Category: Nintendo

It’s a deep nest.

In case you’ve been living in the deepest, darkest cave imaginable, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally launching next week, on 4th September 2025. Fans have been waiting years to get their hands on the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Hollow Knight, and suddenly, we have just over a week to go.

Team Cherry has sold almost 15 million copies of its hit hand-drawn Metroidvania, but there are still many out there who have yet to dive into Hallownest.

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2 million units strong.

We knew that the Switch 2 had gotten off to a pretty strong start, but according to recent numbers from Circana’s Mat Piscatella, Nintendo’s new console is doing remarkably well in the US.

In a post on Bluesky, Piscatella confirmed that Switch 2 sales have now surpassed 2 million in the US. Not only that, but the console is currently outpacing the original Switch by 75%. 75%! That’s wild. According to Nintendo’s most recent financial release, the console surpassed a total of 6 million sales worldwide in the seven weeks following its launch.

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It’s already made the top 20 for 2025.

Circana has released data for game and hardware sales for July 2025 in the US, and despite a competitive month, Donkey Kong Bananza has made a bit of a splash.

Shared by Mat Piscatella on Bluesky, DK’s latest adventure was the third best-selling game of the month, beaten only by EA Sports College Football 26 and EA Sports MVP Bundle. It’s sandwiched between the two sports releases and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

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Star-crossed lovers.

Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 Edition release is almost here. Ahead of the catchily-titled Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star Crossed World *inhales* arriving on consoles tomorrow, the reviews are in… and they’re looking pretty strong.

As a reminder, this is the same base game as the 2022 3D platformer, with a bunch of new content in the shape of additional ‘Star-Crossed’ levels, new Mouthful Modes and more. It also makes the most of the Switch 2’s boosted power, offering crisp 60fps gameplay, no matter which mode you play.

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All will be made available on “new platforms”.

Atari and Ubisoft have announced that Atari has acquired the IP rights to five Ubisoft-published games with a view to make them available on new platforms.

The games in question are Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up. Notably, none of these have ever seen a release on Nintendo consoles, but with Atari’s focus on multi-platform titles in recent years, it’s reasonable to assume that some (if not all) may gain new life on the Switch and/or Switch 2.

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80 is the new 50.

Niantic’s popular augmented reality mobile game Pokémon GO will be getting an update in October, raising the level cap from 50 to 80.

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Cash in those Bells.

The day has finally arrived! After being revealed last month, Crocs has today launched its new Animal Crossing collection of clogs and Jibbitz on its North American site (they go live in Europe at 8am BST tomorrow morning).

For Croc heads like this writer, this is a cause for celebration. You see, the collection looks awesome. The standard clog is available in both adult and kids’ sizes, and will set you back $84.99 / $54.99 (£79.99/£54.99), depending on which size range you go for. For that hefty price, you get a pair of green platform clogs, decorated with iconic trees from the series on the main body, a sea pattern on the sole, and a sky pattern on the strap.

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A rebirth is afoot.

Publisher Acclaim, which was revived earlier this year after more than two decades of dormancy, is teasing some sort of announcement for next week.

It’s tough to know exactly what this entails at this stage, and the only clue within the above tease is a very quick cut to show some sort of digital, demonic face with power symbols surrounding it. We’ve screenshotted this and included it below for your perusal. Any ideas..?

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“Ready for the mega matchup of the millennium?”.

Another week, another Pokémon Legends: Z-A teaser. The Pokémon Company is teasing another YouTube Premiere for Thursday, 28th August 2025.

This is the second premiere in two weeks, following last week’s unveiling of Mega Victreebel. This time, the hook is a little more obvious – no purple goo, no darkly-lit areas, simply a piece of art (or video, from Instagram) showing a Hawlucha facing off against a Machamp.

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“47, your target is Frame Rate”.

IO Interactive has launched a new update for Hitman: World of Assassination – Signature Edition on the Switch 2.

The key improvement here is the game’s frame rate, which at launch failed to maintain its 60fps target at frequent intervals. The patch adds in a ‘Frame Rate’ option to stabilise the performance, and this will be turned on by default, which perhaps just goes to show how terrible it was before.

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