Category: Nintendo

All the gear, and a great idea.

Imagine, if you will, an alternate timeline where 3D graphics never happened.

Instead, Sega’s ‘Super Scaler’ concept — popularised in games such as Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run and After Burner — evolves to the point where 2D sprites can not only be scaled without any degradation in visual fidelity, but are capable of filling the entire screen. That future is basically what you’re looking at when you play Night Striker Gear, a sequel to Taito’s 1989 coin-op, which has been developed by M2 and its ShotTriggers team.

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“Breath of the Wild was hugely influential”.

Even just a handful of months after its launch, the Switch 2 is proving to be a particularly compelling console for third-party developers. One of the biggest surprises was the announcement that not only would Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade launch on 22nd January 2026, but it would be followed by both Rebirth and the currently untitled third entry in the Remake Trilogy.

To find out more about the process in bringing the games to the Switch 2, we recently spent some time with series director Naoki Hamaguchi. We talk over how he got into game development, how Remake was optimised for Nintendo’s new console, and how the team was influenced by a little game called Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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“Together, we’re opening new creative frontiers”.

Electronic Arts (EA) has already caused some controversy in recent weeks when it announced it had been acquired by the PIF (Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for a cool $55 billion.

Now, the company is back at it again. In a new announcement, Stability AI (of which acclaimed movie creator James Cameron is part of its board of directors) has confirmed that it has entered into a new partnership with EA to “co-develop transformative generative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower EA’s artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how games are made”.

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“A brand new, original story-led adventure”.

Bluey, the popular Australian animation for children, is getting a new video game on the Switch and Switch 2 in 2026.

It’s officially titled Bluey’s Quest for the Gold Pen and is an “original story-led adventure game” by the show’s creator Joe Brumm. Halfbrick – the Fruit Ninja studio based in Bluey’s hometown of Brisbane – will be bringing this title to Nintendo platforms and other systems in partnership with PM Studios.

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Approximately half of the sales were for Switch 2.

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Legends: Z-A has sold a total of 5.8 million copies worldwide in its first week.

This includes the combined sales of the Switch and Switch 2 physical releases as well as digital downloads. According to the official press release, approximately half of these sales are for the Switch 2. In comparison, Pokémon Legends: Arceus sold 6.5 million copies worldwide in its first week.

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Also, he’s not planning to make it an “ongoing series”.

So many games nowadays come loaded with DLC, or at least plans for some other paid content drop in the future, but when it comes to the upcoming Switch 2 release Kirby Air Riders, you’ll be getting the full package on release.

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Save those caps.

Today’s Fallout Day Broadcast delivered a very nice surprise to Switch 2 owners: Bethesda is bringing Fallout 4 to the hybrid console in 2026 in the form of Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition.

The Anniversary Edition includes the base game and all six official add-ons — Automatron, Far Harbor, Nuka-World, and the three Workshop expansions. Plus there’s over 150 pieces of Creation Club content to discover. New weapons, different breeds of Dogmeat (that’s your dog companion in-game, in case you’ve never heard of this good boy), new quests… it’s a big ol’ package, let’s just say.

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New features also get a release date.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, The Pokémon Company has lifted the lid on a brand new expansion that will be arriving in the app next week.

The “Mega Rising’ expansion bursts onto the scene one week today, on 30th October, and, as the name suggests, it’ll bring a Mega Evolution twist to proceedings. Mega Gyarados, Mega Blaziken and Mega Altaria take to the covers of this new set, and all users will receive one of each on launch day for free.

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Sakurai 2.0.

Yes, you read that right, Masahiro Sakurai is back for another Nintendo Direct presentation all about Kirby Air Riders.

The game’s second showcase gets underway today at 2pm BST / 3pm CET / 6am PT / 9am ET, and promises another 60 minutes of info about the upcoming Kirby racer — pfft, and there we were thinking that we had seen everything already.

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Every game we scored 9/10 or higher, plus a personal pick.

Forget your pumpkins and sweets, Nintendo knows that the best way to celebrate the spooky season is with a big old eShop sale.

Hot off the back of the North American ‘Screaming Deals‘ discounts, the ‘Halloween Sale‘ is now live on European eShops, bringing some pretty delightful price cuts to a range of Switch titles — with a few Switch 2 newbies thrown in for good measure. This one will only be sticking around until 2nd November, so make the most while it lasts.

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