Supergiant Games has announced that Hades II is launching into 1.0 on Nintendo Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. This 1.0 launch comes after the game's year-long Early Access period on PC (and after the game graced the cover of Game Informer in May of last year). 

Supergiant announced this news with a gorgeous animated trailer showing protagonist Melinoë fighting various Greek gods and enemies of the underworld, and it ends with the September 25 digital release date on Switch 2, Switch, and PC. If you want to pick up a physical version of the game, you'll need to wait until November. 

Check out the Hades II 1.0 reveal trailer for yourself below: 

While waiting for Hades II, check out Game Informer's Hades II exclusive coverage hub for interviews, behind-the-scenes features, videos, and more. 

Hot off the heels of the announcement of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Nintendo announced that both Super Mario Galaxy games are finally coming to Switch this October.

2007’s Super Mario Galaxy and 2010’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 are being bundled together in a package plainly dubbed Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2.  Each game can also be purchased standalone, but only digitally. 

The games are natively designed for the original Switch, meaning they're also playable on Switch 2. The Switch 2 version will receive a free update adding 4K resolution support for both games.  The Galaxy games on Switch also boast improved resolution, improved UI, an Assist Mode, and new Storybook chapters fleshing out the story of the Lumas. 

While Super Mario Galaxy was previously available on Switch via Super Mario 3D All-Stars, that game is no longer available for purchase. This gives fans who missed that collection another chance to own Galaxy and its equally excellent sequel, which is making its Switch debut after being excluded from 3D All-Stars. Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 will be available on Switch on October 2 for $69.99. Purchasing each game individually will cost $39.99.

Additionally, Nintendo is releasing new Galaxy-themed amiibo of Mario and Rosalina on April 2, 2026, and a physical version of the storybook featured in the first Mario Galaxy.

Nintendo is kicking off its September direct with a segment devoted to Mario's 40th anniversary, and what would Mario be without his trusty steed, Yoshi? To close out its lineup of games starring the world's most famous plumber, Nintendo closed the opening with the announcement of a new Yoshi game: Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.

The first thing that stands out is its art style, which takes a hand-drawn aesthetic and pseudo stop-motion animation style. Other than that, it's a classic-looking 2D Yoshi. When a talking encyclopedia named Mr. E shows up, Yoshi hops inside to learn about its contents. As he explores and inevitably devours its cute and whimsical inhabitants, Yoshi takes notes on their flavor profiles and varying abilities. The trailer goes on to show a variety of different creatures riding Yoshi, Mario-style, which gives him different abilities, like fishing, surfing on waves, and throwing his rider at a wooden bullseye.

There's not much else we know, based on the short trailer, but we're excited to learn more about this new chapter of the green gobbler. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launches Spring 2026 for Switch 2.

Nintendo has announced The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie that hit theaters in 2023, and it's coming to the silver screen in April and will also be made by Illumination.

Shigeru Miyamoto opened today's Nintendo Direct with a look at Super Mario Bros. for its 40th anniversary, and he revealed The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be the main attraction of the celebration. Alongside this news, we learned that Brian Taylor will be returning to compose the score, and that various actors, including Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Charlie Day, Keegan-Michael Key, and Kevin Michael Richardson, are returning to play Mario, Princess Peach, Bowser, Luigi, Toad, and Kamek, respectively. 

We didn't receive any new casting updates, but considering this movie is taking Mario to space, we'll likely be hear about casting for characters like Rosalina and a Luma, perhaps. 

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie hits theaters in April 2026. 

In the meantime, read Game Informer's review of The Super Mario Bros. movie, and then read Game Informer's interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Koji Kondo about the film. 

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Naughty Dog president and The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann has seemingly revealed that The Last of Us Part III is, at the very least, an idea that's been floated at the studio. In a new interview with Variety, Druckmann says Naughty Dog debated going straight into Part III after completing Part II, but that ultimately, the team decided to move forward on what we now know as Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. 

While a Part III to The Last of Us seems like a no-brainer, considering how well this franchise does for Naughty Dog and PlayStation, Druckmann has given mixed signals over the years. When The Last of Us Part II Remastered dropped last year, it eventually included Grounded II, a documentary about the making of the game. 

Near the end of it, Druckmann said, "For years now, I haven't been able to find that concept [for Part III], but recently, that's changed, and I don't have a story, but I do have a conept that to me is as exciting as 1, as exciting as 2, is its own thing, and yet has this throughline for all three. So it does feel like there's probably one more chapter to this story." 

But then, in a March 2025 Variety interview, Druckmann, when asked about a potential Part III, said, "I guess the only thing I would say is don't be on there being more of The Last of Us. This could be it." 

Now, in a new interview with Variety, Druckmann has seemingly revealed that Naughty Dog, at one point, had plans regarding a Part III game in its Last of Us franchise. 

When asked about potential Intergalactic sequels, Druckmann said, "We don't tend to plan too much in the future, because we find – and this is something I inherited, it's just the Naughty Dog culture – that we do our best work when it's something we're really excited about, really passionate about.

"Just to give you an example, when we finished The Last of Us Part II, and that was highly successful for us, we were debating whether we should just go straight into The Last of Us 3, and we had a really long period where we looked at ideas for maybe what could be in that game." 

The team looked at Uncharted, Jak and Daxter, and its "sci-fi thing," though, and Druckmann said what is now Intergalactic is where the team's passion led it. 

So for now, it sounds like a third Last of Us game is on the theoretical or potential table as Naughty Dog continues work on Intergalactic. 

For more, read Druckmann's thoughts on the casting and gameplay of Intergalactic, and then check out Game Informer's interview with Druckmann on the set of The Last of Us Season 2. 

[Source: Variety]

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