Platinum Games launched a new Japanese-language Twitter account earlier in July. Without skipping a beat, the new account started teasing fans with images suggesting a Nintendo Switch port of The Wonderful 101.
The image in question shows three characters from the game gathered around a table, playing a game. While blurred out, the image on the television appears to show gameplay from The Wonderful 101. What adds plausibility to the tease are the controllers being used in the image. The characters are using the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons, with the console’s logo clearly visible. Interestingly enough, the Nintendo Switch being used features a design based off the original Famicom.
When The Wonderful 101 released on the Nintendo Wii U, it frequently used the console’s dual-screen feature. This could make a port difficult, leading some to suggest the tease is a sequel rather than a port.
Earlier in the week, Platinum Games released an image featuring Bayonetta from both the first and second game. While officially this was meant as a celebration of the new Twitter account, but fans were quick to speculate. They noticed that the background colors for each image matched the red and blue Joy-Cons. This is less conclusive as these colors also match the title treatment for each game’s original box art.
Platinum Games developed Bayonetta 2 and The Wonderful 101 as Wii U exclusives thanks to Nintendo’s involvement as publisher. A port to the Nintendo Switch would likely already have Nintendo’s approval. This would also follow the trend of Wii U ports coming to Nintendo’s latest console. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe released in April, while Pokkén Tournament Deluxe is scheduled for a September release. In a conversation with Waypoint last month, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime suggested that more Wii U ports could be on their way.
“Given the install base of Wii U, there was some fantastic content that consumers did not get to play, so that creates certainly a business opportunity,” Fils-Aime said. “On the other hand, one of the things that we’ve discussed internally is, there really needs to be an additional element to that game to make it fresh, and to further compel the consumer to buy in.”
Both The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 would be welcome on the Nintendo Switch. We gave Bayonetta 2 a near perfect score, praising its combat and imaginative setting.
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.