Nintendo’s Wii U was host to some damned good games – but the system was a bit of a failure. It means that many people missed out on some incredible games – and thankfully, they’re making their way over to Nintendo’s Switch. One of those games is Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, one of the best platformers you’ll play. It’s a marvel of level design, that’s both charming and challenging

A new, ultimate version of the exhilarating action game set in the Zelda universe will include every map and mission, plus all 29 playable characters from both the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS versions of the game, along with all of the previous paid downloadable content.

Looks like Kotaku owes their source a beer, as earlier rumours of the brutally difficult RPG landing on the Nintendo Switch were in fact bang on the money. Praise the sun. Out on May 25 of this the year of our Ember Lord, Dark Souls on Switch will feature a hefty remastering and tuning for the Nintendo Switch, so that you can be prepared to die while you’re on the go. Handy.

Originally released a decade ago on the Nintendo DS, The World Ends With You has a simple enough premise: Accomplish several tasks within an hour or risk being erased from history. No pressure, right? Nintendo’s keeping the distinct art style of The World Ends With You intact, but fans and newcomers can expect a game which uses both traditional touchscreen controls and the JoyCons with which to experience the action-RPG and its new reimagined story mode.

PUBG, DOTA 2 and Hearthstone may be some of the most viewed games on Twitch right now, but there’s a new kid on the block who happens to be earning plenty of clicks and eyeballs. A rotting, shambling horde of clicks in the form of a unstoppable horde of lumbering zombies that is, as They Are Billions has a ton of attention on it at the moment.

For years now, peripheral makers have tried to up video game immersion through the use of absolutely unnecessary, largely pointless extras. We’ve seen vests that simulate the feeling of being shot, controllers shaped like chainsaws, ambient, colour-changing lights and a goddamned inflatable raft to play Kinect adventures in. None of this stuff has ever really caught on in any sort of mainstream, commercially successful way. could Vortc change that?

With 2017 done and dusted, it’s time to look forward to what 2018 has to offer. Will there be more loot boxes, controversies that explode in our faces and at least one instance of a game being broken on launch. Probably! But it’ll also be a year filled with all manner of new games, titles which can scratch specific itches and prove that the video game industry is the single greatest entertainment medium alive today. Here’s a look at ten games that we’re hot under the collar for in the year ahead.

If there’s any single of the Soulsborne games that people would love to play in this new generation, it’d be Demon’s Souls. Unfortunately, that’s not happening – but people would probably be almost as keen to jump back into Hidetaka Miyazaki and FROM Software’s Dark Souls again.