Category: Nintendo

Still waiting on the console confirmation, though…

Well, this one feels like it has been a long time coming. Shovel Knight dev Yacht Club Games popped up at Summer Game Fest’s opening night showcase to give us another peek at Mina The Hollower. What’s more, we finally have a release date… on PC.

This hotly anticipated Zelda-inspired adventure will arrive on Steam on 31st October, channelling all of those retro spooky vibes into the most fitting day of the year. There’s even a Steam demo available right now, for those who want to see what the Shovel Knight studio has in store.

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Names are for friends, so I don’t need one.

Hitman! A rebooted and re-suited assassination spectacular that I once got in a spot of bother over (never reveal that you’re gonna kill Sean Bean in a computer game on social media, lest people mistake it for a threat), has finally — and without the need for cloud streaming technology — made it to a Nintendo Switch console.

This Hitman World of Assassination – Signature Edition release features all of the content that’s previously been released for a trilogy of games that just gets better as it goes along. So yeah, there’s an absolute ton of game to get stuck into here, no worries on that front. There was a lot of scope for the maestros over at IO Interactive to screw up somewhere along the line here, too, with so many moving parts, gadgets, mechanics, overlapping narrative aspects and audaciously big set pieces folded into a trio of huge adventures. This was a big old task they set themselves.

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Super-smooth.

Moving from the Switch 1 Pro Controller to the Switch 2 Pro Controller, Nintendo has largely taken the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ route. Keeping the same basic layout intact, it instead applied several small, but significant improvements to make this latest iteration the very best Nintendo controller I’ve ever had the pleasure of using.

So, looking at the design of the new pad, it all looks pretty familiar, but there are a few changes that should be noted.

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Here comes the choom-choom train.

It’s more often than not these days that a game released in an underwhelming state is left abandoned in a pool of its own minor updates. On occasion, though, we have a redemption arc like that belonging to 2020’s Cyberpunk 2077.

Originally released in a state that was barely functional and riddled with more bugs than an anteater’s digestive tract, it’s safe to say that CD Projekt Red has not only redeemed its reputation, but the game is now celebrated as one of the strongest RPGs of the decade.

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Snap happy.

With the Switch 2’s new Pro Controller (and the new Charging Grip, actually), one of the biggest changes from its predecessor is the addition of the ‘GL’ and GR’ buttons on the back.

Now, if you’re anything like us, then chances are these buttons probably won’t get a whole lot of use in terms of gameplay. Sure, maybe you could map a jump button to one of them if you’re playing an FPS, but generally speaking, most games will have been optimised to make good use of the standard button layout. You don’t want to alienate those just using the standard Joy-Con, after all.

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And it’s been labelled an “accessibility win”.

This player just went from first to last in Mario Kart World

Nintendo has gone to great lengths to ensure Switch 2’s new GameChat feature is a safe experience for everyone, but it doesn’t block out everything.

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Won’t somebody please think of the children?

This player just went from first to last in Mario Kart World

Nintendo has gone to great lengths to ensure its new GameChat feature is a safe experience for everyone, but it seems there’s a small but significant oversight.

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Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough.

Switch 2 is here and users are slowly discovering all sorts of compatibility issues with select games and accessories. If you happen to own an 8BitDo controller, you might have noticed it’s simply not working with Nintendo’s new hybrid device.

Fortunately, there is a way to resolve this for certain 8BitDo products. As highlighted on the Nintendo Switch subreddit, “out of the box” these gamepads do not pair correctly and you’ll need to download some patches. You can visit the links to these downloads via the Nintendo Switch subreddit.

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Highway to Shell.

Editor’s note: Having only gotten our hands on the game and the new system extremely recently, this is — as you can see from the title — a review in progress. We just haven’t had enough time with it yet, but we wanted to share our initial impressions (seeing as we’re all playing it at once).

We’ll be updating the text over the coming days and will deliver a final verdict as soon as possible. Until then, enjoy our early takes, and head down to the comments to let us know how you’re liking (or maybe disliking!) the headline Switch 2 launch game.

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Not unpleasant, necessarily.

Most of us here at Team NL, like many of you, have been unwrapping shiny new consoles today as Switch 2 arrives, finally. Nothing like the smell of new hardware in the morning, right?

Having said that, while we’ve been getting to grips with the new console, some of us have noticed an aroma. Not an unpleasant one, you understand, but a distinctly warm, electronic smell rising from the console’s top vent – as you might expect from a high-performance video gaming device being played for the first time.

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