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Part 7 - Switch gems for your 'log. Aaand we're back with another edition of our bi-annual 'Games We Missed' series, where you lovely people let us and everyone else in the Nintendo Life community know which gems may have passed us by. We asked you recently to send us your nominations for Switch games that you think deserve some love in this spotlight article. We'd love to review absolutely everything coming to Switch each week (well, perhaps not everything) and we do our best to offer our verdi...

‘I’m Just Pete’ completes the King of Staten Island and Bupkis trilogy.

Not only is The Dual-Wielding Dropkick Buckets an excellent name for a Ska punk band, it’s also the name I’ve just coined for a Lords of the Fallen character build that might be the soulslike’s answer to Dark Souls 2 ladle runs. I have no other way I can explain this than to tell you there’s a wooden bucket weapon in the new Hexworks game, and that you can do dropkicks with it.

Surprise Kameo Fighter also confirmed. Following a "first look" at Omni-Man in Mortal Kombat 1, new details have now surfaced about the rest of the Kombat Pack. According to a new PR, Quan Chi and Peacemaker are scheduled to arrive in Winter 2023/2024, Ermac and Homelander are targeting a Spring 2024 release, and Takeda Takahashi is aiming for Summer 2024. Omni-Man has already been confirmed for "early access" next month. The entire pack was originally scheduled for a Spring 2024 release.

Siri and Alexa were only the beginning. As voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies continue to mature, the days of typing on keyboards to interact with the digital world around us could be coming to an end — and sooner than many of us anticipated. Where today's virtual assistants exist on our mobile devices and desktops to provide scripted answers to specific questions, the LLM-powered generative AI copilots of tomorrow will be there, and everywhere else too. This is the "voice-first...

You’ve probably played at least a few Jackbox games in your time. The compilation packs of various party games have branched out far beyond the traditional videogame audience to become something even your least tech-savvy relatives want to join in on. The fun returns once again with Jackbox Party Pack 10, which sees another five minigames to keep your friends and family entertained, and it brings back quite possibly the best Jackbox game ever.

Pre-orders open later this month. First 4 Figures recently shared a "sneak peek" of its absolutely stunning Metroid Prime 'Samus Varia Suit' PVC statue. Yes, following the release of Metroid Prime Remastered on the Nintendo Switch earlier this year, F4F will soon be offering this new physical creation. Pre-orders open on 24th October 2023 and you can get a $10 discount (in the link below).

Held in a virtual space from Oct. 20 to 22, Roguelike Celebration is ‘simultaneously hyper-specific and extremely broad’.

Apple is making progress on new iPad and MacBook models, but Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believes that the release of these devices "won't happen this month." "More often than not, the company debuts new laptops and iPads in October — about a month after the latest iPhone and watch get out the door," said Gurman, in his Power On newsletter today. "And while I reported in July that Apple was planning such a release this year, the latest indications are that it won't happen this month." Gurman went on...

The most spine tingling series available on streaming.

Remedy Entertainment has confirmed Alan Wake 2 will have "significant" free DLC updates. Confirmation came via Remedy Entertainment's creative director Sam Lake, who was at EGX this weekend, talking about the return of Alan Wake. These free DLC expansions come on top of the two post-launch content drops Remedy detailed earlier this year, hinting there'll be plenty to do post-end game after we jump into Wake's new nightmare later this month on 27th October.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of Chivalry, Mount and Blade, For Honor, and Mordhau, Half Sword is a ridiculous medieval combat sim filled with historically accurate weapons and armor. It’s gleefully silly, strikingly gory, and immediately, unquestionably a lot of fun. After blowing up online on social media platforms including TikTok, you can now play Half Sword yourself for free thanks to a new Steam demo.

Indie RPG Inkbound has pledged to remove its battle pass and all microtransactions by the end of October. In a statement posted to Steam, developer Shiny Shoe said the decision came after it noted that "industry and player sentiment is trending against the presence of these features" and whilst it had always tried to be "as generous and straightforward as possible", it had resolved to remove in-game monetisation "completely" by 27th October 2023. Whilst the team says in-game monetisation support...

