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Archives for July 2025

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Nintendo is ready to show off its partners.

At 9AM ET, Nintendo is airing its next Direct showcase, but this time the focus will be on titles from third-party developers. Are we finally going to see Silksong again? You can watch it all live below.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Nintendo reverses course on Mario Kart World’s “intermission” track change.

The latest Mario Kart World update increases “the frequency of lap-type courses” that appear during online races.

The change seems to address concerns over Nintendo’s decision to nerf the “random” track trick last month, which allowed players to avoid having to drive to their next track location, and instead have a traditional three-lap race.

Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
In Drag x Drive there are way more things to do than drag or drive.

Drag x Drive, the Switch 2’s 3-v-3 wheelchair basketball game, is coming out next month and Nintendo has shared a new trailer. The game, the first exclusive to make extensive use of the Switch 2’s mouse controls, will test more than just your hoopin’ skills.

The trailer showed off a ton of other things you can do like wheelchair races, skills challenges, and more. You can also create pick-up games with your friends, customize your player and their wheels, or practice against the computer when Drag x Drive comes out August 14th.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
You can now remap your controls when playing SNES games on the Switch.

Nintendo previously let you remap your controller buttons while playing classic N64 and GameCube games through the Switch Online service, but that functionality has now been expanded to Super Nintendo games, too, as spotted by Nintendo Life.

Although the new View/Change Controls option in the SNES app was briefly seen in the Nintendo of America Mario Paint video released yesterday, the Japanese version goes into more detail about how it works.

A screenshot of a Nintendo Japan video demonstrating how to remap controls on a Super Nintendo gamepad.
Nintendo has added controller remapping for Super Nintendo games on the Switch and Switch 2.
Screenshot: Nintendo
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Before Kalos, let’s make a quick pitstop in Johto.

When Pokémon Legends: Z-A drops in October, everyone is going to be fawning over the franchise’s updated Kalos region. But Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next set — Wisdom of Sea and Sky — is going to be all about monsters from the Johto region, and it looks like the expansion will introduce to some interesting new gameplay mechanics like attacks that don’t require energy when it releases on July 30th.

Here is Lego’s official Nintendo Game Boy — with lenticular display

It costs $60 and ships October 1st.

Sean Hollister
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Borderlands 4 hits Switch 2 on October 3rd.

That’s a little less than a month after the game’s September 12th launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S.