Category: Nintendo

Feature: 40 Games We’d Love To See On Switch 2

We’d give our right Joy-Con 2 see ’em.

This article originally went live back in August 2025. We’ve updated the list, removing some announced, incoming ports (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Resident Evils 7, 8, and 9), plus ones which have already come to Switch 2 (Assassin’s Creed Shadows, System Shock), and adding a bunch of new hopefuls. Enjoy!

The first months of Switch 2’s life saw plenty of multiplatform games arrive on Nintendo’s newest console — winners like Cyberpunk 2077, No Man’s Sky, Apex Legends, and Yakuza 0 to name a handful — and its extra power affords devs the chance to bring newer, bigger, more ambitious games to the platform where ports simply weren’t viable on the old Switch.

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Former Nintendo Of America President Doug Bowser Joins Hasbro’s Board Of Directors

King of the Kenner.

Following his retirement as President and COO of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser has now joined the board of directors for toy manufacturer Hasbro.

This news come directly from Hasbro itself, with the firm confirming the appointment of Bowser alongside Carla Vernón, CEO of The Honest Company, a digital-first consumer goods company founded by actress Jessica Alba.

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Lovely-Looking Cinematic Adventure Sequel ‘Planet Of Lana II’ Gets A 10-Minute Gameplay Vid

Coming to Switch consoles this year.

Wishfully Studios’ sublime debut, Planet of Lana, brought some top-notch puzzle/platforming action to Switch back in April 2024. Indeed, we went so far as to give this beautiful-looking cinematic adventure a rather splendid 8/10 back at launch.

Now, its Swedish dev, alongside publisher Thunderful Games (now majority owned by Atari), has dropped a full 10 minutes of unedited gameplay footage from the game’s soon-to-be-released sequel, the cunningly titled Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf. Oh yes.

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Pokémon’s Game Boy Development Process Took A “Great Deal Of Trial And Error”

Realising the “simple concept” with limited resources wasn’t easy.

Although Pokémon has become a global powerhouse over the past 30 years, the series’ beginnings didn’t necessarily happen overnight.

In a special video message during the New York Game Awards recently (where Pokémon received the prestigious ‘Andrew Yoon Legend Award’ for industry impact), The Pokémon Company president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara reflected on the origins of the series and the challenges the team faced during the development of the original Pokémon games.

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Kirby Air Riders Is Getting Its First Update Of 2026 “Soon”

And it might be one of the last significant ones.

Kirby Air Riders on the Switch 2 is content complete, but it’s not done with game updates just yet. Although fans were informed the team would be disbanding soon, game director and video game legend Masahiro Sakurai mentioned in December how there might be one more round of adjustments.

Nintendo’s Japanese customer support page on social media has now revealed new update data for Kirby Air Riders will be arriving soon. As for what riders can expect, there’ll apparently be various bug fixes and balance adjustments.

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“I’m Excited To Meet You” – Devon Pritchard Makes Her First Public Appearance As President Of NoA

Meet the new boss.

Nintendo of America has a new President and COO, and during the 15th Annual New York Game Awards, Devon Pritchard made her first public appearance in her new role.

Introduced by ex-Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé and New York Times columnist Harold Goldberg, Pritchard appeared via a pre-recorded video to celebrate the Game Awards and the nonprofit ‘Playing With Purpose’ writing programme, which looks to provide workshops in journalism and game narrative writing in school across New York.

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A Remake Of Resident Evil: Code Veronica Will Supposedly Be Announced This Year

Complete global saturation.

Resident Evil Requiem, the next mainline entry in Capcom’s survival horror series, is scheduled to launch in just over a month on 27th February 2026. It seems, however, that Capcom might have another title lined up for a reveal later this year.

According to Dusk Golem, who has had a history of accurately reporting Capcom’s plans for Resident Evil, the company will be announcing a remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica in 2026 (thanks, VGC).

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