Knight and day. Publisher Deck13 Spotlight and developer Argonwood have announced that the medieval-inspired turn-based strategy game Rising Lords will be bringing the battle to Switch on 18th January. Taking place in the fictional kingdom of Aubelin, Rising Lords will see you playing as a Lord who is attempting to rise (shocking with that title,…
Save data will carry over. Ahead of the Fate/Samurai Remnant DLC release next month, Koei Tecmo has now made a demo of the action role-playing game available on the Switch eShop. The demo will allow you to test out the earlier stages of the game and save data will carry over to the full game…
System-related updates, bug fixes & more. Square Enix said it would continue to improve Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince on the Nintendo Switch, and at the end of last month it rolled out a new update, bumping the game up to Version 1.0.3. This update included system-related updates, some bug fixes and a few…
It’s also offering free product repairs. Following in the footsteps of The Pokémon Company, Nintendo has announced it will donate 50 million yen to the Red Cross Society after a devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s Noto Peninsula earlier this month. As part of this, Nintendo has announced it will also provide free repairs…
A new Mystery Gift code is also live. After more than a year of post-release content, The Pokémon Company has finally wrapped up Pokémon Scarlet & Violet with an epilogue chapter. As part of this (spoiler alert), it’s also officially introduced the brand new mythical Poison/Ghost-Type, Pecharunt. Here’s a detailed description of Pecharunt, courtesy of…
Trade-off. UK retailer GAME will reportedly be refusing physical video game trade-ins from February 2024. This news comes from Eurogamer, which has spoken to numerous staff across multiple branches of the county’s largest video game retailer. GAME has yet to make an official announcement to the public, but multiple staff working for the company have…
Bouncing back after a quieter opening. After Ubisoft admitted to being “disappointed” by the launch sales of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope last year, it looks like the sleeper sequel’s luck has been somewhat on the turn in the ensuing period. A new report from VGC claims that Mario’s tactical follow-up is, in fact,…
Say hello to CitraVR. The popular open-source 3DS emulator Citra is making its way to the Meta Quest platform as a native OpenXR application called CitraVR on January 20th, 2024. As reported by UploadVR, the application will launch in beta on SideQuest and GitHub, skipping Steam as a result of the Dolphin emulator’s legal issues….
Update: Fresh blood is coming in. Since this article was originally published back in November 2021, the Switch Online Expansion Pack offering has expanded with a decent spread of N64 classics — 26 in total at the time of writing. From the games on our initial wishlist, 1080 Snowboarding, Excitebike 64, GoldenEye 007, Jet Force…
EMMI-bo. Although the critically acclaimed Metroid Dread was primarily developed by Spanish studio MercurySteam, Nintendo itself was heavily involved in the game’s creation and marketing, as you’d expect. Like many major releases on the Nintendo Switch, Metroid Dread also benefitted from the launch of amiibo, with a Samus/E.M.M.I dual pack available alongside the game itself….