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They are actually giving away 5 games for free... Sonic 2 is free on Steam right now.

I know I won't play this that often and that it will be a faff to set up each time and that I will rarely have a chance to play two player.... But I'm still going to buy it. I can take the £90 (ShopTo) hit for the novelty.

@Zeldafan79 TMNT on the Game Boy Advance was great. But that was 13 years ago...

@Scollurio To be honest, I still play that on my SNES and it still looks great. I'd rather a new Turtles action game (that isn't terrible).

The UK game deals are terrible. I'm sure there was a good UK deal on a 512GB Micro SD that isn't listed here though.

I don't know what SMITE is, but it sadly isn't the word I wanted at the end of the sentence 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Are Heading To...'

@HIGHscores85 Yeah, I've got one and like it but it really sucks that it doesn't work with the FlipGrip. I thought about trying to wire the Switch side connectors out to it when in the FlipGrip but decided it was too much of a pain to do.

My dream would be a JoyCon that worked in the FlipGrip and had a little digital stick (in place of the analogue stick) like the NEOGEO Pocket Color had.

@ShaiHulud I'm starting to think that you should be making the recommendations, not me!

@ShaiHulud It's kinda different, but Into the Breach is good fun of you haven't tried it.

@ShaiHulud I know it's not an actual Advance Wars game, but have you played Wargroove?

Those screenshots are shockingly blurry. Not a good look.

@Lone_Beagle I agree with that for comparing say Steam reviews with Metacritic critic reviews, or IMDb reviews with Metacritic film reviews, but I've pretty much given up on Metacritic user reviews as there's so many 0 and 10 scores and lots of general ranting and reviewing of games on some principal where they clearly haven't actually played it.

This one looks interesting. I do often wonder though why NLife always seems to refer to Steam reviews for games already out on PC, but never to professional reviews.

If anyone is interested, this game has a Metacritic score of 73 from 38 PC reviews. Reviews range from 5/10 to 9/10. Sounds like some people really like it and others find it slow and boring. If you like the cyberpunk setting and enjoy a game where the focus is more on the atmosphere and characters than the actual gameplay, then it might be right up your street.

I'm not good enough at games to try really hard ones, and I don't have the time anymore to keep trying over and over and over until I eventually succeed, but there are literally thousands of games out these days that aren't really hard so I don't know why some people get upset that there are a subset of games aimed at players who want incredible challenge (or are just better at games than you and need tough ones to offer any challenge).

It reminds me of a friend of mine who only ever ordered this really sweet korma from his local Indian takeaway. He said to me "I don't understand why you would want to eat that (some medium/hot curry), why would you enjoy having your mouth burnt?!". I did my best to explain to him that maybe it doesn't burn my mouth like it does his as different people have different tastes. There are enough varieties of curry for everyone!

This game looks fabulous. Release it when it plays that way. I can wait.

@Damo Thanks. I'll have to put this one on my 'maybe one day' list as there are so many lovely colourful Bitmap Books and Read-Only Memory books for me still to get.

Sounds great (and I'm a fan of Sega-16) but ouch, that is a lot of money for a paperback book. Even the print-on-demand Hardcore Gaming 101 books are usually under £25.

@damo The preview on Amazon shows all the images as black and white. Do you know if the print book is fully black and white?

@Twinsen Not sure if you realise, but this isn't a port of CastleStorm, it is the brand new sequel, CastleStorm II.

Dungeon Defenders: Awakening also isn't a 'random port' of an old game, it is the third game in that series and it may even be coming to Switch before PS4 and Xbone. Reviews of the PC version have been mixed so far though, so maybe keep your expectations in check on that one too.

@sketchturner Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas doesn't really look that much like this Jack. Google Jack Pumpkinhead and you will see that the character from the Wizard of Oz series is a much closer resemblance. The Oz books are in the public domain now. The name Jack obviously comes from Jack O Lantern which is an extremely old expression.

@sketchturner Pretty sure the Oz stories are in the public domain at this point.

This looks great but also like it might lead to me throwing my controller at a wall. Given the fact that my controller is usually attached to the side of my Switch that might prove to be a very bad thing...

Yeah, I haven't played this one since the day I got it (for about £3 on sale). Maybe I'm just rubbish, but I found it really, really difficult. I couldn't win a normal game, let alone one against a team with twice as many players as mine. I wanted an option to speed play up too but I believe that's locked behind challenge rewards that I'm not good enough to unlock!

If I get any time to myself... Star Wars Squadrons in VR and maybe Dusk.

@Damo Yeah that makes sense. Still seems odd to launch it during a global pandemic when multiplayer will often rely on meeting up with friends. MK has always been about multiplayer and that being limited to homes with two Switches, £180 to spend on cars and enough suitable floor space to play on seems well, limiting. I'll still get one, but I doubt I'll see any multiplayer action until next year.

@Damo Hmm, that's seems rather short sighted by Nintendo. I can't see why the game wouldn't work in split screen mode and that would have allowed families with a single Switch to buy two cars to play two player. I'd have thought this will surely have quite a limited scope for multiplayer during the pandemic.

