Category: Nintendo

Who do SKU think you’re kidding?

An Emmy award-winning audio engineer has taken to social media in order to call out his local GameStop store, which he claims has been attempting to force expensive Switch 2 bundles on its customers in an attempt to cash in on the high demand for the console in the US.

As first reported over at The Shortcut, Elea Tsentzelis, who has worked as an audio engineer on the likes of MTV’s recent Family Legacy, and won an Emmy as part of a sound team on ‘The Daily Mail’, posted that his local GameStop in Astoria, New York, was forcing unwanted screen protectors and other such accessories on customers who had rocked up hoping to secure one of a small amount of units available at the location.

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Pre-orders are now live.

Although Nintendo’s first-party titles for the Switch 2 won’t take up much space, it seems the early batch of third-party games will.

Following details about multiple file sizes for a bunch of games earlier this week, Nintendo’s official website has now listed the game file size for EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26 and it’s apparently 62 GB.

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Don’t let this gem disappear unloved into the long dark night.

After eight years of articles and YouTube content covering the Switch, you might think there are no surprises left to uncover, but I’m here to say that the very best couch multiplayer on the system – a game by Nintendo themselves – was completely missed by seemingly everyone on the planet. There’s barely any mention of it online except for my own desperate Reddit posts trying to find someone who agrees with me.

What’s more, due to the peripherals it came packed with, it’s currently very difficult to buy – and it’s also one of the only games Nintendo have listed as being unplayable on the Switch 2.

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Available this August.

SEGA is reviving its ninja classic Shinobi with the help of Lizardcube this August and in the lead up it’s sharing new details and footage.

The latest update is a ‘stage introduction’ showing off the general design and flow of levels. While this is a 2D action platformer, there will be a bit more on offer as you can see towards the end of this trailer. The “hand-drawn look” also comes from the same team behind Streets of Rage 4.

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Arriving June 5th.

The GameCube library will be joining the Switch 2’s online ‘Expansion Pack’ tier this June and one of three launch titles for this particular collection is Link’s cel-shaded adventure The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Nintendo’s new app ‘Nintendo Today!‘ has been sharing some additional footage of this title in action on the Switch 2 and earlier this week it featured more gameplay footage. This includes Link using all his gear to overcome various obstacles and you can even see him conduction some music.

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Doug Bowser: There’s no specific time you “must launch video games”.

Nintendo has confirmed the Switch 2 will be arriving on 5th June 2025, but why exactly did it choose this specific month?

Speaking to NPR recently, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser revealed some of the reasons behind this decision – explaining how there is really no specific time frame as to when you “must” launch video games, or a console in this case, and both the hardware and games were “ready to launch”.

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Out with the old?

Buying a new console on or close to its launch date (or, in some cases, at any point during its lifespan) can be exceptionally costly.

It’s often a good option, then, to flog your current-gen console and get a discount off your next hardware purchase, especially if the new one is backwards compatible. In the case of the Switch 2, GameStop has confirmed that it is offering a pretty reasonable deal in the US if you trade in your old Switch towards the new system.

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Download it now.

The team at Nightdive Studios have rolled out a new update for Turok‘s Switch eShop release and multiple other platforms.

Patch 3.0.1013 includes a whole list of Switch-specific updates. This includes fixes, some new options, and much more. Here are the full patch notes for this latest update (via Nightdive Studios’ official website):

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See what’s arriving this June.

With Switch 2 pre-orders going live in multiple locations this week, various game developers have used this second round of excitement to showcase their upcoming games for the new platform.

This round up includes some new third-party game pre-order trailers as well as some we may have already showcased here on Nintendo Life:

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The game arrives on Switch 2 this June.

Josef Fares and Hazelight’s latest co-op action-adventure Split Fiction is on the way to the Switch 2 this June and now to add this, Variety is reporting the upcoming movie adaptation has cast Sydney Sweeney.

Sweeney’s role has not been decided yet, but according to Variety’s “sources” she’ll be playing either Zoe or Mio. Jon M. Chu (Wicked) is reportedly directing and the script is supposedly being handled by the Deadpool & Wolverine screenwriters.

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