As part of Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will arrive on Switch tomorrow. Check out some footage below.
Update (12/5): The offer is now live and can be found here.
Original (12/4): As we wait for a restock on the Nintendo Switch Online SNES controllers, we do have some news in a related area. Nintendo has announced that it will be offering a 50 percent discount on the Switch NES controllers. The discount will be held on the company’s website between December 5 and January 10.
Normally, the controller goes for $59.99. However, during the sale, Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can make a purchase for only $29.99.
Nintendo is holding the sale to celebrate 50 NES games having been added to the Switch Online library. New NES and SNES releases were just announced for the service.
Source: Nintendo PR
Humble Bundle and Crema have gone live with a new trailer for the Pokemon-esque MMO Temtem. Have a look at today’s video below.
Smash Rush, a game about hitting and smashing your way through alien obstacles, is out now on the Switch eShop. View some footage below.
The Touryst, Shin’en’s recent Switch eShop game, has received an update. Version 1.1 implements a trio of fixes.
Below are the full patch notes:
THQ Nordic and Airship Syndicate have provided a new trailer for Darksiders Genesis. Take a look at the video below.
Yacht Club Games has shown off the latest roster inclusion for its Shovel Knight Showdown character highlight series. We have a video featuring Dark Reize below.
The Smash Bros. GameCube controller has been tough to come by if you’re a regular consumer. There hasn’t been a whole lot of stock circulating, leading to increased prices on second-hand markets. Fortunately, it looks like restocks are starting to happen.
The Nintendo UK store is now taking pre-orders for the Smash Bros. controller. The page lists a release date of December 7, with new stock due to dispatch in late January 2020.
You can reserve the controller from the Nintendo UK store here.
My Nintendo has updated in Europe with its latest rewards. In addition to the latest discounts, a few 3DS themes are up for grabs.
The full lineup is as follows:
Original developer CD Projekt Red was involved in bringing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to Switch. However, Saber Interactive handled a great deal of the technical work. In an interview with GamesBeat, chief executive officer Matthew Karch discussed the porting project in detail.
Karch mentioned that The Witcher 3 was initially “running at 10 frames per second, was taking 50% more memory than the Switch has, and the build size was 20GB larger than the biggest Switch cartridge.” Saber therefore turned off dynamic shadowed lights, removed screen-space ambient occlusion, and lowered the number of NPCs in the world by 30 percent.
That last change didn’t go over well, as Karch explained:
