The Skirmisher rages against single player games that force their players to always be online and actively connected in order to play, which is an especially boneheaded move for a mobile platform like the Nintendo Switch.
The latest co-op survival horror game from Dead Drop Studios – Outbreak: Epidemic – is launching today on Nintendo Switch. The most polished, biggest Outbreak game yet, Outbreak: Epidemic is dripping with scares, heavy atmosphere, and the nearly endless replayability players come to expect from the Outbreak series. Each of the other four titles in the franchise – the original Outbreak, Outbreak: The New Nightmare, Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles and Outbreak: Lost Hope – are expected to hit Nintendo’s console in a few weeks. Developers: Dead Drop Studios Platforms: Nintendo Switch
The long and winding saga of the stolen, exploited, escaped, traded, abused, annoying, abusing and very long winded Raymond cats from Animal Crossing has finally come to a close. Wave goodbye to the Raymond Army…for now.
Merge Games and ION LANDS invite console players to cruise the neon-drenched skies of Nivalis as Cloudpunk is now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Already sporting a ‘very positive’ rating with over 4,000 reviews on Steam, ION LANDS’ noir adventure Cloudpunk has become one of the must-play titles of 2020. Eager console players can now join in on the fun as the game debuts on all their favorite digital stores including the PlayStation Store, Xbox Marketplace, and the Nintendo eShop for the price of $24.99 USD. Cloudpunk offers the freedom of open-world games, but with a … Continue reading Cloudpunk Cruises to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch
Beating the Squirrel to the punch by just a few minutes, the Mario brothers strike first. The only problem is that they strike the wrong person, namely Gary’s mother. Perhaps they got a little too close to those mushrooms.
Team17 is launching its message in a bottle today and announcing the release of The Survivalists, part of the critically acclaimed The Escapists universe, which is available now on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam, and exclusively to mobile via Apple Arcade. The Survivalists takes players to their very own procedurally-generated islands, where they can explore, craft, and train troupes of monkeys in order to survive against the harsh environments, savage beasts, and orclings, as well as explore dangerous labyrinths and avoid deadly traps, in up to four-player, online cooperative multiplayer. Shipwrecked life in The Survivalists is helped … Continue reading The Survivalists From The Escapists Universe Launches
Our Skirmisher columnist has not played a basketball game since 2009. But the pandemic has really made him want to play sports. So he gave NBA 2K21 a try on the Nintendo Switch. It wasn’t quite the slam dunk he was hoping for, but it wasn’t a washout either.
Connection Haunted is a game with a pretty amazing premise. It’s a simulation of a haunted massively multiplayer online game. Unfortunately, on the Switch were we reviewed it, our reviewer found that Connection Haunted has quite a few real ghosts to contend with.
Just in time for Halloween, Maid of Sker offers one of the scariest experiences of the season. Set in a gorgeous world, Wales Interactive’s latest offering is full of deep exploration, light puzzle solving, a thoughtful mystery and everything else we expect from a quality horror title.
In what is becoming normal for our intrepid Save State columnist, he goes way back to consider an older game that literally fell out of his closet and clunked his head, and a very modern title that we all know and, maybe, love. This week he tackles Golden Sun and Super Mario 3D All-Stars.
