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News Visual Novel Song Of Memories Is Getting A Western Release On Switch This Year
"Juggle love and death"
PQube has announced that Song Of Memories, described as a 'romantic visual novel', will be releasing on Nintendo Switch in North America and Europe in 2018. Song Of Memories tasks you with finding your soulmate in a musical love story, although you'll need to prepare to fight for your love in the most testing of times...
Nintendo Download 1st February (Europe)
The EU eShops have been updated, and we have all the deets
February has arrived and it's brought with it the very first Nintendo Download update of the month. And it's a huge haul too, with all sorts of new digital editions being uploaded across Nintendo's various eShops. As usual, your friends at Nintendo Life have gathered together every new game,...
News Co-op Action Game Claws of Furry Will Be Slashing Onto Switch This Spring
Ninja kittens!
Terahard Studios has announced that its upcoming multiplayer, beat 'em up title Claws of Furry will be releasing on Nintendo Switch this spring. With fifty levels of catastrophic mayhem, players will be punching and scratching their way through enemies to rescue their Master from the evil claws of an unknown boss. The...
Nintendo Download 1st February (North America)
Every new digital download on the Switch, 3DS and Wii U eShops
February is finally here - and what's that? It's arrived just in time for the very first Nintendo Download update of the month? What fortuitous timing! This week's big update includes a ton of new games for the Nintendo Switch-based eShop, as well as a slew of titles for the Wii U eShop...
News The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition Is Coming Exclusively To Nintendo Switch This Spring
An exploration of mental health
Wired Productions has announced that it will be bringing psychological horror The Town of Light: Deluxe Edition exclusively to the Nintendo Switch this spring both digitally, and physically. The Town of Light, originally released on PC in 2016 and other consoles in 2017, is an historically inspired exploration...
News Team17 Is Bringing Raging Justice To Switch This Year
Former Rare developer's take on Streets of Rage and Final Fight
Team17 has revealed that it is bringing Makin'Games' side-scrolling fighter Raging Justice to Switch this year. The creation of Nic Makin - a former Rare staffer - Raging Justice is a spiritual successor to the likes of Streets of Rage, Double Dragon and Final Fight.
News Twin Robots: Ultimate Edition Brings Its Mechanical Platforming To Switch
The 2.5D Wii U platformer returns
Thrice Games' 2.5D platformer Twin Robots is getting a sequel-cum-remake on Nintendo Switch with publisher Ratalaika Games bringing an extended port to Nintendo Switch. Twin Robots: Ultimate Edition, which is currently in development, will include twice as many levels as the original version so you're getting a lot...
News Word-Based Puzzle Platformer Typoman Is Heading To Nintendo Switch This Month
With a pre-purchase discount available
Wales Interactive has announced a collaboration with Brainseed Factory to bring the award-winning puzzle platformer Typoman, previously released on Wii U, to Nintendo Switch on 22nd February 2018. With an overly artistic and creative approach to puzzle action, Typoman uses the power of letters and words to...
News Muse Dash Brings Cute Rhythm Action To Switch This Year
Set to music by Chinese and Japanese artists
X.D. Network has gotten in touch to reveal that it is publishing PeroPero Games' Muse Dash on the Switch eShop this year. Set to an infectiously upbeat soundtrack composed by Japanese and Chinese musicians and singers, Muse Dash is a simple rhythm action title with bright visuals and gameplay that...
News Mario Is Heading To The Silver Screen, With Help From The Studio Behind Minions
Despicable Mario
Nintendo has dropped a ton of new announcements today - including the official launch date for Nintendo Switch Online and the announcement of the Mario Kart Tour mobile title - and now it's confirmed it's partnering with Illumination to make a brand new Mario film. Illumination is the same studio that brought the world the...
News Raise The Chequered Flag Because Mario Kart Tour Is Racing Onto Mobile Soon
It's set to arrive between April 2018 and March 2019
Nintendo has just unveiled its next plan to take over the smartphone market, and it's bringing karts, shells and coins to the party. Mario Kart Tour is the name of the new mobile title, with Ninty confirming it'll be hitting a handset near you sometime in FY 2018/2019 (so that means it'll arrive...
News Spread The Love (And Some Bullet-Hell) As The Void Rains Upon Her Heart Targets Switch
We heart indies
Indies are finding a new and welcoming home on Nintendo Switch, and there's another exciting and unusual game planning on to join that throng in the form of The Void Rains Upon Her Heart. It's a side-scrolling shmup, with the twist being you play an actual heart that will attempt to teach monsters to love again by shooting them to...
