Close Encounters of Every Kind. Square Enix is bringing Bravely Default: Flying Fairy to the Switch 2 on the console’s launch day via an HD Remaster, and we’re pretty happy to see the first entry in this delightful series make the jump to home consoles. But it’s being launched as a Game-Key Card game, which…
All confirmed Switch 2 Game-Key Card games. For Switch 2, Nintendo has introduced a different type of physical release: Game-Key Cards. They’ve proven controversial amongst gamers as they contain no actual game data. Instead, once the game is downloaded, they function as a key that must be inserted into your Switch 2 to access the…
One for the history books. We’ve heard all kinds of predictions about the Switch 2 and its potential launch sales in recent months, from the optimistic to the ‘Nintendo’s so doomed’ pessimistic. The latest take, however, doesn’t just suggest that the hardware’s opening numbers will be good, it reckons they’ll be record-breaking. Earlier this week,…
Part 10 – The saga continues. Welcome to the tenth instalment of our ‘Games We Missed’ series. Twice a year we round up a bunch of stragglers, many of which we had on our list to review but just couldn’t get to due to the sheer number of games launching every week, some of which…
How many consoles does one ship need? Pikmin were collecting retro games before it was cool. The PNF-404 natives saw the way the market was heading and decided to load up on as many consoles and accessories as possible before eBay sellers started asking astonishing prices for them. Not a bad understanding of economics for…
“I what…?”. If you’ve entered the lottery to get a Switch 2 in Japan, then you may well be hearing back from Nintendo relatively soon. Many have been receiving emails from Nintendo to confirm that they’ve been successful in securing a Switch 2 pre-order over the past day, with one of the successes coming from…
Clearly not ready to roll. Yesterday saw the flood gates open for a whole bunch of Nintendo pre-orders across the US, including a first chance to pick up the new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Sage amiibo. We’ve been excited to get our hands on these initial fab four since they were revealed in the…
Yep, it’s Puyo Puyo Tetris. With all the excitement surrounding the likes of Mario Kart World and Cyberpunk 2077 for the Switch 2, you might have forgotten that Sega also announced Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S. Well, we now have a debut trailer for the launch title and, well… it’s Puyo Puyo Tetris. And that’s a…
Keep the extensions coming. Aside from the usual track additions, Nintendo occasionally performs Nintendo Music updates to tweak the content that’s there, rather than adding anything new. One such patch has been applied today, focusing on letting us all play tunes for longer. As brought to our attention on BlueSky by OatmealDome, the music app…
Do it, Capcom. Capcom has released updated sales figures for its most recent entries in the Resident Evil series, proving just how darn popular the survival horror franchise continues to be. Headlining the bunch is Resident Evil 4, the remake of the 2005 classic which has yet to see a release on Nintendo platforms. Capcom…