Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble announced for Switch

Hand-painted hidden object game Sophia the Traveler will launch for Switch and PC via Steam on April 11 for $8.99 / €8.79, publisher Thermite Games and developer Memo Gogo announced. The Switch version is newly announced. It will be available at a 10 percent-off discount price at launch, and Nintendo eShop pre-orders will open on March 21. The game will support English, Italian, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language options. An 80-page full-color digital comic book will also be available to purchase.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door will launch for Switch on May 23, Nintendo announced.

Nintendo and Illumination have confirmed a new Super Mario Bros. film will be released in 2026.

Arc System Works will release a physical edition of DAVE THE DIVER dubbed DAVE THE DIVER Anniversary Edition for Switch on May 30 worldwide for $39.99, the company announced. Pre-orders are available now at retailers.

NIS America will release RPG Maker WITH for Switch this fall in the west, followed by PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in 2025, the publisher announced. It will feature English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish language support.

Following a successful run in early access starting in 2018, Hades went on to become the roguelike to end all roguelikes upon its official release in 2020. Supergiant Games had a smash hit on their hands, and fans weren’t surprised when a sequel was announced to be in the works in 2022. Though the reveal of Hades 2 was far from a shock, many players were stunned to discover that knowledge of the legendary first title won’t be necessary to enjoy it.

Rayka Studio has announced Home of the Yokai, a creature-collecting adventure RPG with an auto-battle combat system. It will launch for PC via Steam on July 10 with English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language support.

Xbox has announced its latest Partner Preview broacast will air this Wednesday, 6th March at 6pm UK time, showcasing upcoming third-party games.

As any fan of classic merge games will know, two things combined are always better than one.

Sonic Superstars released in October last year, delivering the first new sidescrolling game in the series since Sonic Mania, though it hasn’t performed the way Sega would have expected it to. Shotly after the game’s release, the company revealed that the game had seen “a slightly weaker start than anticipated”, attributing that partly to the fact that the game had released in a particularly busy period that also saw the release of the likes of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Alan Wake 2, and many others.

Dragon Ball FighterZ finally launches digitally on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on February 29 at midnight local time.

Sega executives have implied that Super Mario Bros Wonder was responsible for Sonic Superstars selling fewer copies than expected.