Category: Nintendo

My new horizon.

Remember when Nintendo called Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update the final major free update to the game? It turns out, a lot can change in four years. And here I am again, back on my tropical island paradise, playing through another big free addition – and a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of one of my favourite Switch games.

But wait, what does this mean for Animal Crossing’s future? We’re almost six years into New Horizons’ life with no sign of a new game in the series to come. The announcement back in October 2025 filled me with a mix of excitement and worry, just like Jim, because, yay, more Animal Crossing to lose my life to! But also, oh no, when is the next Animal Crossing coming?

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Rubato launches this March.

Developer Headcannon, which perhaps most notably developed Sonic Mania alongside Christian Whitehead and PagodaWest Games, has announced the release date for its new game, Rubato. The experimental 2D title will hit the Switch eShop on 20th March 2026, and there’s a free demo you can check out right now.

It’s not been smooth sailing for Headcannon, however, as the developer recently released a blog post detailing “a rough few years”, stating that all it wants to do is “make some damn games”. It cites “corporate bureaucracy” as one of its headaches, along with personal difficulties and the cost of living.

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It’s a beast.

If you happen to be lucky enough to own a Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X, then chances are you’ve had to do a little rearranging just to get them all to fit correctly underneath (or to the side of) your TV.

Well, YouTuber Xiao Ningzi has come up with a rather novel – and surprisingly elegant – solution, by combining all three consoles into one giant machine. The result is pretty cool, albeit not one that we’d be in a rush to emulate anytime soon.

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Alongside GameStop’s exit from the New Zealand market.

Last week, we got an update about GameStop’s EB Games business in New Zealand, which confirmed 38 stores in the country would be closing at the end of this month. At the time, no information was provided about the future of the 336 Australian stores, but we’ve now got some details.

As reported by local Nintendo fan site Vooks, the video game retailer will be closing “at least” 10 stores across Australia this month, and many have already shut their doors. One of these stores includes an EB ‘Zing Pop Culture’ shop, which specialises in merchandise, trading cards and various other items.

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Try before you buy.

Last week, the PlayStation Blog revealed a demo for Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties would be released for the PlayStation 5. It’s now been officially confirmed for the Switch 2 and multiple other platforms.

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We’d give our right Joy-Con 2 see ’em.

This article originally went live back in August 2025. We’ve updated the list, removing some announced, incoming ports (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Resident Evils 7, 8, and 9), plus ones which have already come to Switch 2 (Assassin’s Creed Shadows, System Shock), and adding a bunch of new hopefuls. Enjoy!

The first months of Switch 2’s life saw plenty of multiplatform games arrive on Nintendo’s newest console — winners like Cyberpunk 2077, No Man’s Sky, Apex Legends, and Yakuza 0 to name a handful — and its extra power affords devs the chance to bring newer, bigger, more ambitious games to the platform where ports simply weren’t viable on the old Switch.

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King of the Kenner.

Following his retirement as President and COO of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser has now joined the board of directors for toy manufacturer Hasbro.

This news come directly from Hasbro itself, with the firm confirming the appointment of Bowser alongside Carla Vernón, CEO of The Honest Company, a digital-first consumer goods company founded by actress Jessica Alba.

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Coming to Switch consoles this year.

Wishfully Studios’ sublime debut, Planet of Lana, brought some top-notch puzzle/platforming action to Switch back in April 2024. Indeed, we went so far as to give this beautiful-looking cinematic adventure a rather splendid 8/10 back at launch.

Now, its Swedish dev, alongside publisher Thunderful Games (now majority owned by Atari), has dropped a full 10 minutes of unedited gameplay footage from the game’s soon-to-be-released sequel, the cunningly titled Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf. Oh yes.

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Realising the “simple concept” with limited resources wasn’t easy.

Although Pokémon has become a global powerhouse over the past 30 years, the series’ beginnings didn’t necessarily happen overnight.

In a special video message during the New York Game Awards recently (where Pokémon received the prestigious ‘Andrew Yoon Legend Award’ for industry impact), The Pokémon Company president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara reflected on the origins of the series and the challenges the team faced during the development of the original Pokémon games.

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And it might be one of the last significant ones.

Kirby Air Riders on the Switch 2 is content complete, but it’s not done with game updates just yet. Although fans were informed the team would be disbanding soon, game director and video game legend Masahiro Sakurai mentioned in December how there might be one more round of adjustments.

Nintendo’s Japanese customer support page on social media has now revealed new update data for Kirby Air Riders will be arriving soon. As for what riders can expect, there’ll apparently be various bug fixes and balance adjustments.

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