Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 27th, 2018! I hope everyone had a great holiday and scored some good gifts. Now we enter the customary season of buying the things you didn’t get, provided you’ve still got the cash for it. You would think releases would be slowing down, but we’re in for a wild January from the looks of it. Anyway, let’s check out today’s news, new releases, and sales.
‘Flip Grip’ Accessory Review

SwitchArcade Recommended!
With past handhelds, developers sometimes experimented with holding the system in a different orientation than the norm. In certain cases, it worked out well. Certainly, games like Brain Age and Rhythm Heaven on the Nintendo DS benefited from having the player hold the system like a book. In other cases, it comes off a little clunky, like The Pinball Arcade on the Vita. Generally, the more games relied on using a standard button configuration, the more trouble it was to ask the player to hold the system in a non-standard way. That’s not even touching on issues with how a different grip could dramatically change how a system feels in the hands. Mobile gaming has raised an entire generation on the idea that you can play games horizontally or vertically, and with the Switch’s unique system design, it seemed poised to take advantage of different orientations as well. You don’t need to worry about where the buttons and directional pads fall ...