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Drag x Drive: Global Jam demo event

Ahead of the game’s launch, Nintendo has announced the Drag x Drive: Global Jam demo event.

Those with a Nintendo Switch Online membership can access it next month. Three sessions will be held in total across a couple of days with four hours dedicated to each slot.

The full schedule is as follows:

Wind Waker Missable Figurines

Today, we’re going over a list of missable pictographs and missable figurines in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Recently, we’ve been playing the game on GameCube. More specifically, the version that’s available on Nintendo Switch Online. While the game is fun to play casually, it’s not fun to 100 percent complete. The Wind Waker’s side content includes plenty of tedious Heart Pieces and trading sequences, but its biggest task is completing the dreaded Nintendo Gallery. For this task, you have to take pictures of almost every single entity in the game. The picture needs to include its face and most of its body in order to count. You can then hand this picture off to Carlov, who makes a figurine based on it. There are well over 100 different figures to make, and some of them are actually permanently missable. If you decide to play through The Wind Waker with a walkthrough (Zelda Dungeon’s is particularly good), it most likely won’t tell you which pictures are about to become unobtainable.

Thanks to the destruction in Donkey Kong Bananza, the game will let players skip locations and parts of the story.

That news comes from co-director Kazuya Takahashi. Speaking in an interview that went live today, he spoke about how the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive provides “leeway in terms of progression”. While games often block off sequence breaking, it’s allowed in Donkey Kong Bananza.

Takahashi noted in the interview:

Donkey Kong Bananza concept art

In a new interview, Donkey Kong Bananza producer Kenta Motokura shared that he’s hoping the game leads to separate 2D and 3D branches of the series, similar to what we’ve seen with Mario.

Mario clearly has a subset of 2D and 3D games. With Donkey Kong, however, things are murkier. Part of that is simply due to a lack of games. We’ve seen a good amount of 2D Donkey Kong titles, but 3D has been underrepresented – fans know that Donkey Kong 64 was the last time there’s been something in the 3D space.

In an interview published today, Nintendo went into detail as to how the team behind Donkey Kong Bananza was able to take advantage of Switch 2.

We recently heard that the game was initially in the works for the original Nintendo Switch. However, Kenta Motokura said the team “ran into some challenges” and started thinking about moving to the new console around 2021.

Tamer Town

Crazy Goat Games today unveiled its new game, which is Tamer Town. The title will be appearing on Nintendo Switch 2 in Q1 2027.

Tamer Town is somewhat like Pokemon, but with a city builder twist. You’ll be collecting Mokitons that fight alongside you, but also work, explore, and live.

Here’s some additional information:

Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake is set to Switch and Switch 2 on October 30, 2025, and Square Enix has provided more information about the compatibility between both versions.

In an FAQ section for the game’s official site, Square Enix shares that there is no upgrade path for Nintendo Switch 2 users, and that save data is not transferrable between the two versions. We have the quote from the site here:

Arashi Gaiden

December 10: Statera Studio, in partnership with Wired Dreams Studio, announced that Arashi Gaiden is coming to Nintendo Switch. As of now it has a very tentative Q4 2025 release window.

Arashi Gaiden is a turn-based action game at its core. This one is actually set in the same world as Pocket Bravery and “expands the story of an important part of the game’s Japanese core.”

Super Mario 3D All-Stars update 1.1.3

Nintendo is back with another update for Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and as of today, players can download version 1.1.3.

The patch is again about those playing the collection on Nintendo Switch 2. According to the official notice, some issues have been fixed.

Here’s what Nintendo says about the update:

Nintendo Switch 2 update 20.2.0

The latest Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch firmware update just went live with version 20.2.0.

A couple of specific issues have been addressed, which involve Parental Control transfers and being stuck in Internet Settings while searching for networks. On top of that, we get the traditional stability updates.

Nintendo’s official notice about the update is as follows:


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