Category: Nintendo

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It has felt like a long old wait since Mario’s last sports outing, but last week, Mario Tennis Fever finally arrived on the Switch 2 court.

It’s tennis, again, but with a Fever Racket gimmick that gives the whole thing a fun party twist. With a 38-character roster — the biggest in series history to date, no less — and 30 different rackets to try out, there’s an impressive amount of variety on display here, and we can see it cropping up at its fair share of game nights down the line.

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(Yes, you can, with a Switch 1).

Virtual Boy has finally arrived on Nintendo Switch Online, if you’re a subscriber to the Expansion Pack tier – and if you’ve got the $100 accessory from My Nintendo Store or the still-pretty-pricey cardboard alternative.

If $25 for the cardboard viewer required to see the 3D visuals as intended still feels like an ask, you may be wondering if it’s possible to play these games without the official accessories. The app is free to download for all subscribers, after all, so is there any practical way to play them?

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And they’re right around the corner.

With the Dead Cells team on development duties, we knew it was only a matter of time before The Rogue Prince of Persia landed even more content, and what do you know, there are two major updates right around the corner.

Evil Empire recently shared a blog post on the game’s Steam page, revealing the Spring 2026 roadmap with all of the new additions we can expect in the coming months. Alongside the new ‘Flaming Horses’ tool (out now), the team announced the ‘Breathless Update’, which will arrive in April, and the ‘Endgame Update, which’ll launch in May.

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Update: Digital launches this week.

If the news of the Nickelodeon Splat Pack release date earlier this week wasn’t enough cartoon nostalgia for you, Limited Run Games has revealed that it has even more in the pipeline for Switch, in the shape of the Ren & Stimpy Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy Collection.

This is a seven-game compilation title, collecting together a handful of the Nickelodeon duo’s SNES and Game Boy adventures. The titles included in this one are The Ren and Stimpy Show: Space Cadet Adventures (Game Boy), Veediots! (SNES and Game Boy), Buckeroo$! (NES and SNES), Time Warp (SNES) and Fire Dogs (SNES) — yes, that does mean Quest for the Shaven Yak and Stimpy’s Invention are missing, unfortunately.

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Pre-orders open next week.

Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and it appears First 4 Figures will be joining in on the fun.

In a new announcement this week, the statue maker has given its followers on social media and YouTube a “sneak peek” of a new Tears of the Kingdom – Link statue. If it looks familiar, it’s because the standard edition is already available at “GameStop and other major retailers”.

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Including cross-play network testing.

Ahead of next month’s release of Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage on the Switch 2 this March, Sega is running an open beta test.

Yes, in case you missed this news, it starts this week from 18th February 2026 and will run until 23rd February 2026. To join the fight, you’ll need to an active Switch Online membership. There’s also support for “arcade stick-type” controllers, which have been officially licensed by Nintendo.

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Including visual enhancements and more.

If you’re looking for another arcade racing game to try out on Nintendo’s new hybrid system, Gameloft has this week released a Switch 2 Edition of its free-to-play racer Asphalt Legends.

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Winter roadmap reveals all.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows arrived as an almost complete package on Switch 2 at the end of last year. The only content missing from this portable version was the Claws of Awaji expansion — which had landed on other systems back in September — for which Ubisoft provided a vague ‘coming later in 2026’ release window. Well, the big Ubi has today been a bit more specific.

As revealed in the new Shadows Winter Roadmap, the expansion will launch on Switch 2 on 10th March. This paid DLC includes a whole new area to explore and storyline to follow, as Naoe and Yasuke head to the island of Awaji to track down a lost treasure. There are also new weapons and skins to unlock in the DLC, all of which can be carried back over to the main game to use as you please.

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Have you herd the wonderfoal word of HORSE.

In the magazine business, the back page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”.

We don’t have pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes — so welcome to our semi-regular feature, Back Page. Today, Kate celebrates the approaching Chinese New Year with a look at the finest equines in video games…

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“Our development will continue” says one defiant dev.

It was back in 2024 that Nintendo really kicked its emulator takedown requests into overdrive following the removal of Yuzu and 3DS emulator Citra, and a fresh wave came late last week.

As spotted by Reddit user Devile, Nintendo issued a new DMCA notice on Friday calling for the removal of 13 Switch emulators’ GitHub pages. Alongside any that still rely on Yuzu, the takedown targeted Citron, Eden, Kenji-NX, MeloNX, Pine, Pomelo, Ryubing, Ryujinx, Skyline, Sudachi, Sumi, and Suyu (the one formed in Yuzu’s wake).

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