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Cap’s off.

Diddy Kong has been strangely missing in action from much of Nintendo’s marketing, particularly around the Switch 2. At least he was there when Donkey Kong Country Returns HD came out in January…?

Anyway, the big question on everyone’s lips when Donkey Kong was shown off in Mario Kart World back in January, sporting a brand new design was: will Diddy Kong meet the same fate?

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Scale as old as time.

Whatever will we do when Switch 2 comes out and the Nintendo Today! app can’t drip feed us random bits of info any more, eh? Today’s info drop is a small one, we’ll admit, but gosh, are we keen to see what the musically talented folk out there can do with it.

The app has today revealed some “fun little touches” in the Switch 2’s ‘Change Grip/Order’ menu — yep, the little display where you connect your Joy-Con. On the new console, each connected controller will play a sound when you press the rear buttons, and if you line them up in a row and press them in order, you have a musical scale on your hands.

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Deck-building, dungeons and death. Oh my!

Wales Interactive’s Into the Restless Ruins is upon us and, if you’ve not heard of this one until now, pay attention, because it’s very good.

If you have been following along with the game’s progress so far, you’ll know that it’s a dungeon-crawler/roguelike with a superbly unique twist. The procedurally-generated dungeons here, you see, are made by you as you play cards from a deck full of strategic fun that you’ll build over the course of some intense runs.

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All aboard.

THQ Nordic and Green Tile Digital’s Locomoto, the anthropomorphic cosy life sim where you become a train conductor, will be pulling into the Nintendo Switch station on 26th June 2025 for $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 (thanks, Gematsu!).

Locomoto has been described as a blend between Animal Crossing and train simulators, but with a heavier emphasis on the cute and cosy life. As the conductor of a train, you’ll get to explore an expansive world filled with items to collect and lovely characters to bond with.

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Counting the weeks until launch.

Famitsu is back with another look at the Japanese gaming charts, and, with Switch 2 edging ever closer, the quiet spell continues.

Konami’s new Japanese visual novel, Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional, made the most of the sales slump and came out on top in its debut week with 21,032 Switch sales under its belt. And if you think that’s a low number, just wait until you see what follows.

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Capcom Fighting Collection 2! Fantasy Life i! Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo!

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – Highlights

Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (CAPCOM, 16th May, $39.99) – Let’s do this! Relive another eight classic fighting games from the Capcom vaults, including Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, Power Stone, Power Stone 2, Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein and more! This collection features gameplay from classic toe-to-toe throwdowns to multiplayer* brawlers in expansive environments. – Read our Capcom Fighting Collection 2 review

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The best is yet to come.

2nd April 2025 will go down as a big day in Nintendo history for a lot of reasons. For one, it was when Nintendo finally lifted the lid on Switch 2, showcasing the console, its games and the all-important price and release date. It was also when, for some of us, our Switch 1 playtime tanked.

The new console may have ignited a renewed passion for all things Nintendo, but with a shinier, newer Switch right around the corner, the idea of going back to the machine that has kept us going for the last eight years didn’t seem quite so attractive to some. And so, just like Andy abandoning Woody for Buzz in Toy Story, anecdotally, we’ve heard of Switch 1 units spending the last few weeks gathering dust for one reason or another.

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Chip shortage.

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Cookie Clicker, the infamous idle game about clicking a cookie, is coming to Switch, fresh out of the oven, on 22nd May.

We’d imagine that you will be familiar with Cookie Clicker already. This one was initially released by one-man dev Julien ‘Orteil’ Thiennot back in 2013 and quickly built up a huge following thanks to its addictively simple gameplay loop: click the cookie to get more cookies.

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“Gotta Catch ‘Em All”.

Police in the UK have arrested a man following a raid on his home, where they discovered a massive haul of rare Pokémon cards, the BBC reports. The estimated worth of the entire haul? GBP £250,000, which is just over USD $332,000.

The arrest took place in Hyde, Tameside, Greater Manchester, and some individual cards are apparently worth up to £560 (about $744.00), many of which are individually wrapped.

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