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...

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...