Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 19th, 2024. Yesterday we had that really nice Nintendo Direct, and I’m late to the party because of those villainous time zones. We’ll quickly run over some highlights from that presentation, go over another bit of news that I wanted to focus in on, then head into the new releases for the day.
After that, we finish things up with the usual lists of new sales and expiring discounts. Let’s go! I went into this one with low expectations given we’re basically on the last year of the Switch’s life, in all probability. Well, it definitely leapt over that bar.
The big first-party highlights were the new game, , and along with our long-awaited first glimpse at . Other games from Nintendo on the schedule include , and . Third-party highlights are probably (and the announcement of !), , and .
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a lot. Check out the Direct if you haven’t already, it really is looking like quite a solid year. Among the oodles of news bits from yesterday’s Direct was the announcement of four new additions to the Expansion Pack for Nintendo Switch Online.
For two of them, you’ll need to download a new app – the app. Once you’ve got that installed, you’ll be treated to and , a pair of first-person shooters that practically bookended the console’s output in that genre. The other two games are for the Game Boy Advance app.
and are both great games, and I’m happy to see them available on the service. Just up.