Nintendo Direct: all new Switch games and announcements of today's event

Tonight, Nintendo hosted another eagerly awaited live presentation, featuring new games for its Switch console, new details on upcoming titles, and new add-ons to its Switch Online subscription service.

With a lot of headlines coming up in the next couple of months, including a visually refreshed remake of THE legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Luigi's Mansion 3In addition to its new Switch Lite console, Nintendo is preparing for a busy fall. Here are the most important news of today's Direct. (There have been many other ads that we could not incorporate here, so be sure to check out the full list here.)

Blizzard Overwatch arrives for Switch on October 15th

After weeks of rumors, Nintendo finally confirmed that the shooter of the Blizzard team Overwatch officially arrives on the company's portable console on October 15th. The port will also offer an interesting offer of 14 skins of characters and a three-month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online, which players will play. OverwatchModes of.

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Return of the obra din come to switch later this fall

Award-winning independent mystery game Return of the obra din – of Papers please creator Lucas Pope – arrives on Switch a little later this fall. This release will mark the debut of the game console. Pope only released it for Windows PC and Mac platforms last year. The surrealistic monochromatic "1-bit" artistic style of the game and its unique time-travel mechanism make it one of the most fascinating puzzle games of recent years.

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Next game from the Pokémon GameFreak studio, Small town hero, was released next month

In addition to a pair of new main Pokémon games, Sword and ShieldThe Japanese developer Game Freak, who arrives later this year, also launches a completely original RPG Small town hero. (Before today, he was simply called City.) The game will be released on October 15th and, surprise surprise, it will offer music from Subtitle creator Toby Fox.

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Banjo-Kazooie at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate today

After an announcement of the E3 that had hard attracted the fans of Rare collectathon and Super Smash Nintendo has announced that the Banjo-Kazooie bear-bird duo will be fighting for its brawler title today. The pair is available as a unique fighter and accessible via the DLC Fighter Pass.

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Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury comes to Smash Bros.

Nintendo had another helping hand from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate news today: Terry Bogard's inclusion of the classic SNK fight series Fatal Fury. Bogard will be the fourth of five DLC fighters added to the game, although Nintendo claims to be working on a series of new characters that he will introduce in the coming months.

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SNES titles finally arrive on Nintendo Switch Online

Nintendo is finally expanding the retro offer for Switch Online users to include SNES titles, with 20 classic games coming to the library starting tomorrow, September 5th. Some gems include Super Mario Kart with the help of a couch in cooperation, Star Fox, The legend of Zelda: a link to the past, Super Metroid, and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi Island.

The titles are free with the $ 20 annual subscription to Switch Online. Nintendo also creates a custom SNES wireless controller, exclusive to Switch Online subscribers, similar to the one it created for launching the service last year.

Some surprising ports, covering all genres, arriving on Switch

In addition to mainstream ads in its largest properties and the most anticipated upcoming titles, Nintendo has also revealed a number of ports spanning several decades of the game's history and spanning a dizzying variety of genres. Including Deadly Premonition 2: A blessing in disguise, Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition, Doom 64, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Banished by Jedi, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, Mana trials, and Vampyr.