One of which has been available multiple times.

The N64 Nintendo Classics will get one final update in 2025.

The Expansion Pack-required library will add the N64 version of Rayman 2 and Tonic Trouble on December 17. Tonic Trouble (1999) is a 3D platformer about a janitor who drops a formula that mutates Earth and has to find the items for an antidote. Although it was released on PC in 2000, this is the first time the N64 version has been re-released.

See that mountain? You can play two different native versions of Skyrim on it.

It's seemingly not a modern console if it can't play Skyrim natively, and now the Switch 2 is getting in on the action.

Bethesda has announced that the Skyrim Anniversary Collection - which includes a host of user-created tools from an official creator's club as well as the base game's expansion... Read more...

And yet a roguelite is somehow easier to beat than the Dam level in the original NES game.

Next week will see pizza time on Switch 2 with a recent Turtles game getting an upgrade.

Super Evil Megacorp, the developers of 2024 co-op roguelite action game TMNT: Splintered Fate, have confirmed the game will receive a Switch 2 version next Tuesday. A faster framerate, improved visuals, and GameChat/GameShare support will all be part of the package.

...so you're saying it'll be possible to get Stonjourner without a $1500 round trip ticket from YHZ to LHR?

One of the last local-only options in Pokemon Go will soon be available remotely, but you have to work at it.

A new update rolling out worldwide today will unlock the ability to make remote trades in Pokemon Go. The trades will be tied to a friendship prestige level called "Forever Friends" (previous... Read more...

This week is kind of designed to tick me off.

In a week that features Winter Game Fest (dba "The Game Awards") and its cavalcade of F2P gacha hero shooter ads with interspersed awards more of a work than Montreal to balance out the Z-A Mega Dimension DLC, at least there's some intriguing items to deal with. The week kicks off with Skate Story,... Read more...

Finally, nothing but blue shells for an entire Knockout Tour.

A new patch for Mario Kart World could potentially make races even more chaotic than normal.

The 1.4 update (out now) has enabled an item switch for multiplayer races, and added some new options to multiplayer. Several tracks were also redesigned, most notably any races that run through the Koopa Beach track now running for at least two laps on the beach.

That first name shouldn't trigger anything, but we'll forgive you for thinking it does.

We have some new details for the last big Nintendo release of 2025 this morning, as well as a new downloadable event for Pokemon Legends: Z-A.

The Mega Dimension DLC will include a second Mega Evolution option for Lucario called Mega Lucario Z. A new trailer released this morning shows the slightly... Read more...

Myles MacKenize / You helped out Samus Aran / And angered some "men" / 10/10

A week on the bigger side for Switch 2 (and Switch by proxy considering all but one of the big ones is multiplatform), with the power four of Simogo Legacy Collection, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Assassin's Creed: Origins and Octopath Traveler 0, the last of those most important for those hoping for an... Read more...

The last time Nintendo bought a studio from Bandai Namco, it worked out REALLY well for them.

Nintendo has opened a branch in Singapore to expand their presence in Southeastern Asia, and now they're picking up a local studio.

A news release was posted by Nintendo this morning announcing a planned acquisition of Bandai Namco Studios Singapore. 80% of the firm - a controlling interest - will... Read more...

Hopefully the inevitable Myles MacKenzie one will quote the Xenoblade 2 Ardanian Soldiers (pre-nerf) when tapped.

The new Amiibo for Metroid Prime 4 have more to them than just being big and looking pretty.

A Japanese language website has updated the functionality for the Prime 4 Samus and Samus + Vi-ola Amiibo launched on November 6, as well as the Sylux one that will launch day and date with Prime 4. The effects are:

Related: The March 5 Downloads article might be delayed a bit.

Pokemon Go's first all-weekend event of 2026 has been revealed.

The Go Tour: Kalos (region of Pokemon Legends: Z-A and more importantly X and Y versions) will run worldwide on February 28 and March 1, with in-person events the prior weekend in Los Angeles, CA, USA and Tainan, Taiwan. Although most... Read more...

For once, the answer to the question "Is this Battletoads?" is not "No, it's Doom III."

Nintendo has dropped updates to the Game Boy and NES libraries for Nintendo Switch Online base subscribers tonight, with a dash of first party and two of the NES's more infamous action games.

NES Library

If this week is anything like the last few in terms of unannounced releases, the news desk will be having WORDS with Rune.

Ordinarily, this week of the US Thanksgiving holiday commentary on appropriateness of the holiday deleted is a quiet one. Trapped between the week before Black Friday with its massive sales and the big release week of Octopath 0, Assassin's Creed: Shadows and some other thing, it should have been true this year - especially when Sturgeon's Law is in full effect. So... why are there 52 games in North America to start the week? Hell if I know.

The developers of the Picross S series are bringing mouse controls to their retro-tinged gaming puzzles when played on a Switch 2.

Capcom and SNK aren't fighting, but they do have rival Picross games coming out on November 27 as Picross S CAPCOM CLASSICS edition and Picross S SNK CLASSICS and NEOGEO edition hit Nintendo Switch. Each game will cost $17.99 (or regional equivalent) and both games will feature nearly 400 puzzles each across a variety of modes, including series staples like Mega Picross, Clip Picross, and Color Picross.

To which you might respond "who?"

Ome of the lesser-used Mythical Pokemon is getting a glow-up in December.

A new trailer for the Pokemon Legends: Z-A Mega Dimension DLC has revealed a Mega Evolution will be available for the mythical Zeraora. Originally released in 2017 as an Ultra Sun and Moon exclusive, Zeraora will remain a pure Electric-type Pokemon when Mega Evolved.

It is canonical that when I strike down the Switch eShop in furious anger, the only things that survive are Kirby games.

Well, if an hour and 53 minutes of presentations / trailers and two weekends of test drive weren't enough to confirm that Kirby Air Riders is the big game this week, I don't know what it'll take. (Even if I'm waiting for vouchers to come back to buy it because of it being one hundred and five bucks... Read more...

And some possible Delta Species?

A ten minute trailer for Pokemon Pokopia has dropped some new details for the March 5 release.

The trailer confirmed that Pokopia will offer GameShare support (including to original Switch systems) and will have four player online co-op. The player-character Ditto will also be able to change their look ingame, as well as transform into other Pokemon such as Lapras for water traversal or Dragonite for flight.

They never said anything about a New Game+...

The Pikmin 4 update promised last month is now live.

The patch notes are available here: in addition to the promised Pikmin Bloom support and new difficulty options, the option to "roll over" completed save data to a new playthough has been added.

Also added was an option to skip the intro after the first playthrough.

We're sure the discourse around this will be measured and well researched.

The wacky building adventures of Ditto are coming just after Pokemon Day, in a perhaps unexpected format.

Nintendo of America has confirmed in social media posts this morning that Pokemon Pokopia, the crafting sim announced in the September Nintendo Direct, would release on March 5, 2026. A new trailer will also run on Thursday.

Some would say the Amiibo are just getting a price correction.

As we approach the late Thanksgiving, Nintendo has announced their deals for the ensuing orgy of capitalism that is Black Friday and "Cyber Monday".

Physical sales will start on November 23 (two Sundays from press time) with offers for Switch games: