All work and no play. A couple of months ago, I opened a pack of Pokémon cards and pulled the super-rare ‘Secret Illustration Rare’ (SIR) Charizard card. There’s even a video someone gave me of them rushing up to the commotion. “The $600 Charizard!” you can hear me yelling in the footage. My friends were…
Direct Remix. With a Nintendo Direct right around the corner, it was only a matter of time before the speculation began about its contents. It’s been ticking away for a few weeks now with all of those Ocarina of Time rumours, and today, an NSO theory has entered the fray. As spotted on Bluesky by…
Was it worth it? Nintendo has been fined a whopping €35 million (just over $40 million) thanks to the widespread drifting defects that plagued the original Switch. As reported by Le Monde (thanks, Games Industry), an investigation by France’s General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) found that Nintendo may have been…
Take the hype train. A Nintendo Direct? In June? Who could have possibly guessed!? Yes, Nintendo has announced its next presentation, promising 50-ish minutes of full-fat Direct goodness followed by an hour and a half of Nintendo Treehouse. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Riding into the sunset. Sabotage Studio has today announced that 2023’s wonderful RPG, Sea of Stars, is getting its final update, with a Switch 2 version launching to mark the occasion. The Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition — to give the update its official name — is all about bidding farewell to the project that…
It’s about time! Nintendo has announced that a long-awaited (and much-rumoured) Nintendo Direct is coming our way tomorrow, 9th June. As revealed on the Nintendo Today! app, the showcase is set to get underway from 3pm BST / 7am PT / 10am ET, offering up 50 minutes of news and announcements about games coming to…
A royal mess? The recent Xbox showcase contained not one, but two trailers for the Persona franchise. We already knew about Persona 4 Revival, but the new glimpse showcased some proper gameplay for the first time along with confirmation that it will launch on 18th February 2027. Meanwhile, the much-rumoured (and leaked) Persona 6 was…
Fight and flight. Reading the description for Kabuto Park, I imagined it would be like Animal Crossing’s Bug-Off. But this quick, cosy beetle-collecting game from French developer Doot Tiny Games presents a concept that’s closer to another Nintendo series: Pokémon. The story is pretty light. Your character, Hana, visits the eponymous park for a month…
Stacked showcases. The big weekend of Summer Game Fest 2026 is behind us, and it sure was a stacked one. While showcases and streams were gradually trickling out over the last week, this weekend was when most of the biggies came out to play, many of which came loaded with their fair share of Switch…
Thief in the night. Nightdive Studios has shown off its latest upcoming remaster, and it’s a doozy. Thief: The Dark Project, originally released back in 1998 from Looking Glass Studios and Eidos Interactive, is making a comeback later this year on Switch and Switch 2. Visuals, textures, animations, and more have all been given some…