Mario's 35th anniversary celebrations continue, as a new Mario sports title has been announced. Return to the greens in Mario Golf Super Rush/ As revealed during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, Mario Golf Super Rush is the newest Mario sports game from Camelot. Mario Golf Super Rush can be played with both the controllers or even motion controls. As suggested by the subtitle, characters will rush from one hole to the next and race to different holes with power-ups. There will also be a dedicated Story Mode which can be played with your Mii. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/17/mario-golf-super-rush-nintendo-switch-announcement-trailer"] Mario Golf Super Rush will come to the Nintendo Switch on June 25 and a demo will be available after today's Nintendo Direct. Mario's last sports outing on the Nintendo Switch was 2018's Mario Tennis Aces, which our review called " an extremely fun arcade tennis experience, colorful and dazzling to look at and smartly balanced in its back-and-forth play." Mario's sports lineage is of course a long one, with members of the Mushroom Kingdom having played golf, tennis, soccer, and much more in various spinoff titles throughout the decades. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=mario-golf-super-rush-reveal-screens&captions=true"] For more on his sports acumen, check out our history of Mario sports games.

The classic Square RPG Legend of Mana is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Legend of Mana, the beloved PlayStation RPG returns for the first time in over 20 years on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo announced the remaster in Wednesday's Nintendo Direct event. The game's music has been rearranged for the remaster, and players will be able to alternate between the original soundtrack and the rearrangement. Players will also have the option to turn off enemy encounters. A new mini-game dubbed "Ring Ring Land" is a Tamagotchi-esque side activity players can also partake in. Legend of Mana is the latest remaster in the Mana series following a series of remakes, Adventures of Mana in 2016, Secret of Mana in 2018, and Trials of Mana in 2020. Make sure to also check out everything revealed during Wednesday's Nintendo Direct.

The classic Square RPG Legend of Mana is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Legend of Mana, the beloved PlayStation RPG returns for the first time in over 20 years on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo announced the remaster in Wednesday's Nintendo Direct event. The game's music has been rearranged for the remaster, and players will be able to alternate between the original soundtrack and the rearrangement. Players will also have the option to turn off enemy encounters. A new mini-game dubbed "Ring Ring Land" is a Tamagotchi-esque side activity players can also partake in. Legend of Mana is the latest remaster in the Mana series following a series of remakes, Adventures of Mana in 2016, Secret of Mana in 2018, and Trials of Mana in 2020. Make sure to also check out everything revealed during Wednesday's Nintendo Direct.

After debuting to smash success on PC and as a PlayStation Plus launch game on PS4, Devolver Digital and Mediatonic's Fall Guys will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch. Announced during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, no specific release date was given, but the port will be launching sometime this Summer. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/17/fall-guys-ultimate-knockout-nintendo-switch-trailer"] Fall Guys is currently in the midst of its third season, with the recent Season 3.5 update offering a new level, new variations to existing challenges, and much more. The battle royale launched in August of 2020, becoming the most downloaded PlayStation Plus game. And since its launch, Fall Guys has seen plenty of crossovers with famous franchises, including a Sonic the Hedgehog skin, a licensed Godzilla costume, and more. And while this confirms Fall Guys is coming to Switch, this new platform news follows some confusion and later confirmation that Fall Guys isn't planned to come to Xbox Game Pass.

After debuting to smash success on PC and as a PlayStation Plus launch game on PS4, Devolver Digital and Mediatonic's Fall Guys will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch. Announced during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, no specific release date was given, but the port will be launching sometime this Summer. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/17/fall-guys-ultimate-knockout-nintendo-switch-trailer"] Fall Guys is currently in the midst of its third season, with the recent Season 3.5 update offering a new level, new variations to existing challenges, and much more. The battle royale launched in August of 2020, becoming the most downloaded PlayStation Plus game. And since its launch, Fall Guys has seen plenty of crossovers with famous franchises, including a Sonic the Hedgehog skin, a licensed Godzilla costume, and more. And while this confirms Fall Guys is coming to Switch, this new platform news follows some confusion and later confirmation that Fall Guys isn't planned to come to Xbox Game Pass.

