I think Q-UP might be gaslighting me. It most certainly is a real video game, I played it myself. And yet it presents an entirely different vision of reality where it is the coin flipping eSport of choice. The worst part is that it nearly convinced me that such a reality is a pretty good one. Perhaps even more than half!
I am genuinely unsure if MiHoYo are capable of making a game that doesn’t heavily borrow from a different game you probably already love at this point in time. Denying The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s influence on Genshin Impact is like denying the sky is blue! Only recently was Honkai: Nexus Anima revealed, a game that takes Pokemon and shoves it into a blender with Auto Chess. And now there is Petit Planet, a game I can only describe as Animal Crossing but if it was in space, I guess.
We’ve rounded up the best deals for Saturday, September 27, below, so don’t miss out on these limited-time offers.
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 just released, bringing a slightly bigger screen, better battery life, satellite connectivity, and more to Apple’s premium watch line. Right now, Best Buy has Open Box Excellent units available for $734.99, which saves you $65 off the MSRP. If you’re looking to upgrade but want to save some cash, this is a great deal to look at.
For the first time since launch, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is on sale. You can score a digital copy of the game for $59.49 at the PlayStation Store, so you can instantly download and dive into the game. DS2 is still my favorite game of the year, especially as someone who loved Death Stranding. I’m still working on the Platinum trophy, even 130 hours later.
Xbox and Asus finally opened up pre-orders for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X this week, with both units set to release on October 16. These two portable handheld systems are set to allow players to play their Xbox and PC games wherever they are, with a dedicated Xbox button for quick access.
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army launched in mid June, and you can save almost 50% off a PS5 copy for this weekend at Woot. This action RPG is a remaster of the 2006 PS2 game, and there are many improvements and new features to discover. For one, UI, visuals, and voice acting have all been tweaked to refine the experience, but you can also discover more than 120 different demons.
Amazon has Sonic X Shadow Generations for Nintendo Switch 2 on sale for $39.99 today. While this is a Game-Key Card, this is the lowest we’ve seen this game yet for Switch 2. If you haven’t picked up the latest Sonic adventure, now is a great time to do so.
The latest Nintendo Direct featured the reveal of Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2, a collection that’s part of the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. These games are set to receive enhancements to resolution, UI, and even new storybook content. If you haven’t ever played either game, the Nintendo Switch is going to be the ultimate platform to do so. The best part? This collection is out this week, so be sure to get your pre-order in!
Best Buy has the Lenovo Legion Go priced at $549.99, saving you $200 off the MSRP. This capable handheld has plenty of features that stand out from the rest of the market, including detachable controllers, an 8.8″ 144Hz display, and more.
GameStop has the Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – Deluxe Edition on sale for 50% off this weekend. This edition packs in the Special Edition base game, which includes the first year of DLC for free, a Steelbook containing the original soundtrack, an artbook, a double-sided poster, and two sticker sheets. If you haven’t dived into SNK’s latest fighting game, this is a great time to pick City of the Wolves up.
Have you, like me, been unable to get that one TikTok sound out of your head that mixes Anri’s iconic anthem I Can’t Stop The Loneliness with the screams of Hollow Knight’s very own Hornet ever since Silksong came out? It’s a surprisingly good combo, but it also serves as an unintended reminder for something: these particular screams of Hornet’s are nowhere to be found in Silksong. You know, the classics, like “SHAW,” and “Adino!” not to mention the unforgettable “Hegale!” So of course there’s a mod for that.
It’s been no secret that Remedy’s FBC: Firebreak landed like a piece of haddock at the fishmongers. This shouldn’t necessarily be a complete surprise, after all this is their first attempt at a live service game that’s all them (they also helped to make CrossfireX, and that didn’t go very well either). Still, to Remedy’s credit they’ve also committed to bring changes to the game, and those changes are coming in the form of a big update titled Breakpoint next week.
At the most recent Nintendo Direct, Nintendo fans were blessed with the news that not one, not two, but three modern Resident Evil games would be coming to Nintendo Switch 2: Village, Requiem, and Biohazard. But according to Requiem’s developers, this wasn’t always the plan. In fact, the team didn’t originally plan to bring anything to the Switch 2 at all.
Speaking to me at Tokyo Game Show, producer Masato Kumazawa explains the story of how the Nintendo Switch 2 ended up with the three most modern Resident Evil games on their way to the system:
The Switch 2 hadn’t been announced when we started planning this game [Requiem], so of course it wasn’t in the original plan. When the Switch 2 was announced we were able to start testing developing games for it, and we thought it would be great if we could bring the Resident Evil series to this platform. We started off with internally porting Resident Evil: Village to see if it would work well on the hardware, and it looked really great, so that gave us the confidence to add a Switch 2 version of Reqiuem to the plans, and that led us to the recent announcement where we confirmed not only Reqiuem was coming, but 7 and 8 would also be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 at the same time.
