The biggest news and trailers from the first Nintendo Direct of 2022
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Nintendo Switch Sports. Fresh off of launching the much-anticipated Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Nintendo held its first Direct presentation of 2022. And it was a big one: the livestream was 40 minutes long and featured surprises like a portable take on No Man's Sky, the return of Super Mario Strikers, and a Wii Sports revival. Oh, and Mario Kart 8 is about to get a whole lot bigger.
If you weren't able to catch the whole thing, here are the most important reveals.
Super Mario Strikers is backMario's soccer spinoff is back after a long absence. Nintendo revealed Mario Strikers: Battle League, a sequel to the GameCube original, which looks to include the same wacky gameplay that makes it sort of like Mario Kart but for soccer. It also features support for up to...