You can't take the sky from me!

The hugely ambitious space sim, No Man's Sky is Coming to Nintendo Switch. Previously released on PS4 and PC before later making its way to Xbox, it will now be going handheld for the first time. No Man's Sky is planned for a relase this summer, though no specific date was given.

There is... quite a bit to report.

Fire Emblem is returning to musou.

The opening game in the Nintendo Direct is Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, which features the characters of 2019's Three Houses with musou gameplay. All three of the house leaders were shown as playable in the game.

Three Hopes will release worldwide on June 24.

Said glitch being on a sidequest-required 'mon, of course.

UPDATE 7:30am ET Feb 9: The patch notes have been released, including resolving issues with satchel collection offline and some other progression issues. Original story follows.

A mandatory update for Pokemon Legends Arceus has fixed a bug that made a sidequest more difficult.

Although the full... Read more...

...this seems early for some reason.

The next Nintendo Direct will air tomorrow.

Nintendo's branches have confirmed a Direct will air tomorrow at 5 p.m. ET, 2 p.m. PT, 2300 CET, and 0700 JST (Thursday the 10th). The promises are "roughly 40 minutes... mainly focused on Nintendo Switch games launching in the first half of 2022".

Last February had a Direct on the 17th which ran for 50 minutes, but was also the first "full length" Direct in more than a year.

If you'd like the best possible streaming Kingdom Hearts experience, go to our Twitch channel on Tuesdays.

Notable late releases of last week: The Archives added "New Rally-X", the follow-up to the original Namco racer. Also, the Japanese release list is not available due to webstore maintenance.

Oh boy, there's already 40 games for download this week - and quite a few big ones. Alex Orona gave OlliOlli World a 9.5 last week...

Man, Donald's still trying to get through the original.

The Voice of Cards series already has its second story.

Square Enix have released a trailer for The Forsaken Maiden, the second title in the series that began last October with The Isle Dragon Roars. The second entry will release on February 17.

The creative staff of the original game - including Nier series producer Yoko Taro - have returned for the second game as well.

Or roughly 90 billion Buizel caught for that one sidequest.

The ancient tales of Pokemon Legends: Arceus have become a smash hit already.

According to Tweets from various Nintendo branches, "more than 6.5m explorers" have purchased the new take on Pokemon in the game's opening week of sales. No regional breakdowns are available beyond Famitsu magazine providing an exact figure of 1,424,657 copies sold on the opening weekend in Japan.

Just how bonkers was the holiday quarter for Nintendo?

With a new revision and three major releases for the holiday, Nintendo's third quarter financial results have yielded some bonkers numbers, as well as revisions in both directions and some milestones are in sight.

US dollar totals for comparison only, amounts in yen: based on rate of 114.775 yen = USD$1

Finally, Major League Baseball has been called up from AAA.

After a few failed revivals and a year off, Major League Baseball is headed back to Switch.

MLB The Show 22 will come out on Switch April 5 - the same day as PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and five days after the intended Opening Day of the MLB season (the sport is in a lockout as of press time which may delay the season's opening). A digital deluxe version with access the preceding Friday will also be available.

A week almost more notable for what was SUPPOSED to be here.

Notable late releases from last week: Annapurna's The Artful Escape, and the latest from the creator of Minecraft and Harry Potter, Hatsune Miku Connecting Puzzle Tamagotori.

Originally, the big title of the week was slated to be the Life is Strange Collection with backup from the cloud version... Read more...

No need to roll for initiative, just go into a dream world.

New details and a release date have been announced for the follow-up to cult classic adventure game AI: The Somnium Files.

The Kotaro Uchikoshi (Zero Escape trilogy) penned sequel will launch in North America and Europe on June 24. Players will play the role of two special agents - the returning... Read more...

Is it possible to do a Professor Oak Challenge in a game where Oak himself is still a half century from being born?

Prominent games we missed last week: Banjo-Kazooie getting added to Switch Online for Expansion Pack subscribers (for some reason), a trivia game literally endorsed by the publishing company that brought us For Dummies books. However, the real dummies are the people who propelled the North American release chart to a record 66 releases, which is why there was only one notable game from the shadowdrops.

Night Of The First Day (267+ Hours Remain)

The Switch Online Expansion Pack will meet with a terrible fate next month.

In a press release announcing the launch of Banjo-Kazooie on the Expansion Pack, Nintendo also confirmed that February's NSO+ title will be The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The 2000 release will be the second of the two N64 Zeldas in the pack.

Nine movies - five of them good - and 18 years worth of crunch.

If you're looking to see a Star War, the entire film series is coming in brick form in early April.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - a LEGO retelling of the trilogy of trilogies in the unfathomably popular sci-fi universe - has finally received a release date of April 5. The game was originally announced during the last Microsoft E3 press conference in 2019 for a "2020" release.

Despite the name, this is the first in a series.

After a launch in Japan last month, an RPG from the founders of Brownie Brown (now 1-Up Studio) is headed west in February.

Egglia Rebirth has been listed for preorder on the Nintendo web store and system eShops in North America with a release date of February 10 and a price of $19.99 US / $26.99... Read more...

Somehow not the biggest Microsoft-related gaming news of the day.

The bird and the bear are about to drop into the Switch Online expansion pack.

Nintendo have confirmed that Banjo-Kazooie will be available in an update to the Nintendo 64 app this Thursday (January 20). This will mark the first re-release on a Nintendo platform for the 1998 platformer.

Although Paper Mario launched last month alongside a Genesis update, no game has been identified for February.

Along with an annual ranking of the year in Switch.

The Switch had another monster December in the US, according to the latest sales survey released by the NPD Group.

All monthly sales based on the period of November 28 - January 1, and based on revenue unless noted. Third parties can contribute digital sales on the eShop though Nintendo themselves do not participate.

That's roughly 9.1 Bethesdas.

Microsoft has taken another Western third party off the market in the largest video game acquisition ever.

The Redmond giant has entered into an agreement to purchase Activision Blizzard in a US$68.7bn deal, the largest all gaming acquisition in history. No closing date was given for the deal,... Read more...

The kind of pricing you'd expect from a monopoly and a company who's going in on NF*censored*

The Kingdom Hearts cloud releases for Switch will be out in three weeks, and now we have pricing as well.

The trio of streaming packages - containing remastered versions of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, a remake of Dream Drop Distance from the 3DS, and Kingdom Hearts 3 - will be fully live on February... Read more...

The indies are getting out before they have to box with God.

Prominent games from last week we missed in the text of the column: Radirgy Swag and Japanese Rail Sim 3D: Journey to Kyoto were joined by Picross S7 on Monday, Card Fighters Clash came with Shakespearean "simulator" To Be Or Not To Be on Wednesday.

This week's early releases see Windjammer 2 (late... Read more...