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Is it tarnished? Nintendo has a pretty big booth at Gamescom this year, with a large chunk of areas dedicated to the glut of third-party ports coming to (or are already out on) the Switch 2. One of those upcoming titles is Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, which brings the highly-acclaimed open-world RPG from FromSoftware to…

Update: Release date confirmed. Rue Valley, a narrative RPG heavily inspired by Disco Elysium, has been confirmed for the Switch in addition to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. No release date has been set at the time of writing, but we’re keeping a close eye on this one. It looks pretty awesome; definitely a…

Scratch that nostalgia itch with these Switch neo-classics. Updated with Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and UFO 50! Ah, nostalgia — it’s a tricksy thing. How many times have we gone back to revisit a treasured classic only to find that modern games have spoiled it for us? For all the brilliant aspects of retro games, the…

“I do hope that players will look forward to hopefully good news”. The hugely-popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV — which is about to celebrate its 12th anniversary (in its rebooted form) — is one of our most-requested Switch 2 ports, particularly from this writer. And it sounds like we’re one step closer to seeing the…

It wouldn’t be Komplete without them. Never accuse Digital Eclipse of not going all-in for its retro compilations. The studio’s next release, Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection, looks to be no different, and a sighting and Gamescom confirms that the developer is going all in by including two of the least-popular MK games. In a video…

Digging deep. Okay, how many of you automatically went to press the ‘B button to jump the first time you picked up Donkey Kong Bananza? It’s been a staple in Mario games for a long time, so it’s pretty natural to assume things would be similar here. Except it isn’t, but the change actually makes…

What a surprise! As a part of today’s Xbox Gamescom showcase, Dead Cells dev Evil Empire finally lifted the lid on The Rogue Prince of Persia, revealing that it will be coming to Switch and Switch 2 “later this year”. While every other platform landed the full release of this Prince of Persia roguelike today,…

Threading the needle. You’ve read the title, you’ve seen photos of the booths online, so you know it’s coming — six years after its last official public demo, we’ve finally played Hollow Knight: Silksong. And, we’ve played it on Switch 2, too. Ahead of the game’s special broadcast tomorrow, 21st August, we — or, more…

Let’s Jet. Once upon a time, Jet-Ski games were all the rage. Arcade cabinets and fifth generation consoles were replete with these high-speed polygonal racers that sent you careening around tracks set in sunny locales with bobbing water physics. Aqua Jet was an early example of the trend and released the very same year as…

Took something perfect and painted it red. Gamescom 2025 is officially underway, and a handful of team NL are out on the show floor, gobbling up as many of the games as we can get our hands on. Naturally, the Nintendo booth has captured much of our attention, with a particularly stacked line-up including the…