Nintendo Switch

Despite the technological advancements and raw power of the new Xbox and PlayStation consoles, the aging Nintendo Switch continues to stand strong, especially with a strong selection of games. Most of the media focus, however, has been on big, triple-A titles from popular studios but those are hardly the only satisfying and memorable experiences available on the console. To shine a light on some of the lesser-known games from other developers, Nintendo's Indie World is adding some new titles while showcasing the unique worlds that indie games can offer gamers of all shapes and sizes.

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Back in March, Tribute Games and Dotemu announced a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat 'em up. There have been a few fondly-remembered TMNT beat 'em ups released throughout the decades, so expectations for this one - dubbed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - will undoubtedly be high. Today, we got to see a little more of the game in a new trailer, with Dotemu confirming that it will be coming to Nintendo Switch when it releases later this year.

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As announced yesterday, Nintendo is hosting a brand new Indie World Showcase today. As the name suggests, the Showcase will be entirely devoted to indie games that are coming to the Switch. We expect to see some announcements of new indie games and also some updates on previously-revealed titles, and we expect a fair amount of each as Nintendo tends to make rapid-fire reveals during these Indie World Showcases.

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Nintendo is back with another Indie World Showcase this week, and it's promising new information on indie games that are headed to Nintendo Switch. Switch owners are no strangers to Indie World Showcases at this point, as they're essentially fast-paced Nintendo Directs focused entirely on the world of indie gaming. As is usually the case, though, Nintendo is staying tight-lipped on which games will actually be on display during the show.

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Nintendo first released the Switch Lite in September 2019, and while the handheld console seemed primed to receive a bunch of models in different colors, Nintendo has been fairly slow to roll out new ones. Aside from the three colors the Switch Lite launched in - gray, turquoise, and yellow - the only other standard color that's been added to the lineup was coral way back in March 2020. This drought of new Switch Lite colors is finally coming to an end, as Nintendo will introduce a new one next month.

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On the heels of the Expeditions update for No Man's Sky - which launched a couple of weeks ago - Hello Games has released a new update for The Last Campfire. As Hello Games worked to build on the content in No Man's Sky, a small team within the studio started working on The Last Campfire as something of a passion project and released it in September of last year. It seems Hello Games is going to continue the trend of releasing big content updates for free, as The Last Campfire received just that today.

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If you've been looking forward to the release of New Pokemon Snap later this month, then you'll definitely want to check out a new trailer published by The Pokemon Company earlier today. The new trailer clocks in at just under seven minutes long and shows off a lot of gameplay, but there's just one problem: It's entirely in Japanese, meaning most of us here in the US probably won't understand a lick of the trailer's narration.

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If you've never heard of Exploding Kittens before, I envy you for having the opportunity to discover this oddity for the first time. We started covering the creation of Exploding Kittens back when it was first a physical card game concept. Back then, The Oatmeal and friends wanted to make a game that'd be quick, fun, and abnormal. They made that game with great aplomb.

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Apex Legends is closing in on the end of Season 8: Mayhem, but before things wrap up, Respawn Entertainment is introducing a new event called War Games. With this event, we'll see the introduction of five new game modes that will replace the standard Play Apex playlists. These new modes will make small-yet-significant tweaks to the way Apex Legends matches play, and of course, there will be some new cosmetics and items to unlock in this event as well.

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We're only about a week-and-a-half out from the launch of Monster Hunter Rise, and it's already safe to say the game is already a success. Shortly after announcing that the game had shipped 4 million units by the end of its first weekend of availability, Capcom has now revealed that Monster Hunter Rise has sold - not shipped - 5 million copies around the world, a figure that includes digital downloads as well.

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Just like the iconic tile-matching game Tetris, you might presume there are only so many ways you can improve on Pac-Man's core game mechanics. But just like Tetris, Nintendo wants to prove you wrong. In the spirit of Tetris 99, Nintendo has just launched PAC-MAN 99 that pits 99 players against each other in a race to become Pac-One, the last Pac standing in what an adrenaline-inducing game of pure mayhem.

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Last week, Nintendo removed Super Mario 3D All-Stars from the Switch eShop and confirmed that it would stop shipping new copies to retailers. At the time, we wondered if scalpers on sites like eBay would take the opportunity to inflate prices on copies they'd no doubt been holding, and it seems they've done exactly that. The question, however, is whether or not those scalpers are actually managing to sell these exorbitantly-priced copies of the game.

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