Hope you had a great week, my friends. I also hope you have lots of gaming fun ahead of you this weekend!
As always, thanks for reading.

Through work, chores, and other obligations, we made it. The weekend is here, my friends! That means it's time to play some games! I hope you have a lot of great stuff lined up for yourself this weekend. Here's what I'm planning on spending time with.

I can honestly say that at the start of this week, I had no idea I'd be playing Fortnite again. I played the game for roughly 2 years when it first came out, and then I eventually shelved it. This was because I played online with friends, but our schedules fell out of sync, and we couldn't find the time to meet up online anymore. Playing online alone was still fun, just not as much fun.

It took a bit of time, but the stars have aligned, and now we can all jump in again on the fun once more. The game has certainly changed over the last couple of years, but the core gameplay remains the same. I've slipped right back into the action and have been having a blast!

I honestly think that's all I'll be playing this weekend! Something else might pop up, but I don't have any other titles in mind right now.

What are you playing this weekend? Hit us up in the comments below and share your plans.

The latest RetroMania Wrestling dev vlog is a quick one, but it shares some important details. First up, the game's sprite work is done, which is a major development milestone. Along with that, we learn that there will be some gameplay coming next week!

Nintendo Minute is never a minute! We’re enjoying a beautiful summer day today in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s so nice to spend a day in the sun and then end it with a fireworks show. We’re also leaving our dream addresses at the end of the video so we hope you give our islands a visit. Share you dream address in the comments below so we can come visit you too. As always, thanks so much for watching and we’ll see you next week!

Nintendo NY has officially reopened, albeit with a lot of changes in place to keep customers safe during the pandemic. See what the first day back looked like in the video above!

Everything in Darkestville was fine and dandy: I was tormenting the town people, the town people were being tormented… It was a fair deal! Who could complain? Not me, that’s for sure! …until that moron, Dan Teapot, hired a group of professional demon hunters to banish me! I don’t even know why he has a grudge against me. Maybe I burnt his house a couple of times, but I only did it because it was hilarious!

SteamWorld Tower Defense, Dig 1 and 2, Heist, and Quest are all part of the SteamWorld universe. It's been a hugely successful franchise for Image & Form, and you can bet they aren't ready to shelve the series yet. In an interview with Kotaku, CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson had this to say.

“SteamWorld is indeed closely associated with Nintendo, and we certainly haven’t made our last SteamWorld game. Nintendo Switch (and future Nintendo consoles) are natural parts of those plans.”

The mech-battling real-time strategy game Volta-X is coming to Switch on Aug. 12th, 2020, which isn't far off at all. While we wait for the game's launch, why not learn a bit about the crew you'll be working with? In the gallery above, you can get a full breakdown of the following characters.

Repair

- Sheldon Ray (elephant)
- Briana Murphy (platypus)
- Oscar Barr (dog)

Artillery

- Ian Woods (fox)
- Lisa Hunt (tiger)
- Frederik Friis (polar bear)
- Grant Hornsby (hawk)
- Irma Williams (armadillo)

Melee

- Benjamin 'Benny' Miller (monkey)
- Elena Silvestri (rabbit)
- Susan Barnes (pig)

Earlier this week, we saw that Ring Fit Adventure was approved for release in China. It seems Nintendo and Tencent knew that approval was coming, as the package is already ready to hit retailers.

Pictures of the packaging for China have appeared, as you can see in the tweet above. Those were shared along with a note that Ring Fit Adventure should release in China on Aug. 10th, 2020.

Uta no Prince-sama Debut for Nintendo Switch, a visual novel from developer Broccoli, is releasing in Japan on February 25, 2021. The title is a port of a 2012 PSP game, and the content will be no different from that version.

Pokemon Co. has released a statement in Japan about a rather unforutnate situation. It seems that a number of different fake Pokemon Center Online websites have popped up, and they're nothing more than phishing scams to steal credit card info. You can see Pokemon Co.'s (Google translated) statement on the matter below.

Recently, it has been confirmed that personal information is stolen and the credit card is illegally used on a fake website masquerading as "Pokemon Center Online", the official online shopping site for Pokemon goods. In order to prevent damage, please be careful not to access any websites that you think are suspicious and do not enter or disclose personal information such as credit card information. In addition, please contact the nearest police station if you are affected by such a site.