News - Nintendo’s Top-Selling Switch Games Of All Time
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As it does every three months when it releases a quarterly sales report, Nintendo has provided new sales numbers for its best-selling Switch games of all time. There are pretty much no surprises on the list. To be sure, these are Nintendo's best-selling Switch games, and not necessarily the best-selling Switch games overall.
At the top of the charts is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which has sold an astonishing 71.53 million copies as of June 30, 2026. The figure includes copies sold in hardware bundles, but it's an impressive number all the same.
The rest of the top five best-selling Switch games include Animal Crossing: New Horizons (50.29 million copies), Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (38.14 million copies), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (34.06 million copies), and Super Mario Odyssey (30.80 million copies).
Click through the gallery to see all the best-selling Switch games and their lifetime sales figures, as shared by Nintendo. You can also check out GameSpot's rundown of Nintendo's best-selling Switch 2 games.
The figures shared in this gallery cover worldwide sales, spanning both physical and digital units.
#10: New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe -- 19.10 million
#9: Super Mario Party -- 21.36 million
#8: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom -- 22.71 million
#7: Pokemon Sword/ Pokemon Shield -- 27.26 million
#6: Pokemon Scarlet/ Pokemon Violet -- 28.46 million
#5: Super Mario Odyssey -- 30.80 million
#4: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- 34.06 million
#3: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -- 38.14 million
#2: Animal Crossing: New Horizons -- 50.29 million
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News - Nintendo’s Top-Selling Switch 2 Games Of All Time
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The Switch 2 has a lot of games, but which ones sold the best? That remains to be seen, but now we know which of Nintendo's own Switch 2 games have sold the most since the console launched in June 2025.
Nintendo has six Switch 2 games that have sold more than 1 million units, and you can likely guess which game sold the best: Mario Kart World.
The game sold 15.39 million copies through June 30, 2026, and this includes copies sold in the $500 Switch bundle (which has since been discontinued).
News - Fields Of Mistria Exits Beta With A Big Rideable Chicken
Two years ago, NPC Studio launched its farm life fantasy RPG Fields of Mistria into early access. Today, that preview period has officially ended with the 1.0 release of Fields of Mistria. A number of improvements have been added to the game with that update, including the ability to ride around the town of Mistria on a big chicken mount.
As part of the transition, previously incomplete quests like The Town Repair and The Museum can now be completed. Two new quests, Saturday Market Plaza and Repair the Bell Tower, have been added to the game, and players' Town Renown Cap has now been raised to 100, while the NPC Heart Level Cap has been raised to 10.
Since Fields of Mistria is primarily a game about romantic relationships, the 1.0 update has added 10 Heart Proposal events, wedding events, marriage, and children. For veteran players, the newly arrived Steam Achievements will be awarded retroactively. However, players do have the option of starting fresh without retroactive achievements if they choose to start a new save file.
For international players, beta localization has been added for the following seven languages:
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
French
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Spanish
According to NPC Studios, players will be able access all of the features and content of the 1.0 update regardless of which language they select. However, certain text features may currently be missing or incomplete. The studio notes that further improvements to the beta localizations will be regularly added to the game. In the meantime, some missing text will "temporarily appear in English."
Unlocking Stillwell will allow you to access Mission Quests from his Mission Board at the Saturday Market.
Unlocking Zorel will allow you to purchase Crystal Resonators and Song Crystals at the Saturday Market. This feature allows customization of the music that plays on your farm and in the rooms of your home.
The exterior of your house can now be customized from a selection of styles after it’s been fully upgraded.
Note: You will receive a letter from Landen after fully upgrading your house, which will unlock this feature in the Carpenter’s Shop.
7 new perks have been added to the game, including:
Cooking:
Espresso Yourself
Ranching:
Playtime
Eggstra
Close Bond II
True Trust
Woodcrafting:
Hammer Timing IV
Deliberate Debris II
The “Engagement Ring” item will now become craftable at a Forge after reaching 10 Hearts with an NPC you’re dating.
