast. Okay, 'simulation' might be a bit of a stretch, but that doesn't mean this colourful indie...
News Intense Top-Down Shooter Solstice Chronicles: MIA Is Headed To Switch This Year
Tactical decisions on the go
CIRCLE Entertainment has announced that Solstice Chronicles: MIA, developed by Ironward, will be arriving on Switch later this year. The game combines its intense, top-down shooter action with strategic play, tasking players with making the best use of their accompanying drone. Should you scavenge for supplies, or...
News RPG-Board Game Hybrid Hand Of Fate 2 Will Be Dealt To Nintendo Switch Next Week
Action RPG meets card game
Defiant Development has announced that its acclaimed action RPG Hand of Fate 2 will be playing its hand on Switch next week. The game tasks players with collecting cards and building a customisable deck of equipment, enemies, encounters, and loot which all gets shuffled in with extra challenges from the Dealer...
News Devolver Digital Has 12 Games Lined Up For Switch This Year
No joke
No, it’s not April Fools; it’s just Devolver Digital making a post on its Twitter account again. Borrowing some hilarious footage from the 1989 film The Wizard, the US-based publisher recently proclaimed it would be releasing over a dozen games on the Switch before the end of this year. Being a publisher, the figure attached to...
News Masahiro Sakurai Isn't Concerned About Competitive Aspect Of Super Smash Bros.
It's about "playing the game"
The competitive nature of Super Smash Bros. may not interest everyone who likes the series, and long-time director - Masahiro Sakurai - completely understands this. During an interview with The Washington Post around the time of this year’s E3, Sakurai-san said he didn’t really consider professional players or a...
