Category: Nintendo News

According to Kotaku UK – which has consulted sources close to the project – we’ll be getting a Spyro the Dragon Trilogy Remaster this year similar in scope to the wildly-successful Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.

The games included will be Spyro the Dragon, Ripto’s Rage!, and Year of the Dragon, and there’s a chance that new content will make the cut. As with Crash, the package will boast vastly improved visuals and enhanced gameplay mechanics, such as a new save system. Vicarious Visions is handling the work, the same studio which produced the Crash remaster.

The trilogy will apparently be announced for PlayStation 4 in March this year, with a Q3 release. In 2019 it will then come to other consoles when Sony’s exclusivity period ends. Given that Crash is rumoured to be coming to Switch, one would hope that this (unconfirmed) package will also make the leap.

The latest UK software sales charts are in from GfK Chart-Track and they show some of Nintendo Switch’s strongest titles are still selling well. So Switch games aren’t tackling any of the top spots right now, but then again the platform hasn’t had any triple-A, mainstream-capturing releases since 2017 so the fact Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey have held onto the same spots shows just how strong Mario is as a brand.

The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild was finally knocked from the top 10, dropping two places to number 12. Still, at least FIFA 18 and WWE 2K18 are still very much in the mix at four and 18 respectively. The official top 20 can be found below. As usual, the number in brackets denotes each game’s position last week:

1(-) – Shadow Of The Colossus
2(2) – EA Sports UFC 3
3(1) – Monster Hunter World
4(4) – FIFA 18
5(5) – Grand Theft Auto V
6(3) – Call Of Duty WWII
7(7) – Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8(8) – Super Mario Odyssey
9(15) – Assassin’s Creed Origins
10(-) – The Evil Within 2
11(18) – Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy
12(10)- The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
13(-) – Overwatch: GOTY Edition
14(21) – Fallout 4
15(16) – Forza Horizon 3
16(11) – PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
17(13) – Rocket League: Collector’s Edition
18(19) – WWE 2K18
19(6) – Dragon Ball FighterZ
20(20) – Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege

What do you make of this week’s UK charts? Let us know below…

We all know local multiplayer is one of Nintendo Switch’s most attractive features – especially while we wait until September for the Online Service to finally go live – so imagine our surprise/excitement when we got wind a firm in Japan is manufacturing a cabinet that houses two Switches and their Joy-Cons and creates the ultimate arcade multiplayer experience at home!

Due out in Japan in May, this ‘Face-to-face type Arcade Stand’ would fit perfectly on a table or on the floor if you’re willing to crouch down for your couchplay fun. It’s got plenty of ventilation so your two Switch units don’t overheat and will have a suggested retail price of 8,300 yen (tax-excluded price) 8,964 yen (tax included price) – so that’s somewhere between £55.62 and £60.

Let us know what you make of this ‘fighting base’ from Japan and whether you think it’s a cool idea or a little pointless. Imagine the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection on this thing. Drop up us a comment or two…

Floor Kids was a welcome surprise on the Switch eShop, blending hand drawn art with an infectious hip hop soundtrack and rhythm gameplay. The music—produced by Kid Koala—was a serious highlight for the release, and now those of you who loved it will have a chance to own the full soundtrack in its own separate release.

Kid Koala just announced that Floor Kids: Original Video Game Soundtrack is coming out on 27^th April, containing 71 minutes and 42 tracks of “‘70s funk, thumping ’80s 808s, granular ’90s 12-bit hip-hop, and 2000s synth funk.” The soundtrack will be available in both digital and vinyl formats, with pre-orders already open here. And for those of you that would like to hear it live, Kid Koala is kicking off the Vinyl Vaudeville tour in April, you can find the dates and locations through here.

What do you think? Did you like Floor Kids? What did you think of the soundtrack? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Horror can be a divisive genre, and it can be extremely tough to get it right. Thankfully if the reactions in the video above are anything to go by, Layers of Fear: Legacy manages to do just that. By letting your mind play tricks on you and fill in the details of what’s happening, fear is all but assured.

Make sure you give that video above a good look-in to see what the earliest and tamest parts of the game have in store. Remember though, your play through might be quite different.

Layers of Fear: Legacy lands on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 21st February.

Finnish developer 10tons has announced the top-down fantasy RPG title Undead Horde is currently in development for Nintendo Switch. It’s due for release in November 2018 for PC, so we imagine the Switch version should drop around the same time.

It places you in the questionable boots of a necromancer who uses his power to raise the dead to create an army commandable corpses. It’s a hack and slash kind of experience with a splash of strategy for good measure, including the ability to swell your army with the cadavers of your fallen foes. So it’s basically the Night King from Game Of Thrones in game form. Loot and items are also procedurially generated so there’s a potential endless stream of things to find and equip on your journey to rid the world of all those pesky living people.

You can check out the official pre-Alpha trailer below for a taste of the unholy gameplay below. Dare you dabble in the dark arts later this year? Let us know…

Portal Knights, the Minecraft-meets-RPG-lite indie from Keen Games, is getting a physical retail release in North America from today, so you can head out to your usual bricks and mortar store and pick one up in a box for only $29.99.

The game is also getting a brand new content update. The Spring Festival – which will run until 5th March – is inspired by the coming Chinese New Year celebrations and brings with it some new themed items for those that complete in-game quests during the event. You might even unlock a brand new island if you’re lucky…

You can check out the trailer for the Spring Festival below. In the meantime, you can also read our review of the base game from December 2017 where it earned a very respectable 8/10. Be sure to let us know if you’re still playing Portal Knights, or whether these two bits of news will help bring you on board for the first time…

Having already been released on PS4 and Xbox One, publisher THQ Nordic is planning to bring the remastered version of de Blob to Nintendo Switch in 2018. It originally appeared on Wii in 2008, and reviewed pretty well here at Nintendo Life at the time.

The new version will feature new and updated textures that take advantage of Switch’s more robust hardware, but it’ll still feature the same colour-coded platforming gameplay that made the original version so enjoyable back on Wii. If you’ve never played it before, you’re tasked with saving Chroma City from a black and white fate by painting this urbanised locale in all manner of colours. There’s a story mode as well as support for four-player split screen local multiplayer with eight different modes.

We expected the remastered de Blob was going to make an appearance on Switch this year, and while we don’t know exactly when it’ll drop, it’s good to see an underrated platformer getting a second chance at success on a Nintendo platform. Let us know what you make of the news below…

Japanese studio Kodokawa Games has confirmed its 2016 strategy RPG God Wars: Future Past is getting repackaged for Nintendo Switch. Called God Wars: Great War Of Japanese Mythology, this updated version includes a brand new scenario, some extra playable characters, lots more battles stages to fight through and various tweaks to gameplay.

That new scenario, entitled ‘Labyrinth of Yomi’, depicts what happened to Kaguya and his ill-fated company. Improvements include increased battle speed, the power to take eight units into battle rather than six and other little additions to make the strategic gameplay that bit smoother than the original incarnation. No word yet on a release date, or whether this entry will make it beyond Japanese eShops, but it should be noted Future Past got a western release so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.

Let us know what you make of the news. Have you played Future Past? Will you give Great War Of Japanese Mythology a go if given the chance? Comment!