Update: Switch catches up with the other platforms.
Update : After being released on other platforms last week, Konami and WayForward have revealed that the latest update for Contra: Operation Galuga is now available on Switch too.
Notice of the Switch’s inclusion was shared by the official Contra Twitter account. You can find the full patch notes for this new update in our original coverage below.
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Dragonite and Marill join the line up.
Earlier this year, some retailers accidentally revealed some new Pokémon Squishmallows. Now, in an update, The Pokémon Company has confirmed the next pair joining the line up are Marill and Dragonite.
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“Fight for glory in the arena”.
Back in 2021, the online and mobile developer Zynga announced it would be bringing the “free-to-download” player-verse-player third-person competitive shooter Star Wars: Hunters to the Switch and mobile devices.
While it’s been playable on mobile devices for some time, it’s now finally launching on the Switch eShop on 4th June 2024. Preloads are also live, so you can jump straight in when the game unlocks on Switch.
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A look back at a glittering catalogue.
Takashi Tezuka seems like a good laugh, the kind of chap who knows how to have fun.
Despite all the Master-Sword-waving and PR-related hijinx from fellow Nintendo luminary Shigeru Miyamoto over the years, you still get the impression he’s merciless in the workplace — an exacting, intimidating, tea-table-upending taskmaster — whereas Tezuka has an air of merrymaking and mischief about him.
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Nothing fishy going on here.
We are mere days away from the release of Endless Ocean: Luminous on 2nd May and today, we can start to gauge whether it’s going to be choppy waters or smooth sailing as a wave of reviews have come flooding in.
We will be collecting together the critical consensus from around the internet but before we do so, let’s dive into what we at Nintendo Life made of the latest ocean explorer. In short, ehhh. While we found that there was some fun to be had with Endless Ocean: Luminous, the repetitive gameplay and bland objectives left us rather bored as we awarded the game a 5/10.
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Endless, unfortunately.
There are a whole bunch of, well, let’s say ‘Wii-centric’ video games from the history vaults that, in theory, seem like they might be a bit of fun to revisit on Nintendo Switch. You know the sort of thing, usually pairing some new-fangled/novelty control scheme with an activity you’d never tried in a game before; making cakes, driving a quad bike…eh…bobsleighing with the Jamaican Olympic team? The Endless Ocean series fits right into this mould and, as it turns out, revisiting its chillaxed dives — even with up to 30 other players in tow — wasn’t a very good idea.
Now, before we get into the negative stuff, let’s start by pointing out that if you’re looking for an incredibly low-energy, low-effort sort of gaming experience where all of the focus is on simply scanning marine life and then reading a tiny informational excerpt about each of them in order to expand your underwater knowledge, this is 100% the game for you. In fact, you’ll likely never find another game more suited to your very specific needs. Please enjoy. For the rest of us, as much as learning about all the amazing creatures that live under the sea is a captivating pursuit, we’re not sure we can justify the price tag given that there is precious little else to do here.
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Dive back in.
Spike Chunsoft’s catchily-titled roguelike RPG Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island has today landed a new free content update. Yes, it’s available right now.
One of the headline additions this time around is the new Sacred Tree Dungeons, where you will be able to blast through a series of tough dungeons each with its own ruleset (get out as quickly as you can, use as few moves as possible etc.). This can now be found in the Shukuba Beach starting area, for those after a challenge.
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A lot more is on the way.
NetherRealm Studios has been busy rolling out new DLC updates for Mortal Kombat 1 and to add to this, Ed Boon has now locked in a release date for the upcoming Kameo character Mavado.
He’ll be arriving next week on 7th May 2024 and was previously teased alongside the DLC fighter Ermac, who was added to the game earlier this month. In addition to this, the co-creator of the Mortal Kombat series has also shared a first in-game look at Homelander from ‘The Boys’:
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More free content & Act II of ‘A Rift in Time’ arrive.
Last week, the team at Gameloft announced Daisy Duck would be joining Disney Dreamlight Valley in the new free content update ‘Thrills and Frills’ on 1st May 2024.
Now, ahead of this update’s arrival, the official patch notes have been detailed. This update also includes Act II of the Disney Dreamlight Valley: A Rift in Time expansion pass. In addition to this are a wide range of bug fixes and optimisations. Here’s the full rundown:
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Launching later this year.
If you’re a fan of sci-fi and RPGs, then you’ll want to keep an eye out for Beyond Galaxyland later this year, because it looks like a doozy.
Created by Chicago-based developer and music producer, Sam Enright, you play as highschooler Doug as he’s whisked off to discover an artificial solar system known as ‘Galaxyland’. You’ll be planet-hopping alonside your adorable gun-toting guinea pig pet Boom Boom and sentient robot Martybot while meeting a plethora of interesting and unique characters.
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