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Joining the ‘Nintendo Classics’ library tomorrow. Nintendo’s Switch Online + Expansion Pack service in Japan is this week adding Brownie Brown’s 2001 Game Boy Advance RPG, Magical Vacation. This Japanese exclusive will show up for the service on 4th September 2025. That’s the same date as the release of Forsaken 64 on the mature N64…

Forsaken 64 is coming to Nintendo Classics. Nintendo has announced it’s bringing the first-person shooter Forsaken 64 to its “Mature” Switch Online + Expansion Pack app. The Acclaim Entertainment title, released on the Nintendo 64 in 1998 and developed by Iguana UK, will be arriving for the Switch and Switch 2 online service on 4th…

Here’s the latest batch. The Switch 2 allows you to play your existing Switch library, but not every Switch game works perfectly out of the box. Fortunately, Nintendo has been rolling out regular firmware updates to help improve this, and following yesterday’s major system update (bumping the Switch 2 up to Version 20.4.0), a handful…

Update: It’s officially over. The Louvre Museum in Paris, France is retiring the Nintendo 3DS audio guides for the museum later this year. Spotted by Nintendo Everything, the official website for the world-famous museum confirms that the 3DS console audio guides are going “out of operation” sometime in September this year in place of a…

Let’s get it done. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles launches later this month on 30th September, revamping one of the most beloved PS1 games of all time with improved visuals and gameplay. Now, in a new interview with Inverse, game director Kazutoyo Maehiro stated that if the upcoming launch does well, then this could…

Knives out. Regarding modern augmentations, SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound — released not even a month apart — have a lot of overlap. Yet, after 45 minutes of play, I was convinced that Art of Vengeance is one of the finest 2D Ninja action games ever made. Perhaps the finest; and such…

Ghosted. We were pleasantly surprised to see Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac make an appearance make an appearance in the July Partner Direct, and as we close in on its 26th September release date, Bandai Namco has some fresh gameplay footage for us so we can see how it’s shaping up. The new gameplay trailer (above)…

Though that might be a tad tricky… It’s been well over two decades since the initial launch of Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium, and although the game is now playable on Switch via Capcom Fighting Collection 2, fans are undoubtedly desperate to see a brand-new entry. Someone else who would like to…

Nothing but Hornet. In case you somehow missed it, today is Hollow Knight: Silksong Eve Eve. Yes, it’s a term that I’ve just made up, but I’ve been waiting for this one for the past seven years, so you’ll have to forgive me for counting down the days as if I’m on the run up…

Mecha for robot-fighting fans? Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion arrives at an interesting time in these early months after the release of Switch 2. There haven’t been many AAA-styled heavy-hitters to push this system so far, certainly not in terms of action games, at least. And so, Titanic Scion feels like it should give us…