Tom Phillips

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Tom Phillips

Published on April 8, 2025 GAME will not offer Switch 2 pre-orders in stores, Eurogamer understands. The beleagured brand, once a familiar sight on the high street, will instead have a "small allocation" of consoles available to pre-order via the company's website. That's according to the chain's internal communication to staff, as seen by Eurogamer.

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Tom Phillips

Mouse Work is a fun-looking Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive that Shovel Knight Dig developer Nitrome began work on in January, just four months ago, following Nintendo's first Switch 2 trailer. Remember in that trailer how we got a glimpse of a Joy-Con 2 controller zooming along a flat surface? This prompted whispers that Switch 2 would include mouse controls - which, of course, we now know that it does! And it was this hunch that prompted Nitrome to begin work.

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Tom Phillips

Published on April 7, 2025 The next popstar joining Fortnite is Sabrina Carpenter, the Grammy-winning artist behind Espresso, Taste and Please Please Please. Carpenter will become the next star of Fortnite Festival, complete with her own skins, musical battle pass and tracks to play in the game's Guitar Hero-esque mode. Her arrival follows a season headlined by Japanese virtual popstar Hatsune Miku, and follows previous artists such as Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg and Billie Eilish.

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Tom Phillips

Published on April 7, 2025 Nintendo has sought to justify its bumper £75/$80 price tag for Mario Kart World, and pointed to the lower cost of fellow Switch 2 big hitter Donkey Kong Bananza as evidence it had not established a new, more expensive "benchmark". Speaking to The Washington Post, Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser said Mario Kart World's higher price tag was simply an example of "variable pricing" that reflected the "breadth and depth of the gameplay".

2 weeks ago | eurogamer.net | Tom Phillips

Last week's big Mario Kart World unveiling prompted plenty of excitement for the game's new open world formula and its expanded character roster - including its Cow. But the reveal also came with questions - namely, where the heck is Rainbow Road? Well, thanks to sneaky leak by Nintendo Korea, we now have an answer. Mario Kart World will indeed include Rainbow Road, it appears, after an icon for it was briefly displayed on the Nintendo Korea website for the game.