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News Digital Foundry Delivers First Impressions Of Switch 2 - "It Stands Alone In What It Does"
That old Nintendo magic is back
After four hours spent playing as many games as they could at the Switch 2 Experience held in London, the beautiful brains over at Digital Foundry have weighed in on a whole bunch of interesting aspects of the upcoming console. You can check out the full article and video over at Eurogamer as it goes into more...
News Roguelike Racing Revs Onto Switch In "Oregon Trail Meets The Dakar Rally"
'Desert Race Adventures' pulls up this summer
Publisher Black Smoke Studios has announced that it's bringing a funky new style of roguelike rally game to Switch in the summer. Desert Race Adventures has you race across Europe and Africa, through wetlands, deserts, jungles, and even along good old-fashioned tarmacadam, as you look to win races...
News MicroSD Express Cards Are Selling Out Thanks To Switch 2 Fever
Stop the Express!
With the announcement that the Switch 2 requires a new type of microSD card, the microSD Express, it seems that stockists are beginning to have some issues keeping up with Nintendo fan demand. You should have known we were a frenzied bunch of gamers! Yes, as reported by the fine folks over at Tom's Hardware, news from Japan...
News 'Spine' Brings Gun-Fu To Switch 2
Fists, feet, and weapons too
If you cast your mind back to 2023's Wanted: Dead, a game this writer just couldn't really get along with on Xbox, you may remember that, despite myriad issues, it still came close to being quite good. Well, sort of. Soleil's action effort combined guns and fisticuffs into "Gun-Fu" of a sort, and to rather special...
News Mario Kart World's Costumes Unlock Via Its New "Dash Food" Cuisine
Global fusions
As detailed during Nintendo's Mario Kart World Direct, the Switch 2-exclusive racer will allow its players to unlock a literal smorgasbord of costumes inspired by a menu made up of "dash foods" from around the world. During the show, we got a look at some Free-Roam-style portions of Mario Kart World, which are populated by Yoshi...
Hands On Capcom Fighting Collection 2 - Come For The Power Stone, Stay For The Project Justice
How ye doing, Ken?
Capcom's first fighting game collection, cleverly entitled Capcom Fighting Collection, saw a splendid assemblage of arcade classics put together by the Japanese giant, covering some of its very best coin-op releases of the 1990s and early noughties. In our 8/10 review, we called it the "best Darkstalkers collection around,"...
Random Samus Aran "Joins" Monster Hunter Wilds Thanks To Epic Fan Creation
And she's brought some unlikely pals
Yes, you read that right. Raised by Chozo, DNA spliced to hell and back, and with several incredibly demanding missions behind her, Super Metroid's Samus Aran — ex-Galactic Federation superstar (and part-time metal ball) — has somehow found the energy to start slapping big monsters around the Forbidden Lands...
News Is The Switch 2 A Steam Deck Killer? Digital Foundry Dives Deep
All Killer, no filler?
Now that we're getting super-close to the Switch 2 launch and with a ton of specs and technical details to get stuck into, the boffins over at Digital Foundry have been cutting through all the hyperbole to take a detailed look at what we actually know about the
News The Switch 2 Scalpers Are Already Out In Force
Life, uh, finds a way
So, we know that the pre-order situation for Switch 2 has been a little more complicated than perhaps Nintendo would have liked, with tariffs postponing the entire process for US customers. There's also been the fact that various retailers have made pre-orders available before the Big N's official April 8th - April 11th...
Guide Switch 2: All New Accessories
New stuff!
With the upcoming release of the Nintendo Switch 2, we are getting that old familiar pang...for some slick new accessories. Yes, we all know that picking up lots of new bits and bobs for a new console is almost as exciting as playing it, and so we've put together this list of all first-party accessories that we are currently aware of,...
News The Switch 2 Won't Have Achievements Or eShop Music
Going it alone
It's one of those things that we sort of forget is a big deal, the whole achievement aspect of video games as they are in modern times. Xbox has them, PlayStation and Steam too, and gamers really do embrace them as part of the culture, as a way to express and signify their passion for certain games, and so on. And yet, sticking to...
News Switch 2 Allows Players To Create Per-Game Controller Profiles
That's GR-eat!
