Nintendo

• Price: $49.99
• Link: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/star-fox-switch-2
• Platform: Nintendo Switch 2
• Description: Fly across the stars and skies with the Star Fox squad! Blast your way through this enemy invasion in a fast-paced adventure that will have you tearing through space, soaring across planets, and shooting foes out of the sky at every step of the way.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. hereby announces the following information regarding the Technology Development Center, which is currently under construction on the land acquired from the City of Kyoto in 2022.

The Technology Development Center will serve as a new research and development base for Nintendo’s software and hardware. In addition to office space for developers, the facility will have the functions and infrastructure required for future research and development, including development servers, and Nintendo plans to continue investing in the center.

June 23, 1996 saw the release of the Nintendo 64!

It also saw the release of Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 with the system. Did you play them back then? Or recently?

What are your favorite memories of this console and its games?

• Release Date: September 24th
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Description:

Farm, explore, and discover!

Embark on an unforgettable journey in the enchanting world of Teradea, where peaceful farm life meets thrilling adventure!

Raised in the quiet comfort of Bloomfield Village, your life is about to change forever. A mysterious mist creeps from the Forest of Echoes, wild beasts roam under the cover of night, and strange disasters threaten villages across the land.

Explore a vast, living landscape filled with hidden caves, remote islands, and lively towns. Build your farm, forge friendships, and even find love as you shape your destiny in Teradea. Travel alongside your animals—each with special abilities that help you leap across terrain, break through obstacles, and uncover valuable treasures.

Along the way, you’ll meet unforgettable allies like the Harvest Goddess and ingenious inventor Doc Jr., befriend powerful Guardian Spirits, and take on the mysteries behind earthquakes, violent storms, and a looming darkness that threatens everything you know.

Massive Open World Exploration Teradea is a sprawling world packed with diverse regions—from peaceful villages to lush wilderness. Explore maze-like caves filled with ore and gems, uncover nautical charts to reach remote islands, and discover rare collectibles and animals not found anywhere else.

Romance & Relationships Meet and build relationships with 10 unique characters—5 bachelors and 5 bachelorettes. Form deep bonds, experience heartwarming events, and choose your perfect partner to build a life together.

Animal Companion System Travel with a variety of animals, each offering unique abilities that go beyond simple companionship. Use them to reach hidden areas, destroy obstacles like rocks and fallen trees, and uncover secrets scattered across Teradea. Your companions are essential for both exploration and adventure!

Campsites & Travel System The world is too large to explore in a single day! Set up at campsites to rest, recover stamina, and cook meals by the fire. Meet traveling merchants who offer exclusive items you won’t find anywhere else.

Expanded Player Movement Jump, climb ladders, and scale vines to reach previously inaccessible areas. Combine your movement skills with your animal companions to fully explore every corner of the world.

Power Statue Mini-Challenges Discover glowing Power Statues hidden throughout the world, each offering quick challenges or puzzles. Free dormant Power Wisps to earn Power Wisp Fruits, then trade them at the Forest Goddess Statue to boost stamina and unlock useful abilities.

CULTIC mixes lethal combat with immersive, survival horror to create a violently satisfying experience. Includes the original campaign, Interlude, the Chapter Two expansion campaign, all Survival maps, and the Cultmas bonus map.

• Release Date: September 24th
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Description:

A 3D platformer packed with chaos, costumes and food. After Jon fed him one of Chef Monday's terrible recipes, Garfield falls into a deep, vegetable-filled nightmare. Sugar-free candies, no real lasagna in sight... even the world's laziest cat knows something must be done!

Jump, climb walls, curl up into a ball and explore 3 worlds across 40+ levels. Slip into 3 exclusive costumes — turkey, surfer and cowboy — each with unique abilities, and count on Jon, Odie, Arlene and Pookie to help you along the way. But watch out for Nermal and Squeak!

• Release Date: August 4th
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Description:

Kynseed is a 2D sandbox adventure from veterans of Lionhead Studios’ Fable series. Drawing from years of experience crafting the iconic Fable titles, we aim to deliver an all-new quirky RPG filled to the brim with mystery, exploration, awful puns, and sandbox possibilities.

While invoking the spirit of past Fable games, Kynseed is infused with our own ideas and a mix of British folklore, ancient legend, and rustic traditions. We hope to capture these inspirations in an atmospheric world with whimsy, humour, and eccentricity, and not a single orc or high elf in sight.

• Release Date: August 13th
• Link: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/ea-sports-madden-nfl-27-switch-2
• Platform: Nintendo Switch 2
• Description:

Powered by the all-new Persona Engine, EA SPORTS Madden NFL 27 features a reactive, always-evolving league, where every NFL athlete has a distinct, realistic personality that informs their motivations, demands, and reactions.

Gameplay includes more precise control from authentic WR/DB battles, new short-yardage mechanics, defensive coverage improvements, and new strategic pre-play settings and controls.

Build your NFL legacy on a deeper progression path in the new Superstar G.O.A.T. Career Journey and control your roster with more customization with Ultimate Team Captains!

Ready to run the league, one decision at a time?

Started Monster Hunter Stories. Have been itching to play a JRPG, and got this. I have played a few hours, and have 2 "monsties" now, but it still seems like a prologue. Unlike other Monster Hunter games, we are not hunters, but riders. People who forge bond with monsters instead of fighting them (but then use their bonded monsties to kill other monsters). The village though small is exactly like other Monster Hunter games, and they also give us in-game reason why riders are not mentioned in other games.

Enjoying it, but too early to say much about it. Playing this as my primary game on Switch 2.

Played some more Owlboy. Unless there is some story twist, I should be more than halfway through. It's a fun platformer. If you can fly, it feels like there wouldn't be much difficulty left in platforming, but the game is well designed for that.

