Category: Nintendo

“This is one you won’t want to miss”.

The Game Awards is taking place later this week, and ahead of the big industry event, Lara Croft’s return has been teased.

As highlighted by the show’s creator and host Geoff Keighley and the official Tomb Raider social media account, fans of Lara will be able to tune into the event to find out about the “future” of this iconic video game character. No other details have been shared just yet, but Geoff says it’s a reveal “you won’t want to miss”.

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Welcome back, Yoshi’s Crafted World!

Following on from a sample of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond‘s soundtrack last week, Nintendo Music has now followed this up with the 2019 Switch title Yoshi’s Crafted World.

This follows on from other Yoshi-themed albums like Yoshi’s Story from the N64 era and Yoshi’s Island on the Super Nintendo. This latest soundtrack update contains 53 tracks and has a runtime of 1 hour and 11 minutes.

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Download it now!

Nintendo’s been busy getting in its final updates of 2025, and alongside a system update for the Switch 2 and Switch this week, it’s also put out a new update for its battle royale racer F-Zero 99.

According to the official patch notes, this includes “new additions”, various adjustments and changes, as well as the usual fixes. Some of these new additions includes “new secret tracks” and a music player has also been added to the title.

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It’s “one of Switch 1’s prettiest games yet”.

We already know that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is a technical showcase on Switch 2, and we’re sure many of you have spent the weekend exploring Viewros on the new console over the weekend. But for those of you who are still clinging on to your Switch 1 and wondering whether Samus’ brand new adventure holds up on the old system, fear not.

Digital Foundry has taken a look at the Switch 1 release of Metroid Prime 4 and is pretty much in agreement with us on the surprising quality of the release. You can read their impressions on their shiny new website, or listen to the trio talk about the game on this week’s DF Direct Weekly (up top).

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The countdown to a physical release begins.

Playtonic and PM Studios have today released a free Switch 2 demo for the throwback platforming remake Yooka-Replaylee, giving you a chance to try before you buy.

You’ll find the new demo on the Switch 2 eShop right now, and, you’ll be pleased to hear, all the data carries over to the full game — so there’s no time wasted if you choose to go all-in on the full release afterwards.

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But it’s not who you think it is.

Although Capcom has remained tightlipped on the prospect of Leon Kennedy cropping up in the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem, a good number of fans are adamant that the veteran character will indeed appear.

However, a new listing over on GameStop drops some new information regarding the Deluxe Edition of the game which, if accurate, seems to hint at a completely different playable character: Rosemary Winters (thanks, IGN).

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Imagine the conversations!

It’s the little things in life that bring us the most joy sometimes, and today, we’re bringing you an absolutely delightful photo from developer Suda51 (No More Heroes, Killer7) that’s been doing the rounds over the weekend.

It’s no secret that some of the greatest minds in Japanese game development like to get together to break bread (or knock back a beer or two), but this particular meeting is especially impressive. Here, we’ve got the aforementioned Suda51 with none other than Masahiro Sakurai (Kirby Air Riders, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate), Fumito Ueda (The Last Guardian, Shadow of the Colossus) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil, Resident Evil 4).

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Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch and Switch 2 in November!

At last, we’re almost at the end of 2025. Snow might be settling in where you are, temperature’s dropping — or perhaps you’re lucky to be reading from somewherein the southern hemisphere. But there’s one thing that remains the same wherever you’re reading from; it’s eShop Selects time once again!

Here we are once again, looking back at the last month of excellent releases. And it was a busy one in Switch 2 land, with two major Nintendo releases in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment and Kirby Air Riders both launching. Did we get time to play much else?

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“I’m waiting for an update, it’s impossible to play”.

Apart from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, one other significant Switch 2 release this week was the third-party title Assassin’s Creed Shadows. While Ubisoft’s new feudal Japan outing has been mostly well-received by critics on Nintendo’s new hybrid platform, it seems the experience hasn’t been quite as enjoyable for some players.

Multiple message board posts and social media threads online are filled with player reports about the game randomly crashing. Some players have even experienced repeated crashes, forcing them to completely halt their play sessions until Ubisoft deploys a patch.

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Ding ding ding!

It has been a particularly Metroid-packed week, and we’re keeping that Morph Ball rolling in the latest edition of Box Art Brawl.

Before we do that, however, let’s recap what happened last time. Celebrating the arrival of its Game Boy counterpart on NSO, we matched up three covers for Bionic Commando on the NES, and our favourite cover walked away with the win. The action-packed North American cover took the gold with 58% of the vote, Japan followed behind with 36% and Europe mopped up the remaining 6%.

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