If you’re picking Overwatch on Switch this week at a store, we have some bad news. Overwatch, which launches tomorrow on Switch, is available to pre-order digitally as well as at retail. Unfortunately, the game’s physical version is simply a box with a code inside. The retail version does not include a game cart, as is standard. This can be easily spotted on the game’s official page on Nintendo’s website, as well as at retailers such as Amazon. The site notes a 12.1GB download for the game, so it’s not all bad. That said, Overwatch is far from the only Switch game whose box does not include a cart, so Switch owners are likely used to this by now. This makes sense for Overwatch more than most, however, because it’s an online-only game anyway. With that in mind, the Switch version also comes with three free months of Nintendo Switch Online, which is required to play online. … [Read more...] about Overwatch Switch retail version doesn’t come with a cart
Wot I Think: Felix The Reaper
Felix The Reaper is a master of distraction. Instead of making him rush to move shadows about so he can set up elaborately fatal traps, all I want to do is watch this chubby lil’ reaper bust endless moves to the beat of his Walkman. and I mean moves: it would be ridiculous to call these “idle animations”, because this groovin’ dealer of death simply never quits. He’s a non-stop boogie machine, and watching him strut his stuff across the game’s tiled puzzlescapes is easily the most charming part of it all. But as I said, it’s all a distraction: a cute but cunning smokescreen to hide what’s otherwise a fairly mundane, and often frustrating, puzzle game. There are some great ideas here to be sure. Even so, readability issues, an over-reliance on harsh speedrun requirements to unlock later levels. and a general failure to build on the game’s key puzzle elements in satisfying ways ultimately makes Felix feel more damned than divine. I … [Read more...] about Wot I Think: Felix The Reaper
Payday 3 expected to launch in 2022 or 2023
It’s been a hard time for Starbreeze, with the gang behind Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons facing a very real possibility they wouldn’t survive another year. As they continue to try to recover from serious financial problems, they now foresee a bright and lucrative future led by one game: Payday 3. We should expect the latest in the really-quite-good cooperative heist FPS in 2022 or 2023, they’ve said in a new financial filing. Which seemed forever away until I realised it’s almost 2020? As in, 2020 starts within three months? And then it’s basically 2525? And we’ll be living on the Moon? Time, eh. Starbreeze have been talking about Payday 3 since 2016 but this is the most they’ve said to say about it since their cloud of financial doom rolled in. They’ve now estimated a big boost in cash flow based chiefly on signing a publishing agreement for Payday 3 in the first half of 2020 then launching the game “in … [Read more...] about Payday 3 expected to launch in 2022 or 2023
Cyberpunk 2077 is probably not going to end up on Switch
Cyberpunk 2077 may not come to Nintendo Switch. Now that we’re one day away from the release of The Witcher 3 port on Nintendo Switch, fans of CD Projekt Red’s work are beginning to wonder if the studio’s next project, Cyberpunk 2077, is also going to come to Switch. Gamespot caught up with CD Projekt’s John Mamais at PAX Australia to ask him if there’s a possibility for Cyberpunk 2077 to end up on Nintendo Switch. “Who would have thought a game like The Witcher 3 would be possible on Switch, so who knows?” said Mamais. “I guess we’ll see, if we decide to put it on the Switch, if we can do it. Probably not.” As Mamais pointed out, The Witcher 3 on Switch was, at one point, a dream many believed would never come true. Though reviews of the final build have yet to hit, previews have been very positive. Perhaps a year or so from now, when the dust has settled on the main Cyberpunk 2077 versions, a third-party studio will step up … [Read more...] about Cyberpunk 2077 is probably not going to end up on Switch
An Indie Game Dev’s Guide to White Nights Moscow 2019
White Nights Moscow is just a few days away. With so much going on, here's a quick guide for those of you who're eager to learn the latest techniques for launching hit games. … [Read more...] about An Indie Game Dev’s Guide to White Nights Moscow 2019