“Get ready for a whole new ball game”.
Last weekend, Nintendo held a special ‘Global Jam’ for the Switch 2 exclusive, Drag x Drive.
This game is described as “the next generation” of 3-on-3 sports, where you use the mouse controls to speed around the court, and flick your wrists to perform tricks and shoot some hoops. To top it off, you can join in on the fun with up to 12 players online.
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Treasure Tracker also got a Switch 2 upgrade recently.
Nintendo Music has received its weekly update today and this time it adds the soundtrack from Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker.
You’ll be able to listen to tracks like the game’s title theme, The King of Pyropuff Peak and much more. All up, this album contains a total of 58 tracks and has a runtime of 1 hour and 46 minutes.
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And the book’s still open.
25 years ago today, 11th August, Mario jumped into a whole new dimension.
Today marks the anniversary of the N64 turn-based RPG, Paper Mario — which is a pretty big deal, because that means the entire series is also celebrating its quarter-century anniversary. Feeling old yet?
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Faith revived.
I’m really beginning to wonder just how Nightdive Studios manages to fit in so many awesome projects. Last year, we had no less than five major releases from the team, including The Thing: Remastered, DOOM + DOOM II, and Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, and it’s clearly looking to achieve a similar degree of prolificacy in 2025. So far this year, we’ve had I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, and now – straight out of QuakeCon – Heretic + Hexen.
The latter, published by Bethesda Softworks, is a revamped bundle containing two ‘90s shooters from developer Raven Software (now one of the main studios cranking out Call of Duty titles for Activision). In addition to Heretic and Hexen, you’ve also got both games’ additional content, respectively titled ‘Shadow of the Serpent Riders’ and ‘Deathkings of the Dark Citadel’. Much like its work on DOOM + DOOM II in 2024, Nightdive Studios has also produced two completely new episodes with ‘Heretic: Faith Revived’ and ‘Hexen: Vestiges of Grandeur’.
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But will they learn from their McSteaks?
McDonald’s restaurants in Japan seem to have got a little more than they bargained for over this past weekend, as a promotion between Pokémon and the company’s Happy Meals had to shut down early. The reason? “Higher-than-expected sales”. However, it appears there’s more going on here — and, as you can guess, scalpers seem to be involved.
Reported on by Yahoo Japan and as seen on social media (cheers, MyNintendoNews) customers have been showing off counters in stores that are lined with wasted food, purchased only for the Pokémon cards inside. The promotion was originally due to run between 9th and 11th August, but was pulled after just 24 hours.
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A price that’s lite on your pocket.
Turtle Beach is one of the more well-known brands that’s already got an entry on our current list of best gaming headsets for Switch 2, and it looks like it may well be sniffing after another with its latest, rather snazzy-looking budget offering.
Turtle Beach’s Airlite Fir for Switch 2 is a little less expensive than the wireless Atlas Air headset that we’ve got placed on our best-of-list, though, to the tune of over £100, in fact. Yes, this brand new wired headset comes in at a very reasonable £19.99/€24.99, making it a hugely affordable bit of kit.
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For the Melody Motorway.
Ohhhhh, Zeebraaaa, Zeebraaaaa, ZEEBRAAAAA!~
Here I am, tapping out once again to the Zebra Bananza theme. It’s a song fit for Carnival, a blend of styles from all across Latin America — the Brazilian Samba, the Cuban Salsa, the Argentinian Tango. Every time DK beats his chest and transforms into the buffest Zebra you’ve ever seen, I attempt to sing along with Pauline, even though I don’t understand the Kong language.
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Someone’s sitting there, mate.
I’m the type of introvert who’s made an art of choosing the right seat in public places. With such honed skills, I assumed a puzzler like Is This Seat Taken? would be second nature, and I was mostly right. This adorable indie might not bring anything radical to the table, but it’s a perfectly pleasant pick-up-and-play experience, that will undoubtedly scratch any low-stakes puzzle itches.
Strung together by a loose story about a rhombus with dreams of treading the boards (yes, really), Is This Seat Taken is about organising people into the right spots so that everyone’s preferences are satisfied. This might be at the cinema or museum, a taxi or a boat, but each person (well, “shape” might be more accurate) has their own conditions to meet, and they can be rather fussy.
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Vote!
Welcome, cover fans, to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
Before we head into this week’s match-up, let’s have a quick reminder of what went down last weekend. It was a one-on-one face-off for the GBA’s The Hobbit, which saw the gloomy North American/European cover go up against the colourful Japanese variant. Somewhat surprisingly to us, it was the latter that walked away with a comfortable win, taking 68% of the vote and leaving the NA/EU cover with the remaining 32% — an unexpected journey indeed!
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An existential crisis courtesy of the Game Boy.
I recently started playing Metroid II: Return of Samus for the first time. I’m not sure why. Maybe it was a way of staving off my intense cravings for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, which as of writing still doesn’t have a launch date more concrete than the vague ‘2025’ window Nintendo revealed over a year ago. In any case, Metroid II impressed me almost immediately, but it wasn’t until I saw heroine Samus Aran die that I realised just how unique it is in relation to the rest of the series.
While the video game industry places a lot of importance on the benefits of more powerful hardware, developers can also do incredible things when presented with limitations. Metroid II, released in North America in late 1991 before making its way to Japan and Europe the following year, is a great example of this phenomenon. The changes made to ensure the nascent Metroid formula was readable on the Game Boy’s small, colourless screen resulted in a handheld adventure still praised today for its austere atmosphere.
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