If the previous 45-minute-long stream about Kirby Air Riders wasn’t enough, Nintendo is giving its famed director another hour to talk about the fast-paced racing game. You can tune in on October 23rd at 9AM ET.
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The third-gen Rotom Phone’s handy zoom and beefed-up safety features make for a solid upgrade.
Jsaux is one of the first companies to debut a compact charging dock so you can connect your Switch 2 to a TV while traveling without having to pack Nintendo’s bulky dock. The OmniCentro Charger Dock for Switch 2 is expected to ship in mid-November, but you can preorder it now discounted to $39.99.
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Pokémon Legends: Z-A launch day has finally arrived, and if you haven’t checked out our review breaking down how surprisingly good the game is, there’s a new overview trailer out to get you hyped for the new Lumiose City.
But it doesn’t sound too worried about it. Last week the Crimson Collective group claimed to have accessed the company’s servers, but Nintendo told Japan’s Sankei Shimbun that no personal or business information appears to have leaked, with the breach seemingly limited to website servers.
Nintendo’s Pokémon Legends series continues to feel like the franchise’s future.
A trio of SNES games just hit the service, and the most interesting is Mario & Wario, a previously Japan-only puzzle game that requires a mouse to play.
Nintendo Japan has announced new scenes and seven new alarms from the Switch 2 edition of Kirby and the Forgotten Land and its Star-Crossed World expansion for the Alarmo alarm clock. Samples of the new alarm sounds are available on Nintendo’s Japanese site if you’re curious.
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Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is drip-feeding new features coming in the game’s 1.14 update, and online co-op is the first of five teased announcements.
Local co-op came to Vampire Survivors back in 2023, but I’m excited I’ll be able to bother someone other than my wife to play with me.
Last year, Nintendo sued r/SwitchPirates mod James “Archbox” Williams for allegedly selling thousands of pirated Switch games. Now, the gaming giant is requesting $4.5 million in damages after Williams didn’t respond to the lawsuit.
The company released a new collection of Switch 2 accessories including cases, controllers, and screen protectors, but the standout is the Afterglow wireless gamepad featuring a fully transparent shell and color-changing LEDs inside. The $64.99 controller is cheaper than Nintendo’s while also offering upgraded drift-resistant TMR thumbsticks.
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The company just released a four-minute-long animated short called “Close To You,” about a small baby and possibly a sentient soother. But it’s unclear right now what the short is for, or if it’s teasing something bigger from Nintendo.
While the six-minute-long Pokémon Legends: Z-A overview Nintendo just posted doesn’t feature all that much new information, it does give us an even better look at many of the game’e snazzy new character customization options.
The games are great, but Nintendo’s latest ports are disappointingly straightforward.
Two Game Boy masterpieces in a week: first the Lego Game Boy, now this incredible Game Boy Micro build. Bonus points for repurposing the Rumble Pak slot as a Game Boy Advance cartridge slot. Feels so right!
Review: Lego Game Boy vs. real Game Boy.
The brick version is even better than I imagined: an incredibly faithful, fun, and clever build. You can press every button, spin every wheel; designers nail the curves and recreate almost every label. For $48 at Costco (in-person) or $60 at Amazon, it’s even relatively affordable. (I bought it myself.)
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Deluxe Pack ex, the newest Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion, will feature reprinted cards from multiple previously-released sets. But this time around, many of the cards will feature fancy new artwork, and each Deluxe pack will include at least one high-rarity card. The expansion will be available from September 29th to October 29th.
Hades II runs at 1080p and up to 120fps on Switch 2.
But Supergiant Games’ Greg Kasavin tells The Verge that if players specify 4K instead of Automatic in system settings, they can force the game to output an internally upscaled 4K / 60fps image and throw away the extra fps.
Next week is shaping up nicely for Switch Online subscribers, as the service will be getting both the cult platformer Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, and the puzzler Mr. Driller 2. Both will be available starting on September 25th.
Nintendo just added Super Mario Galaxy 2 to its music streaming app (the first is already there). This comes just a few days after announcing a Galaxy bundle coming to the Switch and the title of the next Mario movie which is, you guessed it, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
