Nintendo's legendary game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, has surprisingly elected to speak on the subject of the company's frequent game remakes. Speaking in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu (as translated by Nintendo Everything), Miyamoto-san admitted that Nintendo has been doing a lot of remakes, but also took the time to explain why it makes sense: Some people might say there are a lot of remakes, but after five years, a lot of people have outgrown games and stop playing them. Young people today don’t have the opportunity to play games from 10 years ago, so remaking them to be […]

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Nintendo has typically taken a grab-bag approach with the Splatoon franchise, mixing different modes of gameplay together into a single package -- single-player, PvP multiplayer, co-op base defense, and more -- but with the upcoming Splatoon Raiders, they're taking more of a focused approach. This spinoff is primarily a single-player adventure (although there is the option to play co-op) that zeroes in on combat and a looter-shooter-style progression system. Is Splatoon Raiders a successful expansion of this fishy series? Or has Nintendo gone and painted themselves into a corner? Swim on to find out... Splatoon Raiders casts players as the […]

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While Nintendo continues to double down on the Switch 2 security with consistent firmware updates, the modding scene for the current-generation system by the Japanese company has hit a significant milestone earlier this month, as developer Gezine has uncovered a userland exploit for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 that bypasses the biggest limitations of existing entry points, making it more possible than ever before for the first homebrew software to run on the system. As reported by Nintendo Everything today, developer Gezine confirmed the breakthrough on X. "I created Switch 1/2 userland exploit that is not webkit […]

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Internet sleuths have discovered from a GameStop search engine result that Nintendo may be opening pre-orders for the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on August 4. If so, that could mean we'd finally get proper footage of the game, which was only briefly teased during June's Nintendo Direct. Fans have been literally salivating ever since the rumors started in earnest this March. However, details have been scarce, to say the least. The only other thing we got was a quickly scrubbed description on Nintendo's official website: The N64 classic reborn as a full remake for Nintendo […]

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Japanese developer PocketPair has just released version 1.0 of Palworld, the game that became an overnight sensation when it launched in early access in January 2024, breaking sales records left and right for a while. Judging by Steam data, it seems like the fever is back. While the game's full version did not go anywhere near the all-time peak of 2.1 million concurrent users registered at the early access launch (a figure that's still the third highest ever recorded on Valve's platform), Palworld nonetheless lured a lot of people back, with the weekend's peak reaching 855K concurrent users. Version 1.0 […]

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The Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't support the ever-critical Variable Refresh Rate in docked mode, though it was supposed to, according to pre-launch information. However, it seems like Nintendo hasn't completely abandoned the idea, according to a recently unearthed job listing. As spotted by Nintendo Patents Watch on Bluesky, Nintendo is searching for a Senior Display Engineer with the following duties: While nothing in the list of duties suggests this engineer would be working on improving the Nintendo Switch 2 VRR support, which is currently limited to handheld mode, one the preferred requirements is “knowledge of display technologies such as HDR […]

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A new Metroid game titled Metroid Ravenous was spotted earlier today in Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security's rating system by Universo Nintendo. It was eventually removed, likely at Nintendo's behest, but fans of the sci-fi action franchise are already buzzing with excitement. To be clear, this is obviously not going to be another Metroid Prime. The fourth installment, Beyond, took over eight years to make (including a change in the studio at the helm of the development) and launched only a few months ago. In all likelihood, this may be another side-scrolling game 2D game in the vein […]

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Circana senior director and veteran video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella has just shared the latest monthly sales numbers for the video game industry in the US for the month of May 2026. Usually, the big topic from these reports comes down to which games are at the top of the charts, and while that's still significant here, the bigger topic is what happened with hardware sales. While the Nintendo Switch 2 continued to sell and helped drive spending growth in the US video game industry for May 2026 compared to May 2025, the PS5 and PlayStation overall saw its […]

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Sales for physical video game releases have been declining for over a decade now due to the rise in digital game sales, and with the revelation that GTA 6 will arrive as a code in a box in November for the few players who still head to brick-and-mortar retail stores to buy their games, physical sales are poised to decline even further. But for the first time since 2009, physical game spending has actually seen a year-on-year increase between 2025 and 2026 in the US. The reason? Nintendo Switch 2. That comes from Mat Piscatella, senior director and video game […]

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Dispatch developer AdHoc Studio has released a new update for the game that finally addresses the issues of censorship on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. But it doesn't mean that the Switch versions of the game are on par with the versions of Dispatch on other platforms. As AdHoc explains in a statement sent to Wccftech, "some hard requirements from Nintendo" mean that the Switch versions will not have parity with the versions of Dispatch on other platforms. The HR Violations update is out now on all platforms, and for non-Nintendo Switch players, it simply adds more ways for […]

