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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has received a surprise patch today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the life sim series. The update, version 3.0.2, is available across the Switch and Switch 2 versions of the game. The patch brings a single new addition to New Horizons – a leaf item. Everyone gets it, too, so you don’t have to do anything special to acquire it. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings After installing the patch, simply head to your in-house mailbox to claim it. The mail includes a hearty message to fans who supported the…

Usually, having to call for a wellness check on an elderly family member is a terrifying experience. But last week, a police check-in on a 91-year-old Ohio woman led to an unexpectedly amusing find: the woman had missed several phone calls and the sound of the cops knocking on the door because she was just really, really locked in on gaming. The unnamed elderly gamer was found in the zone last Thursday in Westlake, Ohio, according to a report by News 5 Cleveland (thanks, GamesRadar). She had signed up for a city program called Are You Okay? via which elderly…

Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl, which opened in only a handful of U.S. theaters in 2025, is the epitome of art as animation. The anime film has a runtime of no more than 35 minutes, which doesn’t sound like much. However, when freelance animators like Daniela Padilla claim “a month of work for one second of animation,” you realize Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl might not be your typical anime. This obsessive level of polish should come as no surprise to Yasuomi Umetsu fans. The legendary director is still regarded as one of the most talented storyboard artists in the industry, and…

Microsoft Gaming’s new CEO, Asha Sharma, has herself admitted that Xbox Game Pass “has become too expensive for players” and promised that changes are coming to create a “better value equation.” This wouldn’t be a big surprise, as a report from March said Sharma might try to make Game Pass less expensive. “Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation. Long term, we will evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system which will take time to test and learn around,” she said in a memo obtained by The Verge.In October 2025, Microsoft…

It’s that time again: eShop sale time! Nintendo’s calling this one the Blockbuster Sale, so I’m sure we can expect a lot of VHS tapes and stale candy. Hm? Oh, it means big games. Alright, that does make some sense. At any rate, there are a ton of games on sale right now, too many to really deal with on your own. As ever, TouchArcade is here to help you out with a list of fifteen hot discounts you should consider. No first party games, but there are still a ton of great games to pick from. No particular order…

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 was a sweet expansion on an already excellent fighting game. An inspired roster of characters and dynamic combat made it a welcome addition to the Capcom crossover series. The game that followed? Less so. But if Infinite has any advantage over its predecessor, it’s a rollback netcode patch, making online matches far smoother. Fighting game YouTuber Maximilian “Dood” Christiansen wants a similar treatment for Ultimate, and is willing to pony up the cash to see it. “I want to do something special,” says Christiansen in a recent video. “I want to use this as an…

New casting call details for Physint, Hideo Kojima’s in-development spiritual successor to the Metal Gear series, have been spotted. This specific round of casting appears to be for a scene clearly inspired by Speed, as it features several characters on a hijacked bus. An April 12 report by MP1st revealed more details, including that Physint is condnamed Shimmer, at least for the casting process. Specifically, they discovered that casting director Mari Ueda is looking for actors to portray people on a hijacked bus. That includes a mother with a newborn baby, five teenagers, and a German man who is supposed…

Big business.A Scene From Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie2026 kicked off with the next big video game movie–The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it’s already the No. 3 highest-grossing video game film of all time. It’s surpassed an astonishing $600 million worldwide after 10 days.It was not the first video game adaptation from Hollywood and won’t be the last. But where does A Minecraft Movie rank all-time against biggest video game movies? In this gallery, we’re rounding up the highest-grossing video game films of all time, breaking down box office results by domestic, international, and worldwide figures.The top 16…

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 2nd, 2024. I think it’s a holiday today in the United States, but here in Japan it’s Monday as usual. That means I’ve got some goodies for you, and in our typical week-starting fashion that means a bunch of reviews. Three written by yours truly, and one from our pal Mikhail. I take a look at Bakeru, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, and Mika and the Witch’s Mountain. Mikhail dives once more into Peglin, a game he can speak to better than anyone else at TouchArcade Towers. Beyond that, we’ve…

It’s a testament if your career kicks off with Lord of the Rings and only gets dorkier from there. New Zealand actor Karl Urban has stepped into starring gigs in Star Trek, Judge Dredd, The Boys and in short time Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat. But there’s one more feather Urban would like in his cap. It happens to be a video game character whose cap already has a feather in it: John Marston. In an interview with Square Mile magazine, the actor said if he had his choice of any video game adaptation, it would be as John Marston…