What went down at today’s Nintendo Direct?

Smash, Crash and a third thing that rhymes

Well, Nintendo once again showed that when it comes to filling 30 minutes with exciting announcements, they’re starting to make it a fine art. We had ports of some great titles from last year and beyond, expansions for current hits, a quirky Splatoon music video, and a teaser for some fighting game or other.

Oh yeah, and a Dark Souls amiibo. Years ago, who would’ve ever believed that would be a thing?

Hope all of you Nintendo fans saw something to get your hype fires stoke for the future of the Switch and its lil’ buddy, the 3DS. Let’s take a look back at some of the big stories from the event:

• Super Smash Bros. teased for Nintendo Switch with dramatic trailer

• Splatoon 2 is getting an ‘Octo Campaign’ DLC

• New details for Mario Tennis Aces, smashing onto Switch this Summer

• South Park: The Fractured But Whole is heading on down to Switch

• Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy making the leap to Nintendo Switch

• Captain Toad is coming to Switch and 3DS

• Dark Souls Remastered will be getting a Switch network test and Solaire amiibo

• WarioWare Gold, Luigi’s Mansion, Bowser’s Inside Story announced for 3DS

• Undertale will ‘eventually’ be on Switch

• Okami HD is heading to Switch

• Sushi Striker is now heading to Switch, will launch in June

• Octopath Traveler gets release date, official name and collector’s edition

• No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again coming to slice ‘n’ dice on Switch

A lot of exciting stuff there, setting the (already pretty dominant) Nintendo devices up for further success for the rest of 2018. Now, we just need that Shantae amiibo… and that Diablo announcement…