Category: Nintendo

Y’know… just in case.

Virtual Game Cards is now a thing for the Nintendo Switch, letting you easily ‘eject and load’ titles from one console to another and lend digital games to family and friends, while providing a more elegant solution to redownloading your eShop games.

One small, yet notable addition includes the ability to hide your Virtual Game Cards. So if there’s anything in your collection that might be, shall we say, unsavoury to some, then you can simply hide it from view.

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Take a drive down memory lane.

It’s a big year for racing games in more ways than one and apart from the new open-world Mario Kart game, Sega will also be releasing its new Sonic Racing game.

In the leadup to this game’s release, it’s now uploaded a video (with narration by the YouTuber Sam Procrastinates) covering “the history of Sonic Racing”. This video highlights every notable Sonic Racing release starting with the 1994 Game Gear release Sonic Drift, before moving on to Sonic R and then going on to cover more of the modern entries including Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds.

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Out with the old (DK).

In case you somehow missed it, Donkey Kong has been given a new design in his upcoming Switch 2 release Donkey Kong Bananza.

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Between 300 to 400 people have lost their job.

Electronic Arts is reportedly laying off between 300-400 staff, with 100 of those coming from Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi developer Respawn, Bloomberg reports.

A spokesperson for EA told the publication that the Redwood City, California-based company has “made select changes within our organization that more effectively aligns teams and allocates resources in service of driving future growth.”

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“I don’t think they ever really liked DK 64 that much”.

If you cast your mind back to 2023 and the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, you may recall that composer extraordinaire Grant Kirkhope was rightfully bemused upon finding out that he didn’t get a credit at the end of the film, despite his ‘DK Rap’ playing a pretty prominent role in its contents. As it turns out, Nintendo did eventually provide an explanation for its exclusion, though it still doesn’t make a lot of sense.

In a recent interview with Eurogamer, the Donkey Kong 64 composer stated that he reached out to Nintendo for clarification on “why they didn’t just put my name on it” and was met by a policy with more than its fair share of caveats.

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Playing favourites.

We’re on the cusp of a new console generation and naturally thoughts are turning to games we know are coming and games we know must be coming. News flash: Nintendo is making another one of those Mario games. They seem to go down well?

So far, only Mario Kart and Donkey Kong have been confirmed for brand new, Switch 2-specific instalments with World and Bananza, although Metroid Prime 4‘s cross-gen launch means that Samus fans will be bounty-hunting on Nintendo’s next machine. And we’ve got a confirmed Kirby ride, too, as well as a return trip to a Forgotten Land.

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Marinara sauce, that is.

Brace Yourself Games’ long-awaited follow-up to Crypt of the NecroDancer, Rift of the NecroDancer, was every bit as cheesy as you would hope to see from a Guitar Hero-style rhythm puzzle adventure game (rolls off the tongue, eh?), and its upcoming DLC is going to get things even cheesier.

The beloved Wario Land-inspired indie Pizza Tower will soon be bringing the sauce to Rift of the Necrodancer, with an upcoming DLC pack containing a handful of tracks from Peppino’s high-octane platforming perils. This one arrives on Switch on 21st May (5th May on Steam), so make sure that you work up an appetite in the next few weeks.

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No, not that one.

Donkey Kong Bananza looks as if it could be filled with all sorts of DK (and Mario) lore from across the decades, and now a new video on the Nintendo Today! mobile app may have teased another detail.

New footage showing off DK’s various facial animations is backed by what appears to be the Rambi theme music, which dates back to the N64 outing Donkey Kong 64. There’s been no official announcement about DK’s buddy returning in his new outing just yet, but there’s mounting evidence.

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No docking.

The Switch 2 is getting a new dock and if you have been wondering whether you’ll be able to use your original Switch with it, apparently not.

According to a listing on Nintendo’s Japanese website (via Nintendo Everything), the original Switch systems seemingly can’t be used with the Switch 2 docking station. This includes the Switch, Switch Lite and Switch OLED devices.

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“I’m sure eBay will be very happy hearing about this”.

The Nintendo Switch 2 may be on the horizon, but millions of original Switch consoles remain in active use—and that means there’s still demand for accessories such as the Joy-Con Charging Grip.

Sadly, picking up one of these accessories comes with some serious risks; examples of counterfeit grips have been reported online. Along with the obvious potential dangers that fake and unregulated electronics bring with them, it would seem that these products often arrive in a completely non-functional state.

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