Category: Nintendo

From the un-egg-ceptable to the egg-ceptional, as ranked by you.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the European release of Yoshi’s Woolly World on Wii U, we’ve given this list a big ol’ make-over. Hopefully we’ll see more of the green dinosaur on Switch 2!

Yoshi! The little green dinosaur has been on our screens for a long time now, and while many first got to know him as an expendable resource in Super Mario World that helps Mario get extra height on his jump, he’s much more than that.

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Parkour and open worlds to the rescue.

Level-5 has certainly been riding quite the high of late with the release of its very well-received Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. We gave the game a 9/10 in both its Switch and Switch 2 forms, so we can confirm it’s a bit of a banger.

Now, straight off the back of all this success, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has revealed that a huge aspect of the game’s positive reception is actually due to some crucial and very clever changes the dev team started implementing into the adventure just a year ago!

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Tamagotchi Plaza! Ruffy and the Riverside! Locomoto!

Yes, it’s back! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, delivering a host of new games to the eShop in North America. No, we didn’t forget about it over the past few weeks, it’s just a little thing called the Switch 2 has kept us faaaairly busy.

As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

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Dead drop.

Dying Light is one of those absolutely huge games that just shouldn’t really work on a Switch. It’s way too big, it’s way too pretty, and it’s way too action-packed. Or at least that’s what we thought, until Techland served us up a solid port of its excellent zombie survival epic that ran just fine on Nintendo’s dinky little machine. The wizards!

Now, however, it seems as though we may not be getting treated to any more magic, for the time-being at least, from this particular Polish dev. Yes, as detailed on Techland’s official blog (thank you, Eurogamer), the Switch version of Dying Light will be skipping the brand new ‘Retouched’ update that’s bringing a bunch of audio and visual slickness to versions on other, more powerful hardware.

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Try it out on the Switch 2 now.

To mark the 47th Maximus Cup in the Switch Online battle royale Tetris 99, Nintendo will be revisiting multiple themes from tomorrow onwards. This also happens to be the first cup event for the Switch game since the arrival of the Switch 2.

Round one will kick off with Super Mario Bros. Wonder and will be followed by Splatoon 3 (and the Expansion Pass paid DLC), Pikmin 4, and last but not least The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD.

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But it will support 12 players online.

Nintendo is bringing out a new “fast-paced” multiplayer game this August called Drag x Drive, where players will be able to “shoot hoops” with the Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 dual-mouse controls.

Following the release date announcement earlier this week, the eShop listing for this upcoming title has now revealed this “3-on-3” sports title will actually support double this amount online, bumping the fun up to 12 players. Further details about this have not been provided just yet.

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Update on the Switch 2 today.

Nintendo has been rolling out game updates every week since the Switch 2 arrived earlier this month, and we’ve now got a new patch for Mario Kart World.

This follows a small patch last week and bumps the game up to Version 1.1.2. It comes with some general adjustments and also resolves some more issues you may or may not have encountered during the game’s races. If we find out what else is going on behind the scenes with this one, we’ll let you know.

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Needs more time to compile.

No matter how much I learn about the workings of computers, it will always be Tron in there. Little programs, running around on the Grid, trying to keep the whole system from falling apart. So, Tron: Catalyst felt right up my street. It does a great job of visually replicating that digital world and there is a great idea at its core. Unfortunately, the gameplay didn’t quite live up to the premise. By the end, I was left feeling like the program needed more time to compile.

Tron: Catalyst starts strong – we are introduced to a courier program named Exo who, due to a package exploding in her hands, begins glitching. Her glitches cause her to relive loops of time over and over, a power she uses to escape from prison and uncover a conspiracy surrounding the approaching reset of the Grid. There are competing factions trying to preserve or destroy the Grid; Core seeks to control the Grid with brute force while Automata seek to impart free will to all programs.

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Be quick!

If you’re keen to pick up the upcoming Donkey Kong and Pauline amiibo to cooincide with the release of Donkey Kong Bananza next month, you’re in luck: it’s now available via the My Nintendo Store in the UK.

Priced at £16.99, the amiibo will launch on 17th July 2025 and will unlock an in-game ‘Diva Dress’ costume for Pauline when used with Donkey Kong Bananza itself.

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Just like the first game.

Nintendo Pictures, a Nintendo-owned subsidiary specialising in the production of “visual content”, has been revealed to have worked on the new PS5 title Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.

As covered by VGC, the company can be spotted in the credits for the game and specifically helped out on motion capture. While this might come as a bit of a surprise, it’s important to note that Nintendo Pictures had also worked on the original Death Stranding in a similar capacity, though this was before its acquisition when it was still called Dynamo Pictures.

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