Have they confirmed anywhere whether this will/won't work in split screen (or did I miss that in the article)? As in everyone is complaining that they'd need to buy another switch in order to play two player, but if it can be played on the TV I can't see why it couldn't be played two player on the TV.

I'd have thought this would be a hit with students in halls where they could all bring their own Switches and cars and setup big tracks in their student accommodation. Except for the whole pandemic thing...

Yeah, I'm going to have to get this. Then I'll just need a time machine to go back and show off to 7 year old me that I now have both this and VR Star Wars space battles!

This looks and sounds great. I have however just reinstalled X-Wing Alliance with all of the latest UWAUP mods and have Star Wars Squadrons pre-ordered (I don't care if it turns out to be a fairly simple game, in VR with a HOTAS it is going to be great fun), so will probably pick this up later when it's on sale.

I initially read this as 'Brian Wonderworld' and am now disappointed by the actual title.

I've never seen the arcade version of Liquid Kids. I'm guessing it's pretty close to the PCE version, but I'm definitely interested. Good to see Hamster are still keeping busy.

Wow, I missed the fact that Shiren was coming. That was the final game I was considering getting for Vita. Guess I'll get the Switch version now!

I will pick up one of these as it looks like it will be a laugh. It's £89 at ShopTo and that doesn't feel like the worst value given the fact that you get a wifi controlled kart with HD camera and low latency streaming tech built in. Wish Yoshi was available though.

I see four player here being most likely to happen where people take their Switch and kart round to someone else's house. Worldwide it may not have therefore been the best time to launch this game...

Maybe it is time for something new for Kirby. How about Retro make Kirby Prime? A first person Kirby game where... er... OK, let's just get Kirby's Epic Yarn HD or something.

I will pre-order this on the 28th. Love all of their books. Not sure I can justify the extra £20+ for a copy with the special box artwork though.

@brunojenso As far as I know, all Bitmap Books releases come with a digital download link included. They may all be available digitally only too, not sure.

@backup368 I know, that's why I said they still released 'all announced' games on other platforms. I'm not saying that all future Obsidian games will be multi-platform, or that Bethesda ones will, just that they are very unlikely to cancel in development games for other platforms that have already been announced (like Doom Eternal for Switch).

When Microsoft bought Obsidian they still released all announced games on other platforms, so I wouldn't worry about Doom Eternal on Switch.

I hope the good relationship between Microsoft and Nintendo continues though. I think the way Microsoft sees it, Nintendo aren't exactly a direct competitor and they'd rather people bought an Xbox and a Switch than an Xbox and a PlayStation. They're also happy to sell their games to the Nintendo only crowd who will only ever buy Nintendo platforms.

I keep seeing the 3DS Monster Hunter games at amazing prices on the Argos site (£1.75 for MH4U!) but they never have them in stock in any store near me and won't deliver to me. Damn it.

Cross save functionality between PC and Switch (or other consoles) is the best idea ever. I love the flexibility it provides.

As for the game, it looks fabulous, I need to pick it up soon. Too many big games on the go right now though.

I'm fine with them not making any wonky ports of those games. More ground up Switch games like Rise is what we need from Capcom and other major devs.

Think I'll finally pick up Kamiko. At that price I really have no excuse.

@NintendoByNature @Ralizah It is being given a standard physical release in Europe. Currently available to pre-order for £23.99 from 365Games in the UK.

Ys IX is also up for pre-order physically in the UK. The Game Collection have that for £39.95.

Edit: Oops, it was @Bobb I meant to tag here, not NintendoByNature.

Atooi + Grant Kirkhope (surely) = a winner.

@romanista I had somehow completely missed the existence of that. Thanks for the heads up! Not 100% sure on the visual style, but I'll get anything EDF.

Ah man, I saw the headline and thought I was going to get some giant bug killing action on the go and then saw the 'Hamster's Arcade Archives' part and realised it was talking about a different game series. Shame really, as EDF would be perfect for Switch.

Haha, they'd need to use really large thumbnails for the games just to fill a single screen with the selection!

@AlexOlney Maybe it is supposed to represent years of thin layers being hastily papered over the same base product?

The reason for the name change seems ludicrous... but not as ludicrous as the new name Ubisoft settled on.

Yep, I got this email too. Annoyingly, Simply Games were charging the same price when I pre-ordered from Base, but they've put their price up £5 now.

Edit: As lots of people here are suggesting that Base is some no name retailer that shouldn't be taken seriously, I'd like to say that I buy almost all of my physical games from them and they have never let me down before. They always have much better prices than Game and Amazon and have provided me with plenty of Nintendo's first party titles without issues before. Just because you don't shop around for the best prices online, doesn't mean sites you haven't heard of aren't trustworthy.

@Tsusasi Well, this is a model being released in Europe and a quick check of Amazon UK shows plenty of standard Switch models in stock...

@scully1888 Thanks for clarifying.