Category: Nintendo

New features, but no game update.

Switch Online’s ‘Nintendo Classics’ library has this week been expanded with Forsaken 64 and the Japan-only release, Magical Vacation. Although the GBA title hasn’t been made available locally, the app here has received an update, bumping it up to Version 3.0.0.

Firstly, the official banner and icon for this app have been updated – swapping out the ‘Switch Online’ branding for ‘Nintendo Classics’. Apart from this, there’s reportedly been some added “functionality” including button remapping options along with 1080p support in handheld mode on Switch 2.

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Update: Forsaken 64 is now available.

Nintendo has announced it’s bringing the first-person shooter Forsaken 64 to its “Mature” Switch Online + Expansion Pack app.

The Acclaim Entertainment title, released on the Nintendo 64 in 1998 and developed by Iguana UK, will be arriving for the Switch and Switch 2 online service on 4th September 2025. Here’s the official Nintendo description:

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But it is a Game-Key Card.

IO Interactive’s 007 First Light was one of the most surprising Switch 2 reveals during the April 2025 Nintendo Direct. The Hitman developers were already giving us its World of Assassination trilogy, but a brand new game — let alone a James Bond game? — yes please.

Now, courtesy of today’s 007 First Light State of Play, James Bond’s origin story will be gracing the Switch 2 at the same time as other consoles, on 27th March 2026. The game will cost $79.99 / €79.99 / £69.99 (or your regional equivalent), with the Switch 2 version being a Game-Key Card release.

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Now that’s a Hot Shot.

Easy Come Easy Golf, the game from the former Everybody’s Golf developers ClapHanz, has just received a surprise free update on Switch, which includes Switch 2 support and a 60fps mode.

Version 1.9.8 arrived earlier today and includes a caddy’s worth of improvements for load times, grid display, and 1080p support for the larger Switch 2 screen.

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A good walk spoiled.

Fans of Everybody’s Golf have had to twiddle their one-gloved thumbs for a while now, waiting since 2017 for a new official entry in the series. Mashing together the series’ previously regionally distinct names (Everybody’s Golf and Hot Shots Golf), Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots has finally stepped up to the tee. Have series newcomers Hyde (Tamagotchi Plaza) hit a hole in one, or is this more like a triple bogey? Well, a bit of both really.

For almost all of its history, Everybody’s Golf was developed by Clap Hanz and published by Sony. Hyde is in the driving seat now, with Bandai Namco on the publishing side, unlocking the series from PlayStation for the first time. However, they’re clearly working from the same playbook, keeping what works best in the series while adding some novel ideas of their own.

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“it’ll be a different version with different tech”.

The Resident Evil series has seen pretty strong representation on the Switch, but it’s perhaps safe to say that fans aren’t best pleased with some titles being relegated to ‘Cloud Versions’.

We’re still waiting to see whether Capcom is keen to re-release RE2, RE3, RE7, and RE Village natively on the Switch 2, but for now, it seems the company is potentially considering bringing its latest entry to Nintendo’s new hardware.

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So fresh.

Nintendo’s been busy this week with the release of a new firmware update for the Switch and Switch 2, and now a Splatoon 3 patch has been announced.

This will bump the game up to Version 10.1.0 on both systems and includes multiplayer changes and a bunch of other adjustments. As mentioned at the very end of these patch notes, the update after this will apparently focus on changes to the balance of battles.

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Download it now.

Super Mario Party Jamboree has received a new update on the Switch and Switch 2 this week.

It includes general changes on the Switch 2, including some improvements, difficulty adjustments and several other changes. And on the Switch, there are multiple adjustments and fixes.

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Knives out.

Regarding modern augmentations, SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound — released not even a month apart — have a lot of overlap. Yet, after 45 minutes of play, I was convinced that Art of Vengeance is one of the finest 2D Ninja action games ever made. Perhaps the finest; and such praise doesn’t come lightly.

After Ragebound’s dazzle, I was unsure if Shinobi could top it; yet it has. Visually beautiful, broadly artistic, and almost calligraphic in nature, the styling is well-married to its Japanese thematic. Natural elements of wood, cloth, and stone fuse with heavy machinery, concrete and military steel, the rural areas reflecting the painted landscapes of Hokusai and Taikan.

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Mecha for robot-fighting fans?

Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion arrives at an interesting time in these early months after the release of Switch 2. There haven’t been many AAA-styled heavy-hitters to push this system so far, certainly not in terms of action games, at least. And so, Titanic Scion feels like it should give us a reasonable idea of how the console is positioned to handle this type of experience.

And it’s a rough first pass. The console’s just out, and this is a big old game with a whole lot going on, so it follows, rather unsurprisingly, that some issues are present, and concessions have had to be made to get it running on Nintendo’s machine. It turns out the Switch 2 really isn’t a pocket PS5 after all! But we knew that, you and I. It just stings a little when your new console can’t play the new thing as nice as some other, not-quite-as-new consoles.

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