One of the more interesting new additions to the Switch 2 comes in the form of the 'GL' and 'GR' buttons, which can now be found on the rear of both the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller and on the Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip. These two new buttons, besides allowing you more freedom in how you set up
News Nintendo Shares Plummet In Wake Of Trump Tariff Action
US pre-order postponement woes
In the wake of Nintendo's decision to delay opening its Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders in the US following upheaval and uncertainty around newly-imposed tariffs, the company has seen a 10% drop in its Tokyo-listed shares, reports Bloomberg. Nintendo made the call to hold off on opening pre-orders in the US last week,...
News Nintendo Apologises As Japanese Store & eShop Malfunction For Five Days
There's enough for everyone, right?
It seems as though the official Japanese Nintendo eShop and online store have been struggling with high traffic numbers since the Switch 2 was fully unveiled during last week's rather epic Direct. As noticed over on r/NintendoSwitch, the official Japanese Nintendo website now has an apology message at the top,
News Switch 2 Game Cart Max Capacity Is 64GB, Says CD Projekt Red
Enough for a few Mushroom Kingdoms
So, you may or may not have been wondering just how big the Nintendo Switch 2's game cartridges are actually going to be, especially now that we know the sizes of the initial line-up of games. Nintendo's first-party launch games are all surprisingly dinky, with Mario Kart World just 23.4GB, and
News Minecraft Gives Mario A Box Office Beating With Record-Breaking Opening
Also, a Fortnite movie apparently isn't in the works
We're not 100% sure you guys are aware, but a little movie called A Minecraft Movie released over the weekend (this writer's kids loved it!) and it's already making quite a splash at the worldwide box office. Yep, the reviews might not be so hot, but none of this is stopping Mojang's multimedia...
Guide Nintendo Switch 2: Camera Guide
Everything you need to know
There's been a ton of new information dropping about the Nintendo Switch 2, and of all the little tidbits, new accessories and additions, it's possibly the Nintendo Switch 2 Camera that's got us most interested. The all-new camera will likely play a big role going forward, especially with the C button and its creative...
News Genki Unleashes Some Slick New Switch 2 Accessories
Quad-controller charging is the new dual controller charging
There are quite a few first-party accessories already online and ready to drop alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 when it releases on June 5th. In fact, there's so many that we've already got a guide for you to check them all out in one place, because we are nice that way. With Nintendo
Ray-tracing in, but not demoed
Those incredibly clever specs-machines over at Digital Foundry have been hard at work breaking down all the juicy technical details in the wake of Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct, and the news is good for fans of things that are more powerful than the things that preceded them. That's everyone, right? Richard Leadbetter,...
News "DROP THE PRICE!!!" Scream Nintendo Fans During Nintendo's Treehouse Live Broadcast
...in this economy?!
The first of a couple of Nintendo Treehouse broadcasts has begun and, whilst we hoover up all of the new information and details, some fans have been quick to tell the world - well, the Official Nintendo of America YouTube channel, at least - exactly what they really desire to communicate to the head honchos over at Big-N HQ...
Anybody got a 1mm thick piece of cardboard?
As part of yesterday's Ask the Developer Vol. 16 Nintendo Switch 2, the console's designers were asked a whole bunch of in-depth questions about various technical aspects of their new baby. One of the more interesting parts of the interview was when they discussed redesigning the Switch, and all of its...
It also saves the battery life a little
In an interview published during yesterday's Switch 2-focused Nintendo Direct, the console's developers answered some questions about how it handles original Switch software, and the responses were interesting. During Ask the Developer Vol. 16: Nintendo Switch 2: Part 4, Takuhiro Dohta and Kouichi Kawamoto...
News The Switch 2's Battery Is Almost A Match For The Steam Deck's
The price of performance
As details continue to flood in about Nintendo's Switch 2 console, it's been confirmed that the battery, whilst having a larger overall capacity than that found in its predecessor, won't actually last as long in play. During a Q&A with the Switch 2 developers, producer Kouichi Kawamoto stated that the battery was a...
News The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller - All New Features Revealed
Could it really be the "pinnacle of all controllers"?
Now that we know the Switch 2 is coming so soon, all sorts of details are inevitably dropping about add-ons and other components, with one of the juiciest of these, of course, being the brand new iteration of the wonderful Switch Pro Controller. The brand new Switch Pro Controller adds a whole...
