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Life would be better with jetpacks. We all know this. But just imagine how much better it would’ve been in the cro-magnon days with jetpacks. That’s the somewhat wonderful premise behind Jet Kave Adventure, coming to Nintendo Switch this fall.
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Surprising no one except perhaps in its timing, Nintendo has announced the Nintendo Switch Lite. The new system will come in three color options with attached Joy-Con and no option to connect to your TV,  making it pretty much the final nail in the coffin for the Nintendo DS family.
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For a limited time, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp players will be able to obtain sofas, beds, hats, dresses and more that feature characters from the aforementioned Hello Kitty and Cinnamoroll, as well as Pompompurin, Little Twin Stars, Keroppi and more.
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We’re now just three weeks away from the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and the path to DLC  goodness has been unveiled. Lean when you’ll have access to new characters, items, quests and costumes, and how much it’ll cost.
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I imagine there are few readers out there who haven’t suffered a season with a sports team that didn’t live up to expectations—a team that looked fantastic on paper but wallowed in mediocrity. This season, that team is Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.
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Originally released for consoles and Windows PC back in 2009, Red Faction: Guerilla is the third installment in the Red Faction series. The Re-Mars-tered version brings its third-person shooter gameplay to a Nintendo console for the first time.
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If my demo experience at E3 proves accurate, BurgerTime Party will be an outstanding multiplayer arcade game for Nintendo Switch even if you’ve never before worn the apron of Peter Pepper.
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Vektor Wars—the first release in the Super Arcade series from Super Icon—will provide Nintendo Switch gamers with vector graphics-inspired “first-person blasting” action ala Battlezone, but with a much more vivid color palette.
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Forest Home is a different, kid-friendly face on a familiar puzzler; you must connect sets of two dots with lines that don’t bisect any other lines. In this case, the dots are animals and their homes, and the lines are leaves, flowers, grass, etc. It’s certainly cute, but is it fun?
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In Alder’s Blood, Nintendo Switch gamers will join the Hunters, a group of highly skilled, professional monster slayers attempting to preserve humans that have been abandoned by their god and planet.
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Nintendo Switch gamers can finally grab a physical or digital copy of Koji Igarashi’s action RPG, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, but there’s something extremely important to do first…
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Asphalt 9: Legends is due out this summer on Nintendo Switch, and it’s definitely worth checking out if you’re a fan of arcade racers. It looks great, there are numerous controls to suit your play style, and it’s free for as long as you want it to be.
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The Switch may have replaced your mobile device or iPad for portable gaming, but that doesn’t mean you need to sacrifice all those charming puzzle games. Your latest example? Forest Home, which was released today for Nintendo Switch.
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Natsume’s E3 booth is always a fun one to visit, and that was no different this year when we get to try out three games they have coming to the Nintendo Switch. One of those was Harvest Moon: Mad Dash, coming this fall.
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Dr. Mario World will allow iOS and Android gamers to share stamina-giving hearts for use in Stage Mode. Players can also challenge others to a real-time, one-on-one showdown in Versus Mode.
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Sayonara Wild Hearts is a graphical mash-up of ’80s neon city-scapes and the “Just Dance” games with the soundtrack to match. The game pops like an album cover by Patrick Nagel and sticks with you like the songs on the vinyl contained therein.
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Having seen a demo presentation from Frozenbyte and having spent some time playing through a level, I can confirm that Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is shaping up to be best Trine game yet.
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Konami understands what its fans want out of Contra games. If there’s going to be a new one, they want it to include all of the over-the-top action of its predecessors with a healthy dose of mature humor thrown in. Check.
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