Alongside the myriad of announcements this morning from the Switch 2 Direct was the confirmation that certain Nintendo Switch titles would be getting enhanced Nintendo Switch 2 Editions. First up for the enhancement process are two of the Switch’s biggest titles, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and…
Not revealed in today’s Direct, Nintendo has a new wrinkle in store for publishers that opt to sell physical games without the physical component. For anyone looking to sell a “key-in-a-box,” Nintendo has a brand-new option: the Switch 2 Game-Key card. As the name suggests, this will be a Switch…
Mario Kart World, the newest entry in the Mario Kart franchise and the first new console game in over a decade, races on to Switch 2 in just two months! First teased back in January for the Switch 2 reveal, Mario Kart World was the first trailer shown off in…
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A recent phenomenon in the PC gaming space is the “Auto Chess” genre. What initially started as a Dota 2 mod released in early 2019 soon became its own game, ran by the developers over at Drodo Soft, titled simply “Auto Chess”. The game has since made its way to…
One of the best selling games on the Nintendo DS was Brain Age, or Brain Training in other territories, which helped the system secure its casual audience worldwide. Now the game is back, polygonal Dr. Kawashima and all, with a new Switch release. The new game will use the Switch…
The first set of paid DLC part of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order’s Expansion Pass has released a few hours early, adding new playable characters to the game alongside a hefty free update. “Marvel Knights: Curse of the Vampire” adds Moon Knight, Morbius, Punisher, and Blade to the…
After a poster leaked recently we’ve been waiting for the official reveal of the next season of the Pokémon anime, and now it’s been confirmed. As expected it carries the simple title of Pocket Monsters in Japan, and Serebii reports a few translated details regarding the new character,…
Nintendo’s never been shy about revisiting its library, though usually this applies to the home console front. With the exception of Pokémon, handheld heroes are sometimes out of luck when it comes to seeing their favorites return. Thankfully, there are exceptions, and just in time for the Switch Lite launch…
With today’s release of Dragon Quest XI S on Nintendo Switch, the team behind the game feels they finally fulfilled their promise to the late, great Satoru Iwata. In the most recent livestream for Dragon Quest XI S, as translated by NintendoSoup, the developers said that Iwata told them that…
Today’s the day when Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition finally arrives on Switch, bringing a lengthy RPG from a legendary series to Nintendo fans and those who just gotta play on the go. You’ll meet plenty of people across Erdrea, but none will…
In just over a month, we’ll be back to rolling with Aiai and the rest of Super Monkey Ball’s cast, and it looks like they’re bringing one more friend along. According to the game’s XBox achievement list, specifically the Way Past Cool achievement, Sonic the Hedgehog could be rolling his…
There are a lot of reasons to like the Nintendo Switch Lite, and one of those is just how well it pops aesthetically. While we’ve known of some accessories to come that’ll suit its smaller size, 8BitDo is upping their game by matching the look of the Lite instead. …
Shantae and the Seven Sirens is here! At least… on Apple’s new streaming games platform, Apple Arcade, in an episodic format. However, the game’s still headed to Nintendo Switch systems later this year, and we’ve managed to capture at least 45 minutes of footage from the Apple Arcade version of the game…
The marketing cycle for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield has started to get a little more experimental lately – just recently we had a glitched Pokémon turn out to be Farfetch’d’s Galarian evolution, Sirfetch’d. You might want to strap in for the long haul with this latest scheme, though. The…
