Rockstar flogs an old horse

Hi, Chris here with your Nintendo update — it's issue 345 of Switch Weekly.

There's just under 30 games hitting the Nintendo eShop over the next week — including the excellent Vampire Survivors (love this game). Full list below for you.

BTW, if you're wondering what the deal is with that Tears of the Kingdom hover bike above — it's this awesome 3D printed project. How insanely cool does that look?

Thanks so much for reading.

Cheers,
Chris ✌️

Take-Two CEO says Red Dead Redemption port pricing is 'commercially accurate' — Yes, Red Dead Redemption, first released in 2010, is getting ported (not remade) to the Switch. Most of the focus has been on the $50 price tag though (here's the Amazon page if you are interested though).

Rebekah Valentine, Alex Stedman // IGN

▶ Pokémon Presents August 2023 — I didn't find much too exciting here, but I guess Mew and Mewtwo coming to Scarlet and Violet is cool.

Pokemon // YouTube

Nintendo's biggest flop of 2023 deserves more love — That's Everybody 1-2 Switch btw.

Jon Irwin // Inverse

The rise of 'scam games' and 'keyword bingo' firms flooding Switch eShop — As someone who looks through the Switch releases each week for you...there sure is lot of low quality stuff landing on the eShop.

Gavin Lane // Nintendo Life

What chance does your Switch game have of being a hit in 2023?

Simon Carless // GameDiscoverCo

The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games, from Jetpac and GoldenEye to Sea of Thieves — Forty years since the release of its first game, British dev Rare – formerly 'Ultimate' – has cemented its place in gaming history. This is a look back at its origins on the ZX Spectrum and NES.

Graeme Mason // The Guardian

REVIEW Unidentified Falling Objects

A.J. Maciejewski // Video Chums

▶ The Switch 2 needs these accessibility improvements

LauraKBuzz // YouTube

REVIEW Pokémon Trading Card Game — This Game Boy Color game from 2000 is now on the Switch Online service, and Conor says it "successfully shows newcomers the ropes while providing the initiated with a slick, faithful adaption of the tabletop experience".

Conor McMahon // Nintendo Life

The Game Boy’s Pokémon Trading Card Game is still unrivaled 25 years later

Charles Pulliam-Moore // The Verge

Pikmin 4 does some truly weird things with the series' story

Tom Phillips // Eurogamer

▶ Why Nintendo cancelled Rockstar's Kirby game

Did You Know Gaming // YouTube

The wait between major video game sequels is getting longer

Totilo, Beheraj, Wise // Axios

🎮 Upcoming Releases

All releases are digital, Europe & U.S. unless otherwise stated.
Release data sourced in collaboration with Switch Scores.

⭐️ = Ones to Watch · 📦 = Physical release · 🎮 = Demo available

Tue

Astro Flame: Starfighter — A classic scrolling space shooter but with modern 3D graphics.
⭐️ Black Skylands — This is a steampunk-themed open world, sandbox, top-down shooter meets adventure game in the skies.
⭐️🎮 Moving Out 2 — Physics-based party game about hauling furniture around. Pivot!
Summer Valley Hike — A chill 3D walking sim.

Wed

Creepy Tale: Ingrid Penance — A macabre interactive 2D adventure filled with bizarre events and puzzles.
⭐️ The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood — A 'thought-provoking narrative experience' about a fortune-telling witch. M for mature.

Thu

A Castle Full of Cats — It's a budget-friendly hidden object game about finding cats, with a slight Metroidvania twist.
Aery: Flow of Time — Combat-free bird flight sim.
Chrome Wolf — Fantasy RPG featuring turn-based tank battles.
Die After Sunset — A 3D 'action-packed' roguelite adventure through time in which Earth is under attack by aliens.
Duck Race — Budget racing game. The ducks are of the rubber variety.
Embraced By Autumn — Visual novel.
Forklift 2024: The Simulation — A 3D sim game with some uplifting challenges.
Gauntler — Pixel-art platformer.
Hidden Shapes: Cat Realm + Tricks or Cats — A bundle of two 'enchanting and calming' minimalist puzzle games.
⭐️ Marble it Up! Ultra — As someone who loved Marble Blast on the Xbox 360, and had fun with the first Marble It Up, I'm pleased to see more. 3D platforming...with a marble.
Quantum: Recharged — 40 years on from the Arcade original comes this revival.
⭐️ Red Dead Redemption — Rockstar's Wild West epic. M for mature. Physical release later in the year.
Sable's Grimoire: Man and Elf — Magic-themed visual novel. M for mature.
Satay Shop Tycoon — Indonesian street food business sim.
Shinobi Non Grata — A hardcore 2D ninja action platformer.
⭐️ Vampire Survivors — An addictive time survival roguelite. If you haven't played this elsewhere yet, I'd reccomend giving this a go.

Fri

Airplane Race Simulator — A two-player 3D plane sim.
Cat's Cosmic Atlas — Cosmic interactive picture book.
Neko Journey — A 2.5D side-scrolling action platformer. M for mature.

⚡️ Quick Links

This 3D printed hover bike from Tears of the Kingdom is perfect, and the video showing the process behind making it is really well produced too.
1997 hit shooter Quake II is now on Switch.
Snow Day is a new South park adventure coming next year, this time in 3D.
Nintendo has been busy patenting various game mechanics from Zelda: TotK.
Which direction would you rather Smash go? Ultimate upgrade, or reboot?
Japan is getting a theatrical re-release of the Mario movie, the 1993 one.
WrestleQuest was due out last week but is now delayed due to a bug.
Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam is said to be working on "two large undisclosed titles".
It's A Wrap is an upcoming puzzle platformer with a unique video editing timeline mechanic.
I dunno who buys CDs anymore, but there's three discs of Animal Crossing tunes here for thirty bucks.

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