Category: Nintendo

“A brand new, original story-led adventure”.

Bluey, the popular Australian animation for children, is getting a new video game on the Switch and Switch 2 in 2026.

It’s officially titled Bluey’s Quest for the Gold Pen and is an “original story-led adventure game” by the show’s creator Joe Brumm. Halfbrick – the Fruit Ninja studio based in Bluey’s hometown of Brisbane – will be bringing this title to Nintendo platforms and other systems in partnership with PM Studios.

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Approximately half of the sales were for Switch 2.

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Legends: Z-A has sold a total of 5.8 million copies worldwide in its first week.

This includes the combined sales of the Switch and Switch 2 physical releases as well as digital downloads. According to the official press release, approximately half of these sales are for the Switch 2. In comparison, Pokémon Legends: Arceus sold 6.5 million copies worldwide in its first week.

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Also, he’s not planning to make it an “ongoing series”.

So many games nowadays come loaded with DLC, or at least plans for some other paid content drop in the future, but when it comes to the upcoming Switch 2 release Kirby Air Riders, you’ll be getting the full package on release.

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Save those caps.

Today’s Fallout Day Broadcast delivered a very nice surprise to Switch 2 owners: Bethesda is bringing Fallout 4 to the hybrid console in 2026 in the form of Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition.

The Anniversary Edition includes the base game and all six official add-ons — Automatron, Far Harbor, Nuka-World, and the three Workshop expansions. Plus there’s over 150 pieces of Creation Club content to discover. New weapons, different breeds of Dogmeat (that’s your dog companion in-game, in case you’ve never heard of this good boy), new quests… it’s a big ol’ package, let’s just say.

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New features also get a release date.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, The Pokémon Company has lifted the lid on a brand new expansion that will be arriving in the app next week.

The “Mega Rising’ expansion bursts onto the scene one week today, on 30th October, and, as the name suggests, it’ll bring a Mega Evolution twist to proceedings. Mega Gyarados, Mega Blaziken and Mega Altaria take to the covers of this new set, and all users will receive one of each on launch day for free.

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Sakurai 2.0.

Yes, you read that right, Masahiro Sakurai is back for another Nintendo Direct presentation all about Kirby Air Riders.

The game’s second showcase gets underway today at 2pm BST / 3pm CET / 6am PT / 9am ET, and promises another 60 minutes of info about the upcoming Kirby racer — pfft, and there we were thinking that we had seen everything already.

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Every game we scored 9/10 or higher, plus a personal pick.

Forget your pumpkins and sweets, Nintendo knows that the best way to celebrate the spooky season is with a big old eShop sale.

Hot off the back of the North American ‘Screaming Deals‘ discounts, the ‘Halloween Sale‘ is now live on European eShops, bringing some pretty delightful price cuts to a range of Switch titles — with a few Switch 2 newbies thrown in for good measure. This one will only be sticking around until 2nd November, so make the most while it lasts.

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“Power up your holidays”.

Two new unlisted Switch 2 lifestyle commercials for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond have been spotted on Nintendo’s official YouTube page. They’re titled “Power Up Your Holidays”, so we’ll seemingly be seeing them in the lead up to the Christmas season.

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Multiple projects are in development.

If you haven’t been keeping a close eye on the Tales Of series, Bandai Namco is reviving Tales of Xillia as a remaster next week. So, what about Tales of Xillia 2?

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Update: Game surpasses one million sales as Joker arrives.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has already got a huge cast of characters and apparently Sega might not be done just yet.

Speaking to Polygon at the Brasil Game Show recently, the series producer Takashi Iizuka mentioned how DLC could potentially stretch beyond a year. It all depends on how much attention the game is getting from fans and the feedback the team is receiving.

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