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  • Killer Instinct Gold now available on Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 library

    Microsoft’s Killer Instinct Gold, which was originally developed by Rare, can now be played on Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack tier. Just a few months ago, the original Killer Instinct was added to the Super Nintendo library on NSO which itself was a port of Killer Instinct arcade, but Gold…

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    The Pokémon Trading Card Game is one of the most successful pieces of the greater Pokémon franchise, with fans collecting cards for nearly 30 years now. The extent of the TCG isn’t just limited to the usual packs and boxes found in stores, but to special collaborations as well. Ever…

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    May 15th, 2025

  • You can get trapped in Super Mario 64’s star menu for over two years if you take (way) too long to select a stage

    In a rather humorous bit of discovery related to Super Mario 64, one YouTuber discovered that you can get trapped in the game’s star selection menu for two and a quarter years if you wait a ridiculously long time to select a stage. How long must you wait? Two and…

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April 9th, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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