Nintendo Is Delaying Switch 2 Pre-Orders In Canada

The day before they go live. Nintendo of Canada has confirmed that it will not be opening up pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 in the country, just the day before pre-orders were due to go live. In a statement provided to Mobile Syrup, Nintendo of Canada explained that pre-orders are being held back “in…

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‘Redstone genius’ Mumbo Jumbo was originally meant to make ‘a bunch of crazy booby traps’ for A Minecraft Movie, but they were all cut from the film

There are a few really neat references to Minecraft pop culture in A Minecraft Movie, including a tribute to Technoblade and a couple of DanTDM shoutouts. But there also seems to be quite a few cameos that were cut, including a scene featuring Valkyrae and several inventions from Mumbo Jumbo. “Yeah, there were a ton…

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ROG Ally X, Legion Go, and now the Nintendo Switch 2 are missing one important thing: Why don’t more handhelds have OLED screens?

James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week: I’ve been watching the Nintendo Switch 2 news with excitement and tariff news with dread. Overall, a pretty standard week. One of the most monumental upgrades I ever made to my gaming rig was swapping to an OLED monitor. A higher and clearer contrast, but also…

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It wouldn’t be A Minecraft Movie if there wasn’t a Herobrine mystery tucked-away in there: ‘One of the characters’ eyes kept coming out white’

Herobrine is a legend that’s nearly as old as Minecraft itself, first being referenced in the game’s alpha before stories of the character proliferated in the early 2010s. The question with Herobrine, especially if you were on the younger side in those days, was always whether he was real and could be found in the…

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Nintendo’s Bowser Comments On AI And Its Uses

“It’s not the only method of game development”. It’s one of the hottest issues in the gaming industry right now, so it was only a matter of time before Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser was asked about the rise of AI in game development in his series of Switch 2 interviews. Fortunately, his response…

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Microsoft’s head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: ‘It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions’

As part of Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary celebrations, it’s been talking a lot about its past but also its future and one doesn’t need a crystal ball to figure out what that will entail. According to the CEO of Microsoft’s AI division, we’re all going to be seeing a lot more of Copilot and, ultimately, digital companions…

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