Everything From Yesterday's Nintendo Direct

Plus, our first 10/10 game of 2026.

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Robert Scarpinito
February 06, 2026 • Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes

Our own Andrew Stretch interviewed Jacob Wysocki, Oscar Montoya, Vic Michaelis, and Kimia Behpoornia, some of the adventurers in the latest lighthearted season of Dimension 20. If you’re unfamiliar, Dimension 20 is one of the star shows on Dropout where Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan leads a team of (usually) intrepid heroes through a live tabletop RPG.

It’s an unexpected cast for a typical season of Dimension 20, and it’s one worth watching, even if you’re not heavy into crunching numbers and rolling dice. The players are more into chaos and silliness rather than building an epic tale of legends and heroes.

If you’re looking for a quick primer on yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, we’ve got you covered. Lots of Bethesda games are making their way to the Switch 2, including Oblivion Remastered and Indiana Jones. Quite a few Square Enix games are coming too, ranging from Paranormasight to Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. And do you remember Valheim? That’s coming to Switch 2 sometime this year.

This direct comes hot off the heels of Nintendo announcing a year-on-year profit increase and more than 17 million Switch 2 unit sales. We’re still a few months away from the Switch 2’s first anniversary, and it’s already outperformed the Wii U’s lifetime sales. So it can really only go up from here. Well, unless you’re really looking forward to Borderlands 4 releasing on the Switch 2—we’ve got some bad news for you.

And if you need another reason to dive into your Switch, Nintendo just announced that two more classic Game Boy games are coming to Switch Online.

We’ve got a new 10/10 gem to share with you. Mewgenics combines turn-based tactics like Fire Emblem with breeding and roguelike mechanics, and it’s all packaged into the instantly recognizable art style of Edmund McMillen (aka The Binding of Isaac art style).

Our interview with the co-developers is linked above, and if you want to learn more about why it’s a 10/10 game, you can check out our review here.

The Game Bakers announced that its latest game, Cairn, hit 200k units sold over its launch weekend. That’s after some critical acclaim from reviewers across the industry, and I wanted to highlight it because this game really is something special. It’s innovative, at times frustrating, and wholly unique in what it’s trying to do. If you’re looking for an interesting game about truly unhealthy obsession, give this one a shot.

The latest Secret Lair Chaos Vault drop comes at five (5) different price points, ranging from $9.99 to $39.99. Here’s the catch: They all have the exact same stuff, except the cheapest option has no foils. It’s just a price experiment from the Wizards of the Coast to see how much they can sell these things for.

As you might expect, all the cheapest options got snapped up pretty quickly. By the time we reported on it, only the $39.99 packs were left.

The Fallout TV show has wrapped up this week, and our opinion writer Anson Chan had some thoughts about what the show means for the universe’s canon at large. In some ways, it invalidates certain endings of Fallout: New Vegas, and it leaves the world in an interesting place ahead of a (not confirmed) Fallout 5 video game.

You might have seen reports about NetEase allegedly halting all exploration into generative AI. That report is false, as NetEase has refuted the claim. I mean, considering Where Winds Meet has AI woven into every bit of its NPCs’ DNA, it’d be a huge about-face to shift completely away from AI for them. Unfortunately.

The Killing Stone will still be available for purchase starting Feb 18, but instead of a full 1.0 release, it’s going to be in early access. The main reason for this shift in strategy comes down to the narrative. In early play tests, a lot of the feedback was around wanting even more story, so the developers’ solution is to start in early access and continue to flesh out the story beyond what’s currently available.