Mario Golf Super Rush Announced for Nintendo Switch

Mario’s 35th anniversary celebrations continue, as a new Mario sports title has been announced. Return to the greens in Mario Golf Super Rush/

As revealed during the latest Nintendo Direct, Mario Golf Super Rush is the newest Mario sports game from Camelot. Mario Golf Super Rush can be played with both the controllers or even motion controls.

As suggested by the subtitle, characters will rush from one hole to the next and race to different holes with power-ups. There will also be a dedicated Story Mode which can be played with your Mii.

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Mario Golf Super Rush will come to the Nintendo Switch on June 25 and a demo will be available after today’s Nintendo Direct.

Mario’s last sports outing on the Nintendo Switch was 2018’s Mario Tennis Aces, which our review called ” an extremely fun arcade tennis experience, colorful and dazzling to look at and smartly balanced in its back-and-forth play.” Mario’s sports lineage is of course a long one, with members of the Mushroom Kingdom having played golf, tennis, soccer, and much more in various spinoff titles throughout the decades.

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For more on his sports acumen, check out our history of Mario sports games.

Legend of Mana Remaster Announced for Nintendo Switch

The classic Square RPG Legend of Mana is coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Legend of Mana, the beloved PlayStation RPG returns for the first time in over 20 years on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo announced the remaster in Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct event.

The game’s music has been rearranged for the remaster, and players will be able to alternate between the original soundtrack and the rearrangement. Players will also have the option to turn off enemy encounters. A new mini-game dubbed “Ring Ring Land” is a Tamagotchi-esque side activity players can also partake in.

Legend of Mana is the latest remaster in the Mana series following a series of remakes, Adventures of Mana in 2016, Secret of Mana in 2018, and Trials of Mana in 2020.

Make sure to also check out everything revealed during Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct.

Fall Guys Announced for Nintendo Switch

After debuting to smash success on PC and as a PlayStation Plus launch game on PS4, Devolver Digital and Mediatonic’s Fall Guys will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch. Announced during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, no specific release date was given, but the port will be launching sometime this Summer.

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Fall Guys is currently in the midst of its third season, with the recent Season 3.5 update offering a new level, new variations to existing challenges, and much more. The battle royale launched in August of 2020, becoming the most downloaded PlayStation Plus game. And since its launch, Fall Guys has seen plenty of crossovers with famous franchises, including a Sonic the Hedgehog skin, a licensed Godzilla costume, and more.

And while this confirms Fall Guys is coming to Switch, this new platform news follows some confusion and later confirmation that Fall Guys isn’t planned to come to Xbox Game Pass.

Outer Wilds is Coming to Switch

Outer Wilds has been announced for the Nintendo Switch.

Mobius Digital’s time-loop sci-fi game will be released for the Switch this Summer. The announcement was made during the Nintendo Direct that aired today. A price was not announced, but in previous releases, it was sold for $24.99. It doesn’t appear like any new features will be coming to the game with this Switch version nor was anything not present in previous releases of the game mentioned during the Direct.

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Outer Wilds was previously released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. They are also publishing the Switch variant of this game.

Outer Wilds is a 22-minutes-at-a-time sci-fi game about trying to discover why the Sun explodes every 22 minutes and you’ll learn more about your character’s existence in the process. You’ll need to fly a spaceship around the galaxy while dodging space’s many dangerous elements, which can be tough but IGN’s official walkthrough for Outer Wilds will guide you from start to end.

IGN gave it an 8.4 out of 10 and you can read about why in IGN’s official Outer Wilds review. For more Outer Wilds, read about how it won Best Game at the BAFTA Game Awards last year. Watch Mobius Digital developers react to a 10-minute speed run of Outer Wilds after that.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s New DLC Character Is Pyra

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s newest DLC character is Pyra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Revealed during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, Pyra a character from Monolith’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Pyra will be coming to the fighter sometime in March.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is Monolith’s last RPG. A sequel to Xenoblade on the Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 takes place in a fantastical world where Blades are summoned from “Core Crystals.” Pyra is a blade and partner of the hero, Rex.

A prequel DLC called Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country was released in 2018. Read IGN’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2 review here.

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Last December, Nintendo revealed Final Fantasy’s Sephiroth and then later released the character as the latest in Ultimate’s growing roster of fighters. And Smash Bros. fans have more to look forward to, as Banjo-Kazooie, Byleth, and Terry amiibo are on the way in March. Other fighter editions for the most recent Fighters Pass have included Steve from Minecraft and Arms’ Min Min.

Paddington 3 in the Works

A third Paddington film is in the works, Variety reports.

Details are incredibly sparse thus far, including casting details, but the well-received franchise will continue with Heyday Films, the production studio behind the first two Paddington films, as well as the Harry Potter universe films.

Rumors of a third Paddington film kicked off last week when, in an interview with BBC Radio 2, Paddington star Hugh Bonneville said there was “forward momentum” on the production.

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Paul King, director of the first two Paddington films, has previously said he will not return to direct a third, but will still be involved in some capacity.

The Paddington movies, based on the 1958 children’s storybook character, proved to be box office successes, pulling in $280 million and $225 million. The films have been equally praised for their message of acceptance of outsiders (Paddington is canonically from Peru) and their dismissal of cynicism, with some even regarding the films as anti-Brexit and pro-immigrant. Even Metal Gear Solid series director Hideo Kojima, a notorious cinephile, has listed it as one of his favorite films in recent history.

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You can check out our positive reviews of Paddington and Paddington 2, which we we said “successfully balances its Monty Python-esque brand of humor along with the kind of heart and sense of adventure found in its source material.”

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Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/bear for IGN.