They say it takes a village.

US sales were incredibly tall in May, but Nintendo still held on for a hardware win in the US NPD sales survey.

All rankings based on dollar sales from May 2 - 29 unless indicated: Nintendo titles are not counted digitally but most third party titles are.

The Switch has now been the top selling... Read more...

For once, Donald added fifty game pages on a weekend and a quarter of them end up in here.

*crickets*

Since apparently everyone is getting out of the way of Tuesday's Direct and the sale that's going to follow it, this is a positively New Year's list - in that it's got very little on it. Unless there's an absolute boatload of shadowdrops Tuesday. Or Sunday, given that Minute of Islands came out in between the writing of this piece and the publication.

The last show of a high-octane weekend.

Sunday's final video presentation was the Future Games Show, which unveiled the following for Switch:

Hey, we take 'em where we can get 'em.

Despite the name, there were actually a few Switch announcements at the 2021 PC Gaming Show.

The follow-up to one of 2019's most disturbing titles is the rare PS5/XBSeries/Switch game.

One of the games announced at Microsoft's showcase today was later confirmed for Switch release along with the obligatory Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 release.

Publisher Focus Home Interactive have announced A Plague Tale: Requiem, the sequel to 2019 horror adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence, would release on Switch in 2022 by way of a cloud version. It was confirmed in the small print of the game's reveal trailer.

The devil, you say?

The resurrection of Diablo II will be complete very early in the fall.

At Microsoft's summer showcase, Activision Blizzard confirmed that the remaster of Diablo II will release on September 23 - for all platforms. Previously only a release year (2021) was given.

The trailer also confirmed cross-progression for all consoles and 8 player online co-op.

...we're going to have a few words with Ms. Struthers about that last one.

Devolver Digital's latest skewering of game industry trends also featured a couple of new Switch announcements.

The publisher is releasing the latest game from Doinksoft, the makers of Gato Roboto - known as Demon Throttle, the 8-bit retro shooter is only available physically through a partnership... Read more...

The three constants of Ubi: A toxic work environment, leaks, and Just Dance.

The worst kept secret of the weekend is now official.

Ubisoft have revealed Mario + Rabbits: Sparks of Hope at their Ubisoft Forward presentation today. The sequel to the 2017 strategy game will add Rabbid versions of Rosalina and Luma, befitting its new intergalactic setting as Mario characters team up with Rabbids to save "Sparks" hidden around the galaxy. You can watch the gameplay and cinematic trailers below.

Almost coming faster than we can write them up.

The second show of the day was the Wholesome Direct, with the following announcements for Switch:

How can I hold... er, play... all these games?

Announcements continued to pour in for Switch at the second Guerrilla Collective show and its companion, the Wholesome Direct.

How will Ubisoft move forward from this?

Nintendo seemed to have uploaded the page for the-yet unannounced sequel to Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle early (Update: The page has since been taken down). The sequel will be called Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and releases in 2022. The game is published by Ubisoft and seems to feature new Rabbidfied versions of classic Mario characters like Rosalina and even a Rabbid Luma. The description on the page reads as follows:

The former of those announcements quite literally blew the news desk away.

IGN's seventy minute game showcase held earlier today featured multiple announcements and release dates for Switch project, including one thought to be impossible.

You can thank the home office and Nintendo Spain for Saber Interactive's next mega-project.

The head of the studio behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance admitted in an interview today that a pair of Nintendo errors led to them attempting to port the 2018 RPG to Switch.

As part of the Deep Silver / Koch Media showcase today, Warhorse Studio's Tobias Stolz-Zwilling mentioned the first error... Read more...

That's an awfully big number to be throwing around, Nintendo.

Some brief items from Nintendo heading into Tuesday's Direct:

Super duper rare games

UPDATE: Super Rare Games released a statement changing their approach to Super Rare Shorts on June 14th 2021 after criticism on the original announcement. You can read the changes and that statement here.

Super Rare Games announced today that the company will start with publishing exclusive titles... Read more...

And a lot of stuff that we'll hopefully be able to cover eventually.

The second event of the Summer Games Fest was the annual "Day of the Devs", traditionally hosted by Double Fine studio head Tim Schafer. The following titles were shown during the show that were anounced, previously or otherwise, for Switch:

Wait, George RR Martin actually finished something in this century? What madness is this?

The major multiplatform game announcement show of the season, the Summer Games Festival, featured additional announcements beyond the Among Us roadmap and Two Point Campus announcements:

And hey, if the country's executive orders the student loans forgiven, you can jack up the tuition by 6000% guilt free.

After satirizing healthcare, Two Point Studios is moving onto the other sacred cow: education.

Two Point Campus, previously leaked on the Xbox dashboard, has been announced for a 2022 Switch release. Players will be tasked with building a university campus that crosses education with the social development of the students.

And don't forget the cheevos.

New content is going to continue to drop for Among Us.

As part of the Summer Game Fest kickoff, developer Innersloth made the following announcements:

No release timing was given for the update.

It's been a while for one of the leads.

A veteran of the Japanese horror RPG genre is making his first appearance in a quarter century for a new RPG that NIS America has already confirmed for Western release.

Known as Monark, the new RPG from developer Lancarse (previous works including programming on Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth... Read more...