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The official Overcooked Twitter account has announced today that the upcoming free DLC for Overcooked! 2 will be available to grab from Thursday 16th July. It’s called Sun’s Out Buns Out and it’s sure to add a little bit of spice to the frantic co-op game that’s available on Nintendo Switch and other platforms. Here’s

If you’re still loving life on your island getaway and want to keep up to date with everything going on in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll want to make sure you pick up this latest limited-time item. Available from Nook Shopping, this brand new seasonal item has appeared to celebrate Tanabata, a special Japanese holiday.

Just a quick reminder that the Tetris99 14th MAXIMUS CUP featuring Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is now live on the Nintendo Switch. You can earn at least 100 event points in the Tetris 99 mode until 6th July. If you participate you can unlock the special Tetris 99 theme. Share this! Like this: Like Loading…

If you’ve been enjoying your first few days with Ninjala, you’ll be excited to know that the developers have plenty more content up their sleeves, all ready to be unleashed in new, upcoming seasons. Details for both Season 2 and Season 3 have now been revealed, including teases for new stages, weapons, costumes, Season Passes

The team at Aspyr who are the developers behind the recently released Star Wars Episode I: Racer for the Nintendo Switch system have released a new update for the retro port. The update fixes issues with the game’s motion controls so if you’ve experienced problems with them then they will have hopefully been resolved. An

Ryan can list the first 151 Pokémon all in order off by heart – a feat he calls his ‘party trick’ despite being such an introvert that he’d never be found anywhere near a party. He’d much rather just have a night in with Mario Kart and a pizza, and we can’t say we blame

Smartphone free-to-play title Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been updated to version 3.3.0 and it brings with it some changes that should make the experience a little better for fans of the game. From improvements to the Pocket Camp Club to the capacity for plants and gathered materials being increased, players can check out the

[embedded content] Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town has now appeared on the North American Switch eShop, meaning you can go ahead and pre-purchase the game ahead of its release on 14th July. Joining Europe, where pre-purchasing went live last month, the listing shows that any digital pre-purchases made in North America will include

The developers over at Aspyr Media have unveiled the release date for the remaster of Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for the Nintendo Switch. The game will launch on the Nintendo eShop on Tuesday, 23rd June. Pricing for the classic title will be set at $14.99. The game previously graced the Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2

Potata: Fairy Flower is a whimsical platformer in which you take on the role of a novice witch who must venture away from the safety of her home and into the dangerous surrounding woods. There, you’ll encounter creatures big and small, procure weapons, fruit, and keys, and solve a variety of different puzzles as you

We reported a few days ago that UK retailer GAME is offering customers some pretty neat pre-order bonuses when they purchase Paper Mario: Origami King on Nintendo Switch. Well, it turns out that the Nintendo UK Store is offering those same goodies with both physical and digital pre-orders of the game. The Paper Mario Origami

Welcome to Week 46 of Box Art Brawl, the poll to find out your favourite box art from a selection of three regional variants. Last week we looked at SNES shmup Phalanx. Surprisingly, the infamous North American cover picked up over 50% of the vote for an easy victory. Japan came in second and Europe

Epic Games has announced that they have pushed back the date for the next season of the popular free to play video game Fortnite. In a statement published on the Epic Games website the company said “we need to balance the Season 3 launch with time for the team to focus on themselves, their families,

[embedded content] Launching next month on Nintendo Switch is Castle Kong, a retro-styled arcade platformer that takes more than a little inspiration from Donkey Kong. Aiming to replicate the retro feel and addictive one-more-go-style gameplay seen in Nintendo’s classic, the game features 22 levels spread out over four different stages. You only have three lives

Today, The Pokémon Company International announced the newest expansion for the Pokémon Trading Card Game: Sword & Shield—Darkness Ablaze, which introduces more highly collectible Pokémon V and Pokémon VMAX when it launches worldwide on August 14, 2020. The expansion marks the Pokémon TCG debut of Charizard VMAX in Gigantamax form, as seen in the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield video

