Impressions: Atelier Lydie & Suelle

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: Switch, Features

When you start playing a Japanese RPG you don’t usually expect something calming – typically there are burning villages, amnesiac heroes and world-ending prophecies within the first hour. Gust’s Atelier series has long worked against those assumptions, delivering an experience quite unlike any other JRPG out there. The aim? Building…

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Snake Pass’ infamous Switch icon finally gets updated

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

Last year Sumo Digital updated its charming physics-based collectathon platformer Snake Pass on the Nintendo Switch, but one change it implemented in particular shook certain corners of the internet to their core. The user interface icon, which once displayed the game’s logo, was swapped out for a close-up of protagonist…

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Gooey gets his own Kirby: Star Allies trailer

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

Very soon Kirby will be getting even more Dream Friends in the recently released Kirby: Star Allies, namely Rick, Kine, Coo, Marx, and the focus of the latest trailer out of Japan; Gooey. The little blue blob first made his appearance in Kirby’s Dream Land 2 but had a bigger…

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Speedrun Sunday: Pixel par for the course

Categories: Switch, News, Videos

Welcome to Speedrun Sunday: that sadistic time of the week when we dare to challenge both your D-pad’s durability and sanity’s stamina with the ultimate test in video game bragging rights. Hot off the airborne antics of our Kirby Star Allies challenge comes yet another ruthless run that’ll leave you…

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PixelJunk Monsters 2 announced for Switch at GDC

Categories: News, Switch

A beloved entry in the tower defense game genre, PixelJunk Monsters squeaked into the Wii U’s library back in 2016. Fans who have been smitten with the game and those who have been wanting a new version will be happily surprised today: Spike Chunsoft announced the sequel at GDC, appropriately…

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Steins;Gate Elite confirmed for western release this year

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

UPDATE: It has been confirmed that Steins;Gate Elite will have Japanese voice overs with English subtitles. Check out the announcement trailer:   Last year 5pb. Inc. confirmed it would be bringing its critically acclaimed time-travel visual novel Steins;Gate to the Nintendo Switch, complete with a pretty major make-over. Now, publisher…

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