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Nintendo Got Your Tariff Money Back. They’re Not Giving It To You.
Nintendo just announced a “Customer Appreciation Sale.” Thirty percent off games, DLC, accessories, amiibo, running September 12 through 26 — though it’s worth flagging up front that Nintendo’s own press release and GameSpot’s report say the 13th, while VGC says the 12th. Small discrepancy, but it’s the kind of thing that tells you these announcements…
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Nintendo Direct September 2026 My Top Picks
That was a lot. Forty-five minutes, dozens of games, and — depending who you ask — one glaring omission. But instead of trying to cover everything from this September Direct, I want to zero in on the seven announcements that actually matter to me, and why. Some of these are big system-sellers, some are quiet…
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Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave – Everything Nintendo Just Showed Us
Three weeks ago, I broke down everything the outlets were saying about Fortune’s Weave after their hands-on previews. Good stuff, but secondhand — filtered through ten different writers’ opinions. This week, Nintendo skipped the middleman. Treehouse Live sat down with three separate story paths and just… showed us the game. Confirmed mechanics, on-screen numbers, actual…
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Does Fortune’s Weave Finally Fix Fire Emblem’s Biggest Problem?
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is three weeks from release. Several major outlets got extended hands-on time — anywhere from 10 to 20-plus hours, covering the opening chapters across all four story paths — and the early consensus is that this might be the most ambitious Fire Emblem Intelligent Systems has ever built. Let’s get into…
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Splatoon Raiders Is Outselling Everyone’s Expectations
I wasn’t going to buy Splatoon Raiders. I’ve never been a Splatoon person. Turf War never clicked for me; every time a new mainline entry dropped, I watched from a distance and moved on. So when Nintendo revealed this as a single-player spin-off instead of Splatoon 4, my reaction was closer to indifference than excitement.…
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Physical Games Are Basically Dead. Nintendo’s The One Exception.
Star Fox launched on Switch 2 less than a month ago. Last week, in the UK, it sold roughly a thousand physical copies. Total. Across the entire country. In one week. A decade ago, a single GAME store could move a hundred copies of a new release in a single day. Now the whole nation…
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Mario Kart World’s Redemption Arc
Mario Kart World had the hardest job in gaming last year. It had to follow Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the best-selling game in Switch history, and it had to do it as a launch title, with all the rushed, unfinished energy that usually comes with that territory. A year on, with a stack of free…
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Metroid Ravenous – Can a new 2D Metroid save the series?
Metroid fans have had a rough year. Prime 4: Beyond finally landed after nearly a decade in development, and it split the fanbase right down the middle. Now, less than seven months later, a ratings board leak out of Brazil has surfaced a title nobody was expecting: Metroid Ravenous. No trailer. No announcement. Just a…
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Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass — Everything You Need to Know
Pokémon Pokopia has been one of the biggest games of 2026. Since its March launch, it has been a consistent presence on the charts and a word-of-mouth phenomenon. And now, announced at the June Nintendo Direct, the game is getting a full Expansion Pass. So let’s break down exactly what we know: what’s free, what’s…
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Nintendo Direct June 2026: Highlights, Lowlights, and What It Says About Switch 2
Nintendo held its first major Direct of the Switch 2 era yesterday, and after sitting with it for a day, I’ve landed on a score: 6 out of 10. That’s not a bad score. But for a show that was nine months in the making, it should have been so much more. There was a…
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