News Hardcore One-Button Music Game Rhythm Doctor Is Heading To Switch
Featuring complex, off-beat rhythms
7th Beat Games has announced that it will be releasing Rhythm Doctor on Nintendo Switch later this year. Inspired by games such as Rhythm Heaven (known as Rhythm Paradise in Europe), 7th Beat Games has created a 'one-button' rhythm game that aims to teach the player complex music theory. The title...
News Mercenaries Saga Chronicles Invades The Switch eShop On February 8th
With a discount for those who pre-order, too
Circle Entertainment has revealed that its tactical offering Mercenaries Saga Chronicles will arrive on the Switch eShop in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand on 8th February. This pack includes not one, not two, but three games from the cult tactical RPG franchise, which was...
News Black Hole's Twin-Stick Shootathon Arrives On Switch Next Week
And here's a new trailer for your troubles
The shmup (that's shoot-'em-up to you young 'uns) is one of the oldest genres in the industry, but that hasn't stopped it from shooting up various storms on Nintendo Switch over the last 10 months. Black Hole is one, and it's coming to the hybrid Nintendo hardware on the 6th February for EU eShoppers and...
News Death Road To Canada Brings Roguelike Zombie Survival to Nintendo Switch
The pixelated dead will walk the Earth
PC roguelike Death Road To Canada is coming to Nintendo Switch (and some other consoles) this spring, where you'll need to fight your way through waves of the undead as you attempt to survive on a long journey from the Florida coast to the cold embrace of Ontario. You'll be unleashing, "hyper-violent combat...
News Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap Gets A Physical Release On 13th February
Just in time for Valentine’s
Still one of the best releases to be found on the Switch eShop is Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, a modern remaster of a classic game. Though a little on the short side, we were won over by the delightful gameplay and hand drawn artstyle, and the game has since acquired quite a following. A physical version has been...
News Investigate Some Stranger Things As The Darkside Detective Heads To Switch
The tongue-in-cheek adventure arrives 7th Feb
If the likes of Thimbleweed Park proved anything, it's that there's always going to be a place for point-and-click adventure games on Nintendo Switch - especially when they're heavy in black humour and suitably retro in appearance. The Darkside Detective, which is slated for release on 7th February, fits...
News 2D Puzzler Sling Ming Is Hooking Up With The Switch This Spring
Get hooked on Oxylane
Good Night Brave Warrior has revealed that it is bringing Sling Ming to the Switch eShop this spring. This 2D puzzler sees you using a transit system known as the Oxylane to transport Princess Ming through a series of tricky levels. Using the Oxylane, you can "fly through the air, swing around corners and defy gravity" in...
News Hotel Transylvania Will Sink Its Teeth Into Nintendo Switch This Summer
Monster mash
With a new instalment in the animated Adam Sandler series set for release this year, publisher Outright Games has revealed a video game tie to Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation in will be hitting PC and consoles - and that includes Nintendo Switch, naturally - just in time for the summer. According to the official announcement, the...
News This Is The Police 2 Has A Real Fargo Feel About It And It's Coming To Nintendo Switch In 2018
Enforcing the law in Sharpwood
The original This Is The Police brought a unique balance of procedural police investigation and resource management when it was ported over to Nintendo Switch last year, and it was clearly a great fit because publisher THQ Nordic and developer Weappy Studio has confirmed the sequel - This Is The Police 2 - is slated...
News Ark: Survival Evolved Spin-Off PixARK Will Roar Onto Switch This Year
Open-world sandbox survival, plus dinosaurs!
Snail Games has announced that its upcoming open-world sandbox survival game PixARK will be heading to Nintendo Switch in 2018. The game is inspired by the world of Ark: Survival Evolved, an action-adventure survival title that was released on various non-Nintendo platforms in August of last year. Peter...
News The Original AeternoBlade Is Heading To Nintendo Switch This Week
Sales will help to fund upcoming sequel
Corecell Technology has announced that its 2014 Nintendo 3DS release AeternoBlade has been ported to the Nintendo Switch and will be releasing this Thursday, February 1st. For those who may have missed it the first time around, this Metroidvania/JRPG mash-up plays through the journey of Freyja, the game's...
News Cartoons Get A Horror Makeover As Bendy And The Ink Machine Comes To Switch In 2018
You'll never look at toons the same way
First-person horror has helped breath new and fetid life into the world of jump scares and virtual fear on other platforms, and now Nintendo Switch is finally getting in on the action. We've already got Layers Of Fear: Legacy, Outlast and Outlast II out later this year and now we've got one of the most unusual...
Video Square Enix Discusses The Response To Project Octopath Traveler
Still no name, though
Late last year, Square Enix released a demo for an upcoming traditional JRPG called Project Octopath Traveler, and it was met with plenty of positive reception. The full release is being worked on by the team behind the Bravely Default games, and much of that quality seems to be showing through in this new project, with some...
