New trailer reveals new character creation details.

A short new trailer for Pikmin 4 has revealed that this time around you'll be playing as your own custom character. We got a quick look at some of the customization options including skin color, eye shape, head shape, hair style, and more.

Pikmin 4 releases for Nintendo Switch next month, on July 21.

It took us about ten minutes to figure out what the NES game is.

The system libraries for the standard tier of Nintendo Switch Online - the NES, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy (Color) have added new games tonight.

Game Boy Color

Blaster Master: Enemy Below (2000) was the third release in the recently-revived side scrolling action series from Sunsoft, though it was not released under that name in Japan. Although the sprites and backgrounds are similar to the original NES game, the maps are remixed.

Nintendo has apparently embraced the kusoge on the eShop by releasing their own. For thirty bucks.

Things we missed last week: Another Tetris Grand Master game - which apparently ran at 62hz in the arcade? - has hit via the Archives.

As estimated yesterday, we have now had 5,011 games release on the Switch in the last two years, five months, and two days. This is STUPID. But the stream continues... Read more...

I hate corporate malfeasance. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

As we approach the anniversary of the release of Knights of the Old Republic II on Switch, its publisher is scrapping a major selling point.

In a social media post this evening, Aspyr Media have announced that the "Restored Content" DLC that was announced for the June 8, 2022 release has been cancelled... Read more...

Guaranteed to make someone act like a horse's rear end.

There will be a game from Nintendo between Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4, just not a game anyone expected to actually exist.

Everybody 1-2 Switch has appeared on the eShop with a release date of June 30. It will retail for US$29.99 / C$39.99, and a physical option is shown on the store though preorders are not yet live.

Of course, he's appealing.

It's Sonic's 30th anniversary, and one of his parents is facing jail time.

The insider trading trial of Yuji Naka has concluded with the former Sega star facing 30 months (2.5 years) in prison, as well as fines totalling ¥172.5m (~US$1.24m at present market rates).

Naka's lawyers are appealing... Read more...

Brought to you by the law firm of Fight, Heal, Vorp, & Eckstein.

Things we missed last week: Rolling Thunder 2 joined the Archives, and we did reach a new record of 67 releases in North America. As a result of that record, Switch releases 2021 - present will exceed the total releases on every prior-to-the-Switch console ever on June 1. Nintendo, we hope you're happy with this.

Come on Tony, is CM Punk REALLY worth the headaches?

After some delays, the Switch is about to become All Elite.

The first licensed game for the All Elite Wrestling promotion, AEW Fight Forever, will be available on June 29 according to the company's gaming-specific Twitter account. A preorder for the physical edition is now open on Amazon.

The... Read more...

We are once again on record watch this week.

Things we missed last week: Archives added Ark Area, also alliteration is awesome.

This week is opening at 50 releases in North America, and there tends to be a direct correlation between how many we get at the start of the week and how much I have to add on Saturdays, so there is a very good chance... Read more...

The advantage of also being an indie film company is that you can rope in some big names for smaller games.

A first-person adventure with some star power behind it is crossing to the Switch next week.

Annapurna Interactive announced today that their 2021 PC release Maquette would come to Switch on Thursday (May 25). It also released previously on PlayStations 4 and 5.

The first person puzzle game... Read more...

Poochy ain't stupid. ALLEGEDLY.

Just in time for the digital release of the Super Mario Bros movie, a trio of remixed Mario titles are hitting a Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack library.

The first three Super Mario Advance games - GBA remakes of Super Mario Bros. 2, World, and Yoshi's Island - will be available in the Game Boy Advance library following an update on May 26. The remixes add new voices and features to the classic Mario adventures.

Including free gifts for transferring in. (Hold up on that, though.)

UPDATE 2:50 p.m. EDT May 19: The Pokemon Company has now retracted the below story.

We put the cart before the Mudsdale! Earlier we mistakenly posted that Pokémon HOME version 3.0.0 would launch on May 23/24. However, the actual release date is yet to be announced. 3.0.0 is coming soon though, so please continue to follow our pages for more information! https://t.co/a8NZqJIPAn

Huh, didn't see that one koming.

It appears that Mortal Kombat is getting rebooted, and it will be available on Switch in some form.

A website for "Mortal Kombat 1", a story reboot of the classic fighting game series. It will launch on September 19 and lists Switch among its platforms, but it isn't clear if the Switch version is launching the same day as the other versions.

...when you type "NPD" for nearly a decade, it's still tough to get used to.

In the final month before a ten-million selling Zelda title, Nintendo's three headed monster fared quite well in the April US sales survey.

All data based on revenue from April 2 - 29 unless otherwise indicated. NIntendo digital sales are not counted, third parties may report eShop revenue if they choose.

Faster than a +6 Ninjask

It didn't take long for Tears of the Kingdom to move into second in the Zelda sales race.

Nintendo have confirmed that the May 12 release sold more than 10m copies in its opening weekend worldwide. This includes more than 4m sold in the United States alone - the biggest opening weekend in NoA history.

Now if only the legions of people who squid party in matches would go splat themselves.

Splatoon 3's fourth "season" of content is bringing another round of options to the game.

Launching on June 1, "Sizzle Season" will include a new Challenge mode that involves playing Turf War matches with restrictions, such as the only weapon being the Trizooka special. The first run of the mode will be on June 3, and will take place on the season's new stage.

That leaves a retro-game-turned-battle-royale hole in the service to hopefully be filled by the return of Super Mario 35.

Pac-Man 99's online play is about to give up the ghost.

Bandai Namco have confirmed that the 99-player maze game will end service on October 9 at 12:00 a.m. ET (October 8, 9 p.m. PT). The game's paid content will also be brought down, with custom themes based on older Namco properties going off sale on August 8 and content DLC (including paid offline play which will be available after the shutdown) will not be sold after September 8.

Leaving just the biggest market and an increasingly smaller one.

Although a part of Europe has moved to block the acquisition of Activision Blzzard King by Microsoft, the European Union proper is on board.

European Union regulators have approved the proposed $68.7b deal. Following the UK's move to block on the grounds that it would negatively impact cloud gaming,... Read more...

Rather than spend the weekend in a fundamentally broken open world game, the news desk did the Chesnaught raid in Pokemon Scarlet.

Things we missed last week: Mazinger Z (Banpresto developed anime-based shooter via Bandai Namco) came into the store... and it wasn't just Zelda who broke a price barrier last week, as it was $14.99 US instead of the standard $7.99. Given that Mazinger Z is tangentially related to Macross, you can probably guess that some people had to get paid off for that to happen.

You can disagree with the three I put in the headline being the most important. Check the rest of the article for the full list.

EA Sports and Metalhead Software revealed a slew of new real-life pro baseball Legends that will be playable in Super Mega Baseball 4 when it launches on Switch on June 2.

The Legends will be playable in the classic league with other fictional characters as well as the specific Legends League... Read more...