Note: Elsie will deliver the recipe to you the morning after reaching Heart Level 10. Use the recipe scroll to unlock it.
“NPC Special Items” received from NPCs 10-Heart (Proposal) Events have been added.
Note: It is possible to view all events and collect all the special items before deciding to proceed with a proposal (if desired), as 10-Heart events can be retriggered with the Engagement Ring until you choose to propose and become engaged.
Elements of your wedding (such as flower color, cake flavor, and meal served at the reception) can be customized via wedding planning dialogue with your fiance in the days leading up to your wedding.
The “Mystical Feather” item will now become available via a cutscene in the weeks following your marriage, allowing you to trigger an optional family planning discussion for players who wish to have a child.
Via the Combat Perk “Friend-Shaped,” all monsters now drop Pet Skins that make your pet take on the appearance of that monster.
The Big Chicken mount has been added to the game.
An additional “Friday Night at the Inn” storyline has been added after finishing the Mines Storyline.
New Requests have been added to the Request Board.
2 new Museum Sets and associated rewards have been added.
Honey Set
Terrarium Treasures Set
Quality of Life
The player character can now be rotated in the customization menu.
Players can optionally disable the break-up letters and associated follow-up lines that acknowledge the change in status from “Dating” to “Best Friends” that occurs by default after getting engaged (when dating multiple NPCs).
Note: this setting will not disable the break-up themselves, and will become available in the gameplay settings menu via the engagement tutorial cutscene.
Players can optionally disable the status change from “Dating” to “Best Friends” that occurs by default post-engagement (when dating multiple NPCs).
Note: this setting will disable the break-ups entirely, and will become available in the gameplay settings menu via the engagement tutorial cutscene, but must be toggled prior to confirming an engagement in order to take effect.
Art
Cloud shadows now appear outside on sunny days.
NPCs
NPC Heart Level Cap has been raised to 10.
10 Heart (Proposal) Events have been added.
Engagement dialogue has been added.
Wedding Events have been added.
Events related to having a child have been added.
Post-Marriage dialogue and NPC routines have been added.
New dialogue has been added to the game.
Sound
A new winter song has been added.
4 existing seasonal songs will now swap to special extended versions after progressing through the game.
10 new songs have been added via Song Crystals
Updates
Gameplay
You can now interact with NPCs you are dating, engaged to, or married to, to kiss them.
Taking an NPC on a date will now increase their heart level more.
Town Rank Quests have been added to better guide existing progression.
Museum Wing rooms can now be entered to view your collection.
The order of popups when donating items to the museum has been updated such that Museum Set Complete popups now appear directly after seeing their respective donated items popup.
Previously inaccessible cooking recipes are now available in-game.
Quality of Life
Drop rates on items received from Mines treasure chests have been improved.
Ritual Chamber and Treasure room spawn rates have been adjusted to be more common.
Your animals will be fed and your crops watered automatically during March’s 8-Heart Event.
The speak interaction now takes priority when multiple interactions overlap near NPCs.
New Graphics settings have been added to the settings menu, including brightness & saturation sliders and options to better customize the game’s performance on your machine.
The Birthday selection screen now has a header that says "Select Your Birthday."
Art
Ryis’ Hawthorn tree now has an intermediate growth stage.
The Bathhouse water wheel now animates.
Additional UI indicators have been added, including a directional arrow when placing furniture, an arrow icon over Mines ladders, and a talk icon over Caldarus’ Statue.
New furniture items have been added to the game, including:
Monster Set
Ornate Set
Bonsai Set
Dragon Set
And more!
New cosmetics have been added to the game, including:
Barrel Hat
Wedding Outfits
Beetle Mandible Horns
Dragonfly Wings
And more!
Bug Fixes
Substantial improvements to performance since the last update.
Fixed early errors on startup which prevented the game from launching on certain old PCs.
Reduced the game's VRAM usage by over 50%, which should help with performance on older machines.
Players can no longer walk on water by moving diagonally into corners.
The game no longer crashes due to the Pet being in the wrong location while their job is active.
