GoldenEye 007 release date on Switch and Xbox Game Pass announced

A classic returns

Marco Wutz | Jan 25, 2023

GoldenEye 007 release date on Switch and Xbox Game Pass announced /

Put on Tina Turner’s classic opening song and get ready for some nostalgia: GoldenEye 007, a beloved Nintendo 64 first-person shooter, makes its grand return to the stage.

Originally released in 1997, GoldenEye 007 will be re-released for Nintendo Switch on January 27, 2023, via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack – yes, that’s this week.

Additionally, the game will be available on Xbox consoles via Xbox Game Pass on the same day.

Popular among players back in the day due its fun gameplay and intense split screen mode, which supported up to four players battling each other on the same console, GoldenEye 007 is a cult classic.

The modernized version contains an online multiplayer mode, so players can duel their friends from afar this time – uniquely, however, the game will still show everyone’s vision to every other player through the traditional split screen, giving the whole thing a very nostalgic feel.

GoldenEye 007 also features faithfully recreated and enhanced graphics as well as widescreen support, so players will still have a good amount of screen real estate to work with even in split screen mode.

Published Jan 25, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg