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News Evil Dead: The Game Delayed Again, Will Now Arrive In May
Update: Switch release might not launch alongside other versions
Update [Wed 9th Feb, 2022 00:15 GMT]: Evil Dead: The Game got a new trailer today to make up for the delay last month, but it seems that's not the only news. The Switch version might not arrive alongside the other versions on 13th May 2022 - with Saber Interactive and Boss Games...
Video Check Out This 10-Minute Gameplay Trailer For 'What Lies In The Multiverse'
Coming this March
In anticipation of What Lies in the Multiverse's upcoming March release, Untold Tales have released a ten-minute gameplay trailer with commentary from the community developer, Sadie, which you can watch above. What Lies in the Multiverse is all about making your way through various platforming levels with the ability to jump into...
News Solve Crime Puzzles In An Sci-Fi Mind-Palace In Forest Grove, Coming 2022
Sherlock, eat yer heart out
What if Gone Home was about a murder? And what if you, a sort of sci-fi Sherlock Holmes, able to investigate a crime scene using revolutionary nano-tech, were able to figure out what happened? That's the idea behind Forest Grove, an upcoming narrative puzzle-thriller that's all about reconstructing the truth. An heiress...
Feature Our Predictions For The February 2022 Nintendo Direct
Kirby! GoldenEye! Triangles!!!
Another Nintendo Direct? In this economy? That's right! And it's a 40-minute one, focused on the games coming to the Nintendo Switch in the first half of 2022. Or, technically, mainly focused on the first half of the year... The Direct will take place tomorrow, February 9th, at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET...
News 'All Aksys' Showcase To Feature At Least 6 Upcoming Switch Games
The events keep coming
Today's brought the rather exciting news of an upcoming Nintendo Direct, but for Switch fans there seem to be other intriguing showcases to come this month. One is 'All Aksys', the second broadcast with that name to come our way from Aksys Games; it'll air on 17th February at 9am Pacific / noon Eastern / 5pm UK / 6pm CET on...
News 'Zelda' Meets 'Super Mario Maker' In Super Dungeon Maker
Create your own dungeons or sample those made by others
When Nintendo released Super Mario Maker, many pondered what the company could do next with the formula. Turns out, it was Super Mario Maker 2 and not 'Zelda Maker', which was high on people's wish lists. If you were one of those disappointed individ
Feature The Last Worker Promises To Be "Memorable, Heartfelt" And "Chunkiest" On Switch
"I adore the Switch"
The Last Worker is a title that, with each passing month, is attracting more attention and curiosity. It's a project led by Jörg Tittel, whose career has seen him work across the arts in TV, film and games. Revealed last year with an enigmatic trailer, it also achieved the notable landmark of being showcased at the 78th Venice...
News Square Enix Details 'Custom Race Mode' In Final Fantasy Spin-Off Chocobo GP
Start your engines March 10th
One game you might want to be on the lookout for this March is the new Chocobo GP for Nintendo Switch. It's a new kart racer by the Final Fantasy company Square Enix in the style of series like Mario Kart and features an expansive roster of FF characters. Square Enix has been
News Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles Launches On Switch This June
Update: Western release confirmed, physical pre-orders live
Update [Tue 8th Feb, 2022 01:35 GMT]: Good news, demon slayers - the Switch version of Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles has now been confirmed for the west, and will launch the day after the Japanese release on 10th June. Pre-orders for the physical edition are now...
News River City Girls Zero Brings Super Famicom Beat 'Em Up Action To Switch eShop Next Week
"Get ready to brawl like it's 1994"
Pre-orders for the physical edition of River City Girls Zero for the Nintendo Switch recently went live, and now to add to this WayForward has locked in a Switch eShop release date. If you would prefer this over a hard copy of the game, or just can't wait any longer - you'll be able to experience this 1994 16-bit...
News 'The Perfect Pencil' Is A Beautiful Surreal Adventure Coming To Switch
Draws inspiration from the likes of Celeste and Hollow Knight
It's a pleasing part of the Switch life that fascinating Indie titles often have an eShop version planned alongside the usual PC build. Another to join the watch-list is The Perfect Pencil, which looks like an intriguing and rather beautiful game. It'll be the debut release of Studio...
Hands On Rune Factory 5 Feels Comfortable And Familiar, But Is That Enough?
A decade on, a new day has dawned
It’s rather hard to believe, but this July will mark the 10-year anniversary of the initial launch of Rune Factory 4 for the 3DS. Since then, the farm sim genre arguably hasn’t seen much innovation or notable movement, other than the release of a certain indie gem that hardly needs any introduction. Still,...
