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Why Handy Games is working on 11 games for the Nintendo Switch

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It may sound a little nuts, but Handy Games has gone crazy for the Nintendo Switch. The German company is developing 11 games for Nintendo’s hot platform, which has become the fastest-selling game console in 2017.

This week, Handy Games launched Aces of the Luftwaffe Squadron, a sequel to an earlier mobile game. It’s a vertically scrolling 2D air combat game, where you play an American squadron trying to stop an invasion of the U.S. Beyond that title, Handy Games has 10 other projects under way for the Nintendo Switch. It is doing so because it believes the Switch will be a disruptive force in the console industry.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.