It'll be out sooner than you think, too.

The million-selling Mario Golf: Super Rush is adding new features in a few hours.

Announced for "tonight" by the Nintendo of America social media accounts but for "tomorrow" by Nintendo of Europe, the update will add the following:

Last year's quarter wasn't as busy, but did it pay off?

Nintendo released a financial results statement for the second calendar quarter (first fiscal quarter) of 2021 a few hours ago. All indicators were down compared to the black swan Q1 of 2020, but still much higher than the same quarter in 2019.

All numbers reported in yen: a rounded comparison based on an exchange rate of 109.56 yen to the US$ is provided for clarification only.

Check out some of the tracks, as well.

One of the unexpected surprises of the last Nintendo Direct will be out next month.

Cruis'n Blast, the latest title in the high speed racing series, will release on Switch September 14. Based on the 2017 arcade title, Blast is the first Cruis'n console game since 2007.

A new trailer showing some of the game's 29 tracks has also been released.

Remember, if you can dodge a fire spell, you can dodge a ball.

Some of us are still trying to recover from last week, but the onslaught continues apace this week. We'll give the honour here to Dodgeball Academia (as discussed by Neal on last week's Connectivity), the dodgeball RPG that single handedly caused the PC Gaming Show to beat Square Enix's summer presentation... Read more...

Some new partnerships included in the stream.

Annapurna Interactive announced a group of new titles and platforms today, including new details and announcements of four Switch games.

Just when you thought Snorlax couldn't get any more huge.

New Pokemon Snap is not done yet.

The April-launched photo simulator will get a free update this Tuesday with three new areas - a river area with rapids, a mountain area, and a forest area where the vehicle is shrunk to get extreme close-ups of smaller Bug-typed Pokemon.

The trailer with new Pokemon is below:

Jupiter's Picross S Genesis & Master System Edition comes to Switch on August 5.

On August 5, Jupiter will release Picross S Mega Drive & Master System Edition, a Sega-themed version of their long-running Picross series. First announced in June 2020, this game includes a total of 480 puzzles split between regular Picross and special modes including Clip and Color Picross.

Dr. Goomba Tower was really just slightly more legit than Dr. Oz, let's be fair.

The practice of Dr. Mario World is closing after a bit over two years of service.

Nintendo have confirmed that the LINE-developed mobile puzzle game will end service on November 1, 2021 at 0600 UTC (2 am ET). The game's in game currency "diamonds" will no longer be available for sale starting at the same time tomorrow.

That whole "global pandemic" deal has set the schedule back, but New Horizons will truck on.

The next Animal Crossing: New Horizons update drops this week, and Nintendo has publicly committed to more.

An update will be available tomorrow (US time) that will bring back weekly fireworks shows and add new seasonal items. Additionally, Nintendo of America tweeted the below:

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How is Donald going to get through all of the releases this week? "GALAXY BRAIN - ACTIVAAAAAAATE!"

Oh boy, am I glad this coming weekend is a long one for me.

About 80% of the retail releases are straight in my wheelhouse, headlined by the sequel I never believed would happen in NEO: The World Ends With You and the localizations with the fourth distinct appearance of Herlock Sholmes on Switch... Read more...

And a couple of additional seasons for existing service games.

Electronic Arts have just wrapped their first EA Play presentation of the summer, with a few announcements of import for Switch:

You know, I really preferred one of them when it was known as "Kablooey".

Nintendo will be updating the Super Nintendo app for Switch Online on July 28 with three new titles. The new arrivals are:

In this case, the "C" in "CRPG" would stand for Colombian.

It's hard to say what THE GAME of the week is, but I'm going to give the honor to Cris Tales, the long-awaited indie RPG that leans heavily on the eastern tradition but is actually by way of a Colombian developer. Though that may be because the alternative is the stripping action RPG Akiba's Trip - the original, not the sequel that I somehow ended up with DLC for on the Vita.

Odd that a golf game being "over par" could be seen as a compliment.

The major retail releases for Switch were backloaded in June, and the system's hardware sales streak continued though there was a mild upset in the NPD Group's tracked revenue.

All rankings based on dollar sales from May 30 - July 3 unless indicated: Nintendo titles are not counted digitally but most third party titles are.

A discount will also be available for the full game.

After launching on Switch in May, narrative-tactical game Crying Suns is getting a free demo today, which can be found by accessing its eShop listing. Until July 22, the full game will also be discounted by 20%, so if a free sample of the game tickles your fancy, you can go ahead and pick up Crying Suns on the cheap.

Thanks for the warning, y'all.

For those wondering when the Switch OLED model would go up for sale, it's going to be sooner than you think.

Nintendo of America have posted an announcement that the preorders will open today (July 15) at 3 p.m. ET / noon Pacific for the US. Similar options have not gone live for other countries as of yet.

Can we negotiate with a demon to move this release date up?

A new story trailer just dropped for the upcoming demon-fusing RPG, Shin Megami Tensei V. A number of features for the game we're also listed, some of which will be very familiar to fans of the series:

- Unfold an allusive story filled with tragic choices, make sacrifices to uphold your ideals as you pursue light or covet darkness to discover your role in the new world

Get a quick early look at the game live!

Surprise!

In case you'd like to see Skyward Sword HD in action ahead of its Friday release, we'll be doing a quick bonus stream of it tonight!

Join us at 6:45pm eastern / 3:45pm pacific for over a half an hour of Skyward Sword HD live on Twitch channel! You can hang out in the chat and ask questions—or just hang out with everyone!

Featuring the original sins of the Zelda series, both in-universe and out.

The newest remake in Nintendo's quest to prove that The Legend of Zelda is actually their Sonic comes out this week with Skyward Sword HD - and I'm a little tied up with last week and next, so if you want to put up with a Zelda game that even with its QoL fixes has a stamina meter affecting movement... Read more...

I guess that means it's not coming home for a lot of you.

Electronic Arts's one guaranteed Switch release per year will be similar to the last few.

Ahead of today's European championship final match between sides from England and Italy, EA confirmed the Switch version of FIFA 22 will be a Legacy Edition, and will launch on October 1. This will continue a trend for the Switch: the last FIFA release without this tag was FIFA 19, released in the fall of 2018.