Or as we like to call it, "backlog week" or "play Game Boy Mario games and Super Mario World" week.

Things we missed last week: Taito's 4 player beat-'em-up Growl joins the Archives, and adventure game The Entropy Centre dropped out of nowhere as well.

I'd like to apologize to the two biggest releases of the week - former Indie World games Venba (summer 2022) and A Guidebook of Babel (2020)... Read more...

(insert The Siren here)

Signs of future hardware emanating from part suppliers is common in technology, and the Switch's successor may not be immune.

As first reported at tech review site Notebook Check, Chinese firm PixArt Imaging - not to be confused with the purveyor of Switch shovelware PixArt - has claimed in their... Read more...

And if you want to play the third game of the Triforce, you can just boot the NES app.

For those who have wrapped Tears of the Kingdom, a couple of additional Zelda adventures are now available for Switch Online subscribers.

As promised in February, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages are now available in the Game Boy (Color) catalogue for the basic tier of... Read more...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the retail fashion industry but were afraid to ask.

One of the mysterious "2023" games from the first Direct of the year now has a date.

Fashion Dreamer, the XSEED-published design sim unveiled in February and given a "2023" release date at the time, has released a long trailer showing off the game; the ending confirms the sim will be available on November 3.

With the prominent mouse arriving this week, we'll be dispatching the Chief Mouser of the News Desk to deal with it.

Things we missed last week: Early, EARLY Namco title King & Balloon (think Pang) was added to the Archives, and Japan managed to get a record 67 games in the week, only one of which was Pikmin 4. Like, what the hell.

So aside from "Mousetroidvania" (distinct eye roll and wanking motion), this... Read more...

News quests and lots of quality of life changes!

The long awaited 4.0 update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, has arrived on Nintendo Switch along with last generation consoles. The update had previously released on PC, Xbox Series X, and Playstation 5, and included graphical enhancements for those platforms. The Switch version obviously will not be... Read more...

We will patiently wait for the Edward Scissorhands and Pikmin crossover game.

Did you know that when Pikmin was revealed in 2001 at E3 and Shigeru Miyamoto said it would be out that year that all they had done was more or less what was in the demo? That’s just a taster of what was revealed in Nintendo’s Ask the Developer Interview about Pikmin 4. The first installment brought... Read more...

...September 2015 to now isn't exactly "almost done", you know.

Things we missed last week: Tecmo shooter Strato Fighter in the Archives.

Honestly, this week is one I never anticipated happening, but the preload dropped this past Friday (using my second voucher from Advance Wars because there wasn't anything worth grabbing in the interim) and we'll actually... Read more...

"Saving E3" and not increasing operational security is impossible, I'm pretty sure.

Limited Run Games held their annual "E3" presentation earlier today, and the company known for delivering big surprises and highly questionable publishing choices delivered both in equal measure.

Brand New Games

UK be damned, apparently.

A judge in California has cleared the Microsoft acquisition of Activision.

The US Federal Trade Commission was seeking an injunction preventing the deal from closing while it was reviewed further, but Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied the injunction request after a week of testimony. This opens... Read more...

If only a skateboarding game came out this week, but we must shelve the "Olli Olli Oxenfree" reference.

Things we missed last week: Ubisoft's RTS The Settlers came out on consoles - without a discernable physical release, but a full price - but more importantly, the Archives added POLE POSITION!

The more important releases this week are on the digital front, as Netflix apparently put their money... Read more...

Geez, we're reenacting the history of the Olympics here

The tracks for the fifth wave of the Booster Course Pass in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe have been revealed.

The Feather Cup tracks will include Daisy Cruiser (Double Dash), Moonview Highway (Wii), Athens Dash (Tour), and the previously-revealed Squeaky-Clean Sprint. The Double Cherry Cup hits Sunset Wilds (Super Circuit), Koopa Cape (Wii), Los Angeles Laps (Tour), and Vancouver Velocity (Tour).

With a hefty launch discount until July 12.

An asynchronous co-op experience, The Past Within requires two players to work together to solve point-and-click style puzzles. The cross-platform title from developer Rusty Lake launches today on the Switch eShop, and players who pick it up by July 12 will be able to do so at a tidy 40 percent discount.... Read more...

If only the long muskrat was beaten with the large board before he ate the blue tweeting bird.

Things we missed last week: Nichibutsu's Cop 01 in the Archives, and allegedly The Medium (Bloober Team) came out, but it's a cloud version so did it really?

The quarter starts with a light week, unless you're counting the fact that one game has nine JRPGs worth of run-up. Jordan reviewed Trails... Read more...