Category: Nintendo

“I’ll reveal who it is on the anniversary day”.

Stardew Valley celebrates its 10th anniversary later this month. Yes, really. On 26th February 2026, ConcernedApe’s monumental farming sim will turn a decade old. It came to Switch in 2017 and, in the time since it’s release, has sold millions of copies and has consistently received a number of big free updates, with the next one — update 1.7 — on the horizons.

And, speaking to IGN ahead of the game’s big birthday, Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone gave us a little tease of what to expect from the upcoming update, and they’re related to children and marriage.

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“I hope that, through developing this title, I too have grown”.

2026 marks 40 years of the Dragon Quest series, a staggering achievement for one of the RPG genre’s biggest and brightest. Known for its cosy atmosphere, warm character, humour, and iconic art, Dragon Quest is due a big year, and Square Enix is kicking things off with a brand new “reimagining” — Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined.

Bringing what is regarded as one of the longest RPGs of the PlayStation era to Switch 1 and Switch 2, Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined has attracted joy — and a few raised eyebrows — for streamlining events and making a few tweaks to the game. What was a 100+ hour experience (or 70-ish-hours on 3DS) is now much leaner. So, how to you retain the magic when you’re trying to appeal to new audiences, but make sure that old fans are satisfied?

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Oh boy.

Given that fans were expecting (or perhaps hoping, to be more accurate) to see DS games added to Switch Online, the upcoming inclusion of Virtual Boy on 17th February 2026 is quite possibly the biggest surprise from Nintendo in recent years.

Did anyone really ask for this? Probably not. Is it pretty neat regardless? Definitely. Although the Virtual Boy’s small library of games have been widely playable through, shall we say, ‘unofficial’ means, the headset itself isn’t the easiest piece of hardware to come across these days.

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One in a million.

Nintendo’s latest financial report is in, giving us the official sales numbers for all of its best-selling games as of 31st December 2025. We already highlighted the best-sellers, in fact, but we couldn’t help but notice that both Metroid Prime 4: Beyond — in either its Switch 1 or Switch 2 editions — and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment were missing from the list.

We don’t have concrete sales numbers for either of the three releases there (counting Metroid Prime 4’s two editions separately), but what we do know is that none of them exceeded one million sales by the time the year was up.

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A surpasses 12 million.

As part of its latest financial report, Nintendo has showcased the best-selling Switch and Switch 2 games so far.

There are only a handful of games to peruse from the Switch 2, with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond conspicuously absent. In fact, Nintendo has not made mention of Retro Studios’ latest in any capacity regarding sales data, so it seems likely that it’s failed to reach 1 million sales on either the Switch or Switch 2. Combined sales may tell a different story, but it’s definitely not a good look for the game.

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And AdHoc can’t comment on why separate regional releases didn’t happen.

The release of the superhero workplace comedy game Dispatch on Switch and Switch 2 hasn’t exactly panned out as expected.

In case you somehow missed it, there has been a lot of back-and-forth over the past week about censorship in the Nintendo versions of the game. It resulted in the developer AdHoc Studio sharing multiple comments, and even Nintendo issued a formal statement.

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Prepare for island life on Switch.

Following a special Nintendo Direct broadcast last week for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, Nintendo is now celebrating the series on its music app this week with the release of the 3DS soundtrack.

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Make, Play, & Bin?

No, we didn’t find ours here, not at all…

2018 is a long time ago. It feels like it happened in another dimension, in an alternate (and much nicer) timeline, or some other Marvel universe-typed nonsense. And it’s a timeline we can never get back to. It was also the year that Nintendo dropped its Labo sets, which is infinitely more important and interesting than my ongoing, and seemingly permanent, existential crisis. That’s right, I’m on a permo, kids.

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Let’s do the time warp again.

Ready to feel old? It’s been about 13 years since the launch of the 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII, which itself was released about 13 years after the original on the PSX. That means that it’s time for yet another remake of the storied classic, which has been dubbed Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined this time around. This iteration goes a bit farther than its 3DS predecessor in making various nips and tucks that update the game for a new generation, and I’m pleased to report that this feels like the most enjoyable version of Dragon Quest VII yet.

The narrative places you in the role of a quiet boy living a peaceful life who believes there’s more to the world beyond his small island home. He’s joined in this belief by the adventurous Prince Kiefer and the Mayor’s daughter, Maribel, and it isn’t long until this band of kids discover a mysterious shrine in which ancient stone tablets allow them to travel to various places in the past.

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Deep(wood) respect.

We first noticed Under The Island almost two years ago, when its debut trailer brought all kinds of happy memories from the glory days of GBA Zelda flooding back. This weekend, Top Hat Studios and Slime King Games showcased even more of their upcoming Minish Cap-like, and announced that it’ll arrive on Switch on 17th February.

As you’ll see in the above release date trailer (narrated by none other than our good friend Jon Cartwright, we might add), the GBA charm is strong with this one — that opening dungeon looks more than a little like Deepwood Shrine, no? But that’s not to say that it’s without interesting mechanics of its own.

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