Players can no longer earn second place in the Harvest Festival despite turning in a winning amount of Queen berries.
Hayden’s weathervane now correctly reappears on his barn after you return it during the Find the Weathervane quest.
Stepping stones on the beach now play stone footstep SFX.
Certain popups (e.g. unlocking new hairstyles) have been widened to better fit on the screen.
Repeatedly ringing the Bell no longer raises the Ranching Skill level.
Placeable forge animations have been restored.
Rock Stacks can no longer get stuck in an idle animation.
Flame Spirits no longer get stuck idle after attacking.
The game no longer encounters a rare crash when scrolling through the museum menu rapidly.
Shooting Star Festival-related dialogue can no longer fire past midnight on Summer 27.
Players can no longer obtain cosmetics from the Chicken Statue for animals they haven’t unlocked yet.
It is no longer possible to equip armor and miss unlocking its associated cosmetic.
NPCs eat specific meals where intended during certain cutscenes instead of randomized meals.
The camera no longer zooms rapidly when tabbing back into the game window during the End of Day pan.
NPC sub-icons on Date Photos have been restored.
You can no longer get stuck in certain doorways.
The Flying Tome now appears at the appropriate depth relative to its wind attack VFX.
Hotfix
A crash on startup related to the introduction of localized languages has been fixed!
News - The Ironmouse Sprite Is Live Now In Fortnite, But It Seems There’s More To
Ironmouse's Sprite is now available to claim in Fortnite, but it seems there could be more on the way as the popular VTuber teased some further content for September.
On a recent stream, when asked about whether she would be releasing a Fortnite skin, Ironmouse said, "Just a Sprite today. Period." She shortly followed that up with, "That's all I'm going to say ... Also, do you guys know that I have a Subathon coming up in September and a lot of cool things are happening? I'm just saying, you know."
The Ironmouse Sprite was released as a standalone addition to the game in honor of her streaming anniversary on August 4. To get it, search the map for Sprite Chests, kill an opponent wearing it, or it could be found wandering the island randomly.
Equipping it will take up a new inventory slot, Ironmouse will appear on your back, and you'll get the ability to regenerate health over time when low. While you're regenerating health, you'll also gain a Cloak that will give you partial invisibility, as well as the low gravity effect.
While the Ironmouse Sprite is available to get now, some players were reporting issues with the item. Occasionally the Sprite would not be granted if players extracted from a match with one, or some Sprite Chests would be empty. On the issue, Ironmouse said, "If it's broken, I'm sorry, it wasn't me."
After several hotfixes, it seems the Fortnite Ironmouse Sprite issues could be fixed now, but is this the last we'll see of Mousey in the battle royale? It seems like we'll have to wait until September to find out, but I, for one, would absolutely grab an Ironmouse skin.
Over the past few months we've been sharing the systems behind NO CLEAN START through our development diaries.
Today we'd simply like to show a small glimpse of the game in motion.
The short clip below isn't a trailer, and it doesn't try to tell the whole story. It's just a brief look at the atmosphere, the pacing, and a few moments taken directly from the current build.
Since our last update we've continued refining virtually every aspect of the experience: enemy behavior, encounters, weapons, visual feedback, balancing, performance and, above all, replayability.
Our current focus isn't adding as many new features as possible. It's making sure the existing ones work together consistently and provide an experience that feels rewarding over repeated runs. We know many of you have already requested access to the upcoming Steam Playtest, and we're genuinely grateful for the interest the project has received so far.
The first playable build is getting very close.
We'd rather spend these final weeks polishing, balancing and fixing than rush a build out the door. We want your first experience with NO CLEAN START to represent the direction we've been working toward over these past months.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 08-06-2026, 04:05 AM - Forum: Lounge
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News - A New Palworld Game Has Been Announced, And It’s Releasing Pretty Soon
The Palworld series is expanding. Garena has announced Palworld Online, a new MMORPG for mobile, which the developer is making under a licensing deal with Palworld developer Pocketpair.
