After a long wait, Nintendo have lifted the lid on their upcoming console: the Switch. For £280, you’ll be able to get your hands on one come 3rd March – so not too long away!
Teflon had a busy day yesterday, so I’m back to take care of things this week.
In the News This Week
- Everything We Now Know About The Nintendo Switch
A bit round up of everything we now know about the Nintendo Switch. - Nintendo Switch Releasing Worldwide On 3rd March, Costing $299.99 or £279.99
Not that this news needs mentioning, it would have been impossible to miss!
- First Switch Game Revealed As 1-2-Switch
- The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Out On 3rd March, Alongside Switch
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Coming To Switch On April 28th
- Splatoon 2 Coming To Nintendo Switch This Summer
- Bethesda, EA, Atlus, Sega & More Announce Games For Nintendo Switch
- Microsoft Cancels Scalebound
The first victim of 2017 has fallen. - Guerrilla Cambridge To Close With All Employees Laid Off
Naturally, many fans were disappointed – “They made two of Sony’s best recent exclusives” says colmshan1990. - Sony Are Releasing A Glacier White Slim PlayStation 4 Later This Month
500GB for £259 – but it doesn’t look like the Pro is getting the white treatment just yet. - DiRT Rally To Get PlayStation VR Upgrade
The enhancement will cost £9.99, but all the cars and all the routes are supported in VR. - Sony Holding New PlayStation 4 Firmware Beta In February, Sign Ups Live Now
What sort of software improvements would you like to see in 2017? - Job Simulator’s $3 Million In Sales Show That VR Can Be Profitable
Severn2j says, “it’s a great game and one that is trotted out regularly around our house.”
Fairly Big Poll
Now that you’ve had a day to digest all the news about the Switch, we wanted to know if you’re getting one?
Games in Review
Although it was quiet, the scores were pretty good in the reviews this week.
- Gravity Rush 2 – PS4 – 9/10 (video review)
- Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King – 3DS – 9/10
- Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) – PS4, XBO, PC – 8/10
- Space Hulk: Deathwing – PC, PS4, XBO (Console release TBC) – 5/10
This Week’s Features
Unless you braved the 4am conference, it’s likely you woke up to loads of articles about the Nintendo Switch. As already mentioned, iif you want a quick recap of everything we know about the console, from specs to launch games, we have you covered!
We’ll keep updating that article over the next few days and weeks as we learn more and more about the console and its games. Teflon was also lucky enough to go hands on with the console, and was able to give us his first impressions. There’s plenty more hands on impressions to come, as well.
Is it just me, or does 2016 feel like ages ago? Anyway, we had a look at some of our favourite games of last year, and looked at some more too. Looking ahead to 2017, we first examined what Sony, and then what Microsoft need to do this coming year – do you agree with our thoughts?
Wrapping up the week, What We Played featured the Switch, Yakuza 0 & The Last Guardian.
Trailer Park
New Gameplay Trailer Released For Vikings: Wolves Of Midgard
LEGO City Undercover Receives A Brand New Trailer
The Latest Styx: Shard Of Darkness Trailer Highlights The Art Of Stealth
How To Survive 2 Brings Co-op Zombie Survival To Consoles In February
Your Achievements
It was a busy week for all the trophy hunters and completionists out there!
Roynaldo nabbed the platinums for FFXIV and Batman, as he’s managed to kick his Destiny habit and start working on his backlog. Youles also had a busy week, platinuming The Last Guardian and 100%’ing the PayDay DLC in Goat Simulator, a game that Crazy_Del got the platinum for this week.
Meanwhile, Steven’s been playing a lot of XCOM (happy for the shoutout Steven?), and TSBonyman completed the Titanfall 2 single player, which he called “pretty good”, but soon traded it in for The Last Guardian.
Lastly, Eldave0 100%’ed Journey and is just one trophy away from the Resogun platinum, as Ratchet & Clank’s platinum was claimed by ron_mcphatty.
The Week Ahead
- The Flame in the Flood – PS4 – 18/1
- Gravity Rush 2 – PS4 – 18/1
- Dragon Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King – 3DS – 20/1
Enjoy your weekends, and I’ll see you next time!
Andrewww
Oops, I just got a 20% discount code from Sony… Means I might take another look at the January sales, but also means more backlog…
The Lone Steven
My ego is statisfied for now. Thus the writer shall live….for now. Whether Gazzagb will be found gagged and bound at random or not is an entirely different issue altogether along with being froced to listen to Brian Blessed shouting.
Anyone had any proper snow? By that, i mean more then a few inches. Oh and it’s not a cold snap. It’s winter. Winter is always cold. If we, as a country are going to start not using common sense, let’s scrap the seasons and divide it into three catergories. Catergory:Blimey!It’s not raining. Caterogry: It’s Raining. Catergory: Miserable
gazzagb
No snow in London, there was a bit of sleet for a few hours but that’s it :(
The media hyped it up so much I was really looking forward to it
The Lone Steven
They do it every winter and it is just stupid. It’s winter, snow is often associated with it!
Interestingly, my town got some snow despite it being next to the sea. No signs of flooding.
Oh great, London is going to milk the weather and make it sound like it was the worst affected area/only important area in the country. Bloodly Londoners.