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The long-running Nintendo news segment Nintendo Minute is being added to the Nintendo Switch News Service for anyone with a Nintendo Account in the Americas. The video series features Nintendo of America’s Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang doing everything from unboxing products, interviewing developers, and taking each other on in gaming challenges. You can see them check out some gameplay fromMetroid: Samus Returnsin this recent episode: It’s probably worth noting that Nintendo Minute is always well over a minute and with over200episodes it might take you some time to burn through that back catalog....

Looking sharp there, Geralt Those of you who have big-time fancy-pants displays and PCs might want to check out this video, hosted by graphical giants Nvidia. The clip features gameplay footage from Bandai Namco’s upcoming fighter sequelSoulcalibur VI,running on PC in 4K. Among the fighters shown dishing out beatdowns with perfect clarity are stealthy ninja Taki, troubled knight Siegfreid and bad-boy Maxi, as well as guest stars Yoshimitsu (fromTekken) and Geralt of Rivia (fromThe Witcherseries)....

OlliOlli Worldis a new approach, but the skateboarding still owns There was a moment while I was playingOlliOlli World‘s demo where I stopped thinking about how to ollie. That didn’t mean I forgot; it was just that I was so locked into everything else, the ollie was becoming reflexive and mechanical, simple as turning left or right. And then the game asked me to beat the level without using it once....

Heyyyy We have a tag for 22 Cans here at Destructoid, and it’s technically the first one from an alphanumeric standpoint. It’s hardly ever used, but every time it pops up I think of Peter Molyneux. “What is he doing right now” I often ask, as I reflect on his storied career at Bullfrog and subsequent freefall from public grace. For a while there it was tough to figure out exactly what he was doing, as he “exiled” himself from the press....

IsCall of Duty: Warzone 2.0truly free-to-play? Call of Duty‘s insanely popularWarzone 2.0battle royale mode has become something of a staple in the modern world of online multiplayer gaming. Despite how well-known the title is, a lot of players don’t realize thatWarzone 2.0isentirely separatefrom the regularCall of Dutybase game. ConsideringCall of Duty: Warzone 2.0is a free-to-play game that is entirely online, there’s been some understandable confusion about whether or not you need PS Plus to play it....

ICO x Wind Waker I was immediately excited when Sonyshowed offRimeat its gamescom press conference. That trailer has finally been released in its full glory. I’m still not sure why they pulled out to so many indecipherable wide shots during the conference, especially during reveal trailers. No matter.Rimelooks fantastic and seems like it will be filling the Team ICO-shaped void of recent years while we wait onThe Last Guardian. ThoughRimealso features a much more colorful, less muted and somber art style reminscient ofThe Wind Waker, which I’m equally happy with....

TheWholesome Games Steam eventis here to announce new games and spotlight current releases, and one of today’s reveals isRitual of Raven. This witchy farming sim comes from Spellgarden Games, who previously worked onSticky Business. It’s currently due out through publisher Team17 sometime in 2025. Beyond Steam,Ritual of Ravenis eyeing a release on Nintendo Switch. Spellgarden is aiming for maximum coziness with this one, as previewed in the announcement trailer below....

Out of the mouth of babes and Gamestop store managers hast thou ordained strength While hunting for the now totally sold out Gamestop exclusive Twilight Princess Link amiibo on Friday, I got to chatting with the store manager about Nintendo and theirtendency to make things that people can’t buy. He was surprisingly passionate about the topic. He even went as far as to call the company “Fuck-tendo” at one point....

Gnasty Gnorc is coming for your PS4 Over atKotaku UK, Laura Kate Dale has reported that multiple sources say Activision is working on aSpyro the Dragontrilogy remaster for release on PlayStation 4 this year. The report states that the title will be announced in March of 2018 with a release set for the third quarter of the same year. The remaster will reportedly includeSpyro the Dragon,Ripto’s Rage!, andYear of the Dragon, all with new assets, animations, cinematics, lighting, and a fully remastered soundtrack....

The Glimmer Man This month, stealth ‘n’ snipe adventureSniper Elite 4will arrive on Switch, marking the series official debut on the Nintendo platform. Developer Rebellion has released a new trailer, giving wannabe sharpshooters their first decent look at the Switch version in action. It’s referred to as a “gameplay trailer,” but aside from the opening 10 seconds is still a little too “quick-cut” to really get a feel for how the Switch will handle the third-person adventure....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3is about to drop its megaton bomb on the gaming world and huge part of that ordinance is the introduction ofCall of Duty: Elite. Here we have a video where the development team behind the game discuss the social experience you’ll have when you take the battle online with this new service. If there is one thing that I can point to as being an innovation being driven by the mass market games being published by Activision and Electronic Arts these days, it’s the evolution of social integration....

That free-to-play gaming money Telecommunications company SoftBank andPuzzle & DragonsdeveloperGungHohave spent $1.5 billion for a controlling interest in Supercell, the free-to-play studio behindClash of Clans. The companies are kicking in 80 and 20 percent for this investment, respectively. “Although we now have a major new investor in Softbank, it is extremely important to understand that we are still in full control of our future and will continue to operate independently,” writes Supercell CEOIlkka Paananen....

No can do, boss Sony hasn’t unveiled the PlayStation 5 yet, but over the weekend, a new round of leaked photos showed the PS5 devkit–a funky-looking machine that won’t resemble the final consumer-grade product–and the (presumed) DualShock 5, which we caught a glimpse ofin a patentlast year. The DualShock 5 is expected to mostly resemble the DualShock 4, albeit with a few extras likeback paddles. It would’ve been ideal to see the other side of the controller, but we’ll take what we can get....