Nintendo officially unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2. You might have noticed. I wrote a few articles for Stuff on the little box of joy:

My daily life is busy – so the Nintendo Switch 2 is the perfect console for me. I’ve been playing games since the early 1980s. But I’m now closer to 80 than when I started playing games. As a busy parent, I don’t have a lot of time. The Switch has been great for keeping my love of games alive, with its slew of cracking bite-sized titles and co-op fare I can play with the nipper after dinner, until she decides she’s too old to play games with dad. Anyway, this column’s all about that.

Switch Virtual Game Cards are a good idea – but I want Nintendo to go further. There’s a tension between physical and digital across all media. Nintendo’s rethought digital games to make them a little more like physical cards. I’m pretty happy with what’s being offered, but, as ever, I wish Nintendo would take things further.

Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are the worst of all worlds. Physical media should be yours forever. It’s unclear how many publishers will sell Game-Key Cards – physical cards that don’t have the actual games on them. I hope it’s not many. I hate the concept, even if I understand the reasoning from a tech standpoint. This column may have some passive-aggressive captions.

MusicHarbor hit v5 recently. It fills a gap by letting you track your favourite artists in a manner that Apple Music bafflingly doesn’t bother with. The update handily adds a ‘time capsule’ feature, so you can scoot back through the months and find albums you might have missed. The app is currently the lead item in my best free iPhone and iPad apps list for Stuff.

Some of the best apps are simple. I explore some of my favourites in 18 superb utility apps to boost your iPhone or iPad.

Space Invaders Infinity Gene is back on iPad. Sort of. The original release is my second-favourite Space Invaders game of all time, after Extreme. But it vanished from the App Store during the 32-bit appageddon. EVO is now on Apple Arcade. It looks to be based on the console version, which means it sadly loses the portrait-first set-up that worked so well on mobile. But it’s still pretty great. Also, happily, I still have the original on my first-gen iPad Air anyway.