Outer Wilds has been announced for the Nintendo Switch. Mobius Digital's time-loop sci-fi game will be released for the Switch this Summer. The announcement was made during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct. A price was not announced, but in previous releases, it was sold for $24.99. It doesn't appear like any new features will be coming to the game with this Switch version nor was anything not present in previous releases of the game mentioned during the Direct. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/17/outer-wilds-nintendo-switch-announcement-trailer"] Outer Wilds was previously released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It was published by Annapurna Interactive. They are also publishing the Switch variant of this game. Outer Wilds is a 22-minutes-at-a-time sci-fi game about trying to discover why the Sun explodes every 22 minutes and you'll learn more about your character's existence in the process. You'll need to fly a spaceship around the galaxy while dodging space's many dangerous elements, which can be tough, but IGN's official walkthrough for Outer Wilds will guide you from start to end. IGN gave it an 8.4 out of 10 and you can read about why in IGN's official Outer Wilds review. For more Outer Wilds, read about how it won Best Game at the BAFTA Game Awards last year. Watch Mobius Digital developers react to a 10-minute speed run of Outer Wilds after that. Outer Wilds will be available digitally on Switch, but you can check out a physical PS4 version of the game in the Annapurna Interactive Collector's Edition, which includes seven other Annapurna Interactive games like What Remains of Edith Finch and more. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. He believes Outer Wilds is a really great game and that everyone should play it. You can follow him and his love of the Outer Wilds soundtrack on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's newest DLC character is Pyra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Revealed during the February 2021 Nintendo Direct, Pyra a character from Monolith's Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Pyra will be coming to the fighter sometime in March. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is Monolith's last RPG. A sequel to Xenoblade on the Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 takes place in a fantastical world where Blades are summoned from "Core Crystals." Pyra is a blade and partner of the hero, Rex. A prequel DLC called Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country was released in 2018. Read IGN's Xenoblade Chronicles 2 review here. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/17/super-smash-bros-ultimate-pyra-and-mythra-dlc-character-announcement-trailer"] Pyra is the latest character added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate through the new Fighters Pass. Nintendo says a full breakdown of Pyra's moves will be revealed at a later date. But from the trailer, Pyra appears to be primarily a blade user with a heavy, fire-based attack. Pyra can also seemingly work with Mythra, another character from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The two characters can swap between each other, potentially similar to how Zelda could formally swap with Sheik. As with all characters added through the Fighters Pass, a new stage and music will also be included with the new release. Last December, Nintendo revealed Final Fantasy's Sephiroth and then later released the character as the latest in Ultimate's growing roster of fighters. And Smash Bros. fans have more to look forward to, as Banjo-Kazooie, Byleth, and Terry amiibo are on the way in March. Other fighter editions for the most recent Fighters Pass have included Steve from Minecraft and Arms' Min Min.