News Circle Is Bringing Shelter Generations To Switch As A Console Exclusive
Paws for thought
Circle Entertainment is bringing Might and Delight's Shelter Generations to Switch later this year, it has been announced. Shelter Generations includes Shelter 2 and Paws: A Shelter 2 Game and will be a console exclusive on Switch. Shelter 2 originally launched on Steam in 2015 and places you in the role of a...
News Horror Adventure The Long Reach Will Haunt Your Switch On March 14th
Welcome to Baervox
Merge Games is bringing Painted Black's The Long Reach to Switch on March 14th, it has been announced. Boldly described as a "thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a sceptical view on the human psyche", The Long Reach is inspired by the likes of Lone Survivor and The Cave, and...
News EVO Japan Trailer For SNK Heroines Turns The Fan Service Up To Eleven
Now with added Nakoruru from Samurai Shodown
SNK has published a new trailer for its upcoming fighting title SNK Heroines to coincide with EVO Japan 2018, and the level of fan service on display is off the chart. As well as showing plenty of gleefully bouncing flesh, the trailer also details how you can customise your fighter and gives a little bit...
News The Planet-Hopping Xeodrifter Will Touch Down On Nintendo Switch This February
Price revealed exclusively within...
Nintendo Switch is getting another port next month in the form of Renegade Kid's Xeodrifter. You'll probably recognise the name as it's featured on both 3DS and Wii U already, and it left a strong impression on Nintendo Life in both of our reviews. If you've never heard of it before, you play an astronaut who...
Video Brand New Trailer For Kirby Star Allies Shows Off 8 Playable Characters
8x the cuteness
Kirby Star Allies is looking better and better with each video we feast our eyes on. It wasn't too long ago that we learnt all about the brand new copy abilities being introduced to the series in that Nintendo Direct Mini a couple of weeks back, and now we have a brand new Japanese trailer which shows off a whole bunch
News Kickstarted 2D Wonder Aegis Defenders Coming To Nintendo Switch On 6th February
And it'll launch alongside PS4 and PC
While once previously slated for PC and PlayStation 4 only, indie developer GUTS Department has revealed the long-gestating 2D genre mashup that is Aegis Defenders will be launching on Nintendo Switch as well, arriving on 6th February alongside the other versions of the game. Originally Kickstarted in 2014, the...
News Flinthook Swings Onto the Switch Digitally and Physically in 2018
A different kind of Space Pirate
The Switch has had no shortage of excellent indie games in the last year, fueled in no small part by the convenience offered by the portability of the console. More often than not, indie games are much shorter than AAA games, but that just makes them that much more suited to a console that can be played on the go in...
News Dead Cells Is Coming to the Switch Later This Year
Die trying!
The Metroidvania and Roguelike genres are two of the most popular among indie developers these days, so it’s not surprising to see that there’s several developers working to mix these two together in interesting ways. One notable example of this is Dead Cells, a previously PC-only game that combines these genres with a Dark...
News Wild Guns Reloaded Is Saddling Up For A Switch Release This Spring
Westworld, Natsume-style
Wild Guns is one of the many gems to be found in the SNES library. Taking place in a future where the Wild West meets robots, it has gone down as something of a cult classic on the console thanks to its lovely visuals and engaging gameplay. When Natsume announced some time ago that it was creating a remake in the form of...
News Hello Kitty Kruisers is Racing Onto Switch Both Digitally and Physically
Hello Kitty Meow Deluxe
Rising Star Games has today announced that Hello Kitty will be racing onto the scene on Nintendo Switch in Hello Kitty Kruisers, a multiplayer arcade racing game. As you can see from the trailer above, the game features similar ideas to the classic Mario Kart formula, offering multiplayer racing action combined with...
News Hack And Slash Title Castle Of Heart Will Be A Switch Exclusive
In a skin of stone beats the heart of a true hero!
The onslaught of quality indie games coming to the Switch eShop continues with Castle of Heart from Polish studio 7LEVELS. This action platformer will be a Nintendo Switch exclusive and launches early this year. In the game you play as a knight who is turned into stone. You have to keep moving...
News 2D Action Title ATOMIK: RunGunJumpGun Will Be Blasting Off On Switch Early Next Month
120 levels and an all-new mode for Switch
Good Shepherd Entertainment is publishing ThirtyThree's "2D retro automatic runner"Â ATOMIK: RunGunJumpGun on the Switch eShop early next month, it has been announced. The game - which launched in 2016 on Windows, Steam and Mac - is focused on "one very big gravity-defying gun" and the action is controlled...
News Aquarium Management Game Abyssrium is Floating Towards a Switch Release
Colourful fish aplenty
Flero Games has announced that it will be bringing Idle Idea Factory's aquarium management simulator Abyssrium to the Nintendo Switch. Abyssrium was originally released for mobile devices in 2016, generating over 25 million downloads during that time. The game is an idle clicker, with players being able to simply tap the...
