Good morning, Nintendo Switch fanbase. Thanks for taking the time out of your day, and I’m sorry for tricking you into this. Take your coat off, grab some Dunkaroos, and take a seat. The broader gaming community has talked it over, and it’s time for a port begging intervention. All joking aside, it is time
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Psyonix and Hot Wheels are teaming up once again but this time their partnership goes a bit further than just add-on content for Rocket League. It was announced today that a toy version of Rocket League with fully-featured remote controlled cars will be launching later this fall with the help of Hot Wheels. The Hot Wheels Rocket League RC
Last year, independent developer Lienzo unveiled Mulaka, an action-adventure game with a story and atmosphere deeply rooted in history, mythology, and culture of the Tarahumara people, who are indigenous to Northern Mexico. It certainly piqued my interest, but it had not yet received a firm release date, only a vague “early 2018” release window. That changed today though, as Lienzo
Today Bayonetta 3 Director Hideki Kamiya took to Twitter to provide an interesting history lesson. More specifically, he talked about the Bayonetta IP, who owns it, and the events that led to the third game being greenlighted as a Nintendo Switch exclusive. I’ve got something I want to tell you all. It’s about Bayonetta 3.
When the Nintendo Switch version of Slime-san was originally announced, it was unknown whether or not it would include the Blackbird’s Kraken DLC. Well, players can wonder no longer as developer Fabraz has officially revealed that the free update will be available for Nintendo Switch players, and it’s coming sooner than people might expect, on February 22, 2018. To celebrate the
SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy came out swinging when it was announced during the most recent Nintendo Direct. The game hosts a roster full of female fighters from the SNK library of characters and most recently revealed Nakoruru as a playable character. SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy is not a typical fighting game with an HP bar and
Last week, NIS America announced that Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain will be coming west as Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. If you’re not familiar with the title, Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring a witch named Droyna who has traveled to the town of Refrain to explore a deadly dungeon that none who
During Ubisoft’s quarterly investor conference call, Chief Executive Officer Yves Guillemot and Chief Financial Officer Alain Martinez talked about microtransactions and loot boxes. Martinez mentioned during the prepared remarks that live services continue to drive “strong engagement” and digital performance. For the first nine months of the current fiscal year, Ubisoft’s monthly active users excluding mobile
When it was originally unveiled, Nintendo Labo picked up traction because it came out of nowhere and because it seemed like a very “Nintendo” thing to do. It wasn’t long, however, before fans started to question the feasibility of expensive cardboard cutouts. In a recent investor Q&A, Nintendo Director Shinya Takahashi explained why the team went
While consensus is that DOOM on Nintendo Switch is a terrific port to a handheld system, few would deny that it isn’t a little rough around the edges when compared to the PC, PS4, or Xbox One versions. And while developers Panic Button and id Software can’t fix some issues stemming from the underlying hardware, a forthcoming update
The International Film Music Critics Association announced the nominees for the annual IFMCA Awards, and there certainly are some interesting choices among the nods for video games. Among the nominees for “Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media” are Sega’s Valkyria Revolution and its soundtrack by legendary Xenogears maestro Yasunori Mitsuda, Ready at
Today, Nintendo revealed a solid amount of upcoming content for their quirky third-person shooter title Splatoon 2. A new map, as well as new dualies, will be added into the game. The map will feature a basketball court named Goby Arena. It has many advantageous locations players should focus on to get the upper hand on their
Today, Nintendo revealed that they’d finally be giving two of Splatoon 2’s most popular characters, Pearl and Marina, the amiibo treatment. Back in April of 2016, Nintendo revealed the original Squid Sisters from the first Splatoon would be getting an amiibo double pack, so it seemed only natural that Pearl and Marina would follow suit when the second title released last summer. The upcoming amiibo pack was
Just following Valentines Day, Splatoon 2 is making you choose between the two biggest motivating forces in the world: money or love. Obviously, this is the latest incarnation of the series’ signature Splatfest — the PvP faction war where players choose sides on a contentious issue and battle it out for superiority. News comes straight from Splatoon 2‘s
During a special Nintendo Switch livestream event, tinyBuild Games showed off a brief teaser trailer for their survival horror stealth title Hello Neighbor. If you’re not familiar with Hello Neighbor your goal is simple, sneak into your neighbor’s home and enter their basement to uncover a secret. The title’s artificial intelligence will adapt based on how you’ve gone
