With some of its core features like Lumen and Nanite, Unreal Engine 5 is a demanding game engine that often struggles to run properly on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, so it's not surprising to see that very few games powered by the Epic engine are available on Nintendo Switch 2. However, this could change in the future, as Yoshi and The Mysterious Book will be powered by Unreal Engine 5, a first for a first-party Nintendo game. The news has been confirmed in a new report from GoNintendo, following the game's Japanese box art emerging online that showed the Unreal […]

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Today, Nintendo announced a change to how Nintendo Switch 2 games will be priced going forward, or at least how the Switch 2 games that Nintendo publishes will be priced. In a short statement published to its website titled "About Nintendo Switch 2 Game Pricing," Nintendo reveals that beginning in May 2026 and starting with pre-orders for the upcoming Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, "digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2 will have an MSRP that is different from physical versions." Nintendo goes on to explain that these games "offer the same experiences whether in packaged or digital format, and […]

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The last general Nintendo Direct event took place in September 2025, and while we've had several Nintendo Direct events this year (like two Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct events), we're still waiting for 2026 to get its first big Direct event. Unfortunately, this year's iteration of Mario Day so far has not included a surprise Direct announcement, but we did get a release date for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book on the Nintendo Switch 2, the game that closed out September's Direct. It's frankly still a bit shocking that the Direct event that revealed several ways Nintendo was celebrating the […]

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