WWE 2K Battlegrounds coming to Switch
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Earlier this week, 2K announced WWE 2K Battlegrounds. An ESRB listing now reveals that the game is coming to Switch.
2K says that WWE 2K Battlegrounds is “a completely new WWE gaming experience that will feature arcade-style action and over-the-top Superstar designs, environments and moves.” It’s being developed by Saber Interactive.
Here’s the full announcement:
Crysis Remastered official announcement – out this summer, co-developed by Saber Interactive
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Crytek published an official announcement for Crysis Remastered, revealing more about the redone version of its classic shooter.
First up, we now have a summer release window. Saber Interactive, the company behind The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for Switch and other ports, is co-developing. Lots of new graphical bells and whistles are detailed in the press release as well.
Here’s the full announcement:
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World War Z announced for Switch, Saber says it’s “the hardest thing that we have had to do”
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Saber Interactive, the studio behind the Switch port of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has revealed that it’s bringing World War Z to Switch.
World War Z is a four-player cooperative third-person shooter. Hundreds of zombies can sometimes appear on screen, and the game also supports four players online. Saber CEO Matt Karch said that giving everything involved, the Switch port has been “the hardest thing that we have had to do”.
Karch mentioned to IGN:
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Saber Interactive goes into the nitty gritty tech details of making The Witcher 3 possible on Switch
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If someone would have told you a couple of years ago that The Witcher 3 would eventually be on Switch, there’s a good chance that you may not have believed them. Before the game was announced, many people thought that such a port would be simply impossible. Yet Saber Interactive managed to make it work, bringing the entire experience to Nintendo’s console and on a single game cartridge to boot.
During NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, Saber Interactive’s Roman Lebedev delivered a presentation all about the Switch version of The Witcher 3. Lebedev went into detail regarding CPU, memory and build size optimizations and tradeoffs made during development.
Below are some of the highlights:
MX Nitro: Unleashed footage
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MX Nitro: Unleashed, Saber Interactive’s motocross game, made it to the Switch eShop last week. View some footage in the video below.
Saber Interactive brings arcade sport motocross game MX Nitro: Unleashed to Switch
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Saber Interactive has announced that it has released MX Nitro: Unleashed, the definitive edition of the original arcade sport motocross game MX Nitro, on Switch today via the eShop. It comes with new tracks, bosses, outfits and more.
We have the following overview and trailer for MX Nitro: Unleashed:
Saber Interactive on how it got The Witcher 3 running on Switch
Posted on 5 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
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:
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered update out now
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered has been given a new patch on Switch. This week’s update include some fixes as well as improvements.
Below are the full patch notes:
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 update adds new playable characters, returning courts, and more
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A new update for NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 is out now on Switch. It features 22 new playable characters, 30 new vanity items, and 50 new court editor items. That’s on top of several returning courts from the first NBA Playgrounds.
Here’s a trailer for the new update:
The Witcher 3 Switch technical analysis, PS4 comparison
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With The Witcher 3 set to make its debut on Switch, Digital Foundry has examined the port to see how it holds up from a technical perspective. We also get another comparison with the PS4 version.
Here are some of the analysis highlights:
