A new Nintendo Switch feature will allow you to lend even virtual games to your friends for a period of up to two weeks. Nintendo says to think of it like lending a friend a physical game card, minus actually keeping track of the cards themselves.
Of course, there are a few catches. You need to be on a local wireless network to lend a game to someone; in other words, you can’t lend the game to a friend halfway across the country. You’ll have to be on the same Wi-Fi network. However, once you’ve lent the game to someone, they can play it offline — an internet connection is only required for loading or ejecting a game.
The trailer shows two options: lend to another system or lend to a family member. You can share with anyone who’s a part of your Nintendo Switch Family, but only one game per person at a time. The games remain on the other systems for two weeks, after which they will automatically return to your console. One thing to note, though: save data won’t be erased, so you can re-lend the game if the person wants to continue playing after that initial 14-day period is complete.
This feature only applies to games you have bought digitally, not physically. If you own a physical cartridge, you’ll still need to lend it the old-fashioned way: hand-to-hand. Talk about outdated analog, right?
All of your virtual game cards can be found the Nintendo Switch’s home screen under the icon Virtual Game Cards for easy management.
This is an innovative, creative take on the problem of sharing digital games between systems. It’s useful for people who have more than one Nintendo Switch console, as well people who want the chance to try out a game without forking over their hard-earned money.
The feature isn’t live yet, but Nintendo plans to add it through a system update in late April.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.