Quick Hits

• A Call of Duty first: the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 open beta will include a playable campaign mission plus Warzone content — the most content the franchise has ever crammed into a beta test, per Destructoid — running across two weekends later this month on all platforms, Switch 2 included.
• Pokémon Pokopia has sold more than 5 million copies, which Eurogamer works out to roughly one in four Switch 2 owners owning the game.
• Arc Raiders' next major update adds a frozen map and a "new high-level challenge," with arcs that will "challenge the ways you've learned to move," according to PC Gamer.
• Star Wars: Smuggler's Gambit in Fortnite will connect to your MyDisney account and link directly to the Smuggler's Run ride at Disney parks, IGN reports.
• Saber Interactive finally added a generative AI disclosure to Rideshare Stimulator's Steam page after a very public CEO-vs-writer scrap — and the game also uses genAI for its in-game music.

Pokémon & Nintendo

The big one: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have confirmed Pokémon Pokopia has cleared 5 million units sold, and Eurogamer notes that attach rate works out to about one in four Switch 2 owners — as they put it, another massive Pokémon-flavoured hit is on our hands. Elsewhere on Switch, Nintendo Life has a one-year-later piece asking whether anyone is still playing Drag x Drive, a reminder that Nintendo keeps shipping new IP beyond Mario and Pokémon. In sunsetting news, Studio Wildcard is switching off official servers for the Switch version of ARK: Survival Evolved this month, thanking everyone who's been part of the journey. And if you've got nostalgia money burning a hole in your pocket, Nintendo Life's latest talking point debates whether the Analogue 3D is worth the cash amid current-gen price hikes. Over on r/Pokemon, the community is thriving: someone built a tool that ranks the top 10 EV training spots for every stat in every