Category: Nintendo

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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“BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!”.

Horror fans on PC have been raving about R.E.P.O., developed by Swedish studio semiwork. It’s an online co-op game which launched back in February 2025 where you and up to five friends need to work together to discover a long lost age of humanity. You need to balance quiet and careful with panic and hilarity as chaos ensues. It went viral when it dropped early access, and rightly so.

So, if you’re browsing the Switch eShop and happen to spot something that looks very similar, a warning: don’t buy it. Over on the NintendoSwitch subreddit, one user is cautioning fans about a “total fake” game called “REPO Horror“, and the evidence is pretty damning,as Gamesradar and PC Gamer report.

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Part 10 – The saga continues.

Welcome to the tenth instalment of our ‘Games We Missed’ series.

Twice a year we round up a bunch of stragglers, many of which we had on our list to review but just couldn’t get to due to the sheer number of games launching every week, some of which totally slipped through the net.

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Clearly not ready to roll.

Yesterday saw the flood gates open for a whole bunch of Nintendo pre-orders across the US, including a first chance to pick up the new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Sage amiibo. We’ve been excited to get our hands on these initial fab four since they were revealed in the Switch 2 Direct, but, as many discovered yesterday, only three of them showed up to play.

Riju, Tulin and Sidon are all present and correct, with pre-orders appearing on the likes of GameStop, Walmart and Best Buy as expected, but our beloved Yunobo is nowhere to be seen. The US pre-order information for the Goron Sage still hasn’t appeared online, and we’ve read that any in-store attempts have been just as fruitless.

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Keep the extensions coming.

Aside from the usual track additions, Nintendo occasionally performs Nintendo Music updates to tweak the content that’s there, rather than adding anything new. One such patch has been applied today, focusing on letting us all play tunes for longer.

As brought to our attention on BlueSky by OatmealDome, the music app has today added its ‘Extended Playback’ feature to a bunch of tracks, increasing the number of tunes that you can play for up to an hour.

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Update: Elena returns with new gameplay footage.

Capcom announced it would be bringing Street Fighter 6 to the Switch 2 last week and today it has confirmed the release date of the final ‘Year 2’ DLC fighter Elena.

This character (first appearing in Street Fighter III: New Generation) will be released the same day as Street Fighter 6’s Switch 2 launch on 5th June 2025. She’ll be available across all the game’s modes including World Tour, the Battle Hub, and Fighting Ground.

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