Category: Nintendo

And it’s the best-selling physical game in the US this year.

Last week, we heard how Pokémon Legends: Z-A had become the “best-selling” physical game in the US of the year.

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The first event goes live next week.

Kirby Air Riders is now exclusively available for the Switch 2, and to help get the race underway, the first in-game event has been officially announced.

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Okay, is the vampire in *this* coffin?

Vampire Survivors is the gift that keeps on giving. We’ve had a countless amount of free updates, expansive paid DLCs, and so much content that it’s so easy to lose hundreds of hours to. So, how’s about a completely new game?

Yep, Poncle is spreading its wings and today announced a spin-off to Vampire Survivors, called Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors (we’ll stick to Vampire Crawlers…) coming to Switch in 2026. The tongue-in-cheek trailer above tells you it isn’t a roguelite deckbuilder, but it is in fact a roguelite deckbuilding dungeon crawler. Fancy that.

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Banjo-Too-Five-ie.

One of the reasons I adore N64-gen Rare so much is because they loved testing the boundaries. What could they get away with in a cheeky, charming 3D platformer? Banjo-Kazooie was already dipping its toe in the water in a few subtle (and less-subtle) ways. “How’s your nuts, bark breath?” is funny, but perhaps funnier with that adult context. And the 1998 platformer was more than ready to get a little bit scary – did anyone else freak out the first time they saw Clanker? No?

But Banjo-Tooie pushes things to a whole new level. It rips the band-aid off and tosses it off of a steep cliff into the volcano of Hailfire Peaks, almost with complete disregard for what came before it. Rare is unafraid to tell you that this is a very different game tonally from the first. In fact, growing up, it was one of the scariest games I’d played. I still feel that way 25 years later. And I love it, warts and all, for that reason.

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Let’s get ready to (air) rumble.

Fellow air riders! It is time to…ride the air.

We’re big fans of Kirby Air Riders, as if you couldn’t tell from our 8/10 review.

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“this extra time will help us polish the game further”.

Those looking forward to OPUS: Prism Peak on the Switch and Switch 2 will need to wait just a little bit longer, as developer Sigono has announced a delay into 2026.

Speaking via social media, the team stated that the delay would “help us polish the game further and bring it closer to the vision we want to deliver”. Though a specific date has not been specified, we can currently expect to see it launch in March 2026.

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Includes performance updates and mouse support.

Following the release of SHUTEN ORDER on the Switch in September, a Switch 2 Edition has now been officially announced.

It will arrive later this month on 27th November 2025 for the launch price of 6,579 yen. This 10% discount is available until 4th December 2025. Local pricing for the full game hasn’t been confirmed just yet, but there will be a paid Upgrade Pack for existing Switch owners. Thankfully, it’s only a small sum of 330 Yen (about $2).

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Following its recent Nintendo Direct reveal.

There were all sorts of announcements during Nintendo’s September Direct, but one you might have missed was for an upcoming eShop release known as Popucom by Gryphline.

It’s described as a multiplayer co-op platform adventure title, where you’ll need to master “techniques of colour switching and match-3 shooting” to overcome puzzles and defeat enemies. There’s also support for motion-assisted aiming with the Switch’s gyroscopic sensors.

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“Nintendo asked us to help”.

Video game studio Panic Button has revealed it was selected by Nintendo to help update “marquee” Switch titles for Switch 2.

The talented team confirmed this in an official announcement on social media. Nintendo asked the studio to “help demonstrate new capabilities of the Nintendo Switch 2 system” while remaining faithful to the original versions of each title.

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Tanks for the memories.

Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives series is back with another cabinet classic on Switch 2. I got to check out Jet Ski racer Aqua Jet back in August, which was a lovingly crafted port. This time I’m revisiting the destructive tank combat of Namco’s Tokyo Wars, which served as inspiration for The 3DO Company’s N64 classic Battle Tanx: Global Assault.

Aqua Jet was notable for having a cabinet containing a replica Jet Ski, something which can’t really be recreated on Switch (without some serious hardware modding). Tokyo Wars had a similar hardware quirk that provided a satisfying kickback to simulate your tank firing its payload. A feature that is, bafflingly, not emulated with the Switch 2 controllers’ haptics.

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