If you’ve been looking to watch your favorite Twitch streamers on the go (and don’t already own a smartphone), the Twitch app is now available on Switch.

Nintendo tweeted the surprise announcement today that you can download the app from the Switch eShop. Now you can watch your streamer of choice play Animal Crossing: New Horizons or complain about the Nintendo 64 emulation on the online Expansion Pack. Given the lack of many popular streaming services on the eShop, such as Netflix, the fact that Twitch made the cut is a small miracle. 

Twitch is now available on #NintendoSwitch #eShop!

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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) November 11, 2021

Some upcoming Switch games you could watch others play include Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, which launches this month. You can read the most recent news regarding its Legendary-focused endgame content here. 

Starting today, Twitch fans with Switches can watch their favourite livestreamers directly from Nintendo's console, courtesy of the official Twitch app which is available now on eShop.

If you've used Twitch on any other device, you should be right at home with the new Switch version. It's available in both docked and handheld modes and functions pretty much exactly as you'd expect it to, enabling users to sign in and access their followed channels or browse and search for content of interest.

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Everyone who orders pizza through the Slice app in the US will get a "Chicken Medal" for use in the battle royale game PUBG: New State, which just released this week.

The promotion begins on November 15. The Chicken Medal can be used to unlock a variety of items in the mobile game, including loot chests. These normally require three medals to unlock, but the Chicken Medal lets you unlock a chest immediately. Inside the chests are a variety of things, including in-game currency and skins.

This is part of the newly launched Slice Gaming division of Slice, which previously partnered with Ubisoft to give away Far Cry 6 DLC to pizza-eaters. The new campaign with PUBG runs through December 15.

Slice Gaming is a new brand that works with local pizzerias to offer video game-themed perks like codes and rewards like it's done with Far Cry and PUBG.

New State launched on November 11. Set in the year 2051, PUBG New State is described as a "full, uncompromised battle royale game" and one of the "most realistic and technically advanced mobile games to date."

In other news, PUBG was recently updated with a new creature type, chickens, who will squawk to reveal your location if you're not careful.

Four years ago, a new kid on the digital distribution block arrived to offer consumers affordable prices on various games. Fanatical has since then established itself as a major player in this space, and right now, you can help celebrate another year of its existence with some terrific discounts and prizes. You can save an extra 5% on your order by using promo code GAMESPOTS.

The sale runs for the rest of the week, but there's an added bonus, too. If you spend more than $10 during the Birthday Bash event, you'll get a free mystery gift, which could be up to $5 in coupons or one of the following games for free:

• Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
• King's Bounty II
• Tower of Time
• Hotshot Racing
• Lorelai
• Remnant: From the Ashes
• OUTRIDERS
• Mordheim: City of the Damned
• Tales
• Rise Of Industry
• Metro Exodus - Gold Edition
• Wasteland 3
• Fallback
• Radio Commander
• Hob

As for the games that you can grab with steep discounts attached to them? Here's a highlight reel of what's on offer, but you can also check out the Fanatical Big Birthday Bash hub for more details. The Origins and Odyssey chapters of the latest Assassin's Creed saga are on offer, the excellent Doom Eternal is around 66% cheaper, and you can revel in the Martian destruction of the Red Faction series for only a fraction of its usual price.

Microsoft has announced plans to update the Windows Store and Xbox App on PC that will finally allow users to dictate where installs take place, access game files, and apply mods to games.

The update, which will be rolling out for testing to Xbox Insiders soon, brings the Windows Store and Xbox App on PC in line with other launchers such as Steam, the Epic Games Store, and more. With it, you'll be able to choose specific drives and the folders within them for game installs, letting you back up your games to secondary drives or move files after installation. Microsoft will also lift all restrictions on the game files themselves, letting you access them freely without pesky permissions issues.

With that comes support for mods, with games that support them showing up on the Xbox App directly. The app will also let you manage and install mods directly, making it slightly easier than messing with the game files directly. All-in-all, it's just a fantastic update, finally giving Xbox Game Pass subscribers the control over their games on PC that has been standard on every other launcher for years already.

