Prepare for the next course.
You wait all that time for hotly-anticipated titles like Tears of the Kingdom to drop onto the console of choosing, only to see it land in a year as stuffed with top-notch gaming releases as 2023 that you are forced to play it while juggling 30 other “must-plays” at the same time.
Gosh, we game fans sure do have it tough, don’t we?
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Warfare has never been this cozy.
2023 has been a good year for tactics games on the Switch. Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot marked the return of two classic GBA games while Fire Emblem Engage brought the series’s focus to its strategic roots. Chucklefish and Robotality’s Wargroove 2 is the next SRPG joining the fray, and while its adorable pixel-art graphics might trick you into thinking it is a watered-down, kid-friendly version of the genre, it provides loads of depth to keep even the most battle-worn combatants engaged. It just manages to look cute as heck while doing it.
If you played 2019’s Wargroove — which was inspired by the original Advance Wars — then you’ll know exactly what to expect from the sequel. The world is the same, but new factions are battling it out for control of the strange relics leftover from a long-destroyed civilisation. There isn’t a recap of the events of the first game for new players, but Wargroove 2 does a good job of getting you up to speed without dragging things out too long. The campaign provides exactly the information you need from the first game, but if you want to get fully up to speed, there is a robust codex that you can read as a primer to help fill the gaps.
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The return of N.O.M.A.D., Gilligan’s Gold, Mutant Monty and Horace Goes Skiing.
Publisher Pixel Games has announced that four Commodore 64 classics will be making their way to Switch as Hidden Gems: Volume One lands on the eShop tomorrow (28th September).
Developed by Imagine Software Ltd, this collection will see the return of some downhill action with Horace Goes Skiing, the bandit-dodging Gilligan’s Gold, the surreal adventure game Mutant Monty and classic top-down shooter N.O.M.A.D. All of this comes with some neat modern features such as display filter options (for those nostalgic for some CRT vibes), additional suspend points and the ability to rewind live gameplay.
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Get one while you can.
If you’re looking to enhance your Switch Online experience, you might be interested in an N64 wireless controller. Nintendo has restocked supplies on the My Nintendo Store in both the US and Canada.
Keep in mind, that this is an exclusive offer to Switch Online members. If you are eligible to purchase it, it will set you back $49.99 USD / $64.99 CAD. There’s a limit of four controllers per account. Each one includes rumble functionality and a rechargeable battery.
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A progress bar for loading screens & more.
Following on from some minor updates to Pikmin 1+2 last week, Nintendo has now released a sizable patch for the latest entry in the series Pikmin 4.
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Turning the pages.
Earlier this year, Annapurna Interactive brought us the “clever, funny” puzzler in Storyteller, a simple puzzle game that uses a storybook as its set piece. Fun scenes and illustrations breathe life into an inventive and fun puzzle game which we wanted more of. And now we’re getting just that — more.
Taking to social media, Annapurna Interactive announced that a new update is coming to the Switch version of the game. And it’s not a simple case of bug fixes or tweaks, either — there’s brand-new content being added to the game for free.
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Cel-sword.
We know the game didn’t look like this, but the box art for both versions cannot be ignored.
And just like that, ten years have sailed by — The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was released on the Wii U ten years ago today, and while we spend most of our days now pining for this incredible seafaring adventure to swim onto Switch, we want to reminisce in a completely different way today. The Wind Waker is beloved by almost all Zelda fans, taking Link’s adventures to the Great Sea. Our green-wearing hero is on an adventure to save his sister Aryll and, eventually, find the Hero of Time’s power to defeat Ganondorf.
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A new book about home console gaming.
Award-winning UK publisher Lost in Cult is teaming up with our sister site Time Extension for The Console Chronicles, a new book covering the history of home console gaming, from the earliest Pong machines to the present day.
The Console Chronicles is the follow-up to A Handheld History, a previous Lost in Cult book focused on portable play. This new tome – which will run for more than 400 pages and will be divided into nine sections, each representing a generation in console hardware – will feature the talents of Julian “Jaz” Rignall (C&VG, Mean Machines), Kurt Kalata (Hardcore Gaming 101), James Mielke (1UP), Sara Heritage, Christian Donlan (Eurogamer), Ashley Day (GamesTM), Jon Cartwright (Good Vibes Gaming), Darryl Still (Atari), Van Burnham (Supercade), Tom Charnock (The Dreamcast Junkyard) and many, many more.
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The Indigo Disk comes as a separate update.
After being announced for Hong Kong last month, it has today been revealed that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s DLC, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, will be landing a full international physical release on 3rd November.
The news was shared to Twitter by Nintendo, revealing that the physical copy will contain the current version of the game (with The Teal Mask DLC) and will require an update once the second part of the DLC, The Indigo Disk, is released — remember, we still don’t have a release for that one yet. So, a physical DLC cart… without all of the DLC on it? Makes sense, we suppose.
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“We are only at the beginning”.
Mortal Kombat 1 might not have had the best launch on Switch, but that hasn’t stopped NetherRealm Studios from hyping up what’s next for the latest entry in the long-running fighting game series.
Director and series co-creator Ed Boon recently mentioned on social media how this is just the beginning and there’s a lot more to come – from a long list of fighters to game features. Here’s exactly what he had to say:
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