Elden Ring lands on Switch 2, and the rest of the late-August game calendar

The headline is Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, out 28 August at $79.99. It bundles the base game with Shadow of the Erdtree and adds two new starting classes, extra armour sets and Torrent customisation. It is one of the bigger third-party gets for the platform this generation.

Players elsewhere are not locked out of the new content: The Tarnished Pack brings the same additions to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC for $4.99, also on 28 August.

The rest of the calendar

Title	Date
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope expansion	20 August
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2	27 August
Star Wars Zero Company	27 August
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition (Switch 2)	28 August

Also in the month’s mix: The Sinking City 2, Mortal Shell II, Beast of Reincarnation — Game Freak’s darker new IP, notable mainly because it is Game Freak — and Big Walk, from the team behind Untitled Goose Game.

Star Wars Zero Company is worth flagging for one reason: it comes from ex-XCOM developers, which tells you the genre before the trailer does.

Sources: Nintendo, Bandai Namco, GameSpot, Xbox Wire, PC Gamer.