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Looking good. Nintendo has been busy this week with all sorts of updates, and yesterday it released Mario Paint for Switch Online’s Super Nintendo app. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Update on Switch 2 today. Following three updates in June, Mario Kart World‘s first (and probably last) update for July 2025 is now officially live. This might just be the biggest one yet, as it includes a whole bunch of general updates as well as multiple bug fixes. One, in particular, mentions how the frequency…

Smooth moves. Games are already benefitting in all sorts of ways from the Switch 2’s upgrades, and with this in mind, Mediatonic’s free-to-play title Fall Guys has now been updated for the new hybrid platform. In this update, the battle-royale style game has apparently received an “improvement” on Switch 2 in the form of “uncapped”…

Well, well, well. 2024’s hit puzzle platformer Animal Well is getting a second physical edition, this time from Lost In Cult, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. After announcing an artbook earlier this year, Lost In Cult has lifted the lid on two lovely little physicals on social media — one standard edition, and one exclusive edition…

Out now in Europe, next week in US. The Pokémon Company has started rolling out a brand new app from competitive players, which will allow them to track events easily for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon GO, the mainline games, and much more. Play! Pokémon Access is out now in parts of Europe and…

Launching as a Switch 2 exclusive in the West. After revealing Disgaea 7 Complete‘s Western Switch 2 exclusivity last month, NIS America has today lifted the lid on the release date for the upcoming definitive edition: 10th October 2025. This ‘complete’ package arrived in Japan last year on PS5, PS4 and Switch, but only Nintendo’s…

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….