Switch Weekly - #182: Your Nintendo Update

PREVIEW Nintendo's new Clubhouse Games is a damn fine collection of light diversions

Mike Fahey // Kotaku

Metroid Prime Trilogy listed (again) with June 19th release date

Alex Seedhouse // Nintendo Insider

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition additional scenario ‘Future Connected’ is 10 to 12 hours long

Sal Romano // Gematsu

▶ Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition: What you need to know 

Project Gamer // YouTube

Classic Nintendo puzzle game Panel De Pon has been added to Switch Online— You can play it now in the SNES app, along with other new additions: Wild Guns (a SNES cowboy shooter), Operation Logic Bomb (a SNES sci-fi shooter), and Rygar (a side-scrolling NES platformer).

Andy Robinson // VGC

REVIEW What the Golf? — "a perfect blend of comedy, fun and video games that had me smiling from ear to ear the entire way through".

Willem Hilhorst // Nintendo World Report 

REVIEW Golf With Your Friends — It seems there are some concerns with the online experience, but generally if "you take the title literally, you'll have fun."

Chris Scullion // Nintendo Life 

Desperate Nintendo Switch owners are learning to repair their own busted systems— Apparently, demand for replacement Switch parts has tripled during lockdown.

Maddie Stone // OneZero

Nintendo files lawsuits in crackdown against Switch hackers

Nicole Carpenter // Polygon

Buying BioShock, Borderlands or XCOM physically? Expect huge download requirements

Ryan Craddock // Nintendo Life

REVIEW Arrest of a Stone Buddha — "some good ideas and commendable risks taken here, but sadly they don’t come together to achieve the emotional impact intended".

Ian Goudelock // Noisy Pixel 

REVIEW Piczle Cross Adventure 

Stevie Patamon // Switch Player 

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Peta storms Animal Crossing to protest treatment of digital animals — A bunch of animal rights activists all gave Nintendo their cash and bought the game in order to 'gatecrash' the museum in Animal Crossing, protesting the treatment of digital animals. Related: Peta have published a Vegan guide to playing Nintendo's hit game.

Imogen Watson // The Drum

Game discoverability and the Nintendo Switch: Where we're at

Simon Carless // Game Discoverability Now

Will the Nintendo Switch ever support GameCube games?

Daryl Baxter // Stealth Optional

BioShock: A Retrospective— All three BioShock games are hitting the Switch next week. If you've never played them before this article brings you up to speed on what all the fuss is about.

Clay Howard // The Nintendo Village

A Brief History of Paper Mario

Jay Rooney // Level Up Media

REVIEW Jet Lancer — In case you missed it last week, here's my review of this fun aerial combat shooter.

Chris Brandrick // Switch Weekly 

Tuesday, May 26

• ⭐️ Minecraft Dungeons — Action-adventure set in the Minecraft universe.

Wednesday, May 27

• ⭐️ Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling — People are calling this 'Paper Mario with Bugs'. (May 28 in U.S)
• Ailment — Pixel action shooter set on a spaceship. Kinda dig the vibe.

Thursday, May 28

• Little Misfortune — Go down to the woods today in this interactive story. (May 29 in U.S)
• Fly Punch Boom — An 'anime' fighter for up to four players with online.
• Game Tengoku CruisinMix Special — Jaleco characters come together in this action shooter.
• Resolutiion — Fast-paced action adventure, pretty neat visual style.
• Atomicrops — Post-apocalypse action roguelite farming sim.
• Thunder Force AC — Sega Ages release of this horizontal space shooter.
• Synaptic Drive — Arena battles in cyberspace, with online support.
• Turmoil — Drill for oil in this oil rush sim.
• F-117A Stealth Fighter — Flight sim with dogfights aplenty.
• Hill Climbing Mania — Arcade racer.

Friday, May 29

• ⭐️ BioShock: The Collection — All three BioShock games in one. 📦  Titles are available individually digitally. I'm so returning to Rapture.
• ⭐️ Borderlands Legendary Collection — Plenty of claptrap. 📦
• ⭐️ XCOM 2 Collection — Alien action strategy gets the port treatment. 📦
• ⭐️ Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition — Monolithsoft's Wii RPG gets the full-on remaster treatment. 📦
• Adam's Venture: Origins —Young explorer Adam unravels the secret of Eden. 📦
• Indiecalypse — A mini-game collection that depicts the 'crude reality' of indie game devs.
• Flux8 — A co-op puzzle platformer.
• Despotism 3k — Dark resource management sim with rogue-lite elements. (May 30 in U.S)
• Genetic Disaster — Co-op action with absurd guns and mad mansion to escape.
• WildTrax Racing — 3D racer.
• Climbros — Gotta climb, jump and swing your way to victory.

Saturday, May 30

• #womenup Super Puzzles Dream — Some kinda jigsaw puzzler.
• Undead & Beyond — Escape the facility in this arcade shooter.