It’s no surprise that Kumazawa is gassing up the Switch 2 port of his own game, but I played a brief section of Resident Evil: Requiem at Tokyo Game Show in handheld mode on the platform and…yeah, it looks pretty good! I asked him as a follow-up if there was anything unique about the Switch 2 version of the game, and his response that no, there isn’t, “in a good way.” It’s just Requiem, on the Switch 2, able to be taken on the go. And though my sampling of this experience was brief, I’m optimistic from that short demo that Kumazawa’s not just all talk here.
We previewed Resident Evil: Requiem just last month, and you can read our impressions of what we’ve seen so far right here. You can also check out the rest of my discussion with Nakanishi and Kumazawa, including continued efforts to get them to say something, anything, about Leon Kennedy, and why the pair are struggling to figure out what qualifies as “scary” after all these years. We’ve also previously spoken to the pair on a number of other topics, such as Raccoon City’s return and the game’s new monster design.
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Heart Machine have had a busy year. It was only in January that they launched Hyper Light Breaker into early access, a surprise follow-up to their beloved indie action RPG Hyper Light Drifter. That launch didn’t go amazingly due to a myriad of reasons, and even now the game hasn’t completely managed to find its footing yet. And then there’s Possessor(s), their search action (not Metroidvania) game that at long last has a release date!
When I walked into my interview with Resident Evil: Reiquem director Koshi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazama, I came equipped with a big pile of questions about a character who, as far as we know officially, is nowhere to be found: Leon Kennedy.
I had these questions prepared because the day before my interview, Capcom aired its Capcom Online Program showcase to coincide with Tokyo Game Show. And to eager Resident Evil fans, me, and many of my coworkers, it seemed obvious that we were finally going to get a new trailer revealing Leon’s official precense in the game, as a playable character or otherwise.
But that’s not what happened. We did see a new trailer, but no Leon. And a preview build available at TGS, which I went hands-on with after my interview, was similarly bereft of Leon.
When I brought up the strangeness of my expectations and the resulting Leon Kennedy drought to Nakanishi and Kumazawa, they just laughed.
“We will take on board this feedback,” Kumazawa said.
Fan clamor for Leon has been going on for months now, ever since the game’s first trailer appeared to contain multiple teases for, at minimum, a Leon appearance. But rumors have since grown, with some suggesting Leon might show up in the game as a secondary playable protagonist alongside newcomer Grace Ashcroft. Nakanishi and Kumazawa have attempted to brush those rumors aside, saying that Kennedy is a poor match for Reqiuem’s less action-heavy tone, but the fervor has persisted anyway, and the two are stopping short of saying outright that we won’t get to control him at all, even for just a little bit.
Given all this discussion, I asked the pair if they had any concerns that all the Leon nonsense was distracting from their attempt to position Grace as the game’s star. But they’re not worried. “We’re always happy that people are interested in the game enough to speculate so much,” Kumazawa said.
If, then, the pair are so insistent that Grace is the new face of this Resident Evil story, could Reqiuem server as a sort of passing-of-the-torch between old and new Resident Evil? Not quite, Kumazawa says.
“Although we don’t have firm plans for the future storylines of later titles in the series, I still think passing the torch is probably going a bit too far, because we’re not just going to wipe the slate clean completely in terms of the series lore and history. But at the same time I don’t want to always have to just go back to the well of existing characters to create new games, which was part of the motivation to introduce Grace.”
We previewed Resident Evil: Requiem just last month, and you can read our impressions of what we’ve seen so far right here. You can also check out the rest of my discussion with Nakanishi and Kumazawa, including how Reqiuem came to the Nintendo Switch 2. We’ve also previously spoken to the pair on a number of other topics, such as Raccoon City’s return and the game’s new monster design.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
The best GBA ‘Nintendo Classics’ on Switch.
Updated with Mr. Driller 2 and Klonoa: Empire of Dreams following the September 2025 update. Remember, this is a dynamic, reader-ranked list based on each game’s User Rating in our database. The order is therefore subject to real-time change as those ratings fluctuate. Enjoy!
Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscribers have instant access to a growing library of brilliant handheld games from yesteryear, including Game Boy Advance entries in some of Nintendo’s biggest series. Are they all brilliant, though? Well, with the help of you lovely Nintendo Life readers, we can answer that question.
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The Underworld beckons.
Hello folks! It’s the weekend once again, but before we dive into what we’re playing, let’s just do a quick recap of the last week.
First up, it seems only right that we go over some of the reviews we posted this week, because these include some pretty big games:
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