{"id":17090,"date":"2025-09-12T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17090\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:48:06","slug":"hades-ii-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17090\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hades II’ Is Coming to Nintendo Switch This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo\u2019s Switch and Switch 2<\/a> release calendars are bulking up. During a packed Nintendo Direct livestream on Friday, the company announced on-sale dates for several games as well as the return of the Virtual Boy, the proto VR headset Nintendo originally launched in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest of Friday\u2019s announcements was that of the release date for the sequel to Supergiant\u2019s wildly popular Hades<\/a>. Hades II will hit Switch, Switch 2, and PC on September 25. The long-awaited<\/a> new Metroid game, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>, will also finally launch December 4 for Switch and Switch 2.<\/p>\n

The news comes ahead of the upcoming holiday season, which will be the Switch 2\u2019s first since its launch this summer.<\/p>\n

While Hades II<\/a> has been available on PC as an early access game\u2014an unfinished version players can test out and give feedback on\u2014since last year, the version coming to Switch at the end of the month will be the full \u201c1.0\u201d launch game. Players who already own the game on Steam will be able to update theirs for free. The game stars Melino\u00eb, sister to the original game\u2019s hero Zagreus, on her quest to kill the Titan of Time, Chronos.<\/p>\n

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond sees the return of Samus running and gunning against alien foes. Along with a firm release date, the trailer<\/a> shown Friday debuted a new tool for the heroine: Vi-O-La, a techy motorbike Samus can use alongside her psychic abilities.<\/p>\n

Nintendo is also expanding some of its games with downloadable content. New DLC for Donkey Kong Banaza<\/a>, which launched July 17, is now available for $20. The pack, called DK Island & Emerald Rush, adds extra missions and levels to explore (and presumably punch). Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A, which is launching October 16, will do so alongside a Mega Dimension DLC that adds additional Mega Evolutions.<\/p>\n

Nintendo also teased several 2026 releases, including a surprise announcement for a new Pok\u00e9mon game, Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia. As a human-shaped Ditto (as horrifying as that sounds), players befriend other pok\u00e9mon, build homes, and collect food to create a tiny paradise. It launches for Switch 2 next year.<\/p>\n

Additionally, a new entry in the turn-based tactical series Fire Emblem, called Fire Emblem: Fortune\u2019s Weave, is headed to Switch 2 in 2026. A trailer shown today teases its heroes in an arena-style battle; a familiar face at the end of the trailer suggests the game is set after 2019\u2019s Fire Emblem: Three Houses. A new Resident Evil game, Resident Evil Requiem, will also be released for Switch 2 on February 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo\u2019s Switch and Switch 2 release calendars are bulking up. During a packed Nintendo Direct livestream on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15761,15760,15762,61,60,14798,4410,80,14799],"class_list":{"0":"post-17090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-console-games","9":"tag-consoles","10":"tag-gaming-culture","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mario","14":"tag-nintendo","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-video-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}