Nintendo has just announced that it’s cancelling this year’s Halloween event for Kirby Air Riders due to some serious performance issues that it appears cannot be quickly fixed, Nintendo Life spotted. The 10-month-old game was intending to celebrate its first spooky season with a whole range of Halloween- and fall-themed decorations, with ghostie hats to score though play. But it seems that for some reason this was more than the Switch 2 game could cope with, scared by it all so much it froze.

A passion project from Masahiro Sakurai, who is perhaps better known for helming the Super Smash Bros. series, Kirby Air Riders is a lightweight but entertainingly bubbly racer. And while it’s splendid to hear the game is still receiving thematic overhauls and in-game events, players quickly reported that things simply stopped working after the Halloween update, which began October 28. It made the game repeatedly freeze up for seconds at a time, which obviously isn’t conducive to racing in the 2025 follow-up to a 2003 GameCube game. You can see footage of this below.

nintendo just canceled the kirby air riders halloween event (no, seriously) because this kept happening lol

As a result, Nintendo’s Japanese X account posted to say the event was being pulled immediately. The Halloween specifics had been intended to remain in the game until November 4, but now aren’t going to make it to the big day itself, according to Nintendo. ’ event, where the screen may temporarily freeze during gameplay,” the X post reads (via machine translation).

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