{"id":139563,"date":"2025-09-12T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139563\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:59:07","slug":"nintendo-direct-showcases-mario-galaxy-movie-new-fire-emblem-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139563\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Direct showcases ‘Mario Galaxy’ movie, new ‘Fire Emblem’ game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 12 (UPI) — Nintendo announced an official title for the Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel and showcased new games during a Direct presentation Friday.<\/p>\n

The follow-up to the Super Mario Bros. Movie will be titled The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and open in theaters April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n

Chris Pratt will return to voice Mario, with Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad and Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek.<\/p>\n

The first film, also based on Nintendo’s Mario video game franchise, was released in 2023.<\/p>\n

The Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 video games will be re-released as a bundle Oct. 2 on the Nintendo Switch 2 console. In addition, Super Mario Bros. Wonder will have a Switch 2 re-release<\/a> in spring of 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Anya<\/p>\n

Anya Taylor-Joy voices Peach in the “Super Mario” movies. File Photo by Chris Chew\/UPI<\/p>\n

Nintendo also showcased the new game<\/a> Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia, the first life simulation game in the Pok\u00e9mon franchise. Players will play as a Ditto that has transformed to look like a human and use resources to build “your very own Pok\u00e9mon paradise.”<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia releases on Switch 2 in 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Black voices Bowser in the “Super Mario” movies. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI<\/p>\n

Other titles included Donkey Kong Bananza: DK Island and its Emerald Rush DLC, released Friday, Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A, releasing<\/a> Oct. 16, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, releasing<\/a> Nov. 5, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, releasing<\/a> Dec. 4, Mario Tennis Fever, releasing<\/a> Feb. 12, and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, releasing<\/a> in spring 2026.<\/p>\n

Nintendo closed the presentation by announcing Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, a new game in the Fire Emblem franchise. The game will allow players to take control of characters competing in the Heroic Games.<\/p>\n

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave will be released on Switch 2 in 2026.<\/p>\n

Watch Friday’s full Nintendo Direct presentation below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 12 (UPI) — Nintendo announced an official title for the Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel and showcased…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51888,49,48,75259,690,10755,48754,24344,75258,75167,61],"class_list":["post-139563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-anya-taylor-joy","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kevin-michael-richardson","tag-mario","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-direct","tag-super-mario","tag-super-mario-bros","tag-super-mario-galaxy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}