Category: Nintendo

The Heavy, Max and the rest of the gang are back.

Ahead of the Nintendo Partner Direct Showcase today, developer Skunkape Games (the team founded by former Telltale employees who revived the Sam & Max series) has announced the return of Poker Night at the Inventory.

This poker title featuring an all-star cast of video game characters was originally developed by Telltale Games and released on Steam in 2010. The new version has been “lovingly remastered” and will be reopening its doors for Switch and multiple other platforms on 5th March 2026.

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Five new heroes are coming next week.

Big changes are coming to Overwatch 2 very soon, with a brand new season dropping on 10th February. But the biggest change comes in the form of a new name.

Announced today during the Overwatch 2026 spotlight, the game’s director Aaron Keller announced that Overwatch 2 is ditching the number, meaning it’ll simply be known as Overwatch now.

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Ace!

Nintendo is gearing up for its next Switch 2 release of the year in Mario Tennis Fever, which will serve up tons of multiplayer fun and expensive adventure mode on 12th February 2026.

So, it’s no surprise we’ve got a brand new commercial to prepare us for some time on the courts with our friends and family. But it’s also reminding us of days long gone by, when Wiimotes were in every household and playing a few rounds of golf or bowling with your mum or grandma was a once a week affair rather than just a holiday thing.

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Normal Poipole.

Back in 2016, Pokémon Sun and Moon gave us our first look at the Ultra Beasts. They are a weird-looking group of creatures, to say the least, heralding from the ‘Ultra Space’ dimension, and thus appeared rather different when compared to the general squishiness of most other Pokémon designs. Well, according to former Game Freak illustrator Yusuke Omura — who served as Sun and Moon’s lead Pokémon designer — that was kinda the point (thanks, Automaton).

Riffing on a recent X theory about the Beasts’ design origins, Omura explained that the Ultra Beasts’ unusual look stems from many of his previous Pokémon proposals, which were rejected at the time by then-lead artist Ken Sugimori. Apparently, the traits that led to these past rejections served as the backbone for the Ultra Beast look, with the creatures’ disturbing appearances acting like “a manifestation of own resentment”.

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Don’t take it to the tip just yet.

Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack (we’ll never get over Nintendo’s naming conventions at the moment) is right around the corner, launching on 17th February 2026. But if you’re not keen on splashing out on the $66.99 / $99.99 replica or its cheaper cardboard equivalent, then you might be in luck.

If you happen to have a Labo VR kit lying around gathering dust, then you’ll want to dig it out in the coming days. According to GamesBeat, a Nintendo Treehouse staff member has confirmed that the cardboard peripheral will be compatible with Virtual Boy on NSO.

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Check it out now.

The team-based competitive title Drag x Drive has received two major updates since it hit the court last August, and today Nintendo has released the game’s first update of 2026.

This one is a much smaller patch. It bumps the game up to Version 1.2.1, and apparently addresses some issues to improve the overall game experience. Here’s the full rundown, so if you’ve been encountering these problems during gameplay, they should no longer be a problem once you’ve performed this update:

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Following a delay last September.

Last September, 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced Borderlands 4 had been delayed for Switch 2.

The plan was to spend a little extra time to deliver the “best possible experience” on Nintendo’s new system, but it appears the plan has changed. In Take-Two’s latest earnings results (the parent company of 2K Games), the Switch 2 version has been removed from the company’s release schedule.

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“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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