The new Pokemon Trading Card Game expansion is a big one! But which are the best Fusion Strike cards? We’re here to help.

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Elden Ring’s closed network test begins tomorrow, but some journalists and influencers have had access to the game for about a week. This early access has produced several videos, two of which have caused me to salivate over the game’s January release date for totally different reasons.

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Nintendo Switch owners can now watch their favorite streamers both on the big screen and in handheld mode with the release of the Twitch app. The Twitch app is available to download for free through the Nintendo eShop offering most of the features available on Twitch's website.

Users can sign in to their account to see all of their followed channels, browse through live broadcasts, watch VODs and clips, and, most importantly, do all of that while in handheld mode, as long as they have an internet connection. Twitch was previously available on both Xbox and PlayStation consoles, but Nintendo has seemingly been picky when it comes to streaming services on its platform.

The latest Call of Duty just launched last week, but fans are already rummaging through Vanguard’s files for hints at upcoming content. Some of the juiciest morsels apparently reference Marvel superhero Captain America, beloved graverobber Indiana Jones, and even the wildly popular Attack on Titan anime and manga…

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Playdate, the adorable yellow gaming device that will receive waves of games over time, has been delayed from its initial late 2021 launch and into 2022.

Panic, creators of the Playdate, emailed customers notifying them that an issue concerning batteries with the first batch of manufactured devices has resulted in the delay, with the company choosing to replace them all before shipping to customers. This has pushed back the first two batches of preorders into 2022, with any remaining orders after that now slated for the second half of 2022. Panic says orders past the 50,000 mark (which is hasn't reached yet) will ship in 2023.

"As our first 5,000 finished Playdate units arrived at our warehouse in California for 2021, we began to test a few of them," the email reads. "We quickly became concerned that some of them weren’t giving us the battery life we expected. Playdate’s battery is designed to last a very long time, and always be ready for you, even if not used for a while. But that was not the case: in fact, we found a number of units with batteries so drained, Playdate wouldn’t power on at all — and couldn’t be charged. That’s a battery worst-case scenario."

Panic says it has already sourced a new battery and has placed the production orders for units meant to be shipped in 2022. With that, Panic ran into the same issues that most supply chains have during the past year, with the global semiconductor shortage potentially incurring further delays. This has been alleviated somewhat by a redesigned main board, which is allowing Panic to hit its 2022 date.

"There are a number of other part shortages we’re trying to outsmart right now, and while it’s stressful and frustrating, rest assured we will do everything we can to make as many Playdates as we can for you," the email concluded.

After having learned about the cosmic origins of the universe and battled various gods of the afterlife in the game's latest expansion, more than a few World of Warcraft players are yearning for a return to the more grounded (relatively speaking) world of Azeroth. And based on comments from lead narrative designer Steve Danuser, that could be in the cards for the game's next expansion.

In a new interview with Game Rant about the game's recently announced patch 9.2, Danuser says there is room for both massive, cosmic stories and smaller, more personal tales in the Warcraft universe. In doing so, he also heavily implies that the next expansion will be a return to the world at the center of the Warcraft universe, Azeroth.

"Don't assume it's just going to be one thing," Danuser says. "There's storylines building up for the next great book in the Warcraft saga. Some of that groundwork is laid here, but there's a lot more back on Azeroth we need to get back to, and delve into some storylines and characters there."

Starting with Chapter 2 in 2019, Fortnite has given players the mechanic of fishing, which continues to evolve and include new benefits all the time. Each new season of Fortnite seems to bring with it not just its own unique array of fish that can be caught and eaten or otherwise used in-game, but most seasons have revealed never-before-seen fish which often tie into the themes of different seasons.

For the most part, Fortnite fish are consumable items that offer buffs to whomever eats them. For example, the Flopper and Shield Fish heal HP and shields respectively, while the Hop Flopper gives its hungry looper a few seconds of low-gravity jumping ability. Some fish, such as the Vendetta Flopper are extremely rare and can instantly ping the nearest enemy when eaten.