News New Action-Adventure Channelling Classic Survival-Horror Games Launches On Switch Next Week
Inspired by games like Resident Evil & Eternal Darkness
Red Art Games and Pugware have announced they'll be releasing the action-adventure Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity on the Switch eShop next week on February 11th. The PlayStation 4 version will also receive a physical release. The title is a 2D pixel release, previously released on platforms...
News Yoko Taro And Company Are Back With Voice Of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden
That was fast
When we saw Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden on our YouTube subscriber list the initial assumption was that it was a mobile spin-off or smaller experience. We already had Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars in October on Switch, yet it's the same creative team and developer bringing us The Forsaken Maiden - its out soon on the...
News PlatinumGames' Sol Cresta Is Receiving A Limited Run Physical Release On Switch
Pre-orders open later today
A few weeks ago, PlatinumGames finally locked in a release date for its new shmup game Sol Cresta. It'll be arriving later this month on 22nd February for €39.99 / $39.99 / 3,980 yen. In addition to a digital release, Limited Run Games has now also announced standard and collector's edition physical copies of the game...
News Neptunia X Senran Kagura Bursts Onto Nintendo Switch This April
Plus DLC and extra content
A hack-and-slash crossover of two titans of the genre, Neptunia and Senran Kagura, was confirmed for a Western release last year — and now we have an exact release date for Neptunia X Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars of April 19th in North America and April 22nd in Europe. The game combines the two nations from Neptunia and...
News Namco's 'Dangerous Seed' Is Coming To Switch Later This Month
Joins the Arcade Archives series
Namco's 1989 vertically-scrolling shooter Dangerous Seed is joining the Arcade Archives series, it has been revealed. Designed by Yuichiro Shinozaki (The Tower of Druaga), Dangerous Seed runs on the Namco System 1 arcade hardware. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive, alongside a slightly improved soundtrack...
News Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch Games
Breath of the Wild 2 still on for 2022, Metroid Prime still TBA
Nintendo's latest financial report is live and the company has (re)published its upcoming release schedule. Below, we've listed the major Nintendo releases currently on the docket for 2022 — the announced ones, at least. The updated schedule includes January launches, so you'll find...
News Ubisoft Is Releasing A New "Dodgeball Multiplayer Party Game" On Switch
The 'OddBallers' arrive next month
Ubisoft has announced it's bringing Game Swing's "new dodgeball multiplayer party game" OddBallers to Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms next month on March 24. This party game can be played solo, or multiplayer - and supports up to four players locally and six online. According to the PR, players will...
News FMV Murder Mystery 'Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus?' Hits Switch Next Month
"Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz"
Wales Interactive and Good Gate Media have confirmed that the "eccentric FMV murder mystery" Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? is coming to Switch next month. Filmed during lockdown and shot simultaneously in London and Los Angeles, the game stars Andy Buckley (The Office, Jurassic World) as Uncle...
News Publisher Chibig Announces Four New Switch Games, Plus Big News For Summer In Mara
Chibig news
The latest indie publisher to hop on the Nintendo Direct-like showcase bandwagon (which, for the record, we're big fans of) is Chibig, the studio behind Summer in Mara and Deiland: Pocket Planet. Their showcase, which is called "Chibig Presents", will be livestreamed on their Twitch channel at 4pm GMT, on Wednesday, February 2nd. The...
News MLB The Show 22 Gets A Stylish Trailer, Switch Version To Be Fully Cross-Platform
Switch hit
Just recently we had the very welcome news that MLB The Show 22 is coming to the Switch in April, alongside the PlayStation and Xbox versions. It'll be the first PlayStation Studios title on Switch (it's developed by Sony San Diego), though it's worth reminding people that this is at the behest of Major League Baseball (MLB); in fact MLB...
News Shovel Knight Dev's New Game 'Mina The Hollower' Smashes Kickstarter Goal
Tiny but powerful
It's hardly shocking news, but it turns out that everyone and their nan is excited about Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games' new offering, Mina the Hollower. Especially because it looks like a brand-new Link's Awakening, or a Zelda: Oracle game that people will actually play (sorry, Oracle. You're underrated). And it's about a...
News Taito's RayForce Is Coming To Switch, According To New Taiwanese Rating
AKA: Layer Section or Galactic Attack
Taito's vertically-scrolling shmup RayForce – known as Layer Section in Japan and Galactic Attack / Gunlock in the west – is coming to Switch, according to a new rating via the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. Released in 1994, the arcade original was created using Taito's F3 arcade hardware and was...
Yacht Club's latest gets the 8-bit top-down
Following the the promise of a "groundbreaking" reveal during a broadcast on G4's Twitch stream channel, Yacht Club Games, developer of Shovel Knight, has pulled back the curtain on an all-new title called Mina the Hollower. Described as a bone-chilling action adventure, Mina the Hollower uses a top-down...
