The three constants of Ubi: A toxic work environment, leaks, and Just Dance.

The worst kept secret of the weekend is now official.

Ubisoft have revealed Mario + Rabbits: Sparks of Hope at their Ubisoft Forward presentation today. The sequel to the 2017 strategy game will add Rabbid versions of Rosalina and Luma, befitting its new intergalactic setting as Mario characters team up with Rabbids to save "Sparks" hidden around the galaxy. You can watch the gameplay and cinematic trailers below.

Almost coming faster than we can write them up.

The second show of the day was the Wholesome Direct, with the following announcements for Switch:

How can I hold... er, play... all these games?

Announcements continued to pour in for Switch at the second Guerrilla Collective show and its companion, the Wholesome Direct.

How will Ubisoft move forward from this?

Nintendo seemed to have uploaded the page for the-yet unannounced sequel to Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle early (Update: The page has since been taken down). The sequel will be called Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and releases in 2022. The game is published by Ubisoft and seems to feature new Rabbidfied versions of classic Mario characters like Rosalina and even a Rabbid Luma. The description on the page reads as follows:

The former of those announcements quite literally blew the news desk away.

IGN's seventy minute game showcase held earlier today featured multiple announcements and release dates for Switch project, including one thought to be impossible.

You can thank the home office and Nintendo Spain for Saber Interactive's next mega-project.

The head of the studio behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance admitted in an interview today that a pair of Nintendo errors led to them attempting to port the 2018 RPG to Switch.

As part of the Deep Silver / Koch Media showcase today, Warhorse Studio's Tobias Stolz-Zwilling mentioned the first error... Read more...

That's an awfully big number to be throwing around, Nintendo.

Some brief items from Nintendo heading into Tuesday's Direct:

Super duper rare games

UPDATE: Super Rare Games released a statement changing their approach to Super Rare Shorts on June 14th 2021 after criticism on the original announcement. You can read the changes and that statement here.

Super Rare Games announced today that the company will start with publishing exclusive titles... Read more...

And a lot of stuff that we'll hopefully be able to cover eventually.

The second event of the Summer Games Fest was the annual "Day of the Devs", traditionally hosted by Double Fine studio head Tim Schafer. The following titles were shown during the show that were anounced, previously or otherwise, for Switch:

Wait, George RR Martin actually finished something in this century? What madness is this?

The major multiplatform game announcement show of the season, the Summer Games Festival, featured additional announcements beyond the Among Us roadmap and Two Point Campus announcements:

And hey, if the country's executive orders the student loans forgiven, you can jack up the tuition by 6000% guilt free.

After satirizing healthcare, Two Point Studios is moving onto the other sacred cow: education.

Two Point Campus, previously leaked on the Xbox dashboard, has been announced for a 2022 Switch release. Players will be tasked with building a university campus that crosses education with the social development of the students.

And don't forget the cheevos.

New content is going to continue to drop for Among Us.

As part of the Summer Game Fest kickoff, developer Innersloth made the following announcements:

No release timing was given for the update.

It's been a while for one of the leads.

A veteran of the Japanese horror RPG genre is making his first appearance in a quarter century for a new RPG that NIS America has already confirmed for Western release.

Known as Monark, the new RPG from developer Lancarse (previous works including programming on Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth... Read more...

Five years after launch (and nearly two years after the Switch release), Overwatch is joining all of its players together.

With the game's fifth anniversary event recently concluding and a sequel on the horizon, Overwatch will be receiving cross-play support soon.

In a developer update released on the official Overwatch YouTube Channel, game director Aaron Keller announced today that they will soon be allowing players... Read more...

In which Nintendo finally says "You think making this is easy? You do it, then".

We wouldn't have known this as recently as a few weeks ago, but Nintendo dropped a pre-summer bomb with this week's major release, Game Builder Garage. The game creator lacks ways to get at creations without the screenshot functions of the Switch, but looks to give us all a lesson in how to make the simple stuff.

A few were known, but a lot of debuts to the wide world.

The day's second independent game show was the first day of the Guerrilla Collective featured another round of confirmed Switch games.

While North America slept, the games started flowing.

The Switch was well represented at a summer independent game festival that just wrapped in Japan.

Although not all of the games have Western release planned, they will be available in Japan:

One game lets you tame demons, one gods... I'm hardcore, I'll take 'em both on.

An update to the Japanese website for Shin Megami Tensei V has potentially revealed some unintended information.

The update was spotted by Persona Central and was originally showing without graphics, though the change was reverted overnight NA time. Most notably, if the update is accurate SMTV... Read more...

Whether the one that already exists or otherwise, who knows. UPDATE: It's not just Brain Age.

Nintendo of America appears to be gauging interest in a "brain training" release on Switch.

A member of the Nintendo World Report staff received a survey from Nintendo that included the below question as its own page in the survey:

"At a price of $39.99, how interested are you in buying a brain training game that you can play with friends and family?"

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Splatoon 2 will have official High School Leagues this Fall; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will join them next Spring.

Nintendo and PlayVS have officially announced a partnership that brings Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Splatoon 2 to high school varsity sports. Nintendo will be providing the Nintendo Switch System to thousands of select qualifiying schools, as well as games and online subscriptions, while PlayVS will provide the league tournament structure as well as exclusive partnerships with state and national high school athletics organizations.