For players, filling out the Fish Collection book in-game is one of the many side activities to take part in on the Fortnite island. A typical season of Fortnite will offer 30+ different kinds of fish, including special variants that can only be found in certain places or with special items like the enhanced Pro Fishing Rod.

While fishing extensively in the middle of a battle royale match means you're at risk for being in someone's crosshairs soon enough, a quick trip to the various ponds, Lazy Lake, or the enveloping oceans can give you a critical item just when you need it most. These include healing fish when you're low on HP, a Shadow Flopper which can help you briefly go invisible, and many more as you can see below.

As of today, November 11, the Twitch app is available for download on your Nintendo Switch in the eShop.

Today’s release feels like it has been a long time coming, as YouTube has been available to download on the Nintendo Switch since November 2018.

The Nintendo site listing for the Twitch app gives a small blurb of:

Watch livestream gaming videos, Esports and any IRL broadcast on your Nintendo Switch device!

Sports are here. Tune into your favorites: basketball, baseball, soccer, football, swimming, wrestling, hockey, pool, and much more through talk shows, league channels, Fantasy, and ESports.

Yes, including the two different ways they have spelled “esports.” (That is the way the proper way according to the Associated Press Style Guide.)

As of right now, Twitch is officially available on every gaming platform possible. Twitch is on your phone, PC, Xbox One/Series|XS, PlayStation 4/5, and now the Nintendo Switch.

On its own site Twitch describes itself as:

Twitch is where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment together.

Your creative content thrives here. Bring your passions; we’ll help you build a community around them.

Twitch is a developer’s dreamland. Countless communities need custom tools built just for them

This news does come only a month after Twitch announced a massive security breach.

Far Cry boss Dan Hay, who was the franchise's executive producer for the past decade, is leaving Ubisoft amid reports that the next game in the series will adopt a live-service approach similar to what's rumored for Assassin's Creed Infinity.

Hay's last day at Ubisoft will be November 12, a spokesperson confirmed to VGC. There is no word yet on what Hay is doing next, and Ubisoft said only that the developer is "pursuing a new chapter in his professional life."

Hay started with Ubisoft in 2011 as a producer on Far Cry 3, according to his LinkedIn page. He worked on numerous entries in the series thereafter, and was most recently executive producer and creative director for the series.

Before joining Ubisoft, Hay worked at Raven Software on games like X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. He moved to Day 1 Studios in 2007 and worked on Fracture and Fear 3 at the studio.

Ubisoft is looking to fill Hay's role permanently, but in the interim, the Far Cry brand team will be managed by 15-year Ubisoft veteran Sandra Warren in Montreal.

As for the next Far Cry game, reporter Jeff Grubb says it will be a live-service game similar to the Assassin's Creed Infinity project. Far Cry 6 only just released in October, and Ubisoft has plans to support the game with lots of DLC and updates over time, so the company is unlikely to discuss any future projects anytime soon. GameSpot has contacted Ubisoft for comment.

For a city-building game, Airborne Kingdom sure loves to move. The management sim, which is criminally somehow not named Cities in the Skylines, is ostensibly about traveling the world in a floating fortress. Your quest is to accrue resources that will make the fortress float forever. I’ve been playing the past week…

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The next Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid DLC character is Poisandra, and she'll appear next week. Get a better look at her moveset now.

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If you subscribe to the digital edition of Game Informer, you can now read our massive cover story on Halo Infinite. Following today's cover reveal, our digital issue is now live to subscribers on web browsers, iPad/iPhone, and Android devices. Individual issues will be available for purchase later today. You can download the apps to view the issue by following this link. All of these digital options are included in a standard subscription.

The issue launches later this week on our third-party subscription apps including Kindle and Nook.

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If you preordered a Playdate handheld gaming device that was set to ship this year, you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer. 

Panic Inc. announced today that its first batch of Playdates originally set to ship in 2021 have been delayed to early 2022, citing a “critical battery issue” that was caught late in the process. As a result, all batteries in Playdates set to ship had to be replaced.

