And a price hike for Switch Online in Japan. Nintendo has announced that the Switch 2 will be going up in price globally, with Nintendo Switch Online also receiving a price hike in Japan. Hardware price revisions are effective from 25th May 2026 in Japan and 1st September in Western markets. Nintendo states that the…
Congratulations! Every year The Strong National Museum of Play located in New York inducts new games into its Video Game Hall of Fame, and the inductees of 2026 have now been officially revealed. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“I truly appreciate the love, but that is not my voice”. The new Star Fox game for Switch 2 has many Nintendo fans incredibly excited, and following the announcement this week, there’s been some discussion within the Nintendo community about who might be voicing the characters in this modernised take on the N64 classic. Nintendo…
Try it out today on Switch 2. It was reported last week how a minigame update for Resident Evil Requiem was expected to drop after Golden Week in Japan, and it’s now officially here. Capcom has officially revealed this “free update” as the minigame mode, Leon Must Die Forever, and it’s available now for the…
Let’s rock and roll! Nintendo this week has lifted the lid on Star Fox for the Switch 2, and to celebrate, it’s now released 10 songs from the upcoming game on its mobile music app. These 10 tracks offer 30 minutes of music from this sweeping orchestral soundtrack. You can listen to iconic Title Theme,…
April showers bring May flowers, or so the saying goes; more relevant, around these parts, is that magazines written in April come out in May, the date plastered on all three of the issues featured below. It’s a fine vintage no matter the year ending in 6, it turns out. Here’s a look back at…
Save the Lylat system this June. Nintendo this week surprised fans with the reveal of Star Fox for the Switch 2, and it’s flying onto the new hybrid system next month. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Mortal Kombat 2—the film, not the game—released earlier this week and reviews were mixed: games outlets like GamesRadar and IGN were generally favorable, but it copped a flogging in most other quarters. AV Club called it “dreck”, The Hollywood Reporter called it “tacky”, and Vulture called it “depressingly rizzless”. It’s a familiar story where game-to-film…
Back on April 1, cult indie studio New Blood unveiled a tip line for fans to call in and say, well, whatever. A month on, I’m happy to confirm it was no fleeting April Fools gag: The tip line is still up for whatever you might want to tell the creators of Dusk, Faith, Ultrakill,…
The strange tale of the GameStop CEO who wants to buy eBay took a turn for the weirder overnight. Just hours after putting up a pile of stuff up for auction, purportedly to help finance the acquisition—a fundamentally preposterous claim and one he’s clearly not making seriously, but we’ll get into that later—Ryan Cohen said…