Welcome to the SwitchArcade Roundup for June 21st, where we’re talking about some intriguing new Switch news and today’s most interesting new releases! Let’s start with…Kickstarter"! The Flip Grip is a vertical controller grip for the Switch and Joy-Cons, designed for those classic arcade games and shoot ’em ups that support playing in portrait while you hold the system in handheld mode. I normally don’t care for Kickstarter, because I don’t trust game developers to deliver things in a timely manner, and sometimes they’re just kinda like…nope! However, physical products, especially ones that seem completely reasonable, are often a decent call. I remember buying a great case for my Microsoft Surface off of Kickstarter that solved a lot of problems I had with transporting it, even if it was convoluted and once confused a TSA bootlicker who tried to open it up.
What I’m saying is that this Flip Grip by game journalist Jeremy Parish of Retronauts, designer Mke Choi, and Fangamer (themselves a reliable producer of goods for Kickstarter projects and beyond), has a high chance of coming to fruition. It lets you play portrait-mode games with the Joy-Cons. You can’t charge the system while using the Flip Grip, and while it does partially block vents, the design of the grip ensures that air is still flowing through the system, and even Breath of the Wild won’t melt the system down. For $12 plus $3 shipping,...