“This quickly turned into a months-long, all-hands-on-deck research stress-ball and we halted production at the factory,” a press release reads. “We made the difficult, expensive call to replace all of our existing batteries with new ones from a totally different battery supplier.” 

Panic says the first batch consisted of 20,000 units, all planned to ship late 2021 (presumably now or soon) but that now, they’ll ship in early 2022. A more precise shipping window was not revealed. If you’ve preordered a Playdate, Panic says your place in line to actually receive the device will not change so long as your preorder remains active. 

It looks like two very famous fictional World War II heroes might be joining Call of Duty: Vanguard. A datamining effort has revealed that the legendary characters Captain America and Indiana Jones might be coming to Vanguard in a future update.

Twitter user ModenasHD, who has previously unearthed unannounced Call of Duty content, found references to Captain America and Indiana Jones. They might be coming to Vanguard as part of an event called "American Heroes." A Captain America Calling Card was also discovered in the datamining effort (via GamesRadar).

Following a bit of a release date leak last month, Ubisoft has formerly announced a 20th January 2022 launch for co-op shooter Rainbow Six Extraction on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.

Extraction, originally announced under the title Rainbow Six Quarantine but later changed due to the onset of events, was expected to launch this September but received a delayed over the summer in order to - as Ubisoft put it at the time - "ensure we are bringing the best experiences to market and allow them to reach their full potential".

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Today Koei Tecmo and Gust revealed two new characters, new details, and screenshots of the upcoming JRPG  Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream.

First of all, we meet two new characters, the former knight commander Diebold and Elvira, the divine existence who created the dream world Elde-Wige. Due to her complex, she never appears to anyone else than Ramizel.

Sophie will visit that world during the game while she searches for Plachta, and that’s where she’ll meet Diebold as well.

In Elde-Wige you can also control the weather by using certain tools, this changes the world opening new paths of exploration and more. Also, the materials that can be gathered change with the weather.

There are also new and larger gathering nodes that trigger a gathering minigame when approached with the right tools. Depending on the results you can get more materials, higher quality, or specific attributes.

You can check out all the images below.

World of Warcraft's patch 9.2, Eternity's End, has been revealed, and it will be "the final chapter of one book of the Warcraft saga," says lead narrative designer Steve Danuser in a new developer preview.

Patch 9.2 will take players to the realm of Zereth Mortis, described as a workshop for the mythical First Ones, and the location responsible for all creation. The Jailer, the big bad of the Shadowlands expansion, seeks to breach the Sepulcher of the First Ones in order to rewrite the rules of creation. Of course, it will be up to players to stop him, in what will be the expansion's final raid. Along the way players will confront Anduin, the fallen King of Stormwind who is under the control of the Jailer's domination magic.

Most WoW expansions conclude after three, or sometimes even four, major content patches before moving on to the next expansion. Based on comments made by Danuser in the developer preview, where he says the Shadowlands expansion is a story told in three acts and that this is the "final chapter," it certainly sounds like patch 9.2 will mark the end of the expansion. If that is in fact the case, Shadowlands will be the second expansion in the game's history, alongside Warlords of Draenor, to have received only two content updates.

It’d been a year and five months since I last booted up Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I know this because one shocked villager recounted the days when I approached them with my disheveled hair. My home away from home was exactly the way I’d left it. Aside from a couple of pesky weeds, a mailbox bursting at the seams,…

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Converting standard games into VR is rarely a recipe for greatness. Sure, a few fan mods have created fun ways to replay classic shooters like Quake in VR, but most 2D conversions don’t feel like a great way to experience the original game. Resident Evil 4 on Oculus Quest 2 shatters this rule, and in the process…

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Ubisoft has revealed the official release date for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction. 

This news comes by way of Gematsu, which reports that Extraction will hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Luna, and Stadia on January 20. Ubisoft has also revealed some more information about the game’s built-in features such as cross-play and more. 

“The game will support cross-play and cross-save between all platform families on day one,” Ubisoft’s press release reads. “Owners of both Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction will instantly unlock the entire roster of 18 operators in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and will get the United Front cosmetic bundles in both games.” 

