The line at this bar will eventually get you 300+ varieties of liquor, including three "One Winged Angel"s.

Things we missed last week: Card-based puzzler Magical Speed enters the Archives, I successfully called my shot on a Direct which brought WBSC eBaseball - POWER PROS - and Metroid Prime: Remastered, and speaking of 10s Novectacle (The House in Fata Morgana) have released a game called Seventh Lair... Read more...

Another Apple Arcade exclusive comes to Switch!

Having previously released as an Apple Arcade exclusive in 2020, PixelJunk Scrappers will be making its way to Nintendo Switch as PixelJunk Scrappers Delux later this year. Players take on the role of a team of trash collectors in a near-future, sci-fi setting. The Switch release will feature local... Read more...

Retro Studios led the charge on the remake of their 2002 release, but a variety of outsourcing companies also helped with development as well.

The surprise announcement and release of Metroid Prime Remastered during the Nintendo Direct on February 8 brought up a few questions alongside the delight of the shadowdrop. Retro Studios was announced as the developer of the remaster, but what does that mean for the development of Metroid Prime 4, which Retro started development on around early 2019.

Wait, there's MORE?

Other news items from today's Nintendo Direct:

Boy, this is an awfully good day for DS games we thought we'd never see again.

A DS adventure classic will be returning to Nintendo systems after more than a decade this summer.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the 2010 DS game directed by Ace Attorney series lead Shu Takumi, will be remastered for a Switch release this summer.

The original game involves playing as a ghost who has to discover not only their memories following their death, but also who was responsible for their death.

Persona Q and Persona Q2 are back on the menu?

A trio of games thought trapped on the DS due to their controls will live on in Switch form.

Atlus has announced that the first three Etrian Odyssey dungeon-mapping RPGs will come to Switch on June 1. Each game will be sold individually for US$39.99/C$52.99, or the trilogy will be sold in one package for US$79.99/C$105.99.

One of these is brand new, while the other's been around for a while.

A couple of Nintendo's biggest sellers have confirmed DLC details today.

Splatoon 3 has announced their plans for paid downloadable content, which will come in the form of an expansion pass scheduled to be available for preorder today. The first part will be available in March and consists of an... Read more...

You can finally engage Camilla.

Revealed in today's Nintendo Direct, Hector from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Soren from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and Camilla from Fire Emblem: Fates are all joining the cast of legacy characters in Fire Emblem Engage. Players who have purchased the Expansion Pass will be able to play a chapter from their respective games and unlock their abilities as Emblems in the full game.

One of these shouldn't be a surprise if you follow Nintendo Directs.

In addition to Metroid Prime, other items released during today's Nintendo Direct:

Donald's not done Xenoblade 3 yet and you're dropping two Monolith JRPGs at once?

The last major series from MonolithSoft before their acquisition by Nintendo is coming to Switch in the summer.

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (2003) and Baten Kaitos Origins (2006) will be remastered for Switch release this summer. The original was published by pre-Bandai Namco, but Origins and the remastered collection are published by Nintendo.

Assuming nothing happens... something will probably happen.

After being delayed due to thematic similarities with the Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp will arrive on Nintendo Switch on April 21. The game includes fully remade versions of the first two Advance Wars games. It was originally slated to release on April 8 of 2022.

Like anything else was going to close out the show.

The Nintendo Direct closed with another new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

After the gameplay footage, a limited edition version of the game was announced as well as a new Link amiibo based on the game. Both will be available on May 12, along with the base game.

The game's... Read more...

Wait, is he the baddy?

During today's Nintendo Direct we got our first look at the next character being added as a hero to Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Masha will arrive in just a week on February 15th. Masha can use ore to craft accessories that grant special effects to other characters. Roguelike battles are also being added... Read more...

No Lunar Chase. We're going to have words, Nintendo.

Nintendo Switch Online subscribers are about to get some new game libraries, with two coming for the Expansion Pack.

Starting later today, all Nintendo Switch Online members will be able to download a Game Boy (Color) application. The launch lineup will include GB Tetris, Super Mario Land 2: 6... Read more...

We swear, this is not a joke.

The Citizen Kane of games is on Switch - today.

A remastered version of Metroid Prime was revealed in today's Nintendo Direct, and it will be available just after the end of the presentation. The physical version of the game will be available on February 22 (two weeks from the digital release).

Three new captains and one good doggo.

Pikmin 4 will sprout in the summer.

The Nintendo Direct opened with a gameplay reveal for Pikmin 4, confirming the game will launch on July 21. Three new captains were shown in the Direct, as well as a playable canine-like creature and Ice Pikmin who can freeze water.

A brief clip of possible night exploration was shown at the end of the video.

"My workout plan is every time someone asks for a Direct, I do one pushup." "...jesus christ."

Open the happening bunker and reset the clock, it''ll soon be Direct Day again.

The first Nintendo Direct of 2023 will air tomorrow (February 8) at 5 p.m. EST / 2 p.m. Pacific / 2300 CET. The direct is slated for 40 minutes and will mostly focus on software for the first half of the year on Switch.

So many Mausholds it's going to start a housing crisis.

The holiday quarter was unusually light in release quantity for Nintendo, but even when down year over year there were still record breaking numbers - both now and in the future - for Nintendo per their quarterly results released earlier today.

All figures based on Nintendo data from October 1... Read more...

This might look small on Monday but you get odds for picturing it doubling by Saturday.

Things we missed last week: PowerWash Simulator finally got a price ($24.99 US or equivalent) at launch with FF7 DLC because of course, Namco's Greek myth-themed shooter Phelios was the Archives title of the week... and we got a farming sim that is more notable for being entirely in Japanese.

Nintendo's... Read more...

Now if only they'd bring that video back up on YouTube.

After a brief hiccup on Monday, North America can once again partake in the Nintendo Switch Online voucher program.

They can be purchased on the Switch natively via the "Nintendo Switch Online" option, or on the web here for US accounts or here for Canadian accounts: the prices are US$99.98 and C$132.99, the same prices as the original round of vouchers in 2019.