Category: Nintendo

Final Fantasy VII Remake! Escape from Ever After! Dynasty Warriors: Origins!

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – Highlights

DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS (KOEI TECMO AMERICA, 22nd Jan, $59.99) – Play as a nameless hero as you fight fiercely, making bold choices to restore peace and shape history in this tactical action game set during China’s Three Kingdoms period. With the most intense combat and largest armies in Dynasty Warriors history, your choices will influence the story and could alter historical events. With the paid DLC1 launching alongside the game, you can choose a different path and experience new developments that weren’t in the main story. – Read our DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS review

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Kiki’s Bakery Service.

Publisher Silver Lining Interactive and developer Sunny Lab are bringing The Witch’s Bakery to Switch 2 in addition to Switch, with the cosy RPG arriving on both consoles in Q2 2026.

Imagine opening a bakery in modern-day Paris — not easy, right? Well, as Lunne the witch, that’s exactly what you’re doing. But this slice-of-life adventure is more than just making Mont Blancs and macarons; being a witch, Lunne has the ability to see inside people’s hearts and heal their emotions. Anyone getting some Kiki’s Delivery Service vibes from the premise alone?

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Rebirth and third entry are now in development for Switch 2.

If you’ve been keeping up with Final Fantasy VII Remake on the Switch 2, then you’ll probably already know that its direct sequel, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, along with the untitled third entry, will also head to the hybrid console in the future.

Rebirth represents quite a drastic departure from Remake, introducing a vast open world that serves as an almost direct contrast to the tightly-designed environments found in the first entry. This will no doubt sow doubts in fans’ minds about just how well it might hold up on the Switch 2. After all, Rebirth’s visuals were already noted to have suffered from a few downgrades at launch when compared to Remake.

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Rosalina, Bowser Jr. and..?

Similar to the Sonic movies, the Mario movies are expanding their big-screen universe by introducing and surprising audiences with more characters. Mario’s companion Yoshi was teased at the end of the first movie, and since then, the official trailers for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie have introduced Bowser Jr. and Rosalina.

Speaking to GamesRadar+ recently, Mario’s movie voice actor Chris Pratt has apparently hinted there are at least “a couple more” characters not featured in the official trailers for the new movie that should excite fans. Here’s the full exchange:

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Including multiple fixes for Mega Dimension.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A has received its first update of the year today for the Switch and Switch 2. When you download it, your copy will be updated to Version 2.0.1.

It focuses on some adjustments for obtaining certain items (including an increase to the maximum number of Mega Shards) and also applies a whole bunch of fixes to previously confirmed Mega Dimension expansion issues.

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is his final game.

Kensuke Tanabe, veteran producer at Nintendo who became known for his work on the Metroid Prime series, has reportedly announced his retirement.

As covered by VGC, Tanabe’s announcement comes via an interview with the Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream, which has been uploaded online by a user on Weibo. Tanabe states that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond was to be his final game at the company, with his protégé producer Risa Tabata succeeding him should another Prime game be made in the future.

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My new horizon.

Remember when Nintendo called Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update the final major free update to the game? It turns out, a lot can change in four years. And here I am again, back on my tropical island paradise, playing through another big free addition – and a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of one of my favourite Switch games.

But wait, what does this mean for Animal Crossing’s future? We’re almost six years into New Horizons’ life with no sign of a new game in the series to come. The announcement back in October 2025 filled me with a mix of excitement and worry, just like Jim, because, yay, more Animal Crossing to lose my life to! But also, oh no, when is the next Animal Crossing coming?

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Rubato launches this March.

Developer Headcannon, which perhaps most notably developed Sonic Mania alongside Christian Whitehead and PagodaWest Games, has announced the release date for its new game, Rubato. The experimental 2D title will hit the Switch eShop on 20th March 2026, and there’s a free demo you can check out right now.

It’s not been smooth sailing for Headcannon, however, as the developer recently released a blog post detailing “a rough few years”, stating that all it wants to do is “make some damn games”. It cites “corporate bureaucracy” as one of its headaches, along with personal difficulties and the cost of living.

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It’s a beast.

If you happen to be lucky enough to own a Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X, then chances are you’ve had to do a little rearranging just to get them all to fit correctly underneath (or to the side of) your TV.

Well, YouTuber Xiao Ningzi has come up with a rather novel – and surprisingly elegant – solution, by combining all three consoles into one giant machine. The result is pretty cool, albeit not one that we’d be in a rush to emulate anytime soon.

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Alongside GameStop’s exit from the New Zealand market.

Last week, we got an update about GameStop’s EB Games business in New Zealand, which confirmed 38 stores in the country would be closing at the end of this month. At the time, no information was provided about the future of the 336 Australian stores, but we’ve now got some details.

As reported by local Nintendo fan site Vooks, the video game retailer will be closing “at least” 10 stores across Australia this month, and many have already shut their doors. One of these stores includes an EB ‘Zing Pop Culture’ shop, which specialises in merchandise, trading cards and various other items.

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