Skyrim now has one of the smallest, but most welcome, quality-of-life changes from Starfield that makes exploring with a companion just a touch easier, as modders have once again proved that new life can be breathed into Tamriel with simple changes, especially ones that Bethesda itself implements in later RPGs.

A Lords of the Fallen update lets you once again enable Nvidia DLSS, helping you optimize your performance and frame rate in the soulslike game. The tool had previously been disabled due to concerns it was responsible for crashes, and developer Hexworks emphasizes that the issue has not yet been fully resolved - but says you can now use it again should you prefer, at your own risk.

EA’s Battlefield 2042 was heavily ridiculed at launch in 2021 for server errors, changes to how the squad system worked, and countless bugs. The multiplayer FPS even has the lowest average rating of the whole Battlefield series, but the last couple of years have seen developer DICE turn it around. Now between changes, new content, a free Steam weekend, and a sale, Battlefield 2042 is the most popular it’s been since launch.

What would a true gentleman do? We are back for yet another edition of Box Art Brawl, are you ready to rank some covers? Before we introduce this week's challengers, let's take a look at what went down last time. We pitted two cover variants for the SNES classic ActRaiser against each other and the results were very close indeed though the minimalist European / North American cover just clinched it with 51% of the vote compared to Japan's 49% — oof.

Japan, 1993, in the city of Kyoto, and two young men are on a bike. They're on the busiest crossing in the city and clearly, they're drunk. Westerners. Inside their bags, they have papers they probably shouldn't have - confidential papers. Confidential Nintendo papers. And in a few hazy post-pub moments, these papers are about to be all over the floor for everyone to see. One look at them and you'd see the game Nintendo was making next. One look at them and you'd see the 3D chip Nintendo had des...

Here's how to get Japan-exclusive eShop games. If the huge number of amazing indie games hitting the Nintendo Switch eShop every week isn't enough, there are also a host of games on the Japanese eShop that you can access on your Switch. A Japanese Switch eShop exclusive known as Suika Game (Watermelon Game) has recently gone viral thanks to its popularity among streamers and VTubers. Earlier this year, it started gaining traction with Japanese influencers, and now it's caught on here in the West...

If you're a fan of Naruto's classic opening and ending songs from the anime, Naruto X Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections, as long as you're willing to pay.

Competing against Game Center CX. Earlier this week, the legendary game designer and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai teased a "special crossover" with Retro Game Master (known as Game Center CX in Japan). The first video, localised by 8-4, has now gone live and it has Sakurai facing off against Retro Game Master Shinya Arino in a battle across "The Space Invaders Decade" from 1978 - 1987. Apart from Space Invaders, the other games featured include the following: Galaxian, As...

The tabletop wargame is returning to its original setting.

Now’s your chance to get a shiny Timburr and other bonuses.

No more battle pass, no more cosmetic purchasing.

Apocalypse Party is a solo or co-op action roguelike starring some familiar faces.

A hint to help you out and today's Wordle answer if you need it.

Turn up that microphone.

Watch out for spoilers. Another anticipated Nintendo Switch exclusive has been leaked online. This time it's Super Mario Bros. Wonder, due out next week on 20th October. After the voice of the new Mario was confirmed on Friday, there are now multiple reports suggesting Mario Wonder's ROM file is being distributed online. This new game is also being streamed on platforms like Twitch, although some users claim they've acquired physical copies early.

"We do have free DLCs drops coming," Lake said.

Pioneers of Pagonia intends to be a beautiful, easy to play city builder with optional cooperative play.

A SAG-strike-friendly NYCC 2023 panel still got rowdy.

Two RPG nerds do their best to score Cyberpunk's celebs.

Today, during the celebrations for Warhammer Day 2023, Games Workshop finally announced the release window of its next tabletop game Warhammer: The Old World. 

Anyone sitting on a mountain of cryptocurrency can now use it to buy a Ferrari in the US. According to Reuters, the luxury carmaker is working with the crypto payment processor BitPay to accept bitcoin, ether, and USDC for purchases stateside, which customers were apparently begging for. Europe is expected to get the same treatment in early 2024, with other regions to follow. There won’t be any upcharges for those paying with crypto, Ferrari’s Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer Enrico Gallie...

Invincible’s sinister superman is here to pop some heads.