System: Switch
Release date: July 11, 2024
Developer: Project Aces / Future Tech Lab
Publisher: Bandai Namco
While the Switch may be feeling a bit long in the tooth these days, leave it to Bandai Namco to swing for the fences with an incredibly ambitious port in the tail end of the console’s life. There’s nothing quite like Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown on the platform – dogfighting games are a rare breed in general, these days – and Ace Combat has always been a singular experience, melding fast and frenetic aerial gunplay with schlocky, yet surprisingly captivating storytelling. I’m a fan of the genre as a whole, so I was excited to see how the game would play on the Switch in what Bandai Namco is calling the game’s Deluxe Edition. While this version of Ace Combat 7 certainly is held back by the raw power of the Switch, it’s also an impressive port that retains the white-knuckle gameplay of the original release, and it captivated and challenged me from start to finish.
QUByte Interactive, in collaboration with Pyxeralia Studio, today announced the upcoming release of Mists of Noyah for Switch. The game launches digitally on July 25, 2025.
Mists of Noyah is a survival game with RPG elements. The game revolves around exploring the world to find inhabitants that escaped an attack and rebuild a fort that was destroyed.
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The New Denpa Men is starting to roll out on Switch, and new gameplay has dropped. A half hour of footage shows the latest entry in the series that started off on 3DS.
Here’s a rundown of everything you need to know:
A Little to the Left is getting a physical release on Switch, Max Inferno has revealed. It will be available on October 18, 2024.
The physical release will be known as the Extra Tidy Edition. Each unit includes the game on a cartridge as well as the Cupboards & Drawers and Seeing Stars expansions, plus over 20 additional seasonal A Little to the Left puzzles. Max Inferno confirmed that all Extra Tidy Edition content is packed onto the cartridge, with no download code required to access the full library of puzzles.
Over on social media, Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe pledged that the studio will never charge fans for DLC or updates.
While some updates are free, many other games these days often charge extra for DLC that introduces new content. Stardew Valley, meanwhile, doesn’t followed that model. ConcernedApe brought out significant updates for its game over the years which have always been free.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, and Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven appear for the first time.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between July 3 and July 9.
Thousands of games are currently available on Switch, and there are a ton of demos out there for many of them. Not just Nintendo, but also third-parties are offering demos. We’ve now put together a comprehensive list of what’s out there.
Since our reader base is English-speaking, that’s what we’re focusing on here. In other words, we’re highlighting Switch demos that you can find in North America and Europe. Japan has a few extra demos on its end, but a majority of them are for titles that are not currently being sold in the west and are only playable in Japanese.
Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of July 21, 2024 is now available.
This time around, there’s one new session involving Nintendo Network ID. That functionality only applies to 3DS and Wii U, so Switch is actually absent here.
Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of July 21, 2024:
