Leaks for Pokemon Legends: Z-A are about to go into overdrive as the ROM is now circulating online. This is for the Nintendo Switch 1 version.
The leak comes four days ahead of the official launch. If you’re particularly sensitive to spoilers and plan on playing the game, you may want to avoid certain places online. There will be new Mega Evolutions (including some which haven’t been officially revealed yet) and much of the plot has remained a mystery up to this point.
October 11: Pokemon Legends: Z-A is only a few days away from launch, and leaks are now starting to happen, including a look at some new Mega Evolutions.
If you’ve kept up with pre-release happenings for Pokemon games, you probably know that information tends to come out a few days before they arrive. Some fans manage to get their hands on a copy early (whether it’s through a retailer breaking the street date or other means) and share their findings online. That’s now happening once again with Pokemon Legends: Z-A. We’ll be posting content below the break that some may consider spoilers, so keep that in mind before proceeding.
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game (tentative title) is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, it’s just been revealed. The game launches Summer 2026.
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game, a fast-paced 1v1 fighter with ahnd-drawn 2D animation, lets players battle it out with characters from the Avatar franchise. It features proprietary rollback netcode and full cross-play support.
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Nintendo has released its maintenance schedule for the week of October 12, 2025.
There wasn’t anything for Nintendo Switch last week, but there is one session that’s incoming. Nintendo Switch Parental Controls will be impacted for a few hours.
Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of October 12, 2025:
Thousands of games are currently available on Switch, and there are a ton of demos out there for many of them. Not just Nintendo, but also third-parties are offering demos. We’ve now put together a comprehensive list of what’s out there.
Since our reader base is English-speaking, that’s what we’re focusing on here. In other words, we’re highlighting Switch demos that you can find in North America and Europe. Japan has a few extra demos on its end, but a majority of them are for titles that are not currently being sold in the west and are only playable in Japanese.
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Nintendo Switch games. These include Pokemon Legends: Z-A, Double Dragon Revive, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
The latest Nintendo Switch 2 eShop charts for the week of October 12, 2025 are now available.
Just like we saw on the Nintendo Switch 1 rankings, Pokemon Legends: Z-A leads here as well. Other new additions include Yooka-Replayee and Little Nightmares 3.
Below are the full Nintendo Switch 2 eShop charts for the week of October 12, 2025:
New data provided by Famitsu gives us a look at Japan’s best-selling games of September 2025.
Mario Kart World retains its streak as the top seller. Also, for new releases, Everybody’s Golf Hot Shots sold just under 50,000 copies at retail to land at #3.
Below is the full list of Japan’s best-selling games of September 2025:
Nintendo Switch 2 missed out on the recent launch of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, but Sonic series producer Takashi Iizuka says that the game will use the “full capability” of the system.
Technically, you can play the title on Nintendo’s latest console through backwards compatibility with the Switch 1 release. However, there should be benefits with the proper Nintendo Switch 2 version.
In a recent interview, Danganronpa 2×2 producer Shohei Sakakibara commented on why Spike Chunsoft decided to remake the series’ second game rather than going with Danganronpa 1.
It turns out that revisiting the original Danganronpa was actually considered at one point. However, it seems Spike Chunsoft was concerned about disrupting things as “the story of 1 was the root of the Daganronpa games”.
Sakakibara told Japanese outlet Famitsu:
