Jay Peters
What’s on Blippo Plus?
You’ll be able to find out when a color version of Panic’s game, which was previously released for Playdate, launches on Nintendo Switch and Steam on September 23rd.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Ho-Oh and Lugia are ready for their TCG Pocket closeups.
Pokémon TCG Pocket was quick to remove the two cards from its latest set featuring art that appeared to be plagiarized, but the game has already been updated with new illustrations that you can ogle right now.
Image: Pokémon TCG Pocket (X)
Jay Peters
Silksong will also be at Nintendo’s Gamescom booth.
Attendees can play it there or at Microsoft’s booth. Now I’m really interested in watching Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show on August 19th.
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Ash Parrish
Ash Parrish
Don’t forget to like and sub-die.
Content Warning was one of the games featured during the Nintendo Indie World presentation, coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch 2 next year. In the game, you and three friends journey underwater to film spooky goings-on in order to go viral, but there’s a catch. You might die...horribly.
Content Warning blew up on Steam joining the likes of similar co-op chaos games including Phasmophobia and Lethal Company. The game will make extensive use of the Switch 2 gamechat features and I hope there’s a setting where, if you’re using a camera, you can put your friends actual faces on their avatars. We’ll see if my wish comes true when Content Warning launches next year.
Ash Parrish
Love a good stealth launch.
During Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, we got a bunch of games coming out in the nearterm, like Herdling, out on August 21st. There are also games coming out in the nebulous future of 2026 like Neverway. But there were some games featured that are just coming out today like Is This Seat Taken?
Is This Seat Taken? is a cozy puzzle game where you arrange people according to their preferences. A set of clues tells you who likes what, and its your job to put them in the most appropriate place like the world’s most powerful wedding planner. And best of all, the game launches today on Nintendo Switch.
Ash Parrish
UFO Soft just launched their next game on the Switch.
UFO 50 is the game that dares to ask, “What if there was one game, but in it, there were also 50 games?” And on top of those 50 individual games (that are not mere minigames) you got an overarching narrative about the lifecycle of a fictional console?
That’s UFO 50. Each game represents the journey of the hardware and you get to see how the technology and development skills develop over time just like they do across a real console’s lifetime. And what if I told you that you could play this collection of 50 games on the Switch today? Because you can.
Ash Parrish
Well this game certainly looks cool.
In the thick of the Indie World presentation and I can’t help but be powerfully intrigued by Well Dweller. Well Dweller, created by the developer of Crypt Custodian and Islets, is a metroidvania (or search action game, if you like) with an interesting artstyle.
You play as a bird with a matchstick, sent out to save her species from an evil and queen and seeing all the platforming and progression unlocking weapons, I think this is the kind of game I’m looking for right now. But unfortunately, I’ll have to wait for its release sometime next year.
Ash Parrish
Wanna get hollowed?
During the Nintendo Indie World showcase, Mina The Hollower was announced for the Nintendo Switch. Earlier this year the game got a notoriety boost with a demo being featured during Steam Next Fest. And the retro-style, A Link To The Past-looking game featuring a very cute sword-swinging mouse also has a demo out now on the Switch. Not too long to wait now, Mina the Hollower comes out on Switch and PC October 31st.
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Ash Parrish
Star-crossed Kirby.
Looking at Kirby makes me happy, and with this new trailer for — and brace yourself it’s a doozy of a name — Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World, I couldn’t be happier. My favorite pink blobby boy is getting some new adventures with the game’s starry stages that let Kirby explore previously blocked off areas.
He’ll also get new mouthful mode shapes including a spring that lets him jump, a gear mode that lets him scale walls, and a sign shape that doesn’t advertise his favorite foods, but lets him slide around on snow and other flat surfaces.
Ash Parrish
What’s better than one Nintendo Direct? Two.
Nintendo has some more games to show us. After the company’s Partner Direct showcase last week, Nintendo has announced yet another showcase, this time an Indie World presentation, for Thursday, August 7th, at 9AM ET on YouTube. The presentation will be 15 minutes long which is plenty of time to share at least one new trailer for Silksong.
Andrew Liszewski
All three Pilotwings games have been added to the Nintendo Music app.
You can now tune out to 75 chill tracks from the games which always prioritized fun and unique flying challenges over being truly accurate flight simulators. There are 21 tracks and 19 minutes of music from the original Super Nintendo version of the game, 30 tracks/46 minutes from Pilotwings 64 on the N64, and 24 tracks/36 minutes from Pilotwings Resort which was the last game in the series launching on the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.
