An update to Nintendo’s parental smartphone app has added support for the Switch 2, in preparation for the console’s launch next week. Nintendo announced Version 2.0 of the Nintendo Switch Parental Control App on its technical support profile on Twitter today. スマートフォンアプリ『Nintendo みまもり Switch』のバージョン2.0.0の配信を開始しました。Nintendo Switch 2 をご利用予定の方はアプリの更新をお願いします。 https://t.co/8fAAnCYwrN —…
Online pre-orders may have been sold out for months, but Target has revealed that it will have Nintendo Switch 2 units available in-store for launch day. As noted on the official Target website, shoppers who come to its stores on June 5th, 2026, around opening will be able to nab…
As we found out in the Switch 2 Direct, Super Mario Party Jamboree is getting a paid upgrade later this year, exclusive to the new console! Titled Super Mario Party Jamboree Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (what a mouthful), the upgrade expands the base game and adds brand-new…
In just a matter of weeks, Splatoon fans are in for another exciting amiibo launch! This time around, the spotlight shines on the characters from Deep Cut, Big Man, Frye, and Shiver! As with previous amiibo releases in the Splatoon series, these new additions promise to bring fresh gear and…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder isn’t even out yet but with a streetdate broken that means loose copies are out in the wild and, naturally, the game has been dumped online. Hacking of Switch games is pretty commonplace at this point, with everything from Breath of the Wild to Super Smash…
It’s been almost eight months since the release of Hogwarts Legacy on the Xbox and PlayStation 5. Initially, it appeared that the promised Switch release might have been too ambitious for the Warner Bros. Games team to tackle. However, to our surprise, it looks like the game is actually happening!…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a game predicated on the fantastical and unexpected, but this would’ve been a whole new level – a new Ask the Developer interview for the title reveals that one of the ideas for the game was an “eight-heads-tall, life-sized, live-action Mario humming along with the…
With the imminent release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Nintendo has started releasing an Ask the Developer interview with the creative team behind it. One of the first questions raised is about where the inspiration for the game came from – Takashi Tezuka, producer and Mario godfather, revealed that the…
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is only a few days away, and it’s easy to see that this isn’t your run-of-the-mill 2D Mario game. To celebrate the title’s upcoming launch, Nintendo UK sat down with Producer Takashi Tezuka, Designer Koichi Hayashidia Composer, the legendary Koji Kondo, and Director Shiro Mouri to…
The advent of Super Mario Bros. Wonder brings with it a freshness and innovation that the Super Mario Bros. 2D franchise hasn’t had in a long while. After revolutionizing platformers in the ’80s and ’90s, the series faded in the face of Mario’s 3D escapades… only to surge back in…
Red buses are one of those famously London landmarks, like Elizabeth Tower or those guys in funny hats. And now they’re not just giving guests tours: they’ve been emblazoned with Mario and friends! Have you spotted a #SuperMarioBrosWonder bus around London? Snap a pic of it and post using…
Last Friday the latest Nintendo Switch model hit store shelves, more than six years on from the system’s original release. The Mario Red OLED gives the device a familiar red hue with some very subtle references to Nintendo’s mascot on the back and inside the dock, and it’s already proven…
Splatoon 3’s Splatoween event is almost here! After being absent during last year’s Halloween season, Splatoween is back in 2023. This year’s Splatoween asks residents of Splatsville to choose which spooky creature would be the best friend: a zombie, a skeleton, or a ghost? The three members of Deep Cut…
If you’re already finished with all this Halloween business (sorry, speak for yourself!), the Japanese Pokémon Center has got your back. The undeniably cute Tandemaus ‘mon is in the spotlight come November 11th and it’s receiving the full treatment with merch through WAKKA de IKKA goods. You’ll find the likes…
There are very few dates in human history that we remember for update patches, but this is one of those days. This is a moment we’ll be telling our children, our grandchildren, our very descendants about for generations to come – a moment of profound and monumental weight far heavier…
