Nintendo eShop Downtime Will Block Prepaid Cards on Oct 19
Nintendo's maintenance schedule for the week of October 4 contains exactly one entry, and it is narrower than the headline suggests. On October 19…
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Pokémon Bank Dies in 2027 — Your 3DS Shiny Hunts Are Running Out
Pokémon Bank has been the quiet plumbing behind two decades of Pokémon data since 2013 — a cloud locker that let you drag a Charmander off a…
NSO's Wave Race Port Isn't Enough — Switch 2 Needs a Rebirth
Wave Race 64 didn't render water so much as weaponize it. Where every racer before it treated the surface as a texture you drove on, Nintendo built…
Heartworm Hits Switch 2: PS1 Horror Made for Handhelds
Heartworm has been sitting quietly on PC since last year, and for anyone who plays horror on a handheld, that was a problem. You don't play a game…
Poker Night's 1.5.0 Update Is Weirdly Perfect for Switch
Poker Night at the Inventory's 1.5.0 update has gone live on Nintendo Switch, and its marquee feature is a toggle called Stank Mode — a filter that…
Balloon Bomber Hits Switch 2 With VRR — and a $2 Premium
Balloon Bomber's core mechanic is a trap, and that's the whole point. Your anti-aircraft gun can only down a balloon bomb by hitting the bomb itself…
Miyamoto Claims He Hates Toad — His Mario Kart Picks Say Otherwise
Shigeru Miyamoto told Entertainment Weekly back in 2012 that Toad was his least favorite Mario Kart character. Then, between 2014 and 2015, cameras…
Witcher 3's Record Player Count Is a Steam Deck Warning
Nearly 120,000 people were playing The Witcher 3 on Steam at the time of Eurogamer's report — the highest concurrent total in the game's 11-year…
Rhythm Heaven Groove Owns Japan's Chart: Handheld Habits Win
Japan's software chart is the closest thing the handheld world has to a stress test, and August's Famitsu numbers read like a win for the format.…
Keep Driving Hits Switch: The Road Trip RPG Built for Commutes
Keep Driving launched on Windows PC on February 6, 2025, landed on a pile of year-end lists, and then quietly went nowhere. That's the fate of a lot…
The 10 NES Games Switch Online Won't Add — and What to Play Instead
Ten games. Not one of them obscure, and not one of them absent from Nintendo Switch Online because it's bad. Polygon's list of essential NES titles…
Pokemon Winds and Waves Beta Leaks: A Map, a Champion, No FPS
A map, a handful of images, and what might be a Champion. That's the shape of the latest Pokemon Winds and Waves leak, pulled out of a beta build by…