Ash Parrish
That’s a lot of Mario Karts.
Nintendo has finally let us know how successful the Switch 2 launch has been. In it’s most recent quarterly earnings report, Nintendo shared that the Switch 2 has sold 5.82 million units since its launch on June 5th.
On top of that, it also reported that it moved 5.63 million units of Mario Kart World which includes copies that were bundled with the Switch 2. Which means that all but about 200,000 of the Switch 2s out there have Mario Kart World installed and ready to go.
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Sean Hollister
Today I’m toying with tiny Game Boys.
From the makers of TinyTV: the $50 Thumby Color and $30 Thumby. Raspberry Pi Pico chips run at just in the low hundred MHz, displays are 0.85 or 0.4 inches respectively! But that’s enough for MicroPython games you can code in a web browser, or even real Doom on the OG Thumby (find installers here). More in my full story.
Andrew Liszewski
Ash Parrish
It’s always sunny in Philabieldia.
Square Enix closed out today’s Nintendo Switch 2 partner showcase with a game that features names liable to send you into fits of confused laughter. Launching next year, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is an HD-2D action RPG with a silly but acceptable name. (Elliot? Really?)
But Philabieldia, the name for where the story takes place, is truly one of the most ridiculous fantasy names I’ve ever heard. Philabieldia, wow. You know what, I’m in. The ridiculous name signals to me this is the exact kind of high-fantasy, low-stakes silliness I enjoy in not-Final Fantasy Square Enix games.
Andrew Webster
The octopath less traveled.
Square Enix’s gorgeous throwback RPG series is making its way to the Switch 2 with Octopath Traveler 0. The title makes it sound like a prequel of sorts, and the publisher says players will “experience a story of restoration and retribution over the divine rings — an epic saga that unfolds across the realm of Orsterra.” It’s launching on December 4th.
Andrew Webster
An outlaw appears.
Star Wars Outlaws, the open-world sci-fi adventure that originally launched a year ago, is making its way to the Switch 2 on September 4th. Finally, you can take Nix on the go.
Andrew Webster
Let’s get tactical.
We got another look at the upcoming remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics, this one focused on the strategy game’s sweeping story. It won’t be long now before you can play it, as the game launches on September 30th. (It’ll be on both the Switch and Switch 2.)
Ash Parrish
It’s almost time for Princess Zelda’s summer vacation.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, the hack-and-slash-style spinoff of the Legend of Zelda series, covers the canonical events that led to Tears of the Kingdom. Most importantly, the game covers what Princess Zelda was up to hanging out in the past with the very handsome Goat King of Hyrule.
Frustratingly, there’s still no release date, with Nintendo sharing that the game will release some time “this winter.” Regardless, I’m looking forward to beating the bacon off an army of bokoblins.
Richard Lawler
Apex Legends’ new season, Showdown, is optimized for Switch 2.
EA’s battle royale shooter got a performance bump once the Switch 2 launched, but during the Partner Direct showcase, they announced the August 5th update for Apex Legends will include a Switch 2-native edition, with enhanced resolution and framerate.
The new season also brings Wildcard, a new permanently added game mode on all platforms that has tweaks to speed up gameplay, lets teams have more than one of a particular hero, and includes second chance respawns once your team is eliminated.
Ash Parrish
Persona 3, reloaded.
Persona 3 Reload, the remake of Atlus’ Persona 3, is coming to the Switch 2 October 23rd. The game released last year to rave reviews on PC, PS5, and Xbox. Now, Atlus is finally ready to release the game on the Switch 2, because why should the other consoles get all the devil-summoning fun?
Andrew Webster
Plants vs. Zombies gets a facelift.
The classic strategy game is getting remastered with a new edition called Replanted. In addition to enhanced visuals, it will add both co-op and PvP play when it launches on the Switch 2 on October 23rd.
Andrew Webster
Katamari rolls onto the Switch.
The next game in the iconic series, called Once Upon a Katamari, has a time-traveling theme, so you’ll be rolling stuff through different time periods. It’ll launch on the original Switch on October 24th.
Ash Parrish
Monhun gets a little twisted.
To start off today’s Nintendo Direct partner showcase, Capcom showed off the latest entry in the Monster Hunter Stories series. Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is coming to the Switch 2 next year.
Try as I might, I can’t get into the mainline Monster Hunter games. Since Monster Hunter Stories are more structured, turn-based RPGs where I’m riding the monsters instead of trying to fight them all the time, I might have to give this one a try when it comes out in 2026 and see if it finally sticks.
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.
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