I hear carrying a bucket is a great way to burn off those post-holiday pounds.

UPDATE 10 September: Star Ocean: First Departure R will release worldwide on December 5. Original story follows.

Ahead of this week's Tokyo Game Show, SquareEnix is giving some dates for upcoming Switch remakes.

The first to be announced was for the remastered version of Final Fantasy Crystal... Read more...

And the wait for folders continues apace.

The Switch system software has updated and offers building blocks for new features.

Infrastructure was added for an alarm function and the ability to see and accept game invites from the user page on the console. The abilities to set alarms and invite friends will need to be added to software. The alarms, which can be accessed in the notification menu, will use LEDs on the Joy-Con controllers that have not been used in 2+ years.

Where 11 goes, the original trio are sure to follow.

The first three Dragon Quest games are coming to Switch with English text.

During the Japanese Nintendo Direct, it was announced that the first three Dragon Quest games would release in their eShop on September 27. A follow-up post from Square Enix's Asia branch confirmed that the trio would receive a physical release in southeast Asia before the end of the year, with Japanese/Chinese/English text support.

In before "Switch Fit Plus U".

Nintendo is promising "a new experience for the Switch" next week, which appears to be dipping back into the world of fitness.

A trailer uploaded to Nintendo's Youtube account today shows multiple people hooking Joy-Cons into various weight belts and a more solid, circular object. The trailer cuts to multiple cities around the world, ending in Kyoto, before finishing on an announcement of more details on the 12th.

Are they trying to appeal to the Chris Kohler demographic?

The Nintendo Direct today promised Pokémon news, and it delivered.

Character customization will return for the third straight generation, including clothing and hair styling. The Wild Area will also feature Pokémon Camp, which serves as the place to play with Pokémon in the world. It will be... Read more...

I guess Sans really IS coming to Smash Bros.

After showcasing the new fighter Banjo-Kazooie, Super Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai announced that Home Run Contest will be returning to the series in the 5.0.0 update for Ultimate. Sakurai described this mode as "pretty much the final new mode," implying there would not be any more after this.

And it's going to be 2020 in every territory.

We'll be feeling it again in 2020.

Xenoblade Chronicles will receive a definitive edition release on Switch in 2020. The original 2010/11/12 Wii release appears to be a simultaneous worldwide release for the remastered version.

How much of this releases in September?

Here are other announcements from today's Nintendo Direct:

Maybe now we should call it Super Nintendo Switch Online! ...Anyone?

Nintendo announced in today's Direct that SNES games will be coming to the library of games included with Nintendo Switch Online memberships. There will be 20 games available on September 5, with more to come in the future.

The list of games is as follows:

-BRAWL BROTHERS

-Breath of Fire

The absolute madlads did it.

One of the Wii U's last games will be receiving an encore

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE: Encore will launch on Switch January 17, 2020. The new version will feature additional songs and new combo techniques in battle, as well as new playable characters and story elements.

Banjo-Kazooie out today, Terry Bogard is coming to Smash Bros. Ultimate, and there's still more to come.

Fatal Fury’s Terry Bogard is the latest DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, while Banjo-Kazooie is being released later today.

Banjo-Kazooie will be arrive today following the conclusion of today's Nintendo Direct. Masahiro Sakurai will be providing a demonstration of the character immediately after the Direct.

Blizzard's popular shooter is coming October 15.

Multiplayer first-person shooter Overwatch is coming to the Nintendo Switch next month.

A video showcasing various Overwatch characters was seen in the first trailer of today’s Nintendo Direct. There will be new ways to play, as the trailer showcased new motion control gameplay.

Overwatch will be released on Nintendo Switch on October 15.

Wowee Zowee indeed!

In a Nintendo Direct on September 4, 2019, several new floors were unveiled as areas for Luigi to explore: a pirate-themed restaurant, a dance hall, and the Tomb Suites, which boasts a pyramid and mummies inside.

Also, a new mode has been revealed called the Scream Park. This 4v4 party mode puts a team of Luigis and a team of Gooigis against one another to see who can catch the most ghosts, collect the most coins, and break targets.

Check out everything going down over on Patreon this month!

9/2 Patreon Exclusive Talk Nintendo

9/12 TNP Producer Shout-Outs

9/4 Patreon Plays (PP) Suggestions Open

9/9 PP Voting Begins

9/13 PP Winner Announced

9/15 Game Night (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Smash, Splatoon)

9/16 Patreon Excl. Radio Free Nintendo

9/26 Stream Night (UNLOCKED)

The list of people who saw this coming includes Ray Charles, Angel Hernandez, and Joe West.

A giant news dump is coming directly to all of us.

The next Nintendo Direct will air on Wednesday at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m PT / midnight CET / 0700 JST (Thursday). It is scheduled for 40 minutes and will "focus" on late 2019 Switch releases.

Nintendo World Report will have wall-to-wall coverage of the presentation.

This week doesn't feature Warren G, Nate Dogg, Dr. Metts or Jon "The Conduit is an 8.5" Lindemann. But it should.

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And so the month from heaven and/or hell begins.

Uh huh. Of games I know I'd play this week we have the Final Fantasy VIII remake, River City Girls, and Root Letter... and that's without having a review game, Astral Chains, or the Black Eagles to deal with right now. The best seller out of the bunch will be future lootbox legislation lynchpin NBA 2K20, however.

This only narrows it down to about 200 fighting game veterans and the Metal Slug dudes.

A copyright slipup from Nintendo of Europe appears to have nailed down the publisher of the Smash Bros character to follow Banjo and Kazooie.

Freelance writer and Source Gaming founder @PushDustin first located a page on Nintendo's European website, which lists the copyright of the character as SNK. For comparison, the same page for Hero lists their copyright as Armor Project, Bird Studio, and SquareEnix.

They're well aware of the competition.

The goose will be loose three weeks from today.

Untitled Goose Game, the long awaited goose simulator from House House, will release on Switch on September 20. It will be a simultaneous worldwide release, with a regular price of US$19.99 or equivalent but a 25% launch discount.

House House have goosed up a new trailer for the game as well:

A world where everything is random.

The next project from the studio behind Night in the Woods is coming in a few short weeks.

Overland, the survival adventure where everything from the terrain to the party is random, has been announced for a September 19 release. Players are trying to get across the United States, but the road ahead is completely unknown.

That is an awful lot of platforming.

La Mulana 2 was announced for Switch around this time last year, and now we now it isn't coming alone.

Ahead of PAX West, NIS America have announced that they will be publishing both the original and 2 in one package in early 2020. They will be hosting a PAX panel tomorrow at 7 p.m. Eastern / 4 p.m. Pacific with the game's director Takumi Naramura, which will be streamed on the PAX2 Twitch channel.