Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (17th January)

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We are blowing through January faster than a big blowy fast thing that's been blowing faster than usual right now, and the delicious slices of gaming goodness continue to drop across Switch consoles.

This week has seen the arrival of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Nintendo Switch 2, which the wonderfully handsome and beautiful Alex had a look at, the award-winning (and thoroughly excellent) despelote finally dropped on Switch, and the excellent The Legend of Heroes: Trials Beyond The Horizon stuck the landing with epic RPG action on both Switch 1 and 2. Hooray!

In the news, it's been rather quiet overall, never a bad thing, but we have had some tasty nuggets in leaked looks at a new Zelda lego set (I'll take 10, thank you, and no I don't have any money), Sophia Turner making an awesome-looking Lara Croft (please put more Tomb Raider games on Switch 2, lads, come on now) and, of course, lest I forget - I could never - we've had the arrival of a brand new member of the Nintendo Life YouTube team. So if you haven't said hai to Mai yet, now's as good a chance as any.

Right. Enough messing. Let's take a look at what the team's game-playing plans are for this weekend!