Category: Nintendo

Gimme some skin.

When Nintendo announced the new alternative colour Joy-Con controllers for the Switch 2 this week, one thing became adamantly clear: it’s quite possible that we’ll never get any solid colour Joy-Con. Those little accents around the analogue sticks are likely all you’ll see when the Joy-Con are attached to the console. And that’s fine, y’know?

But if you’re not especially pleased about this, then accessory manufacturer Dbrand might have you covered. The company has revealed that it is launching ‘ColorMatched’ skins that will effectively take the accented colours of the new Joy-Con and apply the same colour to the entire controllers. The result, provided to apply them properly, is pretty neat.

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“Shut up!”.

Capcom has released a new teaser trailer for Alex, the latest addition in the Year 3 Character/Ultimate Pass for Street Fighter 6.

There’s no raw gameplay here, but if you ever wanted to see Final Fight‘s Andore (Hugo) get beaten to a pulp, this trailer has you covered. Alex fully turns heel for this one, becoming ‘The Man With No Allies’ as he taunts his opponent and rebukes the crowd.

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Featuring FPS and visual enhancements, mouse controls & more.

The Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP – Switch 2 Edition got a last-minute delay in November 2025, but we’ve now got an update…at least for Japan.

According to the latest Dragami Games press release, it will be launching in this location on 26th March 2026 (this includes a physical release). Switch users who already own the game will be able to purchase the “Upgrade Pack” in this region for 1,100 yen (about $7).

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Here’s what they unlock.

Yesterday, Nintendo released a new trailer for Mario Tennis Fever, and in case you missed it, it highlighted amiibo support.

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Fire Emblem is the first release of 2026.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was originally teased for the Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s GameCube library last year, and it’s now been added to the service in the first update of 2026.

This tactical role-playing game was originally released on the GameCube in 2005. We’ll have a review up soon on Nintendo Life, so you’ll be able to find out more about it soon. For now, here’s some backstory:

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Further horizons.

Nihon Falcom has reiterated its support for the Nintendo Switch 2 today, and it plans to self-publish more major titles on the newest Nintendo console in the coming years.

That’s according to a report from GameBiz (translated by Automaton Media), where the creator of the Ys and Trails series has also teased that its currently working on a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 port of one of their existing titles. What that is, we don’t know yet, but we’ll likely find out at some point this year.

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But Switch still dominates.

Famitsu has published the latest boxed charts data from Japan, and it’s once again another success story for the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World. Both headline the hardware and software charts respectively, with Mario Kart World shifting another 94,645 units to total 2,668,381 lifetime sales.

Meanwhile, Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition has managed to surpass the 1 million milestone, totalling 1,004,154. The OG Switch version is still dominating, however, shifting a total of 1,529,823 units. This balance will begin to lean more toward Switch 2 in the coming years as more and more people upgrade, but the remarkably high install base for Switch means that Pokémon games its successor will, for the time being, struggle to keep up.

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One small step for man.

The long-running Trails series needs little introduction, as Falcom has been chipping away at this JRPG narrative for the better part of two decades across a variety of arcs and perspectives spread over more than a dozen interconnected games. While newcomers have traditionally been discouraged by the mountain of homework necessary to ‘get it’, Trails Through Daybreak offered a nice on-ramp for the series a couple of years ago, kicking off a fresh arc. After a somewhat disappointing sequel, many hoped Falcom would right the ship with Trails Beyond the Horizon and start offering some payoffs for the many plot threads it’s set up. Luckily, Falcom has started to get things moving, and this entry overall feels like an improvement over Trails Through Daybreak II, though it isn’t without its flaws.

Centred on the initiation of humanity’s first steps into space, this is narratively a continuation of the ‘Calvard arc’ that started with the first Daybreak game, but there’s also a good reason why this wasn’t simply called Trails Through Daybreak 3. While Van is (debatably) the primary character of this release, there are also two parallel story routes starring Kevin and Rean, two protagonists from previously concluded arcs who still have a role to play in the all-encompassing storyline now approaching a grand conclusion that the technological developments of Zemurian space exploration are bringing into focus.

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Fallout 4 arrives on Switch 2 this year.

Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition is on its way to the Switch 2 this year, and it might not be the only Fallout game returning in the future. This information comes from the same Windows Central report about “what to expect” from Xbox “this year, and beyond”.

According to the site’s executive editor Jez Corden, Fallout fans can “eventually” expect to see a “Fallout 3 remake in the vein of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered“, with Fallout New Vegas to also apparently receive the same treatment.

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Sales success has motivated the team.

Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles recently surpassed one million sales worldwide, and thanks to this success, future updates for the title are now being considered.

This information comes from the game’s director Kazutoyo Maehiro in a press release (shared via Gematsu):

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