It’s honoured Mario & Zelda are in the running for GOTY. Earlier this week, The Game Awards revealed the nominees for each category and Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are both in the running for Game of the Year. Nintendo has now officially responded to this on…
There’s always room for one more good one. In 2019, a small French studio called Hibernian Workshop released a game called Dark Devotion, a promising 2D soulslike that was met with mixed reviews, but managed to garner a passionate fanbase. A couple of years later, the team returned with a Kickstarter pitch for a new…
All 18 games and trailers from the November 14th presentation. Nintendo delivered its latest Indie World Showcase today (Tue 14th November 2023), a 20-minute presentation of games from independent developers coming to Switch soon, with ‘soon’ being ‘today’ in some cases! Below you’ll find the video of the full Indie World Showcase November 2023 presentation,…
Pack your bags. Pride yourself on a neatly organised inventory? Well, Backpack Hero might be just the game for you and, what’s more, it is available on the Switch eShop today! Shadow dropped as a part of the Indie World Showcase, Backpack Hero will see you playing as one of five adorable animal creatures, who…
No (minish) cap. Publisher Raw Fury popped up in today’s Indie World Showcase to give an update on the gorgeous creature-collecting deckbuilder, Moonstone Island, which we now know will be flying onto Switch in Spring 2024. Aside from the pull of the retro Zelda-style visuals, this game seems to have a little bit of something…
Launching next month. During today’s Indie World showcase, A Highland Song has been announced for Nintendo Switch, and it’s not far off either, launching next month on December 5th, 2023. Featuring adaptive storytelling that caters to your own choices, A Highland Song sees you traverse across the Scottish Highlands against the beautiful music of some…
Coming Spring 2024. As part of the latest Indie World Showcase, Team Ladybug and Playism announced Blade Chimera, a 2D action game with heavy emphasis on exploration and stylish combat. It sports some truly stunning pixel art visuals. Launching in Spring 2024, it looks like we can expect to see some epic boss battles, light…
20 years in the making. WayForward took to today’s Indie World Showcase to reveal that a lost chapter of the Shantae series, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, will be hair-whipping its way onto Switch in 2024. This one was originally in development for the Game Boy Advance back in 2001 before being shelved, but now WayForward…
Howl if you dug it. So, time has rung on Nintendo’s latest Indie World Showcase, with a bunch of small, medium, and large Switch announcements for games coming from independent studios the world over. We got the long-awaited news of Outer Wilds, which got a December release date in its new Archaeologist Edition guise. a…
Includes ‘Echoes of the Eye’ DLC. Yes, you read that right. After actual years of waiting, Anapurna took to tonight’s Indie World showcase to reveal that the highly-acclaimed time loop game, Outer Wilds, will finally be blasting onto Switch on 7th December, 2023. But what’s that? More to the title? Yes, Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition…