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Mari no cart. Japan’s largest speedrunning event, RTA, is set to kick off later this week on 9th August, and will see some of the speediest gamers in the biz ploughing through the likes of Cuphead, Nier: Automata and Skyrim, all in aid of Doctors Without Borders. We learnt a few months ago that Nintendo…

Swipe to select, with tips from the pros. We reported on Ludocene back in February, when the new search tool for video games was looking for backers for its Kickstarter campaign, which then went on to find enough supporters that it’s launching a whole month early. Hooray! In fact, it’s launching today, which is National…

Drop in today. One of the many announcements during last week’s Nintendo’s Partner showcase was the Switch 2 upgrade for Apex Legends. With the game now available for the Switch 2 this week, Respawn Entertainment has outlined the game’s performance details on this new platform. Here’s the full rundown along with some information about the…

Emulate seventy years of premier motorsport. It’s been another solid year for arcade racing fans on Nintendo platforms so far, and there’s even more to come… The independent studio 3DCloud has announced Formula Legends will be racing onto the original Switch later this year on 18th September 2025 for £19.99 / $19.99 / €19.99. Read…

Here are the full patch notes. When Nintendo launched the Switch 2 earlier this year in June, it also released multiple free game updates for select Switch titles. One of these updates was for Game Builder Garage – adding visual optimisations, Joy-Con 2 mouse support and more. Now in a new update, it’s rolled out…

Here’s what’s included. Following Nintendo identifying a bug in Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV last week, an update has now been officially rolled out. This issue was tied to the game’s upload records of rankings, and it’s apparently operating as it should once again. Apart from the Switch…

Finally! Heeeere we go! Nintendo has finally confirmed that a Nintendo Direct is coming tomorrow, and it’s a Partner Showcase. Kicking things off on 31st July at 6am PST / 9am EST / 2pm BST / 3pm CET, we’ll be treated to 25 minutes of news on third-party games coming to the Switch and Switch…

H-uh-Oh. Overnight, The Pokémon Company was hit by allegations of plagiarism ahead of the release of the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket expansion, Wisdom of Sea and Sky. And today, with the release of the expansion, TPC has pulled the card — plus one other card — in question. In a statement issued on…

Post was quickly removed. We’re all on tenterhooks awaiting news of a Nintendo Direct that may never arrive, and publisher NIS has only upped the speculation after it accidentally lifted the lid on a new Switch 2 game before swiftly deleting the announcement post. As brought to our attention on the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours Reddit forum by…

Here’s what’s included. Nintendo’s been updating games non-stop since the Switch 2 arrived in June and following multiple other updates this week, we’ve now got another patch for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury. This bumps this Switch title up to Version 1.2.1 and follows on from a Switch 2 game update at the…