Nintendo Switch Archives

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Nintendo’s Switch Online app is a complete joke

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 20, 2017
3 min

Nintendo’s online infrastructure for its hybrid home/handheld Switch console is unacceptable. I just tested it out with the help of GamesBeat reviews editor Mike...

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3 min

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Splatoon 2 hates friends who don’t use Nintendo’s app

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 19, 2017
1 min

Nintendo is releasing Splatoon 2 for the Switch this Friday. Alongside that ink shooter, the publisher is also planning to introduce its new online...

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Splatoon 2’s campaign features unfurling bridges and rail grinding

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 14, 2017
2 min

Nintendo is doing some impressive things with Splatoon 2’s boss fights, and we already talked about how the campaign is winning us over. In...

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2 min

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Games software/hardware revenue to top $150 billion in 2017

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2017
3 min

Games software and hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking...

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Splatoon 2 gameplay: Watch us fight a samurai octopus on a unicycle

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 12, 2017
1 min

The second boss fight in Splatoon 2 is a sword battle. You face off against Octo Samurai, an enormous cephalopod who brandishes a paint...

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Splatoon 2 gameplay: Watch us fight a monster. Or a toaster oven. Or a monster toaster oven

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 11, 2017
1 min

Splatoon 2 is due out later this month, and we have our hands on it. After surprising us with a thrilling campaign in the...

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Is Switch getting more third-party support? GamesBeat Decides

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 11, 2017
1 min

Take-Two Interactive is bringing games to the Switch, so the GamesBeat Decides podcast wants to talk about third-party support for Nintendo’s latest system. Are...