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When Palworld was first revealed back in 2024, though no one could have predicted how much of a hit game the would become, everyone predicted that Nintendo would try to do something to stop that from happening. It wasn't long until an investigation, followed by an official lawsuit from Nintendo against Palworld developer Pocketpair, was announced. While Nintendo was the Goliath to Pocketpair's David in this legal bout, it looks like Pocketpair is set to come out on top, with Nintendo seemingly only capable of getting a measly $30K out of Pocketpair, and no hope of actually getting Palworld off […]

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Nintendo has instituted temporary restrictions on buying a Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan, though the restrictions don't apply to every Switch 2 sold in the company's home base. Users looking for the multilingual Switch 2 in Japan will have a tougher time finding one, as Nintendo adds new restrictions and suspends the sale of multi-language consoles, under suspicion that customers are hoarding them for scalping and reselling purposes. You may recall that there are two kinds of Switch 2's you can buy if you're shopping for one in Japan: the Japan-only edition Switch 2, which is region-locked and only comes […]

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Last month, in a surprise reveal, Nintendo announced yet another Star Fox remake simply titled 'Star Fox' for the Nintendo Switch 2. It was a shock reveal in its execution though less shocking in its content, since the latest Super Mario Galaxy Movie heavily featured the character, seemingly implying there was more Fox McCloud down the pipeline. Now, we're weeks away from its release date, and during today's Nintendo Direct, a demo for the game was announced and released for Switch 2 players, but it was after the Direct ended that we got the most interesting bit of information on […]

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The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) in France has slapped a €35 million fine on Nintendo for the Joy-Con drift issues that continue to plague users on the Switch after an investigation found that "Nintendo of Europe had committed a misleading commercial practice from 2018 to 2023." Thumbsticks on Joy-Con controllers drifting until the point they are unusable is an issue that seemingly every Nintendo Switch owner has had to contend with at one point or another, if not multiple times. Despite the issue being widespread from the beginning, Nintendo didn't issue a formal apology […]

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Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition will finally arrive on the Nintendo Switch 2 later this summer on August 28, 2026, developer FromSoftware confirmed today. The release date reveal is welcome news for Switch 2 players who've been waiting for Elden Ring's arrival since the Switch 2 was revealed and the open-world epic was one of the biggest third-party titles set to arrive on the handheld platform. Though the plan was to initially bring Elden Ring to Switch 2 at some point in 2025, concerns for what that version would look and run like were apparent from the earliest Switch 2 previews […]

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Yesterday, we spotted a claim from Spanish insider Nash Weedle pointing to a Nintendo Direct event taking place next week, with Weedle predicting the exact date to be June 9, 2026. They didn't specify what kind of Direct event it would be, but a big, general Direct is top of mind as it's the only kind we've not seen yet this year. Now, the very reliable insider Nate the Hate has added fuel to the claims of a Nintendo event next week, though in this case instead of picking an exact date, he does claim that it will be the […]

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Nintendo has struck theatrical gold with 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, that's for sure. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and produced by Universal's award-winning animation studio Illumination, the film leveraged an ensemble cast featuring renowned actors like Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, and Seth Rogen to set new box office records, quickly becoming the biggest gaming adaptation ever with a final tally of $1.36 billion gross. Eventually, the movie was only barely surpassed by Barbie as 2023's highest-grossing film. As you'd expect, Nintendo and Illumination immediately began work on a sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, […]

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Earlier this month, it was finally confirmed that Nintendo could hold out no longer. The Nintendo Switch 2 is going up in price, with a $50 increase going into effect globally on September 1, 2026. It's a sign of Nintendo, like XBOX and PlayStation, succumbing to the combined pressures of elements like the memory shortage and tariffs, but according to veteran analyst Joost van Dreunen, this final domino falling is "the canary in the coal mine" that if even Nintendo can't stick to its traditional guns, "none of the old rules" of the video game industry are relevant. If van […]

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A report from Bloomberg (via TheNextWeb) shows that Nintendo has been able to bounce back slightly from its stock price cratering earlier in the month when the company not only announced a Nintendo Switch 2 price hike, but a declining fiscal year 2027 forecast for the new console's sales. The reason? Japanese investors are starting to pull away from investing in AI and back into more established and trusted entities, giving Nintendo a 6.8% jump on Tuesday, marking a three-day winning streak. It's also not the only Japanese developer benefiting from the AI exodus, as Bandai Namco and Konami both […]

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