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The latest Switch eShop charts are in, and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is still sitting unchallenged at number one. The rest of the top ten is almost entirely Nintendo first-party staples.
Fabraz has turned Bubsy into a great platformer with chained aerial moves that feel like they belong in a Mario game. I did not expect to write that sentence in 2026.
Inti Creates revealed Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 3 at BitSummit 2026, bringing Copen back with new weapons and a character customization system for Switch 2 and PC in 2027.
Despite raising Switch 2 prices across the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe, Nintendo has reportedly bumped its production target to 20 million consoles by March 2027. Japanese sales are already spiking ahead of the hike.
Onslaught Mode exits beta and Bounty Operations arrive in The First Descendant's Update 1.3.28, with significantly boosted rewards across the board.
We're nearly halfway through 2026 and Nintendo still hasn't held a proper Direct. Jeff Grubb says that's about to change, with a full presentation expected by mid-June.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launches on Switch 2 this week with a Metacritic score of 80, but individual reviews range wildly from a perfect 10 to a flat 6.
Nintendo's new WarioWare-style mobile game Pictonico launches May 28, but its free demo includes just three minigames out of 80. The rest cost $13.98 across two paid volumes.
Nintendo's surprise mobile announcement Pictonico has actual pricing now: $5.99 and $7.99 for two volumes totalling 80 minigames. And it works offline.
Intelligent Systems, the studio behind WarioWare and Fire Emblem, co-developed Nintendo's surprise new mobile game Pictonico, which turns your camera roll into playable minigames.
Pictonico turns your personal photos into playable WarioWare-style minigames, and it's co-developed by Intelligent Systems. It launches May 28 on iOS and Android.
BeXide and Bandai Namco are turning classic arcade characters into voxels you toss, stack, and merge in a 3D twist on the Suika Game formula. It's launching this summer on Switch 2, Switch, and PC.
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book knocked Pokemon Pokopia off the top of the Switch 2 eShop, and the game isn't even out yet.
Virtuos, the studio behind Metal Gear Solid Delta and the Oblivion Remastered port, says its team is eager to bring two of Rockstar's biggest games to Nintendo's hardware.
A Nintendo 64 emulator fork just added rollback netcode across the entire library, and the programmer behind it says GekkoNet "did most of the lifting." Spain-to-Australia Smash 64 at four frames of delay is now a real thing.
Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are sitting at number one and two on the Switch eShop's download-only chart. A pair of 22-year-old Game Boy Advance remakes are outselling Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and nearly everything else on the store.
Sektori slipped past most people when it launched last November. A Switch 2 release gives one of 2025's best arcade shooters a second chance at the audience it deserves.
2K is quietly pulling Lego 2K Drive from every digital storefront on May 19, the exact third anniversary of its launch. Multiplayer servers follow in 2027.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa says the memory and component price surge driving Switch 2's price increase isn't temporary, and could affect pricing well into next year.
With five new Virtual Boy additions to Nintendo Switch Online, Nintendo has already put over half of the console's entire library on the service. At this rate, they'll run out of games before the year is over.
Kadokawa's fiscal year earnings report confirms both Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition and The Duskbloods are still targeting a 2026 release on Switch 2, though neither game has a firm date.
Universal is rushing The Super Mario Galaxy Movie to digital storefronts on May 19, barely six weeks after its theatrical debut. The film is still 2026's top earner but looks unlikely to crack a billion.
The live-action Legend of Zelda film has had its release date changed for the third time. It's now arriving one whole week earlier than planned.
An unemployed man has been arrested for sending letters threatening to blow up Nintendo's Kyoto headquarters. He's the second 27-year-old to threaten the company in the space of two years.