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Throughout the month of May, Nintendo will be releasing Endless Ocean: Luminous icons to celebrate the release of the new title. The third wave is available now, with one more wave to come next week.

This wave only features character and background combo elements, each for 10 platinum points a piece. The current wave will be available until May 22nd.

Boys love visual novel The Town of Nie will be releasing on Switch on September 19th, developer √ZOMBILiCA and publisher dramatic create have announced. It will launch with Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese language support. You can check out the opening movie above.

Here’s an overview courtesy of publisher dramatic create:

The opening movie for The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II for Nintendo Switch has been shared, alongside confirmation that an release with Korean and Traditional Chinese subtitles will be dropping on August 29th. The game is releasing in Japan on July 25th, with no English release confirmed. Regardless, you can watch the opening, complete with English subtitles, above.

Here’s a blurb about the game, courtesy of Asian publisher Clouded Leopard Entertainment:

Famed game-leaker Midori (@MbKKssTBhz5 on Twitter) has largely gained a following thanks to their accurate leaks about ATLUS games such as Persona 3 Reload and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, but, as of late, they’ve been sharing a bit of information on Nintendo. Last week, they shared that a game with the codename ‘Banquet’ was in development, and today they’ve added a couple new details:

NDCube is primarily known for developing every Mario Party title since 9. Super Mario Party, in particular, had SmileBoom’s assistance and the similar codename of ‘Buffet’, so it seems like we’re probably looking at a follow-up to their 2018 Mario Party title rather than 2021’s Superstars. Hopefully we hear more about this game soon, perhaps in the already-confirmed June 2024 Nintendo Direct.

With the Switch remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door right around the corner, Nintendo have started ramping up marketing for the game. As a part of that, they shared a 50-second animated short featuring Paper Mario and Bowser, which you can watch for yourself above.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder saw similar shorts before its release, so it seems likely we’ll be getting a few more over the next week.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the nefarious X-Nauts are after the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door! With a map from Princess Peach, and the help of a few locals, Mario journeys through a colorful world made of paper to find them first. To prevail in this quest, you’ll have to level up Mario and his friends, master timing-based attacks and badges to impress the audience on the stage of combat, and make use of all the abilities that come with being made of paper, like folding into a plane to cross big gaps or turning sideways to slip through narrow openings. The GameCube classic finds new life on Switch next week, on May 23rd, 2024.

Capcom’s classic Monster Hunter series has crossed 100 million total sales, the company announced today. Among its many games, Monster Hunter Rise, which launched first on Switch, is the second best-selling game in the franchise, with it having passed 15 million sales.

The series’ next game, Monster Hunter Wilds, has yet to be announced for any Nintendo platform. We can only hope that Nintendo’s next console is powerful enough to handle it.

With the anniversary of Tears of the Kingdom hitting just yesterday, Nintendo have given Nintendo Switch Online subscribers a second chance to claim a Tears of the Kingdom-themed Switch icon for themselves. The first wave is available now, with another wave hitting next week.

As per usual, the character icons themselves are 10 Platinum Points, while the borders and backgrounds are 5 Platinum Points a piece. The current wave will be available until May 20th.

The Nintendo Switch will be losing its Twitter/X functionality on June 10th, 2024, the company announced, ironically via Twitter.

This’ll be affecting sharing posts in Splatoon 2, and, to a lesser extent, Splatoon 3, as well. Friend requests through social media will also be made unavailable. Here’s the full statement:

Unfortunately, it looks like sharing your Switch screenshots will be a lot harder for a lot of users. Hopefully some Twitter integration still comes to the next console.

UPDATE: Twitter/X has released a statement on this matter and you can read it in full below.

The gaming community is one of the largest and most vibrant communities on our platform, and we are dedicated to enhancing and supporting gaming-related features. As part of Nintendo’s planned discontinuation of sharing content to X from the Nintendo Switch, from June 11th, users will need to download Switch gameplay media directly to their smartphones and share it natively on our platform.

We worked together with Nintendo throughout this process to ensure API access for this integration, but ultimately it was a product decision made by Nintendo.

Our partnership with Nintendo remains strong, and we are working together to ensure a smooth transition for all users. We will continue collaborating with partners to bring new and exciting experiences to our global gaming community.

Another trailer has been shared for Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2, the upcoming voxel-based entry in the popular Earth Defense Force franchise, showcasing 4 new playable characters. You can watch the trailer above to see them all in action.

In Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2, players will have to fight off the Gaiark, monsters who come pouring out from inside the planet. This puts the future of Earth in great danger, and you’ll have control one of four new classes from Earth Defense Force 6 in order to save the planet. You can fight to restore peace to a voxel Earth when the game launches in the west this September, or in Asia, complete with English subtitles, on May 23rd.

Turn-based RPG WitchSpring R will be launching worldwide on August 29th, developer KIWI WALKS and western publisher PM Studios have announced via a new trailer. You can watch the trailer for yourself above to see the game in action.

In Japan, the game will be receiving a physical release in the form of both a 4,950 yen standard version and a 19,800 yen limited edition, both pictured below. There is no word on a western physical release.

Here’s an overview, courtesy of the developers:

Based on the existing Steam release, the game will likely retail for $34.99 USD.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a lavish Switch remake in just a couple weeks, and marketing is ramping up. You can watch the first commercial shared in Japan to see 30 seconds of the game in motion.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the nefarious X-Nauts are after the treasure behind the Thousand-Year Door! With a map from Princess Peach, and the help of a few locals, Mario journeys through a colorful world made of paper to find them first. To prevail in this quest, you’ll have to level up Mario and his friends, master timing-based attacks and badges to impress the audience on the stage of combat, and make use of all the abilities that come with being made of paper, like folding into a plane to cross big gaps or turning sideways to slip through narrow openings. The GameCube classic finds new life on Switch next month, on May 23rd, 2024.

Throughout the month of May, Nintendo will be releasing Endless Ocean: Luminous icons to celebrate the release of the new title. The second wave is available now, with 2 more waves to come; one per week throughout May.

This wave only features character and background combo elements, each for 10 platinum points a piece. The current wave will be available until May 15th.

Nintendo recently dumped a load of new sales data in a recent investors’ meeting, and with it came the revelation that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is not just the best-selling Switch game, but the best-selling Nintendo game of all time, with one caveat. Wii Sports has technically sold more, though, as that game came packaged with most Wii consoles, it’s hard to say that really counts.

An enhanced port of the Wii U’s Mario Kart 8, Deluxe launched on Switch around the console’s launch and went on to sell over 70 million copies, just shy of Wii Sports’ inflated 82 million sales. While it seems unlikely, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe may just become the uncontested number one, depending on how much longer the Switch lasts.

Tetris 99’s 40th Maximus Cup event is kicking off in a little over a week, and fans will be able to claim a theme based off of Endless Ocean: Luminous if they’ve earned at least 100 event points before it ends. We don’t have any footage of what the theme will look and sound like yet; when we do, we’ll be sure to update this post.

The Maximus Cup event will run from May 10th at 12:00 AM PT to May 13th at 11:59 PM PT. If you want the theme, don’t miss your chance!

Nen Master, the fifth and final character from DNF DUEL’s current season pass, has been announced as a new character in the popular fighting game via a short teaser trailer, which you can watch above.

Details are sparse, with no gameplay and a vague summer date. The fighting game based on popular RPG series Dungeon & Fighter first launched on Switch last year.