Latest Famitsu features Square Enix’s Asano Team: Bravely Default II, Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent, and more

Categories: Merchandise, News, Switch

It looks like the latest edition of Weekly Famitsu features the works of Square Enix’s Asano Team, with content for Bravely Default II, Various Daylife, and Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent. The cover is Bravely-centric, with some very colorful character art front and center: We’ll be sure to provide…

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Review – Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Categories: Switch, Reviews

If there was ever a series that was impossible to describe to someone that had never played it, it’s Animal Crossing. Wikipedia describes it as a “social simulation” series, an off-shoot of the life simulation genre made popular by games like The Sims, but trying to sell someone on a…

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Nintendo Switch gets a pinball peripheral

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

The Nintendo Switch’s portability and simplistic design allows it to easily support games that feature a vertically oriented “TATE” mode. For the most part this works well with arcade ports, but it also means pinball tables can be more faithfully replicated, something games like Pinball FX3, Star Wars Pinball, The…

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Playtonic announces updates for both Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

Author: Ricky Berg
Categories: News, Switch

Ever diligent and eternally googly eyed, the folks at Playtonic have just announced a pagie-turner of an update for both the original Yooka-Laylee and its side-scrolling followup, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. For one, they’re making the Impossible Lair itself a little more… possible. They’ve added a state change feature,…

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons dialogue hints at Brewster, new shops coming to game

Categories: News, Switch

Players of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have begun noticing villagers mentioning characters and features not in the game, like Brewster — the coffee shop-running pigeon from past Animal Crossing games — and additional shops. Twitter user @sliceofcy shared an interaction they had with villager Clay on their island. “I’m still…

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