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Cold Iron Studios shut down the cloud servers for Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Switch, leaving anyone who paid up to $59.99 with a game they can never play again and zero compensation.
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Cold Iron Studios shut down the cloud servers for Aliens: Fireteam Elite on Switch, leaving anyone who paid up to $59.99 with a game they can never play again and zero compensation.

Profiles for Tai Yasue, Haley Joel Osment, and David Gallagher appeared in the D23 app before being pulled, pointing to a major Kingdom Hearts 4 showing next week.

Golden Sun launched in August 2001 with a combat system and puzzle design nobody has replicated since. Twenty-five years later, that absence says more about the RPG genre than any nostalgia trip could.

Final Fantasy 14's generous free trial arrives on Switch 2, but the 117GB download eats nearly half the console's internal storage. Square Enix is already working on a fix for long load times.

Blizzard's action-RPG is reportedly coming to Switch 2 in mid-September, but the physical version won't even include a cartridge. You're paying $70 for a box with a download code inside.

Nintendo is giving Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave its own dedicated Direct presentation tomorrow, with 20 minutes of new details ahead of the game's September 17 Switch 2 launch.

Briefly listed Kirby Air Riders amiibo on Nintendo UK's store pointed to a November 12 date, and Nintendo has a habit of shipping amiibo alongside its biggest first-party launches. That would put the Ocarina of Time remake squarely in GTA 6's path.

Leaked amiibo listings on Nintendo's UK store suggest the Ocarina of Time remake could launch November 12, just seven days before GTA 6 hits shelves.

Nintendo is releasing two games that were cancelled 30 years ago when the Virtual Boy flopped. D-Hopper and Zero Racers arrive on Nintendo Switch Online next week.

Super Mario Sunshine arrives on Nintendo Switch Online's GameCube library on August 13, but the trailer's 4:3 presentation suggests it may lack the widescreen and resolution upgrades that the Switch 1 version had years ago.

Argonaut Games has announced Croc 2: Kingdom of the Gobbos, a remaster of the 1999 platformer coming to PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Switch, and PC in Q4 2026. The studio says the first remaster's success made the decision easy.

Nintendo hasn't announced when its Ocarina of Time remake hits Switch 2, but a pair of Kirby amiibo might have done it for them.

The final scheduled patch for Assassin's Creed Shadows arrives tomorrow with targeted fixes for Domains modifiers and a major correction to how conditional perks scale on enhanced gear.

Konami has confirmed Castlevania: Belmont's Curse will run at 30fps on Nintendo Switch, half the 60fps target on PS5, Xbox, and PC. No Switch 2 version is currently planned.

Sega's president told Famitsu the company values physical media and won't abandon it. Fans are pointing out that almost every Sega game on Switch 2 ships as a key card, not a cartridge.

Leaked images reveal a collector-grade LEGO recreation of the original 1981 Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, complete with a working joystick, barrel lever, and a $200 price tag.

Disney Dreamlight Valley's latest paid expansion opens a gate to Honeyglow Woods, bringing Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore into the cozy life sim alongside beekeeping, Pooh Sticks, and four new regions.

Fiesta Online, the anime MMORPG that first launched in 2007, is making the jump to PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. Gamigo hasn't set a date, but the game will appear at Gamescom.

Nintendo is pulling the plug on Mario Kart Tour this September, and unlike Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, there's no offline version coming to preserve it.

After a Switch 2 launch so rough it scored a 4/10, Owlcat Games is giving away all DLC expansions for free and releasing a major stability patch today.

While detailing Switch 2 battery revisions for EU compliance, Nintendo slipped in a bombshell: the original Switch family is being discontinued in Europe by mid-February 2027.

Nintendo's music streaming app gets a small but perfectly timed update with seven tracks from Rhythm Heaven Groove, continuing a pattern of launch-day soundtrack drops.

Knockout Tour launched with only eight routes and stayed that way for over a year. Update 1.7 finally adds two more, with Nintendo promising additional routes in future patches.

A 15-minute Direct followed by 30 minutes of hands-on Treehouse gameplay gives Splatoon Raiders nearly 45 minutes of dedicated airtime tomorrow.