The First Hour: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Beginning life as a side project from Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai, the original Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 64 almost didn’t get localized outside of Japan. The unorthodox mascot...
The First Hour: Warframe
Developing quietly alongside other online coop shooters and Games As Service experiences, Warframe has risen from inauspicious roots to become a well-regarded cult title. Brought now to Switch by...
The First Hour: Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
One of the low-key great success stories of PC gaming, the Civilization series has struggled to break onto other platforms. But the unique features of the Switch—not quite a...
The First Hour: Rogue Legacy
The term “Roguelike” has been adopted by videogames culture and applied willy-nilly to seemingly any indie videogame which uses procedural generation, but that term must have been born somewhere,...
The First Hour: Millie
Millie is a young millipede who dreams of one day becoming a pilot. She sets out from her home to enroll in pilot school, but her journey there is...
The First Hour: Diablo III: Eternal Collection
Picking up twenty years after the events of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Diablo III finds a new group of adventurers traveling to the town of New Tristram in...
The First Hour: Beach Buggy Racing
There’s a particular formula for budget-priced racers on modern console, handheld, and mobile platforms: A handful of stock personalities, a couple tracks, and a small selection of carts which...
The First Hour: Dark Souls: Remastered
After a protracted and mysterious delay, Dark Souls Remastered has finally arrived on Switch. In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock since 2011: Players assume control of an...
The First Hour: Starlink: Battle for Atlas
From developer Ubisoft Toronto comes the newest entry in the famous space shooter series Star Fox. Fox, Falco, Slippy, and Peppy find themselves in the distant Atlas system, searching...
The First Hour: Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
An early console indie success that has been remastered for current platforms, Mark of the Ninja: Remastered is a side-scrolling stealth platformer that could be best summarized as Arkham...