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Enlarge / The bundle includes the neon red and neon blue Joy-Cons. Nintendo has released a new Switch bundle that pairs the popular game console with a $35 credit to its eShop digital store. The company announced the bundle last week, but the deal has now become available at various retailers, including Walmart (which lists…

Nintendo's cardboard-fueled Labo line is back, and this time, it's draped over your Switch as a headset to simulate a VR effect. Buy either the starter set or the full VR Kit bundle. Nintendo How each of the mini-game attachments looks in action. Just a reminder: nobody looks cool in a VR headset, no matter…

Breath of the Wild in VR? I honestly have no idea how that's going to feel, if it's locked at a 30fps refresh. Nintendo This mode converts the entire game into a VR experience. Thus, the game appears to look exactly the same as in non-VR modes (though we'll have to wait for our own…

A first for any Super Mario game: online play. This expands upon the local-multiplayer insanity of the New Super Mario Bros. series. And, gosh, don't Toad and Toadette look cute in their junior-sized SMB3 forms? (They look different in each of the game's five skins.) Every versus match begins with players bouncing around a line-marked…

This brand-new startup sequence (as of version 1.1.0) revolves around four-player hijinks. Frequent SMM2 players know this scenario, when one player has a key and others try to snatch it to beat them to the exit. Nintendo A Nintendo game that lets you connect specifically to your friends? We'd love to be in a universe…

Enlarge / Blizzard is back on Nintendo Switch with its colorful, popular team-based shooter Overwatch. The latest Nintendo Direct video presentation saw the game maker deliver on a huge slew of holiday-timed announcements for first- and third-party fare. Arguably its biggest news came in the form of Overwatch, the mega-popular team-shooter game from Blizzard Entertainment.…

Here I am enjoying my new life in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Nintendo And here I am, seconds later, ruining it. Cover your virtual mouth, virtual Sam! There's a lot about this game that is memeable. You'll either be compelled to share the game's cute moments and dialogue untouched... ...or you'll see a moment like…

Enlarge / One guess as to how Nintendo will repair Joy-Con controllers suffering from a widely reported drift issue. Nintendo / Sam Machkovech After months of mounting user complaints and media pressure, Nintendo appears to have finally caved in full to the issue of "Joy-Con drift" on its Nintendo Switch controllers. Tuesday's news comes courtesy…

Something about Princess Peach seems different. Mario looks like he normally does in Paper Mario games, as a neatly illustrated sticker. Peach appears to beckon him to this new, creepy origami style. Nintendo You chose... poorly. (Notice here the papercraft stylings attached to the familiar castlegrounds. Paper Mario games are full of this sorta stuff.)…

Enlarge / For now, a YouTube search is as close as we're gonna get to Super Mario Sunshine on Nintendo Switch. Sam Machkovech Following a wave of rumors, Nintendo confirmed on Thursday that its Nintendo Switch console has added an official YouTube app to its meager selection of media-viewing options. Google's app is now available…