Category: Nintendo

It takes all ports.

Since its launch, Switch 2 has quickly followed in its predecessor’s footsteps, attracting impressive ports from other consoles which belie the modest power of its mobile chipset. It’s a massive jump up from Switch 1, but we’re still talking about a tablet smaller than the average paperback, and it’s mightily impressive to see it handling some of the biggest games from the best devs on the planet.

Naturally, some efforts are better than others, and here we’re highlighting the very best ports on Switch 2; a selection of the finest performers, encompassing not just “impossible” ports of games designed to run on much more powerful, home-bound hardware, but also efforts from developers who made the right choices — the right compromises — to get their game singing on Switch 2 without sacrificing what makes it special.

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Games! Games! Games!

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch 2 eShop – Highlights

The Rogue Prince of Persia (Ubisoft, 16th Dec, $29.99) – Dive into a thrilling and epic adventure, where every action pulses to the heady rhythm of an intense soundtrack. Master fluid, acrobatic and responsive combat, paired with challenging parkour. Death after death, forge your own playstyle with every run. Through exploration and encounters, find a way to right your wrongs and save the Persian kingdom envisioned by Evil Empire!

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15 years leads to big(Ben) payout.

Nintendo has been locked in a long-running legal battle with BigBen Interactive — now known as Nacon — over an infringement relating to the patent of the Wii controller for a full 15 years. That’s a long time!

Now, though, and as reported by The Games Fray (thanks, Games Industry.biz), the Japanese giant has finally had success, resulting in a “nearly EUR 7 million” payout ($8.2million).

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“We sincerely apologize to everyone waiting”.

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Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition arrived earlier this year in January, but fans on the hybrid platform were left behind when the new DLC and other updates never showed up.

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Here’s what you can expect.

Octopath Traveler 0 launched for the Switch and Switch 2 earlier this month and Square Enix has now released a small update for this new entry in the HD-2D RPG series, where you’re the hero.

This includes an update to the game’s camera, a fix and some other small adjustments. Here’s the official rundown:

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Update: Switch 1 confirmed, too.

Well, here’s a nice piece of news! Fresh off a couple of nominations at The Game Awards, it looks like AdHoc Studio’s superhero workplace comedy Dispatch will be flying onto Switch and Switch 2 early next year.

A surprise listing has popped up on the Australian eShop (thanks to Vooks for the heads up), displaying the game and a free Switch 2 upgrade with a planned 29th January release date.

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Oh look, zombies. And in full colou…ah, they’re eating me!

Back in the middle of 1999 (a weird time for everyone, rest assured), British developer HotGen attempted something that was considered to be somewhat of an impossible task. Namely, porting the full glory of 32-bit Resident Evil to the dinky little 8-bit Game Boy Color. In the end, not only did these maestros manage to do it, but they did it in a way that, judging by the gameplay vid above, makes for a more than decent stab at the “impossible”.

Unfortunately, the port was then cancelled and thought lost to time before popping up online in various states throughout the years – though none of these were anywhere near playable from start to finish. That is until now, thanks to Games That Weren’t (thanks to VGC for the heads-up).

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You’ll have to go in-store, though.

We know what you’re thinking… You don’t need yet another reason to pick up Resident Evil Requiem, right? Well, you know us, we’re here to deliver the goods.

GameStop has announced that it will be issuing a free tote bag (gasp!) for in-store pre-orders for Requiem on all available platforms. It depicts the ruined landscape of Racoon City with the game’s title at the top. Form an orderly queue folks, come on now!

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Nothing mid(field) about this.

Just one month after launch, Level-5 has announced that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road‘s monster ‘Galaxy & LBX DLC’ free update will arrive next week on 21st December.

The studio released a beefy four-minute trailer (above) showcasing all of the good stuff that you can expect to find in the new update, but we’ll do our best to run through the highlights here too.

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All the N64 games on NSO.

Updated with Rayman 2 and Tonic Trouble from the December updates. Enjoy!

The library of Nintendo 64 games on Switch and Switch 2 boasts some of the system’s heaviest hitters – a great selection of quality 64-bit games easily accessible to anyone subscribed to the ‘Expansion Pack’ tier of the Nintendo Switch Online service

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