Category: Nintendo

A heat wave is cooking much of the United States this week, bringing high temperatures to millions of people from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and prompting health warnings across multiple states. As record-breaking temps are expected to affect North America and Europe this summer — it may...

For video games, the summer season kicked off with a double-header: the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, smack amid the three-day slew of game reveals that comprise Summer Game Fest (and its surrounding press conferences). But the most exciting games of the summer aren’t all Switch 2 ports or...

It has been six years since Ring Fit Adventure, the Nintendo Switch fitness game that asked players to defeat monsters (and a sexy dragon) through exercise. The workout game used the Joy-Cons’ accelerometers to measure your movements and translate them into fitness attacks on screen. It’s weird, it’s wacky, but...

Since time immemorial, the axiom’s been that you buy a Nintendo console to play Nintendo games. Third-party games made by other publishers are worthwhile, but typically those are the sorts of experiences you can find on other platforms as well. For Nintendo’s latest hardware, the Switch 2, things are trending...

Season 17 of Overwatch 2 will include a fresh batch of skins and other cosmetics to acquire through the game’s premium battle pass, including new 8-bit-themed versions of Genji, Sombra, and Reinhardt; and new Overwatch Academy skins for Junkrat and Cassidy.For the first time, the newest season of Overwatch 2...

Nintendo announced on its Nintendo Today app that a Donkey Kong Bananza Direct presentation will arrive on Wednesday, June 18, starting at 6 a.m. PDT / 9 a.m. EDT / 2 p.m. BST.On the Nintendo Today app, it was confirmed that the event will present “roughly 15 minutes of information...

Stick drift comes for everyone, but Nintendo Switch hardware has a reputation for being particularly prone to failure. Naturally, everyone is wondering if the Nintendo Switch 2 and its new Joy-Con controller is any better than its predecessor. News that at least one person purchased a brand new Switch 2...

Sony is monitoring the Nintendo Switch 2 as a competitive console, but because of the PlayStation 5’s “differentiated strategy,” they’re not too worried.In a newly published Game & Network Services Segment Fireside Chat video, Hideaki Nishino, Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO, addressed concerns that Nintendo’s positive and developing relationships...

The annual Summer Game Fest is more than just livestreams of trailers and announcements; it’s also an in-person experience where many game developers are showing off their playable games for the first time.Polygon was on the ground for the 2025 SGF experience and we played a lot of demos while...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons had the world in a chokehold during the pandemic, but it’s been five years since Nintendo’s cozy simulator. Even with updates and daily gameplay mechanics, many of us have moved on to newer games. Then there are the people who have diligently cultivated their islands since...