{"id":629593,"date":"2026-06-09T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629593\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:36:09","slug":"star-fox-developer-revealed-as-free-demo-barrel-rolls-onto-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629593\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Fox Developer Revealed, As Free Demo Barrel Rolls Onto Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

We are approaching Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 release with Star Fox<\/a>, and today, we’ve learnt the development team behind it all.<\/p>\n

As revealed on Bluesky<\/a>, Velan Studios<\/a> is behind this one. “We\u2019ve been passionately working on this for a while, and we\u2019re so proud to finally share it with the world: Velan Studios is the developer of Star Fox,” the accompanying message reads. “Collaborating with Nintendo and bringing Fox McCloud and crew to Nintendo Switch 2 is truly an honor.”<\/p>\n

This is the team’s second run-in with Nintendo after developing Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit<\/a> back in 2020. Since then, the studio has been behind a couple of other AR games, like Hot Wheels: Rift Rally<\/a> and Bounce Arcade, and released the PlayStation horror party game, Midnight Murder Club<\/a>, earlier this year.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been passionately working on this for a while, and we\u2019re so proud to finally share it with the world: Velan Studios is the developer of Star Fox\u2122!<\/p>\n

Collaborating with Nintendo and bringing Fox McCloud and crew to Nintendo Switch 2 is truly an honor. #StarFox #NintendoSwitch2<\/p>\n

\u2014 Velan Studios (@velanstudios.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-06-09T15:15:13.891Z<\/a><\/p>\n

But that’s not all from Star Fox! The Direct also revealed that we can today go hands-on with a slice of it thanks to a new free demo.<\/p>\n

The demo will take you through the tutorial and “one of the game’s opening stages” \u2014 or Meteo, for those in the know. It ain’t much, but a small taster before launch is always welcome.<\/p>\n

While we expect things to play very similarly to everything we know from the N64 original, it should give us a good opportunity to see how those sweet new visuals hold up on Switch 2. An opportunity to try out the control schemes.<\/p>\n

Will you be diving into the Star Fox demo today? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source bsky.app<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Jim<\/p>\n

Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are approaching Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 release with Star Fox, and today, we’ve learnt the development…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,50,136,376,177405,86,56,54,55,377],"class_list":["post-629593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-star-fox","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}