News World Of Goo Studio Is Bringing 7 Billion Humans To Nintendo Switch
That's a lot of humans
The Tomorrow Corporation is bringing its next game to Switch, it has been confirmed. The sequel to the critically-acclaimed Human Resource Machine, 7 Billion Humans is set in a world where robots have taken all of the jobs mankind would normally do, leaving a whopping 7 billion people out of work. To solve this rather...
News Switch's First MOBA, Arena Of Valor, Will Kick Off Its EU Closed Beta on 27th Jan
Valor Morghulis
Last year we learned Nintendo Switch is set to get its first MOBA in the form of Arena Of Valor, and now the Tencent-developed online battler is getting a closed European beta this month from midnight (UTC) Saturday 27th January to midnight Monday 28th January. The 5v5 MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) - which shares at least a...
News Frederic 2: Evil Strikes Back Will Soon Be Finding Its Groove On Switch
'Funky'
ForeverEntertainment has announced that Frederic 2: Evil Strikes Back has been successfully certified for release on Nintendo Switch, with a launch date falling "within the next month". The game, which is promising to be a 'bigger and better' sequel to last year's rhythm title Frederic: Resurrection of Music, will feature brand new...
News OPUS: Rocket of Whispers Will Soon Be Making Its Way To Switch
Another adventure awaits
Flyhigh Works has announced that it will be publishing OPUS: Rocket of Whispers on Nintendo Switch. Rocket of Whispers is the second instalment of the OPUS series, following the footsteps of OPUS: The Day We Found Earth - a game that we really enjoyed in our recent revie
News My Time at Portia Bringing Dungeon Exploring Fun To Switch Later This Year
A charming sandbox simulation RPG
UK publisher Team17 and China-based independent developer Pathea Games have today launched their charming sandbox simulation RPG, My Time At Portia, into Steam Early Access. But if you're not a Steam gamer, then the good news is that it will be coming to the Switch eShop later this year also. In this game...
News Rain World's Developer Is Gauging Interest For A Potential Switch Port
Could the slugcat be heading to Switch?
Videocult, the indie developer behind the tactical stealth platformer Rain World is gauging interest for a new port, suggesting the twisted adventures of the slugcat could be making their way to Nintendo Switch in the future. It proved to be one of the most acclaimed indie games to hit PC and PS4 last year, so...
News Quirky Puzzle Platformer Shiftlings Is Shifting Onto Switch
Join the intergalactic reality show
We quite enjoyed Shiftlings when it popped up on the Wii U eShop back in 2015. For those who missed it, it's been announced today that an enhanced version of the quirky puzzler will wobble onto the Switch eShop on the 1st of February in Europe and North America. Set in an intergalactic reality...
News Retro Styled Platformer Miles & Kilo Heading To Switch eShop Soon
Kid Tripp is back and this time he's brought his dog!
If you enjoyed retro styled platformer Kid Tripp then you might be interested to know that publisher Four Horses is bringing sequel Miles & Kilo to the Switch eShop in the not-too-distant future. Miles & Kilo takes all the great features of Kid Tripp, turns them up to 11 and...
News The Fall Part 2: Unbound Is Set To Take Over The Switch This February
When AI takes over the mind
Canadian developer Over The Moon has announced that its latest project The Fall Part 2: Unbound will be launching on Nintendo Switch on February 13th. As a sequel to The Fall, which was originally released on Wii U, this game combines haunting metroidvania exploration with brain teasing point-and-click adventure...
News Aperion Cyberstorm Flies Onto The Switch eShop On 8th February
Plasma-spewing, bullet-hell twin-stick shooter action
We first played Aperion Cyberstorm - by aPriori Digital - back in early 2015 as shown in the video above, and had a lot of fun with its stylish twin-stick shooting. That was on Wii U, but the realities of making games with limited resources and the rapid decline of the console saw...
News The Original SteamWorld Dig Will Tunnel Onto Switch Next Month
Time to dig deep into those pockets once more
SteamWorld Dig is one of our favourite Wii U and 3DS eShop titles so the news that we'll get the chance to play it a third time on Switch is very welcome indeed. Image & Form's Brjann Sigurgeirsson has stated that it's coming on February 1st and will cost $9.99 in North America. Sigurgeirsson said...
News 2D Action RPG Earth's Dawn Will Be Mobilising On Switch Soon
War is coming
Japanese studio One Or Eight is bringing its 2D action game Earth's Dawn (known in Japan as Earth Wars) to the Nintendo Switch, it has been announced. The game is already available on PS4, Xbox One and Steam and uses a similar visual style to titles like Muramasa and Odin Sphere. The Switch version is coming alongside ports...