During a special Nintendo Switch livestream event, tinyBuild Games announced that they’d be bringing the boxing management simulator Punch Club to the device sometime later this year. If you’re not familiar with the title, you manage a boxer in training and prepare them for a series of matches while also trying to figure out the mystery behind
Today during a special Nintendo Switch focused livestream event, tinyBuild Games announced that they’d be bringing Streets of Rogue to the Switch, but after the event, it was also confirmed to be coming to Xbox One. If you’re not familiar with the title, it’s a rogue-lite that drops players into a procedurally generated city that’s always
Today, tinyBuild Games announced a whole slew of titles coming to the Nintendo Switch this year, including their action stealth game Party Hard. If you’re not familiar with Party Hard, you play as a serial killer whose goal is to invade a bunch of different parties and murder everyone at them without getting caught. If you kill someone
Today, tinyBuild Games announced that they’re bringing the quirky platformer ClusterTruck to Nintendo Switch during a special live stream where the team announced a whole slew of returning titles that’ll be coming to Switch. If you’re not familiar with ClusterTruck it’s a physics-based platformer where you jump from truck to truck in different scenarios that’ll test your patience and reflexes. The twist
Today, tinyBuild Games announced that their post-apocalyptic side-scrolling shooter The Final Station is coming to the Nintendo Switch very soon. If you’re not familiar with The Final Station, you play as a train conductor sometime in the future after a cataclysmic event. Your goal is to deliver special cargo to, you guessed it, the final station. Getting there won’t
NIS America announced during their 2018 press event in San Fransisco that Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain will make its way to the west as Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. Additionally, the publisher has revealed that along with the PlayStation 4 version, the dungeon crawler will also receive a Switch and PC release. Labyrinth
Recently SNK revealed their upcoming 2.5D fighting game SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The game will feature notable characters from the SNK library of female characters in a 2 vs 2 tournament-style fighting game. With the game having been announced just recently, little is known about the modes that will
The largely popular fighting game series BlazBlue has recently received a large amount of criticism directed towards the upcoming BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, when developer Arc System Works revealed plans to have a twenty-character roster for the game with a planned twenty DLC characters, one of which would be Blake Belladonna from RWBY. In response to negative feedback, the developer
During NIS America’s annual press event in San Francisco, which DualShockers attended, the publisher showcased some of the costumes that we’ll be able to enjoy in the waifu-driven fighting game SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy. Each character will have three outfits, the Heroines Costume, the Classic Costume, and an Alternative Costume, and those can be
During NIS America’s annual press event in San Francisco, which DualShockers attended, the publisher announced a release window for the Nintendo Switch port of Nihon Falcom’s action-JRPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana. The game will hit the North American and European shelves for Nintendo’s console this summer, even if a more precise release date was not
During NIS America’s annual press event, the publisher revealed that Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded will come west for PlayStation 4 and Switch in 2018. Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded is the definitive version of Touhou Genso Wanderer, which was released in 2017 for PlayStation 4, with all of the DLC included on the disc and cartridge.
During NIS America’s 2018 Press Event, the publisher announced that Penny-Punching Princess will release digitally for PlayStation Vita and digitally and physically for Nintendo Switch on March 30 in Europe and April 4 in North America. Penny-Punching Princess has players assume the role of Princess who not only loses her family but also the overall rule
After bursting onto the indie gaming scene with No Time to Explain in 2011, tinyBuild has since become one of the most well-known indie game publishers, publishing popular titles like SpeedRunners and Party Hard. Like many other indie developers and publishers, tinyBuild has also released some titles on the Nintendo Switch, releasing Mr. Shifty and
Today Sega revealed new gameplay videos of the upcoming strategy JRPG Senjou no Valkyria 4: Eastern Front, which will come to the west as Valkyria Chronicles 4. The videos are (which were published by the new Twitter account “Nikola and Kiara’s Infiltration Diary”) particularly interesting as they introduce two members of squad E outside of the circle
Back in 2005, Neon Studios, Kaiko, and Capcom released their action-adventure game Legend of Kay on PS2, to decent reviews and moderate success. Five years later the game was ported to Nintendo DS. Then in 2015, THQ Nordic (known as Nordic Games then) obtained the rights to the game, developed Legend of Kay: Anniversary Edition,