News Old Man's Journey Developer Unveils 'Gibbon: Beyond The Trees'
Also tackles 'challenging real-world environmental issues'
Broken Rules is a development studio that has produced a number of intriguing games, quite a few of which have been on Nintendo platforms - it's probably best known among Switch gamers for Old Man's Journey. The studio has now confirmed its next release, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, which will...
News Danny Trejo Will Be In OlliOlli World As An In-Game Character
Grindhouse
OlliOlli World, the upcoming skateboard action-platforming adventure from Roll7 and Private Division, has just cast a surprising celebrity addition: Danny Trejo, Mr Machete himself. The Spy Kids actor will give the player one of the side-quests in the game, which will unlock a special cosmetic item for the player's OlliOlli World...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For February And March 2022
Assassin's Creed! Triangle Strategy! A brand new Kirby!
We might be one month down already – where does the time go? – but 2022's still got plenty in store for Switch owners. As always, we've been busy compiling a list of some of the best Nintendo Switch games and accessories launching over the next couple of months. Two major...
News Dodgeball Academia Is Getting A Physical Release, Thanks To Humble Games
Sports RPG arrives in physical form this March
Pocket Trap's sports RPG Dodgeball Academia is getting a physical release later this year, thanks to those lovely people at Humble Games. Released on the Switch eShop in August last year, Dodgeball Academia takes place across eight episodes and sees the player fostering friendships with fellow students...
News Step Up To The Plate, MLB The Show 22 Is Coming To Switch
Home run
It feels like a distant memory but it was announced a few years back that MLB The Show, developed by Sony San Diego and previously a PlayStation exclusive, would be coming to other systems; this was no doubt by the insistence of Major League Baseball and a desire to reach a wider audience. Last year it arrived on Xbox for the first time,...
News Square Enix Showcases More Triangle Strategy Features In New Trailer
Update: English trailer appears!
Update: As expected, an English-language version of the trailer has now appeared courtesy of Nintendo of America's YouTube channel. We've swapped out the Japanese version above, so feel free to give it another watch! Original Article (Thu 27th Jan, 2022 13:30 GMT): It was only yesterday that we saw the localised...
News Bayonetta 3's Lead Designer Actually Left PlatinumGames Two Years Ago
He's been with Xbox 's Tango Gameworks for six months now
It's been discovered the lead designer on PlatinumGames' Switch exclusive Bayonetta 3 departed from the studio in 2020. Marius Hermanavicius was at Platinum for approximately four years and one month according to his LinkedIn. During this time he worked on the cancelled Xbox project
Video 9 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In February 2022
Assassin's Creed, Sol Cresta and more!
February is upon us, and you know what that means... more new games are en route to the Nintendo Switch. With January almost out of the way then, what exactly have we got to look forward to over the next month? Never fear because the lovely Alex is here to give us the full rundown. Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and...
News Puzzle-Platformer Pompom Announced For Switch
"Play a platformer in a new way"
Publisher PID Games will be bringing Tomo Camp's 2D puzzle-platformer Pompom to the Switch at some point this year. This "tribute" to SNES classics and the 16-bit era, in general, is a bit different from your regular platformer - instead of actually controlling the character (in this case, Pompom the hamster), you...
News Nightdive Brings '90s FPS PowerSlave Exhumed To Switch This February
"Sega Saturn and PlayStation versions combined"
As you might recall, last year during 3D Realms' annual 'Realms Deep' broadcast - Nightdive Studios (the team behind the recent Shadow Man remaster for Switch) announced it would be reviving the 1996 FPS PowerSlave Exhumed (also known as PowerSlave / Exhumed) - combining the Sega Saturn and PlayStation...
News JRPG 'Sword Of Elpisia' Slashes Its Way To Switch Next Month
Pre-order now to get 10% off!
The latest Switch RPG from Exe-Create and Kemco, Sword of Elpisia launches on Nintendo's platform next month. It'll launch on 10th February, but eShop pre-orders offering 10% off its usual $14.99 asking price are now live. It's a fantasy JRPG starring a girl who finds herself turned into a magic sword and, if you've...
News Atelier Sophie 2 Gets A Fancy New Trailer And Battle Details
Arrives on 25th February
Switch owners have been treated well when it comes to Koei Tecmo's Atelier 'Mysterious' series, with multiple entries and bundles arriving on the system. One of the most tempting is Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack, which we covered in a review and includes Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious B
News Mortal Kombat 12 Seemingly Teased By NetherRealm Producer
Get over here and look at this!