Extraction will also support cross-progression and cross-save across all platforms. Gematsu reports that two Buddy Pass tokens will come with each copy of Extraction. These tokens allow you to invite two friend to play it with you for 14 days for free. If they decide to pick the game up, their progression will transfer over to the full release, too. 

Ubisoft also released a new trailer detailing today’s news and more, which you can watch above. 

The new Genshin Impact Dreams of Bloom event involves growing flowers in the Serenitea Pot in exchange for furniture and Primogems.

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Twitch joins the lineup of other streaming apps that eventually arrived on the Switch, including Hulu, YouTube, and Funimation. Heck, there's even Pokemon TV, but still no Netflix.

Spider-Man is finally here for those still playing Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers, and he’s today been revealed in action for the first time courtesy of a brand new trailer. He swings into Marvel’s Avengers on Nov. 30, 2021.

Of course, only for those who are playing the game on PlayStation platforms. The iconic hero is exclusive to PlayStation as a result of the licensing rights that the Japanese publisher holds for the Spider-Man franchise, something that caused a fair bit of controversy when it was first announced last year.

Spider-Man’s arrival for Marvel’s Avengers has been delayed since then, and in that time the game itself has rather fallen out of popularity following what was a rather mediocre critical reception.

In any case, he’s not far away now, and from the trailer below he looks like one of the more compelling characters to play in the game, perhaps partly due to the fact that his full costume means he appears as he always does across comics, movies, television, and games — something that can’t be said of the rest of the game’s heroes.

Having launched just today on major platforms, publisher Rockstar Games shared a graphics comparison for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition. Published by IGN, the video runs through all three remastered games, highlighting the amount of work developer Grove Street Games put into updating the…

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Solar Ash is the next title from indie developer Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter). In this interview, I got to sit down with the lead developer and founder of the studio, Alx Preston. Down below we cover several topics ranging from speedrunning to accessibility settings and Kickstarter to partnering with Sony and Epic.

Solar Ash is nearly here, but it has been a long five-year road for the Preston on the team at Heart Machine. And we would like to thank him for taking the time to sit down with us even as the game is on the home stretch to its approaching launch date.

This was a fantastic experience to be able to talk to Preston about Solar Ash, a little bit about his past work on Hyper Light Drifter, and all of the hard work that has gone into the new game. You can find the full conversation down below.

Note: This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

Omar: What was it like or what were some of the challenges you and the team had adapting kind of a similar art style or the same kind of general feeling from Hyper Light Drifter to Solar Ash, going from 2D to 3D?

Alx: The styles share a lot of similarities and certainly we had to make a lot of accommodations for 3D and kind of adjust what we were doing and our expectations overall of what can be done. But it also opened up a lot of new pathways that weren’t possible in 2D that made it really interesting and enjoyable in ways and more unique than we could do in 2D. You know 3D just by virtue of having another dimension opens up manyfold different options. And Unreal is relatively powerful.

After revealing Spider-Man’s design ahead of his debut in Marvel’s Avengers, we now get our first look at him in action, albeit in cinematic fashion. IGN premiered the trailer for the wall-crawler’s upcoming Hero Event on November 30, which will be exclusive to the PlayStation versions of the game.

For those afraid Crystal Dynamics might screw up Spidey from a personality standpoint, the trailer proves he still has his endearingly dorky sense of humor and quips (including making a Mortal Kombat reference of all things). It remains to be seen how Spider-Man’s powers translate into gameplay given there’s no in-game footage. Hopefully, that reveal will come sooner than later given how close we are to Pete’s arrival. 

For years, Pokémon fans have requested one thing from the series: games that are more adult. (No, not in that way, c’mon!) Recent entries are too easy, longtime players say, or tend to feature plots aimed toward children. The feedback has taken root to the point where Pokémon’s bosses are now openly acknowledging it…

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Halo Infinite's upcoming release marks an exciting time for Xbox fans the world over. The return of Master Chief is shaping up to be an exciting affair and we're giving you a quick 4K look at the opening mission from 343's latest adventure!