Garena will develop and publish Palworld Online for iOS and Android. The game aims to reimagine the "depth, freedom, and scale" of the main game for mobile. Palworld Online will have new, original story elements, along with MMO features like a "seamless, interconnected open world," Garena said. The game has cooperative and competitive elements, just like the main game does.
A first look at Palworld Online.
Garena president Terry Zhao said the company is "working closely" with Pocketpair on Palworld Online.
As for its mobile-first design philosophies, Garena said the game features a "streamlined, touch-friendly interface" with the option for one-tap controls.
Palworld Online is scheduled for release in 2026, with more details to be announced later. So far, just a single screenshot (above) has been released.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 08-05-2026, 11:40 AM - Forum: Lounge
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News - Marvel’s Wolverine Might Be Continuing Hugh Jackman’s Infamous Bare Butt
Marvel's Wolverine is finally slashing its way onto PS5 next month, and ahead of its release, it looks like the game is going to earn its Mature 17+ rating with blood and ass. According to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the game contains blood, gore, drug references, strong language, and "partial nudity," but it's not specified whose gluteus maximus is on display.
"A handful of sequences briefly depict a character's exposed buttocks," the ESRB rating reads. That's a pretty vague description, but we'd wager that we could see Wolverine's butt paraded about, given the character's habit of being occasionally transformed into a naked and feral mutant weapon by shadowy organizations like Canada's Department H. Read the comics if you don't believe us!
It's a scene that has been adapted into live-action media as well, with longtime Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman's butt briefly appearing in alternate cuts and near-misses during several scenes across multiple movies. He infamously refused to wear a modesty sock during the filming of his adamantium implants in X-Men: Origins - Wolverine, and in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past, audiences got a full look at his backside during the '70s hotel room scene.
Other characters in the game include Jean Grey, Sabretooth, Mystique, and Lady Deathstrike, but we're guessing that they won't be around for scenes requiring them to get cheeky.
There's also precedent for this when it comes to PS5 games, as Ghost of Tsushima and its sequel Ghost of Yotei both featured brief scenes where you could see the uncovered rears of their respective protagonists. If the Ghost of Tsushima film ever enters into production, actor Daisuke Tsuji said that he's prepared to show some skin.
Beyond seeing exposed hams, the ESRB also noted that Marvel's Wolverine will allow you to tear enemies apart and that the game features some naughty language.
It's not long to go now, as Marvel's Wolverine launches on September 15 for PS5. For more on the game, you can check out all the Easter eggs we've spotted so far, every costume revealed for Marvel's Wolverine, and 13 new details we learned at San Diego Comic-Con about Logan's adventure.
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News - Unsurprisingly, It’s PlayStation, Not You, Benefiting From Tariff Refunds
US tariffs may have forced Sony to increase the prices of its PlayStation hardware, but the company is now benefiting from those tariffs being refunded. As part of the company's latest earnings report, it noted an increase in operating income can be attributed in part to tariff refunds--refunds it seems unlikely to pass onto consumers who paid those higher prices.
Those refunds were issued earlier this year after the US Supreme court declared tariffs implemented by President Trump to be unlawful. Sony's Q1 2026 earnings (covering April through June) call out tariff refunds as one of the positive contributors to a 37% increase that its Game & Network Services business saw.
Shortly after the tariffs were first implemented, Sony raised the price of its PS5 consoles in August 2025, and again in May 2026. The company has not issued an official statement regarding any potential passing of the refunds back to consumers, and earlier this year, a class-action-complaint was filed. The plaintiffs are arguing that Sony passed the cost of its price hikes onto consumers, and if the nationwide class suit is successful, Sony would be required to pay an undisclosed sum to anyone who purchased a PlayStation console from August 1, 2025.
Although Sony has not explicitly said it will not share tariff refunds with consumers who paid higher prices, we've already seen Nintendo and others retain those refunds for themselves. Sony calling out the positive impact on its operating income also suggests no plan to pass along those refunds.
