Nintendo is launching a news app

Nintendo closed out today’s Direct with a surprise announcement: a news app that will keep players up to date on everything Nintendo. It’s called Nintendo Today, and it’ll be available on both iOS and Android. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, the app was designed to compliment its event-like livestreams, which have become incredibly popular in the Switch era. After the Switch 2 Direct on April 2nd, the app will feature regular updates on the company’s next console.

Here’s how Nintendo explains it: “this smart-device app is like a daily calendar which delivers a variety of content including latest news, videos, and comics of your favorite Nintendo games and characters from select franchises.”

While it doesn’t appear to be in app stores at the time of this writing, Nintendo says that the Nintendo Today app will be available later today.