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  • 0 / April 18th, 2025 / Roberto Diaz

    Glover’s first patch aims to deliver smoother experience to players through fixes and improvements


  • 0 / April 18th, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

    Star Wars Outlaws will launch on Switch 2 this September, new DLC slated for mid-May


  • 0 / April 18th, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

    Switch 2 physical edition of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will contain both Switch 1 and 2 versions


  • 0 / April 18th, 2025 / Peter Glagowski

    Lunar Remastered Collection now available, physical version exclusive to Amazon


  • 0 / April 18th, 2025 / Jason Ganos

    Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders open April 24 in the US — Accessory prices increase


Recent Articles

  • Glover’s first patch aims to deliver smoother experience to players through fixes and improvements

    A port of Glover was released back in February of this year and now, QUByte Game Studio has announced an update releasing on April 23rd! Included in this patch are the following:   Achievements: Fixed descriptions and unlock conditions for various achievements.  Prehistoric World – Bonus Stage: Adjusted Garibs placement…

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    April 18th, 2025

  • Star Wars Outlaws will launch on Switch 2 this September, new DLC slated for mid-May

    We’ve known since the Switch 2 Direct that Ubisoft’s open-world title Star Wars Outlaws would be coming to Nintendo’s next-generation handheld. What we haven’t known is when it will be released beyond a vague 2025 date. As part of the Star Wars Celebration this year, Lucasfilm has revealed some new…

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    April 18th, 2025

  • Switch 2 physical edition of Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma will contain both Switch 1 and 2 versions

    It’s been a never-ending stream of confusion and misinformation when it comes to the Nintendo Switch 2. With Nintendo adopting a radio silence approach, it’s fallen on the public to figure out all of the specifics of Nintendo’s vague information, and a new wrinkle has just been thrown into the…

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    April 18th, 2025

April 9th, 2025 0

Switch Online’s GameCube controllers for Switch 2 will only function with the GameCube app

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News, Retro, Switch 2

There’s a key detail about the upcoming wireless GameCube controllers for Switch 2 that we all seem to have missed: they will only function with the GameCube app provided with a Switch Online subscription. As noticed by Nintendo Everything, the fine print in the UK version of the “GameCube Nintendo…

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April 9th, 2025 0

Red from Angry Birds flies into Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble as paid DLC

Author: Roberto Diaz
Categories: Switch, News

A brand-new character flies into Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble! Red from the Angry Birds franchise has been added as paid DLC, and while playing as Red, various items around the course will change to match. Bananas will turn into feathers, bunches of bananas are now tufts of feathers, and…

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April 9th, 2025 0

Nintendo reportedly won’t be launching the Switch 2 in China as it evaluates demand and government regulations

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News, Switch 2

In a bit of news that will certainly be disappointing for our fellow gamers overseas, a new report from Nikkei has stated that Nintendo has chosen not to launch the Switch 2 in China just yet. According to the outlet, Nintendo has chosen to forgo a launch in the region…

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April 9th, 2025 0

73 Luigi’s Mansion (GameCube) tracks added to Nintendo Music

Author: Roberto Diaz
Categories: News, Retro

In this week’s Nintendo Music update, Luigi is getting all the love with all tracks from Luigi’s Mansion! Luigi’s Mansion first released back on GameCube in 2001 as a launch title for the console and was very well received, becoming the start of a franchise that spawned two sequels and…

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April 8th, 2025 0

Nintendo’s Doug Bowser believes developers are what make its games special, not AI

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News

AI might be all the rage in the tech sector, but Nintendo doesn’t appear to be embracing it anytime soon. In an interview with CNBC, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser was questioned about AI, and he made a pretty clear statement about how the company views it.   “We…

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April 8th, 2025 0

Nintendo officially delays pre-orders of the Switch 2 in Canada

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News, Switch 2

Last week, Nintendo announced that it would be delaying the pre-order date for the Switch 2 in the United States “in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.” While the company stressed the console would still be releasing on June 5th, 2025, the recent tariffs…

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April 8th, 2025 0

Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will not have general achievement system

Author: Roberto Diaz
Categories: News, Switch 2

In a move that has shocked nobody, Nintendo Switch 2 will not have a console-wide achievements system like the PlayStation or Xbox. Polygon was able to speak to VP of Player/Product Experience Bill Trinen and he confirmed that achievements would not be included on the upcoming console.  Switch 2 will…

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April 8th, 2025 0

Cyberpunk 2077 for Switch 2 will have the full game on a cart, CD Projekt Red confirms max size is 64 GB

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News, Switch 2

With the upgraded components inside the Switch 2, the console is now capable of playing drastically more advanced games than its predecessor. One such is Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red’s followup to The Witcher 3 that was troublesome for even the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One when it released in…

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April 8th, 2025 0

Switch 2’s ‘game-key cards’ won’t be console or account locked

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News, Switch 2

Following the Switch 2 Direct last week, Nintendo updated its official website to reveal a new type of cartridge it will be producing for certain Switch 2 titles. Dubbed the “game-key card,” it basically is a key to unlocking a downloadable version of the game, with the card acting as…

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April 7th, 2025 0

System transfers to Switch 2 won’t erase original Switch save data, except for Animal Crossing

Author: Daniel Dell-Cornejo
Categories: News, Switch, Switch 2

Nintendo has confirmed the way system transfers will work when moving from Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2: A copy of data, like saves, will remain on the source system — with the exception of Animal Crossing: New Horizons data. The company shared the information with Polygon during an interview…

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April 7th, 2025 0

Nintendo didn’t account for tariffs with the Switch 2 price, but it has sent extra stock to retailers

Author: Peter Glagowski
Categories: News, Switch 2

Nintendo was likely hoping that its Switch 2 Direct would steer discussion towards excitement for the next generation of Nintendo hardware, but the sad reality of the economic situation in the United States has thrown a lot of that into a blender. With President Trump’s global tariffs destabilizing the global…

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April 7th, 2025 0

Here’s why the Nintendo eShop won’t be getting background music back anytime soon

Author: Abbie Maxwell
Categories: News, Switch 2

One of the major turning points in the history of console gaming was the advent of built-in digital game stores. These built-in shopping services soon became beloved in their own right, with applications like the Wii Shop Channel living on in the minds of many thanks in part to its…

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