It's worth noting that Sony has never mentioned the US tariffs as the sole reason for the console price hikes, as it referenced "pressures in the global economic landscape" as the reason for the last price increase. The ongoing RAM shortage driven by large-scale investment in AI and data centers has also been a key factor in console price increases.
Xbox manufacturer Microsoft explained that it had to enact another price hike in June because console storage and memory prices had more than doubled, and it also expects another doubling of component prices in 2027, suggesting more price hikes will follow soon after.
This probably sounds familiar, as a class action lawsuit was filed in April 2026 on behalf of Nintendo consumers. The plaintiffs are arguing that Nintendo had an obligation to refund customers who purchased its products, following its decision to claim refunds on the tariffs.
In a reply, Nintendo disputed the claims and said that customers were never forced to make a purchase and that it didn't raise the price of all of its products. "Those who bought Nintendo's products received exactly what they bargained and paid for: a console, game and/or accessory at a price to which both parties agreed," Nintendo wrote.
In more Sony news, the ratio of physical-to-digital game sales increased last quarter, PS5 console sales are slowly creeping toward the 100 million lifetime sales mark, and Sony has broken its silence over its decision to go all-digital with game sales in 2028.
Posted by: xSicKxBot - 08-04-2026, 02:45 AM - Forum: Lounge
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News - For The First Time, Doom And Its Composer Will Melt Faces In Real Life
Fans of one of gaming's most iconic soundtracks will soon get to experience it in a whole new way, as composer Mick Gordon is set to play the Doom soundtrack live on stage for the first time as the headliner at Radar Festival in the UK next summer. Although Gordon played a medley at The Game Awards in 2016, this will be his first full-length set with a live band, orchestra, and full production.
Gordon is known for defining Doom's identity with crushing riffs, industrial synths, and earth-shaking electronic production. His work on 2016's Doom and 2020's Doom Eternal established a new benchmark for video game soundtracks, with titles like Rip & Tear, BFG Division, and The Only Thing They Fear Is You becoming firm fan favorites. They've earned millions of streams and remain staples of game music playlists years after release.
While the music has always had the scope for being performed live, Radar Festival marks the first time it will be performed with both a live orchestra and full backing band. If you've long hoped to experience the soundtrack in a live setting, that time has finally come. It's an even rarer opportunity considering Gordon's split from developer id Software after the release of Doom Eternal raised questions about whether he'd be able to perform these tracks live again.
Speaking exclusively to GameSpot ahead of the reveal, Gordon said he hopes that the live performance opens up the potential for more collaborations between festivals and video game music. "I hope this thing shows the potential of this type of stuff to publishers and developers," he said. "The game isn't just that gap between the player and the television."
Gordon explained how the collaboration came to be. "Ever since Doom 2016 … there's been rumblings and multiple attempts to try and get some version of this into a live setting," he said. "I've been trying for a number of years to get this thing off the ground. Then out of the blue Joe [James, Radar Festival organizer] came to me with a really awesome opportunity through Radar."
Gordon commended Radar Festival for its audience blend of metalheads and gamers, since the festival features three days of live alternative music alongside a marketplace where developers and players join together to preview new games, run tabletop sessions, or just chat about all things gaming. Gordon noted the crossover between metal music and gaming spanning is pretty wide, adding, "For a long time, I've wanted to take what I love about video game music and put it into a live setting that matches the energy you would get from a live rock or metal show … Radar feels like the absolute perfect [festival] to do it. There's no better," he said.
But there was a time when Gordon thought a production of this magnitude might not be possible. "We released Doom Eternal on March 20, 2020, and lockdown was already in effect. I remember thinking, 'Shit, anything we could have done around this exact moment of the game coming out is gone now.' It felt, not like it was over or that we wouldn't be able to do it, but certainly if there was an opportunity it was slowly passing by. But it's interesting--music just survives."
Gordon has confirmed that he'll be bringing the legendary Doom Machine for the performance--the custom instrument he created specifically to compose the soundtracks. Theatrics will be in full swing too, as festival organizer Joe James tells GameSpot, "We're looking at all options to make it epic. Fire, screens, projection mapping are all on the table."
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