See, this is how you release 500 games on Switch and NOT get branded a spammer.

The Switch's most prolific 3rd party publisher will hit a release milestone next week with one of gaming's foundational releases.

Hamster has announced in a livestream today that their 500th Arcade Archives release on Christmas Day (Dec 25) will be the original Space Invaders. The 1978 Taito release... Read more...

A blissfully technical debt-free release.

Disclosure: Nintendo World Report contributor Syrenne McNulty is one of the game's producers.

Word comes from the land down under this morning that one of 2025's more unique adventures is coming to Switch both 2 and original early in 2026.

First spotted by Vooks, a listing for Dispatch has appeared... Read more...

And somewhere, a Canadian huckster breaks his hand punching a wall while another Canadian has to remake a sign.

Team Cherry has dropped details on the next two events in the Hollow Knight duology.

The first downloadable content for Hollow Knight: Silksong called "Sea of Sorrow" has been announced for release in 2026, according to the developer's website update. New bosses and upgrades are promised in a "nautical-themed" update: DLC was originally planned for the original Hollow Knight which ended up scope creeping into Silksong.

Time to see how turn-based you can make "Kingdom Hearts but more emo".

If you're not sure about buying the first portion of the FF7 remake trilogy while you can still get the classic version, you'll have some time over the holidays to make a call.

Square Enix has released a demo for Final Fantasy VII Intergrade ahead of the game's January 22 launch. In line with standard Square Enix policy, the demo's save data can be carried into the launching game.

Not so often exhaustion leads to a bomb being lobbed into the release list.

Originally I was debating whether to give the top spot in this final week before Festivus with the System Shock remaster, The Rogue Prince of Persia from the embattled Ubisoft, or the two games being localized by Sting that are a support scrolling shooter and platformer for an RPG we're not getting. Specifically, Baroque, which last released in North America during Harper's first term. Or the latest gong show from Limited Run Games, Tomba 2.

dba "The Game Awards", you know the drill.

Capcom wasn't done after announcing Pragmata tonight: the company has also announced their plans for one of their great mascot's 40th anniversary. A brief trailer has been released for Mega Man: Dual Overdrive which will release in 2027 - 40 years after the original NES adventures of the Blue Bomber - on both Switch 2 and the Switch.

First original game from the big C in... a decade at this point?

The flexibility of the RE Engine is letting more than just Resident Evil Requiem come to Switch 2 next year.

Capcom have announced that their action game Pragmata will include a Switch 2 version when it launches on April 24, 2026. Originally announced at the PlayStation 5 reveal in 2020, the game is a product of younger development staff at Capcom and was announced at the time as their first original property in eight years.

...wait, WHAT?

We might be getting a couple of N64 platformers next week but we're getting an unannounced GameCube game tonight.

A surprise trailer has dropped for Wario World, the Treasure-developed 2003 GameCube platformer, and it's available tonight. Wario World was not in the original list of games announced for the Switch 2-exclusive library.

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