After Death Stranding 2 delivered solid results.
This week’s UK physical game charts are in, and it’s back to business as usual for Mario Kart World.
After being overtaken by the critically-acclaimed Death Stranding 2, the Switch 2 launch title has stormed back to number one, with EA Sports FC 25 snatching up second spot, leaving Sam Porter Bridge in third.
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Launching on Switch this September.
Spike Chunsoft has released a new gameplay trailer for Shuten Order, the new title from Danganronpa / The Hundred Line creator Kazutaka Kodaka. It provides our best look yet at the game’s multi-genre mechanics, with the story branching off into five distinct paths.
You play as Rei Shimobe, the founder of Shuten Order who has been resurrected into a temporary body following his murder. You’ll have to investigate one of Shuten Order’s ‘ministers’, with each case presenting you with a completely unique gameplay hook.
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Releasing on Switch 2 (and Switch) next month.
In case you missed it, Marvelous and XSEED are bringing Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar to the Switch 2 and Switch next month.
It’s already released some trailers and today it’s followed this up with a five-minute overview trailer – introducing players to their new life in Zephyr and the bazaar, where they’ll use all the services to grow their farm and make the community thrive once again.
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A great fit.
Nintendo has revealed it’s teaming up with Crocs, a “global leader” in casual footwear to release a special Animal Crossing-themed line. This new collection will launch next month on 26th August 2025 and will include both adult and children footwear. Here’s the full rundown:
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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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