Money+.
Just a week after Ubisoft announced it was making a huge amount of cuts and cancellations in order to aid efficiency and corporate restructuring, the French studio has confirmed it will be increasing the price of Just Dance+ subscriptions from April 2026.
The streaming service, which launched back in November 2022, can be used in-game from Just Dance 2023 Edition onward, and gives you access to even more songs from the series’ back-catalogue.
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Batting up in March.
With the arrival of the Switch 2, we’ve finally been getting some parity across the multiplatform sports games across all consoles, with EA and 2K’s offerings being much-better than their Switch 1 counterparts.
We thought we’d see the same from Sony’s MLB The Show 26, which has been confirmed for a 17th March 2026 release alongside the reveal of cover star Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, who is returning to front for the second time.
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Bould over.
Terraria dev Re-Logic is kicking off 2026 in style with the monster ‘Bigger and Boulder’ update, rolling out on Switch today.
As is so often the case with Terraria content updates, this is a big one. The headline additions are a new crafting interface and inventory management tweaks, a fresh World Seed menu, and brand new Dead Cells and Palworld crossover content. Of course, there’s much more besides, including improved lighting and language support, new blocks and decor, bonus transformations and more bug fixes than you’d think possible.
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An Intelligent Systems top-down adventure also on the way.
We now know the launch line-up for the Virtual Boy – Nintendo Classics service, coming to Nintendo Switch Online on 17th February 2026. And while it’s all worth getting excited over, there are two never-before-released games coming out later in the year that Nintendo enthusiasts should be particularly excited about.
Right at the end of the brand new overview trailer (at around 3:07), Nintendo showed off footage from two cancelled Virtual Boy games that will be playable for the first time ever via Nintendo Switch Online — Zero Racers and D-Hopper (also known as Dragon Hopper). Both of these will be coming to the service sometime in 2026.
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An unexpectedly big one.
Nintendo has announced that Splatoon 3‘s next update is expected to launch later this month, bringing a fresh dose of battle balances to the Splatlands.
As revealed by the official @SplatoonJP Twitter account, the update is currently planned for a 29th January arrival, with “balance changes to battles and changes to some battle-related systems” (translated via Google) being the main attraction this time.
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Celebrating the “first look” at Yoshi.
Last weekend, Nintendo aired a special Direct presentation for its upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which is due out in cinemas this April.
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Is that…?
If you’re wondering what could be on the way to the Switch Online’s GameCube library in the future, you might want to read on…
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Download it now.
We recently heard how Kirby Air Riders would be getting its first update of 2026 and possibly last major game update.
Version 1.3.0 has now officially gone live. Here are the full patch notes via Nintendo’s support page:
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Early-bird price expires today.
Over the coming years, we’re likely to see a bunch of alternatives to the Switch 2’s Joy-Con, but NYXI’s new Hyperion 3 looks like it might be a solid early contender.
Available for pre-order now via the NYXI website, you can currently take advantage of a 30% ‘early-bird’ discount, bringing the price down to £88 for those in the UK. This is only valid for the remainder of the day, by which point the price will return to £125.
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In certain parts of the world.
Yesterday, Nintendo finally gave us our first look at Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, thanks to a Nintendo Direct and a brand new trailer. And while Yoshi — and some other Mario series cameos — stole the spotlight, there’s one piece of additional news that fans in certain countries can get excited about.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming out on 1st April 2026, two days earlier in the US “and many additional markets globally”. The new date was shown at the end of the trailer yesterday, with Nintendo confirming the news online.
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