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Nintendo announced the release dates of the Nintendo Switch Online service. It will launch on September 18th in North America and September 19th in Europe. A seven-day free trial is also available, and you can find more info here if you’re in North America, and here if you’re in Europe. The service will cost $3.99/€3.99 for one month, $7.99/€7.99 for three months, and ...read more
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After a rocky start, the Fortnite Summer Skirmish took off, offering eight weeks of competition for a total of $8 million in prize money. While the summer may be wrapping up, Epic Games is gearing up for the next competitive event, the Fall Skirmish. Epic is light on details at the moment, promising more information to arrive over the week. One detail that the developer dropped was the total ...read more
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Fortnite has been having some performance issues on the Nintendo Switch. Epic Games promised that they are looking into them, and that they hope to resolve them with the next major update for the game that they release. True to their word, they did release a new update aimed at fixing the performance problems with the Switch version of the game. One of the ways the game does that, apparently, ...read more
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Fortnite v5.40 is now live and though it's smaller than the usual patches Epic Games pushes live, it does add a few new features to both Save the World and Battle Royale. The most prominent is that of the newly added Suppressed Assault Rifle which allows players to "take down your enemies quickly and quietly with this new Assault Rifle that rewards precision over rapid-fire." Save the World ...read more
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BAFTA Young Game Designer winner, Dan Smith, and publisher, Ripstone Games, are finally bringing their complex color-coded puzzler, The Spectrum Retreat to the Nintendo Switch on September 13th, a game that was previously released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Dan Smith needs no introduction, but just in case you haven’t heard of him before, Dan won his first BAFTA Young Game Designers Award in ...read more
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Out of nowhere, Firaxis has announced that Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 will be releasing for Nintendo Switch on November 16th. The turn-based 4X strategy title first released for PC in October 2016. As a follow-up to the legendary turn-based strategy series, Civilization 6 on Switch will feature all updates released for it till date. It will also include the Vikings Scenario Pack, Poland ...read more
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What is it Christmas? Is it everyone in the world's birthday today? Because what else can explain that Power Chord is back in the latest Fortnite Store update. Yeah that's right, every one's favorite pink-haired rocker is back after her first store run 169 days ago. For those that don't know: over the past few months Power Chord fans have overtaken social media channels for the game, demanding ...read more
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Yesterday, we reported that a multitude of Nintendo Switch titles and ports possibly won’t support cloud saving when the console’s online service launches this month. Nintendo recently commented to Gameinformer with the reason why this will be the case in some of the titles. You can read their full quote down below:
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Another day, another Fortnite store update. And this time the Llama gods have blessed us with not only two brand-new outfits, but a new harvesting tool and a new glider. That's right, Epic Games has released a new gear set dubbed "Support Squadron," perfect for the one player in every squad who likes to stock up on medkits and bandages. As you would expect, the demand for a second-run of ...read more
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In case there was any doubt that FIFA is massive for EA, there won’t be after this announcement- EA has just revealed that FIFA 18 has sold 24 million units worldwide since its launch last September, which means that it was selling an average of 2 million units a month. There are games that don’t manage to hit those numbers over those lifetimes. Doubtless, the game got a lift thanks to the ...read more
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