One of which, well... the timing could be better.

As part of the closing ceremonies for this year's Pokemon World Championships in Japan, several game related announcements were made alongside the announcement of next year's Worlds site.

The Indigo Disk - the second part of the DLC - will feature an area where all starter Pokemon from the first... Read more...

The back-filling of the old ID catalogue continues.

The Switch has added another classic first person shooter to its arsenal.

A listing for Quake II (1997) is now live on the eShop for US$9.99 or equivalent, continuing the biannual release of ID shooters around the QuakeCon expo following the classic Doom games in 2019 and a remastered version of the original Quake in 2021.

All the other stuff that had you asking "when do we get to the fireworks factory?".

Other items from the Pokemon Presents today:

And some old friends will help you get ready.

More new Pokemon are coming to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet as part of the game's "Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" DLC.

The first part - The Teal Mask - was confirmed for launch on September 13, and new details were shown of the world for both it and the second part "The Indigo Disk" (still slated... Read more...

The family's all here this time.

A new trailer for Detective PIkachu Returns ran during the Pokemon Presents that has revealed more of the game's characters.

In addition to Tim Goodman and his missing father Harry, the story will also include Tim's mother Irene and sister Sophia. Partner Pokemon were also shown, using a Growlithe to sniff out clues and a Darmanitan (Galarian form) to break walls.

Including a game literally too big for Virtual Console.

Two Switch Online libraries will be adding new Pokemon games shortly.

During the Pokemon Presents, both the Pokemon Trading Card Game (GBC, 1999) and Pokemon Stadium 2 (N64, 2001) were confirmed for release "shortly after the presentation". The GBC game was announced in February with the reveal of the library, while the N64 game was announced last September.

Given the reason for the delay, the news desk certainly gets it.

A potentially catastrophic bug has caused the release of WrestleQuest to be pushed back a couple of weeks.

The wrestling RPG was originally slated to launch tomorrow (August 8) but has been pushed back to the 22nd. The cause is an unidentified platform causing issues with losing save data across multiple devices.

Remember, if you have a queen-high straight and lose to a king-high straight, the correct move is shooting the other guy.

One of the great open world westerns is about to make its Nintendo debut.

A version of 2010's Red Dead Redemption - along with its Halloween themed Undead Nightmare expansion - will be available on Switch next Thursday (August 17). Nintendo's webstore lists the game with a price of US$49.99/C$64.99 and with no physical option.

A save data injury knocked out WrestleQuest, but that just gives time for a musical RPG instead of a wrestling one.

Things we missed last week: Namco's shooter sequel Baraduke 2 in the Archives.

With SummerFest (tm Jeremy Piven) wrapped up and the All In / All Out doubleshot at the end of the month into Labour Day weekend, it's natural to have the art of wrestling on the mind right now - so it's perfect timing... Read more...

If true, they actually managed to snipe Mineko's Night Market.

Following an extended stint in Steam's Early Access program, the other missing game from the August 2018 Nindie Showcase appears to finally have a launch window.

Multiplayer platformer King of the Hat, which was announced for an "early 2019" release in a presentation that aired on August 28, 2018, has been spotted on the eShop with a launch date of August 24 - five years (less four days) since its original unveil.

That is a LOT of time for sleeping.

The next video event of note is the largest Pokemon Presents possibly ever.

The Pokemon Company have announced the bi-annual Pokemon Presents event will air on Tuesday (August 8) at 9 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. PT. It will run for 35 minutes.

Although the focus will likely be on the upcoming Pokemon Scarlet... Read more...

We know the opening weekend number is 10m. How close did we get to 20?

Nintendo has released their earnings report for the first fiscal quarter of the 2023-24 fiscal year, and thanks to the launch of Tears of the Kingdom and having the top-grossing movie of the year as of now, all of the relevant financial indicators are up.

All monetary figures quoted in yen, with a comparison based on current market rate of US$1 = ¥143.04 provided for clarification only.

Taken down for pretty gnarly security fixes.

The online services for two Wii U games are actually coming back soon.

A social media post from Nintendo UK announced that online services for the original Splatoon and Mario Kart 8's Wii U version will be restored on 3 August.

The servers were taken offline in March in order to resolve an issue... Read more...

Or as we like to call it, "backlog week" or "play Game Boy Mario games and Super Mario World" week.

Things we missed last week: Taito's 4 player beat-'em-up Growl joins the Archives, and adventure game The Entropy Centre dropped out of nowhere as well.

I'd like to apologize to the two biggest releases of the week - former Indie World games Venba (summer 2022) and A Guidebook of Babel (2020)... Read more...

(insert The Siren here)

Signs of future hardware emanating from part suppliers is common in technology, and the Switch's successor may not be immune.

As first reported at tech review site Notebook Check, Chinese firm PixArt Imaging - not to be confused with the purveyor of Switch shovelware PixArt - has claimed in their... Read more...

And if you want to play the third game of the Triforce, you can just boot the NES app.

For those who have wrapped Tears of the Kingdom, a couple of additional Zelda adventures are now available for Switch Online subscribers.

As promised in February, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages are now available in the Game Boy (Color) catalogue for the basic tier of... Read more...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the retail fashion industry but were afraid to ask.

One of the mysterious "2023" games from the first Direct of the year now has a date.

Fashion Dreamer, the XSEED-published design sim unveiled in February and given a "2023" release date at the time, has released a long trailer showing off the game; the ending confirms the sim will be available on November 3.

With the prominent mouse arriving this week, we'll be dispatching the Chief Mouser of the News Desk to deal with it.

Things we missed last week: Early, EARLY Namco title King & Balloon (think Pang) was added to the Archives, and Japan managed to get a record 67 games in the week, only one of which was Pikmin 4. Like, what the hell.

So aside from "Mousetroidvania" (distinct eye roll and wanking motion), this... Read more...

News quests and lots of quality of life changes!

The long awaited 4.0 update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has arrived on Nintendo Switch along with last generation consoles. The update had previously released on PC, Xbox Series X, and Playstation 5, and included graphical enhancements for those platforms. The Switch version obviously will not be... Read more...

We will patiently wait for the Edward Scissorhands and Pikmin crossover game.

Did you know that when Pikmin was revealed in 2001 at E3 and Shigeru Miyamoto said it would be out that year that all they had done was more or less what was in the demo? That’s just a taster of what was revealed in Nintendo’s Ask the Developer Interview about Pikmin 4. The first installment brought... Read more...