Month: July 2025

With mouse controls and 120fps, too! Japanese developer ITL is returning to one of its DSiWare titles, Handy Hockey, and bringing it to the Switch 2 in just two days — on 31st July 2025 — for the bargain price of £5.00 / $7.00. The original game launched as a DSiWare title back in 2010…

The game will “benefit” from the Switch 2 specs, though. We’re two days away from the release of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Dotemu and The Game Kitchen’s gorgeous pixel art spin-off from the Ninja Gaiden series (which is experiencing something of a comeback lately). And ahead of the game’s launch, publisher Dotemu has some potentially disappointing…

Amid studio struggles. Today, gaming giant Atari has announced that it is entering into an agreement to invest in Thunderful Group, the studio responsible for developing the SteamWorld series of games. Confirmed in a press release, Atari will become the majority owner of the company, which was founded in 2017 and was essentially a merger…

No such thing as ‘too much stability’. Nintendo has scheduled 90 minutes of maintenance to its network services on Thursday 31st July. As noted by Gamereactor, Nintendo’s Japanese website has flagged eShop maintenance later this week — between 7:00 and 8:30am UK time — during which Switch 2 and Switch network services may be affected….

All the Super NES games, ranked by you. Updated with Mario Paint following the July 2025 update. Enjoy! The library of SNES games available on Switch with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription now stands at 74 titles. While it may lag behind the number of NES games on the service, there are plenty of Super…

From A to B. We woke up this morning to the excellent news that Nintendo has added Mario Paint to the Nintendo Switch Online SNES library, along with mouse control support for Nobunaga’s Ambition and Mario Super Picross. However, you may have missed another new feature of the Super NES app on Switch 1 and…

Update: The playtest is now officially underway. : Nintendo has announced it will be performing another Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program starting later this month. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

“We sincerely apologize for the long wait”. Ahead of EVO 2025 later this week, Arc System Works has finally shared an update about the Switch version of Guilty Gear Strive, which was released at the beginning of this year. Following a previous update, the development team has now confirmed the DLC characters Venom, Unika and…

Unlock a new theme next month. DK is back in his latest outing Donkey Kong Bananza, and apart from new merch and promotions in mobile games like Super Mario Run, he’s also getting his very own Tetris 99 event. Yes, Nintendo’s Switch Online-focused battle-royale Tetris game will be hosting a special event between 1st –…

It’s available on Switch as well. Nintendo has been rolling out regular firmware updates since the Switch 2 launched in June, and now before the end July, it’s released another one. According to the official patch notes on Nintendo’s support page, this is another stability update. It’s available for the original Switch as well and…