New gadgets, strengthened anti-cheat and more.
Every game is getting in its final update of the year before the holiday period gets underway, and Sega has today rolled out a major patch for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.
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Sample this incredible soundtrack right now.
If you keep up with the Nintendo Music app’s release schedule, you probably noticed Nintendo didn’t update the app at the regular time earlier this week.
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“The End is coming”.
Summitsphere is giving Antonblast fans one last hurrah, one year after the game first launched on PC. And it’s a content-filled update befittingly titled ‘THE END’.
On 18th December 2025, The End is bringing four brand new bosses, a boss rush, multiple new game modes (including Hard Mode), new music, and new spray cans, among lots of other little additions coming to the 2024 platformer, which is heavily inspired by the Wario Land series.
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Soak in the Viewros.
Nintendo’s biggest release of the month (the year?) arrives tomorrow, with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally Morph Ball rolling onto Switch 1 and 2. But with the new hardware still comparatively fresh on store shelves and the holiday season right around the corner, you might be wondering which system is the place to play Samus’s latest adventure on.
Here to shed some light on how each version holds up is the above comparison video from the sublime Mr. Alex Olney. As you’ll see, the footage shows a direct comparison between the Switch 1 and 2 releases, and the latter’s beefed-up specs are immediately obvious.
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Gardener’s World.
We were delighted to see Ustwo Games’ gorgeous mobile puzzler, Monument Valley 3, make the jump to Switch earlier this year, and today the dev has given us even more story chapters to sink our teeth into — for free!
The ‘Garden of Life’ expansion is now available on Switch, bolting four additional chapters onto the end of the main game, packed with even more of the series’ signature perspective-bending puzzles. There are even some hidden optional puzzles to find in the bonus levels, for those after even more.
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Well that’s not suspicious at all!
11th March 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of Chrono Trigger. Square Enix marked the occasion by announcing that “various projects” would be coming our way over the next year, but so far, those projects have been limited to character popularity polls and planned orchestral concerts. Importantly, that’s not the remake that we all want to see and have been chatting about for years. But we’re still not ready to completely throw out all hope just yet.
You see, in the latest episode of the ‘KosoKoso Hōsō Kyoku‘ talk show livestream (translated by Automaton), Dragon Quest creator and Chrono Trigger supervisor Yuji Horii attempted to keep his lips sealed about where the series is heading — but in saying nothing, has he actually said everything?
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Square Enix’s new HD-2D RPG starring YOU.
It’s been a busy period for gaming recently, and Square Enix is back this week another role-playing release. Following on from the Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake in October, we’ve now got Octopath Traveler 0, which this time puts you in the shoes of your very own custom character.
This game is releasing on the Switch and Switch 2 on 4th December, and ahead of our own review going live later today, the very first critic review has now been shared online. It comes from the famous Japanese publication Famitsu. So, what did the critics at this outlet think?
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Go on, tell us!
We’ve finally made it, folks! This week marks the long-awaited arrival of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. After years of development, delays, and even a restart, Samus Aran’s next 3D outing is officially here for the Switch and Switch 2.
The critic reviews have also gone live ahead of the big release, and admittedly, the aggregate score has got a lot of people talking online. Prime 4 is currently sitting on 81/100 based on 74 critic reviews. At the time of writing, it’s got the same “top critic” score on OpenCritic.
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Cosy.
Chinese dev Seed Lab has officially announced that its upcoming cosy life sim, Starsand Island, is getting a Switch 2 version alongside the Switch 1 release when it launches next year.
Scheduled for release in the nebulous “early 2026” and coming to all the usual platforms, that list also now includes Nintendo’s latest console, where the devs will be offering two modes depending on your preference: Quality Mode, “targeting 45FPS in 1080p”, and Performance Mode, delivering “60FPS in 1080p” in both docked and handheld modes.
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Best footie feet forward.
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road has had another update to bring it up to version 1.4 following the recent 1.3 patch.
This new patch brings all of the tweaks and additions made to other versions of the game (which we reckon is really very good, actually) to Switch 1 and 2, so there’s total parity across all versions.
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