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the brutal, bloody, and violent fighting game franchise Mortal Kombat. NetherRealm has already confirmed it's moved on from Mortal Kombat 11 after two years of DLC - to focus on its "next project", so what's next? Although there have been a lot of rumours over the past year that the...
News Metroid Prime 4 Developer Retro Studios Is Seeking New Team Members
Requires Tools & Tech Engineers to join it on its journey
It's now been three years since the development of Metroid Prime 4 was scrapped and restarted, so what exactly is going on behind the scenes? If you have been wondering, well... we've got a small update, and it seems the team at Retro Studios is still busy hiring. In a new message on social...
Guide Pokémon Legends: Arceus Release Date Details And How To Get It Early
You don't have to be a Night Rowlet
When does Pokémon Legends: Arceus come out? What time does it unlock? And how can you get the game early? We can give you the answer to all these questions and more, unless your question is "which starter should I pick", which is highly contextual and depends on many factors. We did do a very scientific survey on...
News Cult-Classic Point-And-Click Primordia Is Coming To Switch
With the voice of Hades
"Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail." No, that's not a Yelp review of a petrol station, it's the description for Primordia, a classic-style point-and-click adventure that came out on PC back in 2012, with the voice of Logan Cunningham (Hades in Hades, The Transistor in...
News SEGA Wants Sonic Frontiers To Take The Franchise To 'The Next Level'
Aiming for an "open-zone experience"
Sonic Frontiers was a standout in The Game Awards late last year, giving an enticing look at a large-scale Sonic adventure that's due to arrive this year. The game is still mostly a mystery, but Games Radar has nonetheless shared some interesting thoughts from a key
News Super Rare's First Published Game, Grapple Dog, Comes Out Soon
He's a good boy
In January 2022, the physical game publisher Super Rare Games announced that they would be spinning up their own digital publisher, "Super Rare Originals", with five upcoming games to announce. In February 2022, their first game, Grapple Dog, will release on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Steam. Grapple Dog is an appealingly...
News Two Point Campus Enrolls On Switch This May, Special Physical Edition Revealed
Two Point Hospital owners can get extra goodies!
Sega and Two Point Studios have announced that Two Point Campus will launch on Switch and other platforms on 17th May. Following on from the much-loved Two Point Hospital, Two Point Campus lets you build the campus of your dreams, ensuring that your students are getting the best education possible to...
News Dreamcast Star 'Kao The Kangaroo' Is Making A Surprise Comeback On Switch
Launching physically and digitally this summer
Well, here's a blast from the past. Kao the Kangaroo, who fans might remember from the Dreamcast era, is making a 2022 comeback with a reboot headed to Switch and other modern platforms. From Tate Multimedia, the studio behind the original games that launched in the early 2000s, this new release will...
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus Tops Amazon's "Best Sellers" Chart, Unsurprisingly
Physical copies have also sold out in some regions
Ahead of the arrival of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on the Switch tomorrow, the game has already sold out in certain parts of the world on Amazon. On both the US and UK Amazon webpages, physical copies of the game are temporarily out of stock. Even digital code sales are performing quite well. The...
Video Check Out The Improved Graphics In This New Life Is Strange Remastered Trailer
"Additional bones"
[Update: Wed 26th Jan, 2022 21:30 GMT]: A new trailer, this time showing a scene between Chloe's mum and step-dad, also gives a deeper look into the updated and improved facial animation, textures, and lighting. [Original: Tue 25th Jan, 2022 20:30 GMT]: The Life Is Strange Remastered Collection just got delayed on the S
News Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires Demo Lets You Try The Game Ahead Of Next Month's Launch
Live on the eShop today!
Fans will be able to check out Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires on Switch and other platforms before the game launches next month thanks to a free demo going live today. Available on the Switch eShop, the demo features the game's all-new evolved castle sieges including both invasion battles and defense, letting players storm the...
News NIS America Releases A Switch eShop Demo For The Upcoming JRPG 'MONARK'
Digital pre-orders are also live
A demo of MONARK - an upcoming JRPG published by NIS America - can now be downloaded from the Nintendo Switch eShop. The title will be officially released next month in February and can now be digitally pre-ordered on the store as well. In addition to this, the publisher has shared a brand new trailer of the game...
News A New Hatsune Miku Puzzle Game Has Been Announced For Nintendo Switch
Update: Here's your first look
Update [Wed 26th Jan, 2022 05:00 GMT]: And we've now got a first look via the game's Twitter account. It illustrates how you'll have to connect matching eggs on a grid to erase them. And to clear a stage, you must erase all of the eggs. Update [Sat 22nd Jan, 2022 13:30 GMT]: This new puzzle entry in the Hatsune...
