‘Tis the season.
Ho, ho, ho, everyone! Welcome to a particularly festive edition of Box Art Brawl!
Last week saw two covers for Mega Man 6 going head-to-head, and it was a little closer than we expected. The yellow Japanese variant (this writer’s favourite) just clinched it, however, taking 54% of the vote and leaving the North American design with the remaining 46%.
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Must resist…
Skyrim didn’t exactly launch in the best state when it got shadow-dropped on the Switch 2 earlier this month, and Bethesda has this week released a patch to address input latency issues.
If you are considering giving the game a look (or a second chance) now that this update has been rolled out, there’s currently a sale taking place in the UK, Europe and some other locations around the globe such as Australia and New Zealand.
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A wild GOTY appears!
Just a reminder that we’ll be publishing our 2025 GOTYs soon — both yours and ours! If you haven’t rated the Switch 1 & 2 games you’ve played yet (or if you’ve played something new in the last couple of weeks), feel free to read on and have your say.
And if you’ve rated them already? Nicely done, lovely person! As you were.
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Back of the net.
Editor’s note: This game launched in North America on 11th December, but won’t hit European eShops until 13th January.
For some, football is something to play; for some, it’s something to watch; for others, it’s something to be scared of in the playground. But in 2001, in Ecuador, football meant just about everything to just about everyone. At least, that’s the story told by Despelote, a game that conjures the magic of childhood and football fever and makes it captivatingly relatable.
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Ho, ho, ho!
Ah yes, the weekend. Not just any ol’ weekend either! No, it’s the weekend before Christmas, which means it’s time to start preparing your stomachs for an avalanche of food and chocolate.
This week in the world of Nintendo, it seems that there may be an alternative to those ruddy Game Key Cards after an announcement from ININ Games. We also received a lovely new Switch 2 Edition of Divinity: Original Sin 2 from Larian Studios, so hopefully this is a little precursor of things to come from the acclaimed developer.
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Update: Capcom shares ‘Part 2’.
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Capcom yesterday announced its new sci-fi action adventure Pragmata, starring Hugh and his android companion Diana, would be coming to the Switch 2 in April 2026.
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“We’re back to take out the bugs”.
Following the release of the beat ’em up Marvel Cosmic Invasion on the Switch and Switch 2 earlier this month, a new update for the title has now been rolled out.
According to the development team, this new update is packed with fixes and quality-of-life tweaks. There’s also plenty of “bug-blasting” in this latest patch. Here’s the full rundown, via the game’s Steam page:
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“Who do you spend the holidays with?”.
Although Nintendo ended Splatoon 3‘s “regular updates” some time ago now, it’s been revived this year with the release of a free Switch 2 update and some major game patches.
Now, as 2025 comes to a close, the return of Frosty Fest has been announced. This time the question is: Who do you spend the holidays with? Is it with your friends, family or solo?
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“They’ve done an amazing job”.
Square Enix had a holiday treat in store for us earlier this week, when it dropped the Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade demo on the Switch 2 eShop. Before the full game launches next year, you can now get an idea of what to expect by playing through the iconic opening sequence for free.
But how does it hold up from a technical standpoint? Here to answer that very question are the experts from Digital Foundry, who have been diving into the demo to see what it can muster.
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Flying high.
Cards on the table: I am a big superhero fan and I always have been. I’ve read the comics, I’ve played the games, I’ve watched the movies, I’ve got the tattoos *gulp*. I am usually pretty adept at bending things to see the positives — heck, I can even defend Thor: The Dark World on a good day — but the last few years have been real dark for us fans of caped crusaders.
There have been some high points: Marvel TV (on the whole) has been rather solid, I’ve played more Marvel Snap than I care to admit, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was far better than some folk give it credit for, Batman: Arkham Shadow got its TGA flowers, and show me one animated film in the last five years that doesn’t have some Spider-Verse DNA in it. But, generally, it has been a very long time since I’ve been able to say “I love superheroes” without needing to have a clarifying statement in the back pocket for the inevitable, and often completely valid, comeback.
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