Category: nintendo switch online

Nintendo Switch Online is adding ‘Donkey Kong Country’ this month

[ad_1] Nintendo has added another batch of retro games to its Switch Online service, and one of them may have been a childhood favorite. Donkey Kong Country, the 1994 Super NES reboot of the Donkey Kong franchise, will be available to play for subscribers starting on July 15th. The side-scroller features Donkey Kong and his […]

How to pick the best gaming subscription for you

[ad_1] Sony Playstation Plus Will Lipman Photography / Sony Let’s start with the easiest-to-explain option. Sony doesn’t offer a huge array of services for its console, though PlayStation Now offers a streaming service that now has roughly 300 PS4 games (and hundreds of PS3 and PS2 games) to play with. For everything else, it’s PlayStation […]

The best subscription gifts for new grads

[ad_1] Buy Birchbox starting at $15/month ComiXology Unlimited Will Lipman Photography / Comixology With college behind them, your new grads can finally put down those textbooks and do a lot more reading for fun. But they might not be ready to tackle the latest 800-page The New York Times bestseller, so why not let them […]

‘Wild Guns’ and ‘Panel de Pon’ are coming to Switch Online next week

[ad_1] Nintendo Switch Online is carrying on the legacy of the Wii’s Virtual Console, and four more games — one NES title and three SNES ones — are being added to the library on May 20th. Rygar may be regarded as a classic, but it hasn’t aged too well, and Operation Logic Bomb isn’t exactly […]

‘Tetris 99’ gets a team battle mode

[ad_1] Rather than forming equally-sized teams, players choose any of the four teams they want to join. To compensate for lopsided teams, smaller groups get a boost in attack power. The group of the last player standing wins. As players get knocked out, they go into spectator mode and have to wait until the game […]

Nintendo Switch Online is adding ‘Star Fox 2′ and Super Punch Out!!’

[ad_1] Other SNES games coming to the catalog — and confirming a datamined leak earlier this year — include Kirby Super Star, Super Punch Out!! and Breath of Fire II. Nintendo isn’t stopping there, however, and will also include a couple of NES classics, Crystalis and Journey to Silius. The biggest news might be that […]

Nintendo is selling discount game vouchers to Switch Online members

[ad_1] For a limited time, paid #NintendoSwitchOnline members can pick two eligible #NintendoSwitch digital games and save up to $19.99 USD when you buy a pair of Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers for just $99.99 USD! For more info, visit: https://t.co/e25VGTn6nq pic.twitter.com/WoWJrJfElE — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 15, 2019 Obviously, the best way to take […]

Nintendo is adding ‘Donkey Kong Jr.’ to Switch Online

[ad_1] Donkey Kong Jr. is an arcade platformer and sequel to the original Donkey Kong. True to its name, you play Junior Kong in the game to rescue your father who’s been kidnapped and kept in a cage by everybody’s favorite Italian plumber. VS. Excitebike is a motocross racing game, while in Clu Clu Land, […]

Now Amazon’s Twitch Prime comes with a year of Switch Online

[ad_1] Subscribers don’t get the full year free up front, however, so read the fine print. Those interested will need to head to Twitch’s website to claim 30 days free first, then come back after 60 days to claim another nine months of access. So while it’s a year total free, anyone wanting to enjoy […]