We now have the results for the Splatoon 3 Summer Nights Splatfest 2025 event, including a breakdown for every category. This time, players were asked if they prefer to travel by land, sea, or air.
Similar to previous events we’ve seen, things were looking close at halftime. It was largely a three-way tie. At halftime, the results were 33.78 for Team Sea, 33.18 for Team Car, and 33.04 for Team Air.
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Nintendo Switch eShop. These include the lowest prices ever for Retro City Rampage DX, Shakedown: Hawaii, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
Nintendo maintenance schedule – July 13, 2025 – 6 sessions planned for Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch
Nintendo has released its maintenance schedule for the week of July 13, 2025.
There’s a lot happening as six different sessions are planned, with everything effecting Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch. The good news is that much of it is happening at once and won’t be terribly long.
Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of July 13, 2025:
Donkey Kong could be getting his own movie, based on a new filing.
Nintendo and Universal Pictures jointly filed a copyright for an untitled project based on the franchise. The listing doesn’t include any details, but it’s classified as a motion picture. That doesn’t really leave much room to speculate other than a new Donkey Kong movie.
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Nintendo Switch games. These include Misc. A Tiny Tale, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
The latest Nintendo Switch eShop charts for the week of July 13, 2025 are now available.
The new data is notable as it includes two new releases. Patapon 1 + 2 Replay enters the top ten and we also see Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 for the first time.
Below are the full Nintendo Switch eShop charts for the week of July 13, 2025:
With Everdeep Aurora making its debut this week, Ysbryd Games and Nautilus Games sent out a launch trailer. The video gives another look at the lonely, desolate, yet hope-filled 2D adventure title.
Additional details about the game can be found in the following overview:
For the longest time, fans wondered what that unknown “C” button would do on Nintendo Switch 2. After months of speculation, it turned out to be for GameChat, which is the system’s 2’s headlining social feature. GameChat lets you connect with up to twelve users at the same time, and up to four players can share their screens together all at once. At first, players were unimpressed with GameChat’s poor frame rate – indeed, in the final version of the service, screen share feeds run rather poorly. Many have since written off GameChat, and that’s understandable to an extent. You can always just use something like Discord for voice chat instead. But that doesn’t mean GameChat is useless, in our opinion – we’ve spent several hours with it and actually feel like it’s a solid addition to the Nintendo Switch 2’s lineup of features.
Nintendo’s 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders took place last week, and is tradition, shareholders voted on the election of its directors. There aren’t any huge surprises as everyone was reelected, including president Shuntaro Furukawa and Shigeru Miyamoto.
The only new person here is Kazuhiko Hachiya. Nintendo believes he can “provide valuable advice” given his “broad experience and insight in the field of art, and as a software developer and business executive”. Nintendo says Hachiya “has a wide range of achievements, including the creation of various works of media art utilizing digital technology and the development of an email client, and has served in key positions at Tokyo University of the Arts.”
The full lineup of 2025 approval ratings from Nintendo’s 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders is as follows:
