The best part will be when Jack Frost goes "it's morbing time, hee-ho" and starts morbing fools.

It was not a collective hallucination we saw in September, the Virtual Boy is coming and the opening lineup has been revealed.

The accessory-required library for Expansion Pack subscribers will be available on February 17. On that day, the following will benplayable: 3D Tetris, Galactic Pinball, Golf, Red Alarm, Teleroboxer, The Mansion of Innsmouth, and Wario Land.

Aura farming is now legitimate Splatoon 3 tech.

Splatoon 3 has been transferred to a better hospital where its condition has been upgraded to "alive".

The version 11 upgrade to the 2022 splatter will be out on Thursday (possibly Wednesday in North America), according to the overview on Nintendo Today. Among the additions:

In which you have to remove a superhero from the squad. Pick wisely.

This week is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing much really, except for the Nintendo arrival of one of 2025's most beloved adventure games (in the Telltale style, which makes sense since it's a lot of the former staff) - Dispatch. The superhero sending sim is joined on Switch 2 by an upgrade... Read more...

One last call for Switch vouchers.

We'll be getting some news about one of last year's more intriguing announcements Directly this week.

Nintendo Today has revealed a Direct for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream that will air on Thursday (Jan 29) at 9:00 a.m. ET, 6:00 a.m. PT, and 10:30 in Newfoundland. The length of the presentation has not yet been disclosed. The presentation will run for 20 minutes, according to a Nintendo press email.

Also, the date for the first round of tbe World Talking Flower Punting Championships.

Nintendo looks to be having a Wonder-ful end to their current fiscal year.

A Nintendo Today posting has revealed the release date for Super Mario Wonder's Switch 2 upgrade and the "Welcome to Bellabel Park" expansion: the set will launch on March 26. Accompanying the release will be three new entries... Read more...

Not as big as that DK one last night, but still worth grabbing.

Nintendo has dropped a pair of updates for the two Switch 2 bundled games with new features and in the case of the second, removal of a couple of pain points.

Mario Kart World has been updated to version 1.5, with the option to do team Knockout Tour online or in local wireless added as well as Polish language support. Some issues were also fixed, including an apparent crash-to-desktop when using Kamek on the Choco Mountain course.

With about nine days left to buy Switch vouchers, maybe this puts someone over the top to burn one.

One of the last pre-Switch 2 releases is getting an update tonight, and perhaps not the one you might expect.

A free update for Donkey Kong County Returns HD (roughly timed to the game's anniversary) is out now which makes Dixie Kong available as a playable character with her trademark skills (replacing... Read more...

A remake of the first in a series of classic action RPGs and Final Fantasy VII Remake are the headliners, but what else is left after last week?

This is, of course, the week of Final Fantasy VII Remake: Integrade, the long-awaited arrival of the remake of the first third of a disc of Final Fantasy VII (yet somehow, this stretches out to 30 hours), with Cloud looking extra feminine during the Honey Bee Inn sequence since hey, 23 years is a... Read more...

The reason we're not getting Tales of Zestiria before Berseria next month is because Ike and Soren (or Ranulf) are hogging the MLM spotlight.

The moment we have all waited for is here: after nigh-on a decade and a half, the long runner RPG series hits both Switch and 2 this week with The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon if you want to go full sicko. (Note that the game is 18+ in Europe and possibly refused classification in Australia... Read more...

"You disgust me beyond words. And you owe Elincia an apology."

One of the white whales of the Switch 2's GameCube classics is now available.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (2005) is now available as part of an update to the GameCube library. The first of the "Radiant" duology of games followed by 2007's Radiant Dawn, it is also the first game to feature Ike as the main lord.

You know, for the kids.

Nintendo is trying to move the low end of their 6-70 market range down a bit, with the next attempt to ht the US next month.

The young child-focused "My Mario" line has begun its rollout with a series of stop-motion animated cartoons available on YouTube. The full line, including apparel, wooden... Read more...

There are a distressingly high number of people who are just here for Baby Waluigi, though.

Nintendo has dropped another long overview trailer for an upcoming game which contains some confirmations of support.

The trailer (below) confirms that GameShare and Amiibo will both work with Fever. The GameShare works with one host system and up to 3 Switch or Switch 2 consoles, while Mario series Amiibo (as well as the Smash line's Bowser Jr.) can be used to add special ball designs.

One of the first (if not the first) new colorways for the built in tide overs.

Nintendo is adding a bit more color to the lineup of Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers.

A posting in the Nintendo Today app this morning has revealed a new color pair for the controllers. Called "Light Purple and Light Green", the set will launch alongside Mario Tennis Fever on February 12.

The bulk... Read more...

21 games and maybe one worth talking about.

There are certain weeks in which trying to make chicken salad out of the release list (ie: something useful) is nigh-impossible, and a week after the New Year is usually one of them. There's not a single Switch 2 release to be found, for instance, with the next one up the cheap upgrade to the Switch 2 edition of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. So unless you're fiending for a Fairy Tail dungeon crawler, this is another backlog week.

Late due to 2025 having one final Toronto-related kick in the junk for me.

On this most Wii U of weeks, and following a weekend of being stuck in the Toronto airport (the Restaurant At The Centre Of The Universe is the Wendy's in the departures area of Pearson, btw), it's nice to have a column I can seemingly knock out in half an hour. The lack of work on Thursday and Friday basically means nothing's coming out, barring the Archives release of Space Invaders II we're owed.

A tragic holiday season for the family of a beloved game industry figure.

The leader of teams that revolutionized modern gaming has died.

NBC Los Angeles has confirmed that Vince Zampella - co-founder of the Electronic Arts-owned Respawn Entertainment and head of Ripple Entertainment (formerly DICE LA) was one of two people killed in a single vehicle crash on the Angeles... Read more...

As tempting as it is to do a mock Christmas carol, the Switch eShop doesn't deserve me giving a damn enough to do a proper parody.

In honor of Festivus (for which I am doubtful for participation in the Feats of Strength due to a recurring foot issue), I got plenty of grievances this week and you're gonna hear them. Most of them are in Japan, which between Switch 2 and Switch broke the single-week release record last week (80)... Read more...

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.