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…
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…
Online Arcade is also “coming soon”. Digital Eclipse launched its Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection this week, and while it’s a good history lesson, there are already plans to improve certain aspects of the game. This starts with a patch dropping today on Steam, with “other platforms” to follow next week. It will come with audio…
Drop into… Springfield! Epic’s free-to-play battle royale Fortnite has hosted all sorts of exciting collabs over the years, but this latest one, focused on the long-running cartoon series The Simpsons, arguably goes above and beyond. Players will be dropping into an 80-player cel-shaded Springfield Island, featuring a “back-to-basics” style Battle Royale experience. Each week will…
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…
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…
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…
Try before you buy. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is out exclusively on the Switch 2 next week, and if you want to try before you buy, Nintendo fans located in the US and Canada can now test it out. Multiple people in the US have reported playable demo sightings at stores such as Walmart…
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…
A paid upgrade pack will also be released. Nintendo this week surprised its fans with the announcement of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. If you didn’t already catch the video, this paid upgrade pack is not just improved resolution and graphics, but it will also come with mouse controls, a Megaphone…