The Nintendo Download for 1/8/26 is here with another weird weekly digest. Not many featured titles this week, but plenty of digital games to enjoy for all.

HPP's last preview of 2025 is Mato Fragments, a compelling and somewhat perplexing VN from Arrowiz and Soft Source, set in the world of Mato Anomalies.

CrossWorlds is a lot of fun to race your way through. The cars feel good and it has some interesting ideas about keeping things fresh. I did come away from my time with it wanting a bit more, though.

Fair warning, I’m gonna get a bit in the weeds here, but with the goal of clearly explaining how it plays. Each turn, you’ll get one more play point (think mana for Magic), which is used to play all ...

Set against the backdrop of post-apocalyptic earth, the world as we know it has been reduced to ruins by the “Pandoravirus,” an illness that genetically alters and mutates living beings. Phoenix Point ...

Overwatch 2 is as strange a sequel as many of us expected it would be. It makes fundamental changes to the way Overwatch is played, in ways that go far beyond the average update, while still remaining ...

Once upon a time in a faraway kingdom there lived a man named Wood and his precious daughter whom he called Rose. Wood’s wife had unfortunately passed years prior, leaving him to take care of his ...

As an indie enthusiast, I’m constantly hunting for the next great adventure. One publisher that takes repeated chances on indie adventures is eastasiasoft. So when I saw they were publishing a ...

Irem Collection Volume 3 Review: Can These Games Carry A Collection? With seemingly endless collections of classic games coming out, it can be hard to know which are filled with hidden gems dying to ...

Bringing old games to modern platforms can be tricky, especially when you’re trying to create a new native port. In recent years, Limited Run Games have gotten around that by using their Carbon Engine ...

When I originally played Sea of Stars, I was blown away by not only how well it captured the spirit of SNES-era JRPGs, but also by how it managed to evolve the genre through adding exploration and ...

Since most superhero comics feature some sort of origin story, I only felt it fitting to provide one for myself. A few years ago, I had been incredibly hyped by a game called TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, ...