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Everything announced at the Nintendo Direct March 2025
By Rollin Bishop last updated
News All the Nintendo Switch reveals, announcements, and news out of the unexpected event

Our best look at Metroid Prime 4 yet shows Samus with a new suit and some psychic abilities, but we're still staring down a 2025 placeholder
By Kaan Serin published
News Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is still coming to the OG Switch sometime this year

The Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order date has just been confirmed as Best Buy publishes leak
By Tabitha Baker published
News Best Buy Canada's latest blog post has revealed that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will go live on April 2.

"They are really feelin' the pressure": Former Nintendo staff think today's Direct, just 6 days before the Switch 2 Direct is a "bad idea strategically"
By Issy van der Velde published
News There's a lot of sympathy for the staff that have to organize these Directs

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director "can't hope to compete with what doctors do," but he's content to "buff peoples' lives" with games
By Kaan Serin published
News Masahiro Sakurai talks about why he gave away three decades' worth of game dev advice for free

Former Skyrim dev says "a lot of the great stuff" in the RPG came from the devs having "quite a bit of freedom" to create what they wanted, even if it wasn't "on schedule"
By Catherine Lewis published
News Nate Purkeypile thinks this approach to development might not go down well at Bethesda now, though

Despite fans begging for Tifa, Final Fantasy 16's Clive is "significantly more popular" than any other Tekken guest fighter
By Issy van der Velde published
News Sometimes the hero you need isn't the hero you want

The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann wanted to make sure the first game "was complete" because "I wasn't sure they would ever let me direct a game again"
By Catherine Lewis published
News The creative director wanted to ensure that "the story could stand on its own" without a sequel
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