Drab x Drive.
August is nearly over, and we’ve had two first-party releases this month: Kirby and the Long Title Nintendo Employees Are Obliged to Say in its Entirety and Drag x Drive.
The Kirby revamp just came out (and it’s very good) while Drag and Drive (yes, this one’s definitely an ‘and’) hit the courts back on 14th August. Are you still playing it? I’m willing to bet dozens of you are.
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Loop de loop.
To celebrate the newly-released movie adaptation of The Exit 8, the Switch version has received a minor, yet welcome upgrade for the Switch 2.
If you’re unaware of the premise, The Exit 8 takes place in a looping corridor within a Japanese metro station. Your job is to escape, but to do so, you’ll need to keep an eye on your surroundings, as each loop through the corridor may reveal some odd ‘anomalies’.
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Or have you Forgotten?
The weekend has crept up on us once again, so it’s time to kick back with a game or two.
Before we get to our plans, however, let’s look back on all the Nintendo news that happened this week. Honestly, it was a rather quiet one. Nintendo launched a series of stop-motion Mario shorts and the kid-focused Hello, Mario! app in Japan (which we went hands-on with), rumours of a September Nintendo Direct started bubbling away, and The Pokémon Company revealed another new Mega Evolution for Pokémon Legends: Z-A.
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“Just two months to go”.
Square Enix locked in an October release date for Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake earlier this year, and if you’ve been wanting an update about how it’s progressing, it’s now gone gold!
To mark this milestone, the official Dragon Quest social media account shared a photo of remake producer Masaaki Hayasaka alongside industry legend and “father of Dragon Quest”, Yuji Horii. The team has also taken the time to remind everyone how there’s now “just two months to go” until this anticipated release arrives.
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Keep on rollin’.
Last February, you might recall how our retro-focused sibling site Time Extension highlighted a new high-speed game called Rollin’ Rascal.
At the time, this Kickstarter project – drawing inspiration from 3D Sonic platformers and even Mario – had just reached its Nintendo Switch goal, and now, well over a year later, the development team Curiomatic has revealed the title will be coming to the Switch 2.
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Get readee.
After months of being drip-fed tiny nuggets of information regarding Yooka-Replaylee, Playtonic Games has finally announced that the game will launch on Switch 2 on 9th October 2025.
In addition, while a previous listing heavily hinted at the game receiving a proper physical release (i.e. no Game-Key Card), this has now been officially confirmed. Digital copies will be available via the Switch 2 eShop at $29.99, while physical copies will retail at $49.99.
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Aw, shoot.
Leave it up to Kazutaka Kodaka to come up with one of the weirdest stories in gaming, huh?
Following on from the outrageously ambitious The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy, the creator has now joined forces with developer Neilo on the new visual novel Shuten Order. I say ‘visual novel’, and that’s absolutely the overarching genre, but it also manages to feature five distinct sub-genres within its surprisingly lengthy story. Wild stuff.
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Every game we scored 9/10 or higher, plus a personal pick.
Nintendo of America is back at it again with yet another eShop sale to round out the summer.
Yes, the ‘Blockbuster Sale‘ is now live on the North American eShop, and will be bringing discounts aplenty to a bunch of sweet Switch 1 titles (and a Switch 2 game or two) until 10th September at 11:59pm PT.
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Fix this, insect.
Following the rollout of a new patch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC last week, the same has now been applied to System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster on the Nintendo Switch.
Patch 1.2 offers up a healthy batch of fixes and improvements, including gameplay tweaks, visual updates, and quality-of-life additions such as a separate save slot for quick saves. It’s all very welcome, and should go toward making an already-excellent game even better.
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But it will still add games to the voucher catalogue.
It’s been incredibly busy in the land of Nintendo recently with the arrival of the Switch 2, and in case you missed the initial announcement in July, Nintendo announced it would be discontinuing Switch Online Game Vouchers.
It has now issued another notice about this via its customer support social account for Japan – reminding Switch users that these vouchers will no longer be sold after 30th January 2026. It has also shared a notice about how the software currently listed for the voucher program does not include Switch 2 titles.
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