In Memoriam: Windham Rotunda ("Bray Wyatt") 1987 - 2023

Things we missed last week: Namco's early shooter Bosconian was the Archives release of the week.

Apparently last week was light due to Gamescom, so we're certainly making it up in volume this week; North America is over 40 already. The biggest looking game of the week doesn't have the biggest... Read more...

And the count goes to two. Or one.

Pokemon Stadium 2 isn't the only addition to the NSO Expansion Pack's N64 library this month.

A trailer has released confirming the next addition will be Excitebike 64; Nintendo of America quoted August 30 as the launch date, which may result in an actual release of late in the evening on the 29th for North America.

So now the products of the eShop's enshittification will probably crash more often too.

One of the more notorious digital rights management solutions on PCs is reportedly now officially available for developers to use on Switch.

Originally announced as working on Switch roughly a year ago, the Denuvo system is now available on the Nintendo Development Portal as a middleware according... Read more...

Tower defense check, platformers check, side-scrolling strategy check, card RPG check... yep, that was the next step.

The SteamWorld series is taking aim at yet another genre before the year is out.

SteamWorld Build, which adapts the steampunk/cowboy hybrid aesthetic to a city builder, has revealed a launch date of December 1 as part of Gamescom. The trailer is below:

Elements of earlier games in the series - specifically hiring bots to mine materials and setting up towers to defend against monsters - will appear in a modified form in Build.

Do you want to dance with the dinosaurs, or are you taking your money to see a star war?

Nightdive Studios have announced a pair of first person shooter remasters that cover a couple of forms of science fiction.

To coincide with Gamescom, Nightdive have confirmed remasters of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion for release: Dark Forces does not have a confirmed release date, but Turok 3 will be available on Switch November 14. Both remasters will be developed in the company's "Kex" engine.

You do not besmirch a trainer's tea.

The count of new Pokemon from the Scarlet and Violet DLC is now into the double digits.

A pair of videos posted by the Pokemon Company today revealed the new Pokemon Poltchageist; although taking similar inspiration from the Sinistea and Polteageist in Sword and Shield, they are said to be unrelated. The new one is a Ghost and Grass type (while the Sword and Shield duos are entirely Ghost type).

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.