Japanese developer and publisher Marvelous has announced that it is set to enter into a ‘capital and business alliance’ with Image Frame Investment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese tech giant, Tencent (thanks, Famitsu). The decision to team up with Tencent – the company which helped Nintendo to launch the Switch across China towards the end

Obsidian Entertainment, Virtuos Games and Private Division today announced that the award-winning single-player RPG The Outer Worlds is now available for Nintendo Switch pre-purchase through the Nintendo eShop. Players will now be able to take their adventure wherever they go with The Outer Worlds on Nintendo Switch. In The Outer Worlds, you can explore multiple,

E3 may be skipping 2020, but other bodies are stepping up to fill the summer video game vacuum. There’s Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, which will be delivering news and announcements throughout a four-month window, but there’s also a new Expo in town, and it’s got some big names attached. NGPX, or New Game+ Expo

Amazon has revealed that Mortal Kombat 11 with the recently released Aftermath DLC will be getting a physical edition on the Nintendo Switch platform. The Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection has been listed on the Amazon website with a release date of 18th June 2020. It contains the following: The Mk11: aftermath collection contains Mortal

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) There’s certainly no shortage of excellent roguelike titles doing the rounds on Switch just now – with the likes of Dead Cells, Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire and the recently released Fury Unleashed just a few examples of the very best of the genre currently available on Nintendo’s console

Square Enix’s previously announced video game based on the Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai anime will be unveiled to the general public on Wednesday, 27th May. The livestream will be streamed on YouTube on the 27th May at  8:00pm JST. Here’s the times for other regions: 4:00am PT/7:00am ET/12:00pm BST/1:00pm CEST. Platforms for Dragon Quest:

This week’s Arcade Archives release is the 1985 horizontal shooter, Magmax, by Nichibutsu. Here’s a bit about this classic re-release, directly from Hamster PR: The player can power up by combining with the parts falling on the stage in order to defeat the Strange Mechanism Babylon. With 4 different stages, aboveground and underground stages not

The LEGO Group has announced on its site that it is reviewing a number of ideas for LEGO sets through the LEGO Ideas Initiative. These sets include one for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, one for Sonic the Hedgehog and finally one for The Untitled Goose Game. The LEGO Ideas Initiative review

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Mario Kart has taught us to expect a close-up, over-the-shoulder view of our arcade racers, but it didn’t always used to be this way. Back in the NES days, the likes of R.C. Pro-Am and Super Off-Road offered a birds-eye view of the action. It’s this old-school racing spirit that

Reggie Fils-Aime, former president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, has revealed a new podcast is on its way that will feature himself and journalist Harold Goldberg. The podcast aims to raise money for the New York Video Game Critics Circle nonprofit’s mentoring work amid the COVID-10 pandemic. It is titled ‘Talking Games

Are we back? We’re back. Yes, it’s time for another edition of Box Art Brawl, the weekly public vote where you decide the best (or ‘least bad’) of three regional box art variants. Last week we watched cult classic Wetrix take itself to task. Following a wet and wild wrestling match, the Japanese cover emerged

The Mario Kart series is beloved by gamers worldwide and there’s some stellar games in the racing franchise. Kotaku has decided to rank the series from the worst to the best which is clearly a tricky task. Here’s the games which the site deems the best: 9.Mario Kart Tour8. Mario Kart: Super Circuit7. Mario Kart

Multiple Nintendo Switch users have taken to social media over the weekend to report unauthorised third-party logins on their Nintendo accounts. The reports have sparked concern over the security of Nintendo’s user data handling, with some reporting that their payment details have been used to purchase digital items from Nintendo’s eShop. In one such report,

Dotemu and Lizard Cube have announced that you will be able to play the upcoming Streets of Rage 4 on your Switch system on Thursday, 30th April. It will be priced up at $24.99 on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The team also released a new trailer for the classic retro-themed brawler. Check out the action

[embedded content] If you’re into your top-down arcade racers, Super Pixel Racers looks like it could well be worth a go when it launches on Switch later this week. With 2D pixel graphics and a 16-bit soundtrack sure to have you reminiscing over the good old days, Super Pixel Racers has players taking on a