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The Switch 2 Direct broke just in time for me to nearly miss a revival of a 26-year-old Konami cult classic I obsessed over in Nintendo Power
News I can't believe a stream glitch nearly made me miss the return of Survival Kids
As Hollow Knight Silksong makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reemergence for Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox reminds everyone the Metroidvania is still day one on Game Pass
News Microsoft doesn't want you to forget
Switch 2 plays Switch 1 games through something "in between a software emulator and hardware compatibility," so don't expect the same backward compatibility we got on 3DS and Wii U
News "Switch 2 doesn't contain any Switch hardware"
Nintendo shows off Switch 2 mouse capabilities with a 3-on-3 basketball game that's basically Rocket League with robot wheelchairs
News Drag x Drive somehow feels like an Arms and Rocket League successor all at once
Donkey Kong Bananza launches on Switch 2 this July as just the second 3D platformer in the character's 44-year history
News He's finally back to kick some tail
The Duskbloods is Hidetaka Miyazaki's next game, coming exclusively to Switch 2 in 2026, and it looks like it is to Bloodborne as Elden Ring was to Dark Souls
News Never mind Bloodborne, FromSoftware is making what sure looks like a spiritual successor on Switch 2
GameCube classics finally arrive on Switch 2, including absolute hits like Zelda: The Wind Waker and cult classic collector's items like Pokemon XD and Chibi-Robo
News At long last, GameCube is back
Switch 2 doesn't have an OLED screen, but its 1080p 120fps LCD with "approximately double the pixels" of Switch 1 might be worth the trade-off
News Nintendo gave us some details on the Switch 2 screen
Mario Kart World takes the racing series open-world, and it launches day one exclusively on Switch 2
News The Switch 2 presentation opened with a wide-ranging look at the new Mario Kart
Helldivers 2 CEO says industry layoffs have seen "very little accountability" from executives who "let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions"
News "Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?"
Not for the first time, workers at Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls parent ZeniMax threaten strike at Microsoft: "Paying your employees a livable wage as a multi-trillion dollar company is the least they could be doing"
News Microsoft says it's "deeply committed to reaching a fair and equitable resolution that acknowledges the teams' contributions"
After 24 years, one of Capcom's greatest fighting games finally gets a definitive English patch featuring the 5,100 win quotes the devs never bothered to translate
News The team behind this new Capcom vs. SNK 2 translation has gone above and beyond
The Switch 2 Pro Controller seemingly adds a headphone jack, and that's such a godsend I'm almost willing to forgive Nintendo for being 12 years behind PlayStation and Xbox
News Another early detail arrives from an FCC filing
Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
News "We really tried to push back on the AI stuff specifically"
Super Mario Bros 2 player crashes the game, casually posts the clip online, and accidentally makes "the biggest 2D Mario speedrun discovery in years"
News "I genuinely can’t believe a random crash I had with this game actually helped discover a new speed run trick"
The Baldur's Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod that Larian boss Swen Vincke called "amazing" gets DMCA'd by D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast
News Clearly, Baldur's Village was too well-loved for the IP owner to let people enjoy it
"Should JRPGs be considered a distinct genre?": Lunar icon Kei Shigema reflects on the genre with new remasters on the way and how RPGs have changed 33 years later
Interview Interview | "The time I spent working on this game was the happiest and most fulfilling period of my life"
The PS5 stutter issue is real, and players are still begging Sony for a fix months later as even more extensive testing proves it
News Elden Ring, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and both parts of The Last of Us are among the many games affected
"30 years of history reside in our tape backups": PlayStation's building a game preservation mineshaft vault with 200 million files going back to a 1994 build of PS1 JRPG Arc the Lad
News "There's people who probably don't know what Gex is – that wounds me personally"
"Are the 8-year-olds and 10-year-olds dreaming of owning a PlayStation 6?": Netflix gaming boss thinks consoles and controllers will "restrain us"
News "I'm not wanting to quote Marshall McLuhan saying 'the medium is the content'"
Nintendo Today just told me how to beat World 1 of Super Mario Bros 40 years too late
News "Goombas and Koopa Troopas stand in your way in challenging courses above and below ground"
The surprise theme of today's Nintendo Direct was classic PlayStation franchises getting a comeback without Sony's involvement
News Bandai Namco, I'm begging you: please do Tokyo Jungle next
Unannounced Hogwarts Legacy DLC reportedly canceled, partly because the studio wasn't sure it'd be worth players' money
News The expansion was reportedly being co-developed by Batman and Suicide Squad studio Rocksteady
