Tag: Upcoming Releases - Page 228
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...
News Become A Puzzle Master In Collapsus, Coming To Switch Later This Year
"Block-crunching and gravity rotation"
Ratalaika Games has announced that Collapsus will be making its way to Nintendo Switch later this year. Collapsus is a puzzle game which centres around a unique block-crunching, risk-reward, resource management system, as well as a brand new gravity rotation mechanic. Players will be joining Leon the...
News Flyhigh Works Celebrates Kamiko Sales Success With Fairune Collection Announcement
The two 3DS titles are coming to Switch
Flyhigh Works has revealed that the Skipmore-developed Switch title Kamiko has surpassed 200,000 sales on the eShop, making it the third best-selling indie game on the Switch digital store. To celebrate this news, Flyhigh Works has also revealed that Fairune Collection is coming to the Nintendo Switch...
Feature Seeking Shelter Generations With Developer Might And Delight
"There’s certainly a portion of mysticism that accompanies the realism"
Pan-Pan developer Might And Delight will be bringing animal adventure Shelter Generations to Nintendo Switch on 12th April. Combining a rich, emotional story focusing on themes of survival and family with artistic, natural environments, the collection - which includes Shelter...
News Legend of Kay Anniversary Will Slash Its Way Onto Nintendo Switch In May
Release date confirmed
THQ Nordic has announced that Legend of Kay Anniversary will arrive on Nintendo Switch on 29th May. Since the game's initial release on PS2, Legend of Kay has seen a port appear on Nintendo DS, and a remastered 'Anniversary' version on Wii U and various other platforms, so we weren't too surprised to hear that it was...
News The Garment-Matching Madness Of Gururin Is Next Week's ACA Neo Geo Release
Shuffling people around
After some intense fighting and shmuping retro weeks, a change of pace is in order: a match-three puzzle game is on the menu for next week's HAMSTER Neo Geo release. Developed by Face, and published in 1994, Gururin sees you trying your best to match at least three people wearing the same colour vestments with a literal...
Feature Barking Up The First Tree With Indie Developer David Wehle
"I wanted to tell a personal story that was juxtaposed with the epic"
The First Tree is a beautiful and touching adventure centred around two parallel stories of hope and family. The game was recently announced for Nintendo Switch, so we took the chance to speak to creator David Wehle. We talk exploring the game's emotional themes, building a unique...
Video Here's What Wolfenstein II Looks Like Running On Nintendo Switch
Well, in TV mode at least
While we don't know exactly when Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus will arrive on Nintendo Switch, we know that developer Panic Button is hard at work fitting the 2017 shooter onto the plucky little portable console. And with Bethesda offering hands-on previews of the game at PAX East this week, we've finally got our...
Video Soak Up The Warmth Of This Little Dragons Café Trailer
A game from the creator of Harvest Moon
Aksys Games has released the first trailer for the upcoming Little Dragons Café - a game from Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada. The game's story opens with a twin brother and sister learning to cook as they strive to manage their very own café. One morning, however, the twins discover that their mother...
Video Here Are Seven Minutes Of Glorious Shovel Knight: King Of Cards Gameplay
Knight time
2018 is already shaping up to be a very good second year for Nintendo Switch, with the likes of Shovel Knight: King Of Cards making their way onto the eShop in the coming months. The final campaign in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove saga casts you as King Knight, the gilded goon himself, in what promises to be a fine end to Yacht Club...
News Save The First Meal Of The Day From Evil In Breakforcist Battle on Nintendo Switch
It'll waddle onto the eShop on 12th April
If you're in the market for a new four-player multiplayer game that combines three of your favourtie things - breakast food items, exorcisms and Breakout-style gameplay - then we've got just the thing. Say hello to Breakforcist Battle, in all its hyper-cute glory. Coming from two-person dev team Lucid Sheep...
News A Listing On Nintendo's Official Store Suggests Spyro: Reignited Trilogy Is Coming to Switch
Flame on!
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy - the much-rumoured and obsessively campaigned for remaster of the original Spyro The Dragon games - was finally announced yesterday. However, the lack of Nintendo Switch left a lot of people (Team Nintendo Life, included) feeling a tad left out. Well, a listing that appeared on Nintendo's official UK store mere...
News Chicken Wiggle Workshop Has Been Successfully Funded For The Switch
With music from Grant Kirkhope!
Chicken Wiggle was an ill-fated release from Atooi that was essentially the right game at the wrong time, releasing on the 3DS eShop last fall after the feeding frenzy of indies on the Switch eShop hit full speed. Hoping to salvage the project, the studio opened a Kickstarter for Chicken Wiggle Workshop a few weeks...
News Arcade Classic Toki Will Return With A Brand New Remake On Nintendo Switch
Go ape!
Jungle-based arcade shooter/platformer Toki - which saw hit arcades in 1989 before arriving on consoles such as SEGA Mega Drive in the years that followed - is getting a brand new remake. According to developer/publisher Microïds, the game is set to arrive by the end of 2018. Since it's almost 30 years since the original version...
News Fear The Great Outdoors With Don't Starve Nintendo Switch Edition
It'll arrive on 12th April
It looks like Don't Starve - the grim and Gothic survival simulator - is coming to Nintendo Switch next week. There's been no official announcement from developer Klei Entertainment as yet, but a listing on the Switch eShop (as spotted by Twitter user ContraNetwork) shows the popular indie hit is set to arrive on Thursday...
