Category: Nintendo

Cosy.

Chinese dev Seed Lab has officially announced that its upcoming cosy life sim, Starsand Island, is getting a Switch 2 version alongside the Switch 1 release when it launches next year.

Scheduled for release in the nebulous “early 2026” and coming to all the usual platforms, that list also now includes Nintendo’s latest console, where the devs will be offering two modes depending on your preference: Quality Mode, “targeting 45FPS in 1080p”, and Performance Mode, delivering “60FPS in 1080p” in both docked and handheld modes.

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Best footie feet forward.

Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road has had another update to bring it up to version 1.4 following the recent 1.3 patch.

This new patch brings all of the tweaks and additions made to other versions of the game (which we reckon is really very good, actually) to Switch 1 and 2, so there’s total parity across all versions.

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“If we sold, like, 100,000, that’s not so good”.

We have been keeping an eye on Mina the Hollower for some years now. This is the GBC-looking Zelda-like from Yacht Club Games, the studio behind Shovel Knight, that launched on Kickstarter back in 2022, and only recently missed out on its initial release date thanks to a last-minute delay. It feels like it has been a long time coming, a fact that Yacht Club is reportedly painfully aware of.

In a new report from Bloomberg (paywalled), studio founder Sean Velasco described Mina as “make-or-break” for the future of Yacht Club Games. In the time since Shovel Knight, the studio has downsized, faced a global pandemic and divided its teams into two — later reforged into one — and delays don’t come cheap, either. “If we sold 500,000 copies, then we would be golden,” Velasco told Bloomberg, “If we sold even 200,000, that would be really, really great. If we sold, like, 100,000, that’s not so good”.

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And Samus has a brand new voice.

When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond landed with Retro Studios back in 2019, we’re not sure anybody was truly shocked by this turn of events. Retro is, after all, the original developer of the Prime series, and while many of the veteran team members have since left, the sheer quality of the fourth entry on Switch 2 demonstrates that the studio is still one of the very best in the business.

The folks over at Retro didn’t do it alone, though. As highlighted in the game’s credits sequence, many separate companies lent their talents to the development of Prime 4, including Next Level Games and Virtuos.

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A Switch 1 vs Switch 2 showdown.

Red Dead Redemption has lassoed its way onto Switch 2 today, bringing with it HDR and DLSS support, mouse controls and a smooth 60fps. The big question is, what does all of this look like in practice, and perhaps more importantly, how does it compare to 2023’s Switch port?

Here to answer those very questions is the wonderful Felix Sanchez, who has assembled the above side-by-side comparison video to demonstrate how the fresh Switch 2 version fares against its older hybrid counterpart.

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“That’s one I just treasure”.

If you have a passing interest in gaming outside of Nintendo, you’ll likely have experienced the work of Mark Cerny. He was the Lead Architect of the PlayStation Vita, PS4, and PS5 — you might remember him from the PS5 Pro reveal — and he appears on the most recent episode of Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast where guests pick five games to immortalise on their very own fictional console.

As you might expect, there’s plenty of Sony chat in there, but that didn’t stop a little slice of unexpected Nintendo discussion slipping in there, too. As it turns out, Cerny is a bit of a Pikmin fan at heart, and if that isn’t something all of us capital-G Gamers can agree on, then we don’t know what is.

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The app is also available in more locations.

Nintendo has been releasing all sorts of software and firmware updates recently, and it’s now rolled out an update for its Nintendo Today! mobile application.

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Celebrating the release of Kirby’s new game.

To celebrate the recent launch of Kirby Air Riders on the Switch 2, Nintendo has announced a new event for its Switch Online battle royale game Tetris 99.

This event will take place between 4th December and 8th December 2025, and allows players to unlock a special design inspired by Kirby’s new game. This also happens to mark the 50th Maximus Cup event!

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Well that was fast.

Paramount has revealed some of its future movie plans, but for us, the biggest draw is that Sonic the Hedgehog will be getting a brand new spin-off movie in 2028.

Variety reports that this upcoming spin-off is currently untitled, but it’s being referred to to as the “Sonic Universe Event Film”. It will launch in cinemas on 22nd December 2028. More than three years away!

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Never too-ie late.

Banjo-Tooie isn’t the most beloved adventure in the bear and bird’s series, but it has its fair share of fans. One of which happens to be Nintendo’s very own Shigeru Miyamoto, which former Rare designer and director Gregg Mayles revealed on social media.

Sharing a fax from the legendary game creator and director (thanks, Time Extension!), Mayles says “Nice of him that compliment (in my mind anyway)” before explaining just what a fax is — to those youngsters online, of course.

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