Can you match them all? Find out next week when Nintendo Switch Online adds Pokemon Puzzle League to its N64 section. This particular Match-3 game has been around for quite a while, but has had a strange and convoluted release history. The name of it is supposed to be “Panel
It’s rare that an NSO update hits and no one has anything bad to say about it, but here we are: Nintendo Switch Online updated its Genesis library today with four titles, and they don’t disappoint. First off, Mega Man: The Wily Wars is among them. This was the Genesis
The thing about Nintendo Switch Online relying on a back catalog of titles from ancient consoles is that, eventually, they’re going to run out of demanded games they have access to. Castlevania and Contra, for example, will never appear on NSO because they’re part of compilations Konami is selling themselves.
This week’s addition to Nintendo Switch Online includes the Sonic spinoff Sega quickly threw into the holiday season of 1993 when they realized Sonic 3 wasn’t going to be ready on time. Fortunately, Sonic Spinball is pretty solid (some may disagree, but they’re not writing this piece). Spinball is a
There are times to complain about Nintendo Switch Online, but this isn’t one of them: the service just added three games to its NES / SNES stock, and they aren’t bad at all. Earthworm Jim 2 is the biggest surprise. Released in early 1996 during the height of the worm’s
Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pass was made active last October and immediately ran into a firestorm of bad PR. Customers raged online about the poor emulation, the blatant input delay issues, and the outrageous price hike ($50 a year as opposed to the normal flavor’s $20 a year). Nintendo released
Two weeks ago Nintendo announced an expansion to their Switch Online plan that added N64 and Genesis games to the library. it had been anticipated for a while, but most people assumed the price increase would be negligible, or even free. When it was revealed to be a heavy $50
A couple weeks ago Nintendo announced it would be expanding its “Nintendo Switch Online” service, which mainly exists to cover the server fees from keeping multiplayer games running, but throws in a catalog of games from the company’s past as a bonus. Since they were running out of NES and
If your social media feeds seem especially busy right now and people can’t stop making Chris Pratt jokes, there’s a reason: Nintendo just dropped another Direct. As we typically do, we’ll be listing the revealed Fall 2021 – Winter 2022 game lineup in order of release, but there were so
We figure that from this point forward, the reactions to Nintendo’s Switch Online game announcements will be less like “woohoo, that classic game is finally here!” and more like “uhhhh….what the heck is that?” Case in point: the three that were revealed today. Nothing is being added to the NES
Nintendo just now revealed five titles they’ll be adding to the Nintendo Switch Online service next week. Observe that if any of them were noteworthy, we would have put their names in the headline. Alas, we’re getting down to the crumbs of the SNES library. For a third party to
Nintendo still hasn’t forgotten about their Switch Online library of 8 and 16-bit games, though they’re going to run out of first-party entries before long. This afternoon a trailer went live that confirms we’re getting Donkey Kong Country 3 this month, along with a few other obscure choices. DKC1 was