Microsoft has announced FPS Boost, an enhancement system for backwards-compatible games on Xbox Series X and Series S that can double - or sometimes even quadruple - frame rates. FPS Boost will be applied to select games, and the first five to be enhanced are Far Cry 4, New Super Lucky’s Tale, Sniper Elite 4, UFC 4, and Watch Dogs 2. As the name suggests, FPS Boost improves the frames-per-second performance of each of these games on the newer, more powerful Xbox Series X/S consoles. Microsoft notes that it chose these first five games as they are both popular and show the range of improvement available. New Super Lucky's Tale has been pushed to 120fps, while UFC 4 has been specifically tailored to run at 60fps on Xbox Series S. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/11/05/xbox-series-x-review"] For players who'd rather experience these games in their original format with lower frame rates, FPS Boost can be toggled on and off. This is similar to how Xbox's other back-compat technology, Auto HDR, works. A new Compatibility Options menu will be added to allow you to toggle both of these technologies. These FPS Boost performance enhancements come via Microsoft’s Xbox team rather than the games’ original dev teams, and so there’s no additional development needed from studios. They are applied via patches just like a developer title update, though, so if you wish to play any of these five games with FPS Boost, just make sure your Xbox Series X/S has updated them to their latest version. Last year, Phil Spencer said that frame rate is more important than resolution. Since these are backwards compatible games from the Xbox One generation, this will be the chance to get both frame rate and resolution. For more on backwards compatibility, check out our list of all the previous generation Xbox games playable on Xbox Series X/S. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Zack Snyder has discussed Warner Bros. hazy plans for international distribution of his Justice League cut, calling the studio's roll out of the eagerly-anticipated movie "not amazing." Snyder spoke to the SnyderCutBR YouTube channel about his upcoming four-hour superhero cut, and the director expressed his disappointment at how Warner Bros. was handling the movie's launch outside of the US. For example, Justice League's UK trailer didn't reveal when the film would make its way to British shores, which is a far cry from the March 18 release date seen in the US HBO Max trailer. When asked for his thoughts on Justice League's international rollout, Snyder expressed his dissatisfaction over when non-US audiences would be able to watch his original vision for the DC flick. “There has been, you know, not amazing work done with the distribution of the movie. I don’t know why that is, I honestly couldn’t put my finger on it." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/14/zack-snyders-justice-league-official-trailer"] Snyder did, however, state his belief that the usual practice regarding international movie distribution might have impacted on Warner Bros.' decision over when to bring Justice League to international audiences. HBO Max won't launch in Latin America until June, while a European release is expected to come later this year. "I don’t want to make it seem like there’s some sort of conspiracy out there," he said. "I think part of the problem is no one saw the movie coming. I think that the normal window, or the normal way people in Hollywood distribute movies, is they understand when the movie gets made that it’s going to have to be distributed. Normally, they have like a two-year window to figure that all out. The problem is this happened in six months and came to life. It’s caught everyone off guard.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/02/14/zack-snyders-justice-league-trailer-breakdown-will-batman-and-joker-be-allies"] Snyder's comments make him the latest director to pick holes in Warner Bros.' distribution decisions, with Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve also criticising the studio over its choice to release its biggest movies in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously. In other movie news, Warner Bros. recently dropped a series of Mortal Kombat posters ahead of the official trailer's release on February 18. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Tom Power is a UK-based freelance writer. Follow him on Twitter.

Experts in the fighting games community have been given early access to Guilty Gear Strive, and many seem to be impressed with the game's rollback netcode. As originally reported by EventHubs, many members of the fighting game community are reporting smooth games between players in the USA, Japan and Korea, which will be music to the ears of those anticipating Arc System Works' upcoming fighting game. Eight-time Evo champion Justin Wong said on Twitter that the "game feels amazing and NETCODE is so good!!!." "I was able to play against people from Japan and Korea with no LAG," he adds.

Going to sleep so I can work in the morning and then play more strive later....

Overall game feels amazing and NETCODE is so good!!! I was able to play against people from Japan and Korea with no LAG. GGs to everyone and Potemkin needs Damage BUFF — Justin Wong (@JWonggg) February 16, 2021

Dogura, a professional player signed to Cyclops Gaming Osaka played against Wong in the beta, reporting on Twittter that there "was no delay, no lag." "Is this really a match against the United States?," Dogura added. "I can't help but be surprised. incrediblllllllle." Jiyuna, a streamer and event organizer based in Tokyo called it "the best [fighting game] netplay I've ever played." Jiyuna added that they don't know whether it's better than Good Game Peace Out, a middleware used to create a "near-lagless" online experience in-game, but that the netcode and input buffer make the game "feel better than an older game with strict timing like (Guilty Gear XX Accent Core) +R."

Played for 5 hours and this was the best FG netplay I've ever played. I don't know if it's technically *better* than GGPO, but I think the good netcode + game's input buffer makes it feel better than an older game with strict timing like +R. Try it for yourselves and judge. #GGST https://t.co/r4PF6ioarl

— J I Y U N A (@jiyunaJP) February 16, 2021

Those who preorder the game will be able to access the open beta of Guilty Gear Strive from February 17, with the beta running until February 21. Those without a preorder can play from February 18. Here are 25 minutes of high-level gameplay of every beta character from Guilty Gear Strive. The game was initially delayed out of 2020 due to COVID-19, but the full release will land on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC on April 9, 2021. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.