One is familiar, the other ones not so much.

Nintendo of America has announced a trio of Switch bundles for the return of Detective Pikachu.

The bundle of a standard Switch that includes Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a three month NSO (standard, individual) membership traditionally offered around Black Friday, will instead launch on October 6.... Read more...

In honor of a television debut 51 years ago today: Help control the lawyer population, have your game show hosts spayed and neutered.

Things we missed last week: Digital Eclipse's The Making Of: Karateka on Tuesday, 30XX on Friday, and Archives title Cadash on Thursday.

Last week ended up in the 50s for release (aside from Japan), so this week is of course on the lighter side. Sadly, we're probably getting Festivus NEXT week... Read more...

Including some possible online play

This weekend's Nintendo Live show in Seattle has shown more gameplay from Super Mario Bros. Wonder following this week's Direct.

The gameplay showed both single and multiplayer gameplay - including two and four player local-cop and some online methods being shown as part of the stage. The roughly 20 minute video can be found below:

But only one tangible player goes on screen.

For the first time outside Super Mario Maker 2, it will be possible to have online play in a 2D Mario game.

Today's Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct confirmed the addition of "online ghosts" to the game, which can be used both in a cooperative and competitive fashion. The ghosts can be used to revive... Read more...

It looks Wonderful

During today's Nintendo Direct, a new Switch variant was shown off. The new OLED model features a red mario theme including some images of Mario and coins throughout the system and dock. The Mario Red Edition Switch OLED is planned to launch on October 6, two weeks before the launch of Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

We recommend microdosing before this one.

A Direct injection of Mario Wonder information will be hitting in two days.

Nintendo have announced that a 15 minute Direct video will be released on August 31st at 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT / 1600 CET providing new information on the October 20 release. The announcement was made on the company's Twitter (now known as X for some petulant reason).

A delayed 900, so delayed it could be called Metroid Prime 4.

2023 appears to be the year of the long-delayed indie game finally coming out, and a game thought lost from 2019 is finally coming.

Skater XL, originally announced for Switch release in the August 2019 Indie World show for a "2020" release, will finally release on Switch December 5. It was previously released on the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in late 2018.

In Memoriam: Windham Rotunda ("Bray Wyatt") 1987 - 2023

Things we missed last week: Namco's early shooter Bosconian was the Archives release of the week.

Apparently last week was light due to Gamescom, so we're certainly making it up in volume this week; North America is over 40 already. The biggest looking game of the week doesn't have the biggest... Read more...

And the count goes to two. Or one.

Pokemon Stadium 2 isn't the only addition to the NSO Expansion Pack's N64 library this month.

A trailer has released confirming the next addition will be Excitebike 64; Nintendo of America quoted August 30 as the launch date, which may result in an actual release of late in the evening on the 29th for North America.

So now the products of the eShop's enshittification will probably crash more often too.

One of the more notorious digital rights management solutions on PCs is reportedly now officially available for developers to use on Switch.

Originally announced as working on Switch roughly a year ago, the Denuvo system is now available on the Nintendo Development Portal as a middleware according... Read more...

Tower defense check, platformers check, side-scrolling strategy check, card RPG check... yep, that was the next step.

The SteamWorld series is taking aim at yet another genre before the year is out.

SteamWorld Build, which adapts the steampunk/cowboy hybrid aesthetic to a city builder, has revealed a launch date of December 1 as part of Gamescom. The trailer is below:

Elements of earlier games in the series - specifically hiring bots to mine materials and setting up towers to defend against monsters - will appear in a modified form in Build.

Do you want to dance with the dinosaurs, or are you taking your money to see a star war?

Nightdive Studios have announced a pair of first person shooter remasters that cover a couple of forms of science fiction.

To coincide with Gamescom, Nightdive have confirmed remasters of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion for release: Dark Forces does not have a confirmed release date, but Turok 3 will be available on Switch November 14. Both remasters will be developed in the company's "Kex" engine.

You do not besmirch a trainer's tea.

The count of new Pokemon from the Scarlet and Violet DLC is now into the double digits.

A pair of videos posted by the Pokemon Company today revealed the new Pokemon Poltchageist; although taking similar inspiration from the Sinistea and Polteageist in Sword and Shield, they are said to be unrelated. The new one is a Ghost and Grass type (while the Sword and Shield duos are entirely Ghost type).

Despite the wishes of the most charismatic stage presence of the day, there's no GTA VI news.

Other Switch-relevant announcements from the "Opening Night Live" show at Gamescom:

If this was 1993, I'm pretty sure someone's head would explode at retail.

It's Sonic's 30th anniversary, and Sega is paying tribute to Logan's Run with it.

During the GamesCom Opening Night Live show, Sonic Superstars - the side-scrolling 4 player co-op Sonic game announced this summer - was confirmed for launch on October 17. This puts it squarely in the sights of Super... Read more...

Supermassive Games takes over main development duties for the third installment of the Bandai Namco series.

Little Nightmares III is coming to Switch (and other platforms) in 2024, adding co-op play for the first time in the series.

Supermassive Games is developing the title, following their work on porting Little Nightmares II to Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. They also worked on The Dark Pictures... Read more...

I hear Chris Pratt is available?

The longtime voice of the Mario franchise is stepping away from the microphone.

Charles Martinet, who has voiced Mario in games dating back to the Super Nintendo and routinely voices other characters in the Mario universe, will retire from doing the voice soon according to a statement by Nintendo.... Read more...

This week's quiet. A little TOO Raph.

Things we missed last week: We had a date but no pricing for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk until it dropped like a bomb on the eShop Friday morning. More on that later.

This week seems positively dead for late summer; even with an unexpected WrestleQuest pulling a run-in for this week (with the save data... Read more...

The Big Man one is already sold out.

As is tradition, the latest Amiibo announcement will accompany a Nintendo first party release.

Amiibo for Splatoon 3's Deep Cut - Frye, Shiver, and Big Man - will be available on November 17 (the same day as Super Mario RPG). The Nintendo announcement does not confirm if they will be sold separately or in one package; previous Splatoon Amiibo have been sold together.

All matters of shooting fun, costing from C$6 to $65.

Things we missed last week: Quake II (including Quake II 64) dropped out of Quakecon.

Originally the big game of the week was honestly going to be one of the biggest games of the 2020s - Vampire Survivors - finally coming to the Switch. And even though Red Dead Redemption dropped last week and... Read more...