Brewster's not known for being fashionably late, is he?

The Animal Crossing Direct has revealed content both free and paid for Animal Crossing that will start with the version 2 update November 5. This will be the final major update for the game.

We'll be talking a little Metroid Dread and Switch OLED before we get rolling on our RetroActive.

"We'll do it live!" RetroActive 50: Little King's Story is upon us and we'll be doing an RFN Live Show to commemorate it! Join us October 14 at 9 PM Eastern! This is a link for the radio feed, but it isn't live yet. However, we'll also be recording in the RFN Discord - hopefully. I'm going to try to get that to work but expect nonsense!

2/22 being a Tuesday... wonder how many other publishers will want to take advantage of that.

The NIS America published "new school" JRPG Monark has staked out its release date.

The horror RPG, which is due for Japanese release this coming Thursday, will land in North America on February 22 (2/22/22) with European release to follow on the 25th. A demo for the game is available in Japan, but has no release date for the rest of the world.

You probably know how this'll end, but let's dream of a Switch native port.

One of last week's big non-Nintendo releases might be coming to Switch after all.

The ESRB has updated the rating for the remake of the 2010 adventure game to include the Switch. It released last week on the Epic Games Store, as well as active PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

It is not known how... Read more...

The play is no surprise, but the progress staying where it is falls under "bummer".

Monster Hunter Rise players who want to take advantage of an upcoming PC port will have to start over, and won't be able to play with Switch owners.

Following the recent Tokyo Game Show presentation which revealed Sunbreak details and also announced Rise for PC in January, Capcom posted a survey... Read more...

The "authentic" experience will also be available for select games.

European Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will get the optimum Nintendo 64 experience in the expansion pack launching later this month.

During last month's Nintendo Direct, the European video showed the games running at 50hz, which was the European ("PAL") standard until the adoption of HD television... Read more...

Tetris Effect last week, Disco Elysium this week... we can't go to 2020 since Hades went to version 1.0 on Switch...

The first full week of downloads in this post-OLED world kicks off with another old GOTY with the arrival of the heavily philosophical RPG Disco Elysium, as rumored for months and then made official a couple of weeks ago in the Direct. It's a good week for quirky releases that check in at $40, as... Read more...

Aw ****, here we go again... wait, they're coming to a Nintendo console too?

Three foundational open-world games are coming to a Nintendo console for the first time ever later this year.

2K and Rockstar have announced that the early 2000s Grand Theft Auto games - Grand Theft Auto III (2001), Vice City (2003), and San Andreas (2004) will come to Switch "later this year"... Read more...

"Political activist" being the politest way to describe him.

One of Japan's most infamous composers and a pillar of the Dragon Quest series has died.

A statement from Square Enix announced that Koichi Sugiyama, who composed the music and sound effects for the Dragon Quest series dating back to the 1986 original, died on September 30, 2021. The cause of death was septic shock, a sudden loss of blood pressure following an infection.

This is an awful lot for an update...

The next payoff from the last Nintendo Direct is due a week from Friday.

A presentation detailing the content coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons beginning in November will air on October 15 at 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT. It is slated to run for 20 minutes.

Although not confirmed to be in the... Read more...

A natural tie-in to today's other announcement.

The entire Kingdom Hearts franchise will soon be joining Sora on Switch.

During today's Sora presentation for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Masahiro Sakurai announced three remastered collections of Kingdom Hearts games will be released on Switch as streaming titles in the future. The three games are:

It's not an anime swordsman, because the weapon is a keyblade.

The final Smash Bros Ultimate DLC was the most requested fighter of all.

Sora, main character of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, will be the 89th and final fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate when he launches on October 18. During the presentation, it was revealed that Sora was the most requested fighter overall in the 2014-15 "Smash Ballot" that was used to decide DLC fighters .

We follow up a week of 60 games in North America with a GOTY.

So last week, I mentioned that there were 47 games going into the week - and the final score ended up at 60. There's been MONTHS since I took over this column where we had fewer releases than that, so... geez, I know it was a quarter end but slow down you fools. Maybe some of those games should have moved to this week, considering we have a hardware rev on Friday.

Yes, the hug button is back.

A much-loved remake from the Wii era is itself getting re-released on Switch.

The WayForward-developed A Boy and His Blob, which originally launched on Wii in 2009, was confirmed for a Switch release this fall. It will be published by the retro specialist publisher Ziggurat Interactive, who recently published WayForward's BloodRayne games on Switch as well.

Perhaps a good sign for the main game's full release on Switch as well.

The wildly successful crowdfunding campaign for Suikoden spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle will bear some fruit on Switch.

During a 505 Games TGS presentation, the publisher confirmed that the prequel title Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, which was a stretch goal in the initial campaign, would come to Switch in 2022. It was previously announced for PC and active PlayStation / Xbox consoles.

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

If there's a mishap cooking during this year's holiday season, the Firegirl will be able to put out the flame.

Firegirl, the side scrolling firefighter action game, will launch on Switch on December 14 (as spotted at Gematsu). The fires will be procedurally generated and, in a bit of realism, will have to be extinguished in three minutes. (Time bonuses will be awarded if certain tasks are completed.)

From a Square vet who doesn't think beating up your own party members is good game design.

There's more than one new RPG due for the eShop from Square this month.

During a Tokyo Game Show presentation this morning, Square Enix announced a new RPG titled Dungeon Encounters which will launch on October 14 for 3200 yen. The English language Square Enix Twitter have confirmed a worldwide launch.

As is apparently required by some obscure corner of Japanese law we don't have time to look up.

Capcom has given new details on Monster Hunter as part of their Tokyo Game Show presentation, including first details on the recently announced Sunbreak expansion.

Sunbreak

It turns out Centipede was just the harbinger of an invasion.

After decent critical reception, Atari is continuing on with their "Recharged" line of arcade remixes.

Following today's launch of Centipede Recharged, the latest iteration of the pre-NES company has announced three new games in that vein for release. The first will be Black Widow Recharged, which is slated to launch October 28 and attempts to modernize the 1982 vector-based shooter.

The professor is probably more talkative than they were in Fodlan.

Shin Megami Tensei V has brought in some heavy hitters for its English voice cast.

A new trailer has confirmed a large portion of the voices for the Western version of the game. The protagonist will be voiced by Casey Mongillo, whose previous voice credits include the Scorbunny family in the Pokemon... Read more...