Category: Nintendo

Update: Reassessing staffing, but the studio is not shutting down.

It’s been another tough week for the video game industry and the fallout from Microsoft’s layoffs led to funding cuts at John and Brenda Romero’s studio, Romero Games.

Now, following some claims the independent studio had completely shut its doors, Irish publication The Journal has got apparently got an official confirmation about this in a statement from Brenda Romero (thanks, Push Square).

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Not a paradox here.

Can you believe that the mobile AR game Pokémon GO is nine years old? We can’t; it only feels like yesterday we started taking our phones with us for ‘mon-catching trips.

The official GO X account shared some brand new artwork to celebrate the 9th anniversary, and it seems to include a couple of hints on what we can expect to see in the coming months.

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Debunker’d.

Missile Command Delta, from developers Mighty Yell (The Big Con) and 13AM Games (Runbow), is an experience of two halves.

The first is a turn-based strategy take on the classic Dave Theurer-developed arcade game Missile Command; one that shouldn’t work in theory, but genuinely does. The second is a misguided attempt to add context to the strategy gameplay by placing you in an underground bunker with a group of friends, forced to unlock its mysteries via first-person perspective. Frankly, I wish this second half had been left on the cutting room floor.

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Gaussian blur bros.

Intrepid fans have been doing some serious detective work on Nintendo’s N64 trailer from May and they think they’ve identified several as-yet-unannounced releases for Nintendo Switch Online.

As highlighted by @ImakuniVT (thanks, VGC), the section of the trailer showing off the app’s new CRT filter has the blurred game selection screen shown below the settings screen. Playing around with layers and a little Gaussian Blur, fans have been busy identifying potential games in the background, including Donkey Kong 64, Forsaken 64, Glover, Super Smash Bros., and Rayman 2.

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Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch 2.

Well well well — one month with the Switch 2, and we’re still swimming in eShop games. Yep, it’s time for eShop Selects for June 2025!

Who needs Mario Kart World when you’ve got backwards compatibility, eh? Just because we have a new console, doesn’t mean we’re just looking at Switch 2 games. And going forward, eShop Selects will be looking at eShop games on both consoles.

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Launching the same month as CrossWorlds.

Sega is promoting its upcoming release Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds in all sorts of ways, and apart from the game’s opening theme reveal earlier this week, it’s also recently teased a new animation.

This new animation celebrating Sonic’s latest racing game is scheduled to arrive this September (the same month as the game), and this initial preview was originally featured at Anime Expo. It shows Sonic and Shadow speeding along, but we don’t get much else.

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Always two, there are.

Hello there, young Padawans, are you ready to continue your training in the art of Box Art Brawl?

Before we become one with the Force, let’s look back to last week, where we saw a duel (of the fates) between two covers for Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. It was the European and Japanese cover that took the high ground in the end, snatching up 61% of the vote compared to North America’s 39%. *Insert falling LEGO Yoda sound effect here*

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The first three movies will be free to watch.

Back when Pokémon was taking off in the late ’90s, trainers around the globe were treated to the very first anime movie. It stars Ash, Pikachu and their friends, as well as a Pokémon battle “like never before” featuring Mew and Mewtwo.

If you’ve never got around to watching Pokémon: The First Movie, or just want to revisit it, the official Pokémon TV channel has now uploaded the entire film on YouTube. This will apparently be viewable for a “limited-time” and will be followed by Pokémon: The Movie 2000 and Pokémon 3: The Movie.

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The Virtuos team chimes in.

Even now that we’ve got our hands on the Switch 2, there are still developers sharing their thoughts about the power of the system and where it fits in. In the same interview with Wccftech, the Virtuos team was asked how the new Nintendo device holds up in terms of “raw console performance” and if it’s closer to an Xbox Series S or PlayStation 4.

According to Eoin O’Grady, who is technical director at Black Shamrock (a Virtuos studio and subsidiary), it’s a bit of both, depending on what aspect of the hardware you’re looking at. The GPU in the Switch 2 apparently performs “slightly below” the Series S (but does come with some added technologies) and as for the CPU, the Switch 2 is supposedly “closer” to the PlayStation 4.

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“The handheld market is growing right now”.

One company that backed the Switch throughout its life was the port specialist Virtuos – working on games like Dark Souls and The Outer Worlds for the hybrid platform. It might just be the beginning of the Switch 2’s life, but the same team is already sounding confident about the new hardware’s future.

Speaking to Wccftech recently, Eoin O’Grady – the technical director of Virtuos’ subsidiary Black Shamrock (Starlink: Battle for Atlas) – believes the Switch 2 will “surpass” the success of the original system.

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