Category: Nintendo

A Mira-cle.

Sometimes, I don’t realise how much I’m missing out of something until it’s right in front of me.

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The wonders of Paldea.

You know we’re closing in on the end of the month when The Pokémon Company lifts the lid on its next Trading Card Game Pocket booster set, and today, we’ve got just that.

The Paldean Wonder themed booster packs will arrive in the app next week on 26th February from 1am GMT / 2am CET / 5pm PT (25th). As you’d expect from that name, this set is all about Scarlet and Violet‘s Gen IX and the Paldea region.

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Let’s get liminal.

Finnish dev Tensori’s POOLS (sorry, POOLS) is a self-proclaimed walking sim with uncanny vibes. It launched back in 2024 on Steam and has racked up nearly 3000 user reviews in the time since, leaving it in the rarified “Overwhelmingly Positive” range on Valve’s platform, and it’s coming to Switch on 26th February.

As you can see from the trailer above — running native Switch footage, we’re told — it looks pleasingly minimal and rather lovely, but don’t go in expecting pure cosy vibes, or much else, for that matter, because the list of things this “liminal fever dream” doesn’t feature is sizeable.

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The nose to the right, the eyes to the left.

Hello, Mario! launches today on Switch eShop and phones in the West alongside other My Mario products, a new line from Nintendo specifically focused on infants and young children.

This free app came out in Japan in August last year, so we’re republishing Jim’s impressions of the cute little face-tugger. Let us know in the comments if you’ve tried it out yourself!

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And there’s more on the way.

Bandai Namco’s fighting game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO made its way across to the Switch and Switch 2 late last year, and this week, it receives a new update for these platforms.

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Here are the full details.

Following the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Switch 2 Edition last month, Nintendo has now released its second update for the title this year.

It addresses multiple issues and makes some adjustments on both the Switch and Switch 2. There are also some updates specific to the Switch 2 version of the game. This includes an issue with clouds that’s now been resolved, and also an update to the controller vibration intensity.

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A dino crisis.

Cast your minds back to the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase earlier this month. One of the most surprising games featured during the presentation was Tokyo Scramble, a stealth-horror hybrid where you have to escape from dinosaur-esque creatures. And you can do so alone or with the help of friends via GameChat and GameShare.

Not only was the announcement a surprise, but so was the release date — 11th February 2026, just less than a week after the Direct. Well, that’s cool! Plus, the game was developed by one of the co-devs of Ender Lilies and Ender Magnolia. Sounds interesting, right?

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I choose YOU.

27th February marks the anniversary of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, but this year’s event is an extra special one: the Pokémon series is turning 30 years old.

Yes, that little RPG about catching cute and not-so-cute monsters and doing battle with your pals has been going for three entire decades. In that time, it’s evolved from mere gaming phenomenon that rejuvenated interest in Nintendo’s Game Boy seven years after it launched to the world’s biggest media property.

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Get a grip.

Nintendo launched its dedicated GameCube NSO pad alongside the Switch 2 last year, undoubtedly providing the best experience for docked play. However, much like the N64 pad before it, the controller doesn’t do much to help with handheld play, where the Joy-Con 2 button layouts simply can’t capture the feel of the original hardware.

Enter abxylute’s N9C, a Switch 2 grip that launched on Kickstarter today and was almost immediately fully funded, which looks as close as we’ll ever get to a GameCube pad built for handheld play.

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He fights for the Users.

Entropy, a scientific concept defined by randomness and disorder, is a fitting name for a roguelike.

Since BlazBlue began as a fighting game series it’s seen a multitude of spin-offs, now finding itself in the realm of 2D platform action and roguelike principles. Its whopping assembly of eighteen-playable-characters helm from various BlazBlue entries, including Calamity Trigger, Continuum Shift, Chrono Phantasma and Central Fiction. And, impressively, each has a completely independent and idiosyncratic combat style, even if the actual inputs you utilise are fairly samey across the board.

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