Mikey has the best pair of nunchucks that don't involve chaining two religious teachers together.

Things we missed last week: The parade of shows brought us Lost Ruins and LumbearJack.

Since we don't have trade shows to deal with for this week, some pretty big titles have chosen to come out instead. The pair of headliners - which we found out about last Thursday, thank you Geoff - are speedrun... Read more...

The 2023 release might be closer to Devil Survivor in inspiration.

Although not as rich as last year, there was one major item for Switch at the 2022 PC Gaming Show.

Developer Necrosoft (Gunhouse) and publisher Ysbyrd (YIIK) have announced Demonschool at the show. A "school life" RPG with tactical RPG combat, the battle system will feature rewinds in combat and an expansive story with side quests and daily planning.

And since we know the source, we can narrow that range down slightly.

Minecraft has announced its second spinoff, this time a take on action and strategy games.

During the Microsoft showcase, a trailer ran for Minecraft: Legends - the spinoff followup to Minecraft Dungeons. It will launch in 2023 on Switch among its other platforms, according to the YouTube description for the game's trailer (below) with a target of the first half of 2023.

And there's your obligatory Xbox event news post for the year.

Microsoft of all people has helped narrow down the release window for one of the most demanded titles for every Nintendo video presentation.

During their June showcase today, Microsoft ran a trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong, and later confirmed that every game shown in the presentation was slated... Read more...

That first date is probably the most painful of them all.

A rising star in voice acting - including several prominent Nintendo roles - has died.

Billy Kametz died on Thursday (June 9) at the age of 35. He had recently taken a sabbatical from voice acting due to stage IV colon cancer, and donations can be made in his name to the Colon Cancer Coalition.

This might be a longer article than the Downloads article for this past week.

The Wholesome Direct traditionally has featured two things; almost no violence, and an abundance of Switch content. The same was true for the show earlier today, which immediately followed the Guerrilla Collective show. The full list of titles, genres, and release windows as available for strictly Switch titles is below: more information on the games is linked from the Wholesome Games website.

If you were looking for the Future's future's etc., Devolver was a couple of days ago.

Since its 2020 debut, the Future Games Show has had a few items of import for Switch owners at its June show, and 2022 was no different.

Another brisk show from the old MIX team.

The summer of game presentations continued this morning with the first Guerrilla Collective indie show of the year (the second to follow on Monday), which hosted more than a dozen Switch game announced.

The NWR community says goodbye to one of our founding members.

Nintendo World Report has a relatively long history on the internet, but even so, it feels far too early to be saying goodbye to one of our founding staff members. Mike Hrusecky passed away on May 24th at the age of 44. Several of our former staff members reached out to share their grief and a few... Read more...

What exactly does the future's future's future hold?

As is their tradition, Devolver Digital aired a mini-movie lampooning the game industry today that also snuck in a couple of Switch announcements.

Devolver will publish The Plucky Squire, the first game from new studio All Possible Futures, in 2023. The studio is a two-person team consisting of... Read more...

Some big names in the indie scene are coming on strong here.

Following the Summer Game Fest, the annual Day of the Devs brought a spotlight to several upcoming independent titles with forthcoming Switch releases.

They say next year will be in person. Sure, Jan.

With the power vacuum created by the death of E3, Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest held its livestream for the third consecutive year today. Amongst the sea of space station-based immersive sims came several Switch announcements:

Who's up for Sophie's Choice again?

The second war for Fodlan is about to start.

A demo for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is now available on the eShop. The demo covers the first portion of the final game, and save data will carry over to the June 24 release.

A "Download Demo" link was spotted on the game's web store page as early as Thursday, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity featured a demo with carryover as well.

Vaya con dios, collectors.

Get your clicky fingers ready if you're looking to purchase the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 special edition: preorders open tomorrow.

In a post on the company Twitter account, Nintendo of America confirmed the package - with an art book and steelbook game case - would be open for preorder tomorrow. Similar announcements have been made by Nintendo's European and Australian branches.

There's something about a horse involved.

Nintendo has apparently developed a sequel to Switch's other launch title 1-2 Switch, but it may never see the light of day.

In reporting at Fanbyte, the title - apparently titled "Everybody's 1-2 Switch" - has been in development since the success of the original which shipped 3.45m copies. In... Read more...

And they said [redacted] would be digital only...

Limited Run Games held their sixth summer presentation earlier today, announcing a new slew of physical releases and some newly released titles.

New Switch Titles (all have physical limited releases)

The friendlies are over (and held up well), now it's time for the true kickoff.

Things we missed last week: The Archives title was The Tower of Druaga. Yes, that one, the one that spawned hand-written strategy guides in Japanese arcades.

It's all about the beautiful game this week, as Mario Strikers: Battle League kicks off on Friday morning and though my time with the online... Read more...

A video clip of the attraction shows off the American adaptation of the original Japan ride.

Universal Studios Hollywood narrowed down the debut of Super Nintendo World to early 2023 and confirmed that the flagship Mario Kart ride from the Japanese version of the park will also be in California called Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge, logically localized from the Japanese name Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge.

What are those Pokemon, and... four player live co-op?

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have a date and some new friends.

A new trailer has released confirming the games will release worldwide on November 18, 2022 with digital preorders now open. The box art, showing two new apparently legendary Pokemon, was also shown, and the traditional double pack will be available.

Still involved with the multi-billion dollar franchise, just at a higher level.

One of the key figures in the video game history of Pokemon is stepping away from hands on game development after 33 years at Game Freak.

Junichi Masuda, co-director of the recent Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl and one of the key programmers of the original Red and Green, has retired... Read more...