{"id":456534,"date":"2026-02-06T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456534\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:30:07","slug":"the-switch-2-exclusive-co-op-adventure-orbitals-launches-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456534\/","title":{"rendered":"The Switch 2-exclusive co-op adventure Orbitals launches this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo capped off today\u2019s partner-focused Nintendo Direct<\/a> with a flurry of Bethesda-related announcements<\/a>, but arguably the most interesting game of the showcase appeared right at the start.<\/p>\n

First announced at the beginning of the year, Orbitals is a two-player puzzle adventure game in which you and your co-op partner play as the intergalactic explorers Maki and Omura, on a mission to save their home in the stars from an incoming cosmic storm. Gameplay-wise, Orbitals looks like it\u2019s at least partly inspired by the likes of It Takes Two<\/a>\u00a0and Split Fiction, but really what really stands out here is the 90s anime-inspired visuals.<\/p>\n

The game is absolutely dripping in style, and somehow\u00a0looks just as good in motion as it does in cutscenes. Describing it as a playable Saturday morning cartoon is getting into cliche territory, but Orbitalsreally nails its aesthetic.<\/p>\n

It will be a tall order for any game like this to clear the impossibly high bar for creative co-op gameplay that Josef Fares\u2019 Hazelight Studios has set in recent years, but Orbitals looks like it could be worth experiencing for its visuals alone.<\/p>\n

Nintendo has managed to nab this one as a Switch 2<\/a> exclusive, which you can either play locally or online, and thanks to the console’s GameShare feature, only one person needs to own the game for the latter.<\/p>\n

Orbitals arrives at some point during summer 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo capped off today\u2019s partner-focused Nintendo Direct with a flurry of Bethesda-related announcements, but arguably the most interesting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,10755,48754,187173,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-456534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nintendo","11":"tag-nintendo-direct","12":"tag-orbitals","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}