Category: Nintendo

Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch and Switch 2 in October!

Hello, hello, hello! you know what time of the month it is? Oh yes, it’s eShop Selects. And we’ve got some fireworks in here.

Spooky season has passed and many of us are now looking ahead to the ‘H’ season (or perhaps there’s some Turkey in the near future for you for those of you in the US). So it’s time to load up on the best games you can get on the eShop for the chilly months ahead.

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Someone’s Nooking at your door.

Testing, testing. Is the Animalese-to-English translator up and running? It is? Good. Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we put Metroid Prime 2: Echoes under the microscope, and it was a pretty close-run contest. The North American / European design just clinched the win, in the end, with 58% of the vote, leaving the Japanese variant with 42%.

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Online Arcade is also “coming soon”.

Digital Eclipse launched its Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection this week, and while it’s a good history lesson, the team already has plans to improve certain aspects of it.

This starts with a patch dropping today on Steam, with “other platforms” to follow next week. This update will come with audio improvements, improvements for Mortal Kombat 4 and some stability improvements for the Genesis titles.

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And where it is now.

It began with a Zelda T-shirt.

I was wearing my “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.” shirt while running a quick errand at the bank. The teller spotted it. He was at least 20 years younger than me, but his “Nice shirt!” comment kicked off a lengthy conversation about our shared Nintendo fandom.

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Prepare yourselves, Warriors, Riders, Bounty Hunters.

As we slide into the last two months of 2025, there’s a bumper crop of games hitting a Switch (or Switch 2) near you as the holiday season approaches.

Nintendo is publishing a pair of Switch 2 games in November, with Koei Tecmo’s take on Zelda-styled Musou arriving on the 6th, and Masahiro Sakurai’s latest Kirby game landing on the 20th. Samus returns in December (finally!), too, and beyond first-party, there’s a plethora of third-party picks waiting to keep you company into the new year. (Not Elden Ring, though.)

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FIGHT!

Gosh, we’re into November already – how on earth did that happen? Well, either way, it’s the weekend, so let’s do a quick recap of the week before we dive into what we’re playing, shall we?

Naturally, the biggest news of the week was the announcement from Nintendo that Animal Crossing: New Horizons would be making a comeback, with both a free update planned for all owners alongside a paid Switch 2 Edition in the new year.

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Including an update for Animal Crossing tracks.

: In case you missed it, this week marks the first anniversary of the Nintendo Music mobile app for Switch Online subscribers.

Nintendo already rolled out a music update earlier this week – adding the DS soundtrack New Super Mario Bros. and it’s now apparently released a new firmware update, bumping the app up to Version 1.4.0.

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Ichiban joins the race.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has been available for the Switch since September, and has already received some updates.

Now, in a Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio live stream this week, the team behind the Yakuza series and Yakuza: Like A Dragon game have revealed the free guest character Ichiban Kasuga will be made available on 6th November 2025, with his festival event to run from 7th until 10th November 2025.

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Update: Download it now.

Hades II got off to an excellent start when it landed in September, and soon it will be getting its very first post-launch patch. Developer Supergiant Games has now released a preview of what fans can expect via the official Steam game page.

In addition to bug fixes and balance changes, Patch 1 will come loaded with True Ending Enhancements, Returning to a Real Possibility, Fated Prophecy Adjustments and Crossroads Renewal. There are also some spoilers in these patch notes, so if you don’t want to spoil any surprises, you might want to navigate away from this page now.

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Scrème de la scrème.

You already have too many choices on Halloween — Which outfit should I wear? Which candy should I take from the bowl? Am I brave enough to finally watch that one movie? — so let’s not let ‘which games should I pick up on sale?’ be one of them. We’ve got a rundown of the very best in the ‘Screaming Deals’ sale below, so you can enjoy your trick-or-treat haul in peace…

Another week, another blistering eShop sale to bolster your backlog. Yes, Nintendo is running its ‘Screaming Deals’ sale again this year in North America, with discounts on Switch 1 and 2 games both spooky and otherwise, just as on the other side of the pond where it’s called, more boringly, the Halloween Sale.

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