Street Fighter 6 receives Year 3 character reveal trailer [update: Viper teaser trailer]
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June 6: As part of Sumemr Game Fest 2025, Capcom shared a Year 3 character reveal for Street Fighter 6.
Sagat is up first this summer. Then in the fall, we’ll be seeing C. Viper. Early Spring 2026 will bring us Alex. Finally, in late spring of next year, we’ll be seeing Ingrid.
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Nintendo maintenance schedule – August 3, 2025 – Switch Parental Controls to be impacted
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Nintendo has released its maintenance schedule for the week of August 3, 2025.
Currently just one new session has been scheduled. The main thing is for Nintendo Switch Parental Controls, which will affect both Switch systems and mobile.
Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of August 3, 2025:
Nintendo Switch Parental Controls (Switch 2 / Switch / mobile)
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Full list of all price increases for Nintendo Switch and everything else
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We now have a list of every price increase Nintendo put in place for Switch (and some additional products as well).
To close out the week, it was announced that various products are going up in cost in the United States. Nintendo Switch 2 hardware is immune for now, but Switch 1 and other items are changing in price starting today. Some retailers will be faster to enact the new prices than others, but we should be seeing things roll out everywhere soon.
Below is the full list of price changes for Nintendo Switch and more.
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Pokemon Unite adding Latias and Laios as playable characters [update: Latias trailer]
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June 14: The next playable characters have been revealed for Pokemon Unite, which will add Latias and Latios. The announcement took place during the 2025 Pokemon North America International Championships today. This will come in celebration of the game’s anniversary in July.
Unfortunately, that’s all of the information we have currently. No details have been shared about what they’ll actually be like in the game. There’s also no word on release timing.
More: Pokemon Unite, Timi Studio Group
Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy launch trailer
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Idea Factory has come through with a launch trailer for Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy. Although it has been available in Japan previously, it’s now receiving an English release in the west.
Tons of details can be found in the following overview:
Nintendo Switch file sizes – Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac, The House of the Dead 2: Remake, more
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Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Nintendo Switch games. These include Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac, The House of the Dead 2: Remake, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
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Nintendo Switch 2 eShop charts – Donkey Kong Bananza holding on
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The latest Nintendo Switch 2 eShop charts for the week of August 3, 2025 are now available.
As was the case last week, Donkey Kong Bananza is still #1, beating out two slots for Super Mario Party Jamboree. Elsewhere, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is in the top ten. And Madden NFL 25, which is about to release, makes it into the top five with pre-loads.
Below are the full Nintendo Switch 2 eShop charts for the week of August 3, 2025:
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Wild Hearts S devs on lack of new content for Nintendo Switch 2, sequel possibility
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The developers behind Wild Hearts S have spoken more about the game, including the decision to shy away from introducing new content and wanting to make a sequel.
Japanese magazine Famitsu recently spoke with director Takuto Edagawa about the release. One of the topics brought up is how on Nintendo Switch 2, there’s now support for four players whereas the original version only supported three. Koei Tecmo was able to fulfill its original vision and also responded to requests for that additional player slot.
Edagawa said the following:
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Square Enix explains why it brought back Bravely Default for Nintendo Switch 2
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The developers behind Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster have spoken about why Square Enix revisited the game for Nintendo Switch 2.
You can actually chalk this one up to timing. Square Enix was thinking about ways to celebrate the series’ tenth anniversary, which could have happened with a new game or a remake. Square Enix ultimately settled on a remaster, and it just so happened that the development schedule overlapped with Nintendo Switch 2’s launch.
Bravely series producer Tomoya Asano and HD Remaster producer Naofumi Matsushita shared the following in a recent interview:
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds reveals Aqua Forest track
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Another track reveal for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and today, SEGA showed off Aqua Forest. A clip of the stage was shown off on social media.
We’ve seen plenty of forest tracks in racers before, but SEGA indicates that this one is like a rollercoaster through the forest. The company also teased: “Nail your timing on the water jumps and something special awaits…”