Spent a good amount of time playing Fallout 4. I have explored most of the area north of Diamond City now, except for some area in the middle and extreme right. Came face to face with another Legendary Deathclaw, tried to kill it but it threw me in the sky. That was a fun scene, my character flying in the air.

Started Earth Defense Force 5!

I loved EDF, it's sometimes fun killing tons of bugs and aliens without worrying about anything else.

I generally play with Wing Driver class, it's the most fun class IMO. One issue I have with this time is the weapons. For most of them you hold the attack button to charge, and then release to attack. Once you release the button, you can't stop firing, it will release the whole charge. This is very in-efficient, and I can't get my mind around it, specially cause Wing Driver's have limited amount of energy that they also need for flying, and unfortunately that's how most (though fortunately not all) of the weapons for Wing Driver class work. Thankfully there are enough other weapons that it isn't a big issue yet, but if all high class weapons are like that, I'll probably have to switch to another class.

Also played some Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. Went back to starting levels to 100% them instead of playing the post game, but hardly played an hour or so. I probably won't mention this again unless I play it for significant amount of time, or reach some interesting milestone.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

Join the fight for ancient Hyrule with these tracks from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment!

Trine 6: Together in Time is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch on September 17, 2026.

Trine 6: Together in Time is a co-op puzzle platformer for 1-4 players. Solve perplexing puzzles, fight cunning creatures, and traverse perilous paths in your adventure through Trine’s fantasy world.

• Release Date: July 10th
• Price: $59.99
• Link: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/digimon-story-time-stranger-switch/
• Switch 2 Link: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/digimon-story-time-stranger-switch-2
• Platform: Nintendo Switch & Nintendo Switch 2
• Description:

Learn more about Digimon Story Time Stranger with Terriermon Assistant! Travel across time and parallel worlds in this turn-based RPG.

Save data from the demo will transfer to the full game. Pre-order today and receive Agumon (Black), Gabumon (Black), and Uniform of a Certain School.

• Release Date: "This fall"
• Platform: Nintendo Switch & Nintendo Switch 2
• Description: Based on the events of the All Out War storyline, fight through a campaign that reimagines the Savior conflict featuring walkers, human threats, and surprises pulled from across the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead. You’ll explore familiar environments from the show—including the Sanctuary, Hilltop, and Alexandria—enhanced by unique level designs and story-driven interactions.

• Release Date: June 25th
• Price: $5.49 ($4.39 till 10th July)
• Link: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/cattos-post-office-switch/
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Description: Deliver mail as Catto, the town's dedicated Postcat, while meeting unique friends in a vibrant cozy town filled with kitty residents.

• Release Date: July 30th
• Price: $9.99
• Link: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/leafy-corner-switch/
• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Description: Run a cute little plant shop in this cozy and relaxing game. Grow, sell, and care for a variety of real-life plants, help customers find their dream plants, complete orders, and customize your cozy shop just the way you like!

For a limited time, you can get a free bonus month of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack when you purchase or redeem a 12-month individual or family membership and activate this offer.

To activate the offer, you must click the “Activate the offer” button below and purchase a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership before 7/28/26 at 11:59 pm PT. Complete purchase and activation during the offer period, in any order. Bonus month will be automatically added to account within 3 business days of membership purchase.

Already a member? Existing Nintendo Switch Online members can also take advantage of this offer and unlock a free bonus month if you activate this offer and change from a Nintendo Switch Online membership to a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. Existing Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members can also receive a bonus month by activating the offer and renewing their membership or adding another year to their current one.

• Release Date: Spring 2026
• Platform: Nintendo Switch 2
• Description: Build your dream homestead from the ground up in a 3D world and watch as the world reacts to your imagination. Your creativity even extends to the harvest, where you might need to set your peppers on fire to make them spicy, or give chocolate to your cow to get chocolate milk. Prepare for a single-player and multiplayer farming life-sim where curiosity is your greatest asset!

Yes, it's not the first time. Yes, I am livid.

Finished Yoshi and the Mysterious Book!

Well, at least the credits rolled, there is post game content but the little bit of what I have played, requires much more skill. I still have all the stuff I left in the previous levels though, have to go back and complete that at least.

Going to keep playing and try to complete the encyclopedia as much as I can, not sure I'll be to get everything, specially the post-game ones. Will probably put it aside as primary game and just play it here and there for completion. Have been itching for a JRPG so will probably start one now.

Finished Onimusha: Warlords!

It wasn't a long game, maybe 5-6 hours total, and if remove all the unskippable scenes that I had to see multiple times cause I died on the boss, it would've ended even sooner.

The game has many similarities with the early Resident Evil games so looked up the details and apparently the original idea of the game was "Ninja Resident Evil". Though, fortunately the puzzles in this game aren't as convoluted, and there are very few of those around.

Loved the game, even with the dated elements, the game is fun to play. I'll recommend it to action game fans, if they have some patient for older elements like fixed camera, saving at fixed places, and unskippable scenes.

Started Owlboy on Switch. It has been on my wishlist for a long time, so decided to get it on latest sale. I'll mainly be focusing on Switch 2 games for next few months (Yoshi, Star Fox, Splatoon Raiders), but when kids are hogging that, need something on Switch to play too.

I have just started it and played less than an hour, so can't really say much about it, but the graphics and gameplay looks interesting.

Played more of Fallout 4.

After reaching the Diamond City the game seems to have slowed down. Since it's the biggest city around, there's a lots to do here and the surrounding, but this means the "exploring the wilderness" feel has dimmed down a bit.

Also played some Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Arc Raiders, not much to mention here.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?