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Switch Online is bolstering its lineup with a premium tier this October – made up of a collection of N64 and Mega Drive titles.

Following on from the reveal, Nintendo’s website has shared some direct screens – revealing what these games will look like with the standard 4:3 template. Unfortunately, there’s no menus reveals but the rest looks similar to the SNES and NES libraries.

What games are you looking forward to revisiting on the Nintendo 64 and Sega Mega Drive services? Tell us below.

Earlier this week Hitman – Game of the Year Edition launched on GOG. But soon after, players began complaining and review bombing once they discovered that large parts of the stealth game were locked behind online DRM checks. This rubbed many the wrong way because GOG makes a big deal about being DRM-free.

GOG.com is an online storefront that first started out as a place for devs and publishers to sell older PC games, but now sells newer and modern games too. It also boasts that it doesn’t support or use any forms of DRM (digital rights management). However, Hitman – Game of the Year Edition seems to blur the line between what is and isn’t DRM and that’s led to a large amount of online criticism and review bombing.

Currently, the game’s overall rating sits at a super low 1.4 out of 5.

The main problem comes down to what is locked away from players who decide to play Hitman offline or who can’t access the servers for whatever reason. Without an internet connection, players can’t access escalation missions, elusive targets, or user-created missions. This is advertised on the GOG store page for Hitman GOTY Edition.

However, there’s more that is locked away from offline players including the ability to unlock weapons, items, outfits, and earn new starting locations. While this doesn’t make the game unplayable, it does mean a large portion of Hitman 2016 is only available to folks who connect to the internet. According to this support page found on Feral Interactive’s website, playing offline also means players won’t be able to complete in-game challenges or earn experience to level up your Mastery Rank for each map. (Feral Interactive is the studio that helped bring Hitman 2016 to Mac.)

Now, to be clear: You can still play Hitman GOTY Edition offline after buying it on GOG. All the main missions and bonus missions are fully playable. But almost everything else is locked away of offline users, which to me (and apparently other players) seems like a form of online DRM. This seems out of place for a GOG release and users have spent the past few days leaving negative reviews in response.

Yesterday, GOG responded to the continued backlash over Hitman’s use of online DRM. In a forum post responding to the situation, a member of the GOG team explained that it was “looking into it and will be updating you in the coming weeks.”

Kotaku has reached out to GOG about this situation and what the storefront has planned to address player complaints.

“In case you have purchased HITMAN and are not satisfied with the released version, you can use your right to refund the game,” said GOG. “At the same time, while we’re open for meritful discussion and feedback, we will not tolerate review bombing and will be removing posts that do not follow our review guidelines.”

The community over at GOG wasn’t happy about this response, pointing out that many of the negative reviews just contain information and warnings not found on the game’s store page. The team at GOG further explained that those reviews won’t be removed, but didn’t share any other details about what will be removed.

Likewise, it’s unclear what can be done to make things right, considering how intertwined the online features of Hitman (2016) are with the game’s overall structure.

A new image of the upcoming Switch N64 wireless pad shows that it has some extra buttons on the top.

As spotted by our pals over at VGC, there are ZR, Home and Share buttons on the top of the device, alongside a USB-C charting port and a sync button. There are also four LED lights, as is the norm with Switch controllers.

The Mega Drive / Genesis controller also has extra buttons on the top, as you can see in the tweet below. There’s also a ‘Mode’ button, which is curious, as this was only included on the 6-button Mega Drive controller back in the day, and allowed players to switch between 3 and 6 button modes for those titles which encountered issues with the latter.

It was confirmed this week that N64 games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online, along with Mega Drive / Genesis games. It was also reported that in Europe, some of the N64 games will run at 50Hz rather than 60Hz.

Nintendo has announced that a new set of Animal Crossing amiibo cards are headed our way, although a release date hasn’t yet been set.

The new cards will arrive as Series 5, joining the already existing Series 1 – 4 cards that have been popping in and out of stock over the past few months. Nintendo says that “details on this card series will be announced at a later time.”

The company stops short of telling us when that time will be, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see more details on the new collection in the upcoming Animal Crossing Direct. That presentation, which will show off new content promised for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, will be airing in October.

Will you be hoping to get your hands on these? Have you already picked up some of the earlier cards? We’d love to hear about your collections in the comments below.

The latest Nintendo Direct came and went with a bang yesterday, showing off plenty of footage for games we know about, footage for games we didn’t know about, and a fair few surprises that we’re still trying to wrap our heads around.

Below, we’ve put together a list of all the show’s highlights as well as the full show itself – ideal if you missed it the first time around.

Ready? Here’s everything that happened during the September 2021 Nintendo Direct:

Nintendo Direct September 2021 – The Full Presentation