Category: Nintendo

Born to Play… on Switch 2.

Despite somewhat meagre sales when compared to the rest of the Nintendo console line-up (Wii U notwithstanding), the GameCube is widely considered to be one of the very best in terms of its games catalogue.

Indeed, several titles from the GameCube – including Metroid Prime, Pikmin, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Resident Evil 4, and more – have already been ported or revamped for the Nintendo Switch, all of which remain as enjoyable today as they were back in the early ‘00s.

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Grid and bear it.

It has been a long old time since we’ve seen a Madden game on a Nintendo system (you have to go right back to the Wii U’s Madden NFL 13 to find the last one, in fact), but this week, that all could change.

As reported by VGC, the rumour mill has started a-churning about this year’s entry in the American football series, suggesting that a release date will be revealed this week. Normally, this wouldn’t interest us Nintendo fans, but let’s not forget that EA has promised the series is heading to Switch 2. Might Madden NFL 26 finally be the entry we see back on Nintendo systems?

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Yeah, that’s a lot.

With the recent addition of the GBA title Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion, the paid service now boasts a total of 300 playable titles in the West.

So to be clear, this count excludes SP titles, Japanese exclusives, and the upcoming line-up of GameCube titles for the Switch 2. And yes, just to address the elephant in the room, we would have already hit 300 titles if it weren’t for the removal of Super Soccer back in March.

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“It made me nostalgic in all the right ways”.

If you haven’t seen the new Nintendo Switch 2 commercial featuring Paul Rudd, where have you been? It’s a delightful throwback to one of the Ant Man and Anchorman actor’s first ever acting roles, a SNES commercial from 1991. It’s daft, it’s silly, and we didn’t think we could love Rudd anymore.

Following the commercial’s release, IGN published an interview with the actor who talked about reuniting with Nintendo 34 years after their first partnership.

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I am compelled—I must approach it.

Captain’s log, stardate 202504.21. Following our last Catch-up Crew mission to Shadow Moses Island, the crew has enjoyed extended shore leave having (re)acquainted ourselves with Metal Gear Solid.

Our new assignment takes us to the M-class world of PNF-404. However, ship instruments indicate that we haven’t left Sector 001. I’ve asked senior staff to join me in Stellar Cartography to ascertain our precise position, but in the meantime, the crew has been preparing for the away mission.

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The ones that got away.

We’re approaching a brand new hardware generation, so naturally, it’s time to look back and stress about all of those great Switch 1 games we haven’t played. Yep, it’s time for us to ask you lovely lot to tell us about the Games We Missed.

With backwards compatibility coming to the Switch 2, and a whole host of gems on the eShop, there’s no reason to hold off on picking up some new games. So we want you to tell us what your Switch favourites are from games we haven’t reviewed. We do this twice a year, and last time you managed to provide us with 41 excellent-looking titles such as Touhou Luna Nights, Arco, stitch., and Satryn DX

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“We have a long, long catalogue”.

We’ll admit it, we all thought a new 3D Mario game would be the star of the show in Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal. Donkey Kong Bananza took that spot instead, but that’s not to say that Nintendo hasn’t been cooking something up for its prized plumber. At least, that’s what Nintendo of America’s Doug Bowser seems to be teasing.

The NoA president has been in and out of interviews since the upcoming console’s announcement, and in a recent conversation with CNN, he made a passing comment about the next mainline Mario. It’s a tiny tease, we’ll admit, but it was enough to get us excited, nonetheless.

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CD Projekt RED spills the beans.

CD Projekt RED has confirmed to Digital Foundry that the Switch 2 launch title, Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, will make use of DLSS, Nvidia’s AI-powered upscaling system.

“We’re using a version of DLSS available for Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, powered by Nvidia’s Tensor cores,” a CD Projekt RED representative told Digital Foundry. “The game utilises DLSS in all four modes: in handheld and docked, and the performance and quality variations of each.”

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Forever with you; never with us.

True love lasts forever – and so do some games. Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You, the legendary dating sim from 1995, is hooking up with Switch next month to celebrate 30 years on the scene.

Immaculately presented but bewilderingly complex, TokiMemo is a foundational piece of video game history that defined a whole genre, along with the increasingly universal mechanics of video game love. But for most players outside Japan, it fires nostalgia for someone else’s youth – and with no English release, it remains tantalisingly out of reach.

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Deep sea DIY.

Australian developer Winterwire Games has revealed that its deep sea puzzle platformer Power Sink will be launching on the Nintendo Switch on 22nd May 2025 for $14.99 USD / $22.95 AUD / £12.79 / €14,79.

We must admit that when we first caught the trailer above, we immediately thought it looked like a cute platforming take on Bioshock. Naturally, there are no Plasmids or Splicers hanging about, but the main character almost certainly looks similar to the Big Daddy.

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