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I have a wonderfully vague memory of a game my older brothers used to play on the Commodore 64 back in the day. It was a platform game, with pixel heroes and floating gantries and ladders and all that jazz, but there was also a wheelbarrow, and you needed the wheelbarrow to hold all the collectibles you picked up. When you'd all but completed each screen - as my memory had it - you then had to leg it back to the wheelbarrow and take it to the next screen where the whole thing was repeated. Read more
Nintendo may well be releasing its Switch successor sometime this year, but even so, we now know of one game slated for the company's OG hybrid console which is coming in 2026. Read more
Nintendo has unveiled a new feature for Switch and Switch 2 that'll let players share their digital games with another console or Family Group members in the same way they might swap a physical cartridge. It's called Virtual Game Card and it's coming to Switch 1 in "late April".
The first Nintendo Direct of this year has just taken place! The March 2025 Nintendo Direct was broadcast just days before the highly anticipated Switch 2 Direct, which will reveal more about the successor to one of the best-selling consoles of all time next week. The surprise Direct was only announced 24 hours before it aired, and it marked the first major showcase since the stream in June 2024. If you didn't get a chance to tune in live when it premiered, then here's everything that was announced in the Nintendo Direct for March 2025. Read more
A mere 18 years after its original release on Sony's PSP handheld, acclaimed rhythm adventure Patapon is shaking off its PlayStation exclusivity. It's launching for Switch, PC, and PS5 as a two-game remaster bundle - also featuring Patapon 2 - on 11th July.
Witchbrook, the cosy life-sim set in a wizard school from Chucklefish, has finally received a release window eight years after its initial reveal. Read more
Ever wondered why Pokémon Legends: Z-A is called that? There are a few notable coincidences already - Zygarde is likely to be the key mascot of this entry, with the previous game's being Arceus; and the mysterious character AZ, pronounced as "A, Z" returns here in a seemingly promintent role also - but now we have another explanation, via a new, seemingly quite important feature announced today, as part of the game's surprise appearance in the Nintendo Direct.
Ubisoft has launched a new subsidiary dedicated to its big three IPs - Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six, and Far Cry - in a move CEO Yves Guillemot calls a "new chapter" for the company. Chinese conglomerated Tencent will hold a minority stake in the new entity, having invested €1.16bn.
Of all the unknowns still surrounding Switch 2, its rumoured 'C' button is perhaps the most mysterious - not least because when Nintendo finally revealed its Switch successor earlier this year, there was simply an enigmatic blank square where everyone was expecting a 'C' button to be. Now, though, with just a week to go until Switch 2's full reveal, the 'C' has finally, quietly been confirmed in an official image for Nintendo's newly announced mobile app.
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