With the next wave of the Booster Course Pass, every day can be Wiggler Wednesday.

Other announcements from today's Nintendo Direct:

The long-awaited follow-up starring a gruff-talking Pikachu finally arrives.

After opening the Nintendo Direct with a trailer for Pokemon Scarlet/Violet DLC, we got another Pokemon-related announcement in the form of Detective Pikachu Returns. Starring a coffee-loving Pikachu and his human partner Tim, players will join the pair in solving mysteries in Ryme City, which was the setting of both the original game and the feature film.

Nintendo looks ahead at 2024.

Two new Mario universe games were announced today, though both focus on characters other than Mario himself. The 3DS game Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon is getting an HD remaster and Princess peach will be staring in a brand-new game that has yet to receive an official title. Both of these games are planned for release next year.

The newest 2D Mario drops the "New" moniker.

Mario returns to his 2D roots in his first original 2D platformer in over a decade. Super Mario Bros Wonder was announced at today's Nintendo Direct with a release date of October 20, 2023. The trailer showed off several playable characters including Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Toad, and Yoshi. New... Read more...

Even more Pikmin on Switch ahead of the upcoming sequel

After seeing new footage of Pikmin 4 at today's Nintendo Direct, it was announced that HD versions of Pikmin 1 and 2 would be released later on today on the eShop. Each game can be purchased separately or as a bundle at a discount. There will also be a physical version with both titles launching on September 22. With the addition of these two GameCube entries, we'll soon have all four mainline Pikmin games available on Switch.

Wario demands that you move it, move it this fall.

During today's Nintendo Direct it was announced that a new entry in the WarioWare series would be coming to Nintendo Switch on November 3, 2023. WarioWare: Move It! shakes up the formula by asking players to get their whole body into the act. With a Joy-Con in each hand, players will take on over 200 new series-staple microgames. Go it alone or play with a partner in co-op microgames.

Geno still isn't in Smash and he never will be.

The Super Nintendo classic role-playing-game, Super Mario PRG is headed to Switch via a brand-new remake. Announced during today's Nintendo Direct, Super Mario RPG will be coming to Nintendo Switch on November 17, 2023. The remake features the same isometric perspective as the original but with brand new, real-time, 3D graphics to replace the pre-rendered 3D of the original. Some high quality pre-rendered cutscenes were also shown off.

This is why you don't want to get a copyright strike from Nintendo.

Despite all logic to the contrary, Nintendo is attempting to promote next Friday's Everybody 1-2 Switch.

The company has uploaded a video of a group of sixteen content creators being flown to Tokyo to try the game, which will release on June 30. The video is below:

...wonder if you can watch a DIrect on airplane wifi?

We've got one more show from the Summer of Too Many Shows, and it's a big one.

Nintendo have called a general Direct tomorrow (June 21) at 10:00 a.m. ET, 7:00 a.m. PT, 1600 CET, and 2300 JST. It will run for roughly 40 minutes and provide new details on Pikmin 4 alongside other 2023 Switch releases.

Just the second game - and first fully internal one - to run on the console-standard engine.

Japanese download cards for PIkmin 4 have appeared in the wild, and in addition to new screens is some new information on next month's release.

An image on the back of the card (as shown in a post from Twitter user @Genki_JPN embedded below) shows an Unreal Engine logo among the other copyright... Read more...

The Southeast Asian trailer has outlined features that should shave 10% off the 100 hour monsters.

Bandai Namco has given the first release date worldwide for a pair of classic JRPGs announced in February.

A trailer from the Southeast Asian regional Bandai Namco Youtube channel (below) has given a release date of 14 September 2023 for the remakes of Baten Kaitos I & II announced in February's Direct. As this is a Thursday, that would mean a release on or around the 15th of September for Western regions.

Next week is the ridiculous, this week is the sublime.

Things we missed last week: Taito's Megablast in the Archives.

Another quiet week before all of the big releases drop next week to close out the calendar and fiscal quarter (as well as tragically the horse game), and I get to prep that list three timezones from home after attending the last high... Read more...

In the immortal words of the late, great Brian Pillman: "SMAAAAAAART MARK!"

A serious dose of strategy is about to land in the NSO Game Boy Advance app.

"Fire Emblem" (aka Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade) will be added to the library on June 22. The first Fire Emblem game to release outside of Japan, it was previously re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console.

The description... Read more...

Watch the Switch 2 get the version with the female main character. (Too soon?)

Half of the rumored Persona pair that leaked Thursday is confirmed for Switch, but the 2024 portion will miss the platform.

The website for Persona 5 Tactica - the strategy RPG starring the vanilla Persona 5 cast - has updated to include Switch on its platform list. It was officially unveiled during... Read more...

The only objections come from players who ground out to buy the DLC for the last two games.

Capcom's summer showcase featured another group of court action coming to Switch.

The Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Trilogy was revealed in today's showcase, with an early 2024 launch. The compilation will feature Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2008 DS), Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (2013 3DS), and Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice (2016 3DS).

Amazingly, James Cameron's chat was held to 0.01 Avatars this year.

Ubisoft's latest Ubisoft Forward presentation contained a few items of note for Switch owners.

Nice to see even with the Summer Game Mess, we still have light weeks in June

Things we missed last week: Nintendo Direct veteran Harmony: Fall of Reverie on Thursday, as well as Bravoman from Namco in the Archives.

Since this week is apparently all about the upcoming releases, there's not a lot sitting on the docket to actually... y'know, come out this week. Obviously my... Read more...

The "mock generative AI" joke was done better by Devolver, and in a sixth of the time.

As has become tradition, a few Switch games were revealed in the PC Gamer-sponsored PC Gaming Show.

The news desk needs a minute to collect itself...

The Saturday of the Summer of Too Many Game Shows has featured dozens of new Switch announcements and updates. In rough chronological order:

Future of Play Expo

The videos are Xbox branded, but Switch did get the announcements a couple of weeks later.

A couple of intended announcements for Sunday were inadvertently dropped early, and one or both may be Switch-bound.

Since-deleted Instragram posts on Atlus's Western page showed an announcement of a "Persona 5 Tactica" with a release date of November 17, and a "Persona 3 Reload" for early 2024.... Read more...