Category: Nintendo

Every game we scored 9/10 or higher, plus a personal pick.

Forget your pumpkins and sweets, Nintendo knows that the best way to celebrate the spooky season is with a big old eShop sale.

Hot off the back of the North American ‘Screaming Deals‘ discounts, the ‘Halloween Sale‘ is now live on European eShops, bringing some pretty delightful price cuts to a range of Switch titles — with a few Switch 2 newbies thrown in for good measure. This one will only be sticking around until 2nd November, so make the most while it lasts.

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“Power up your holidays”.

Two new unlisted Switch 2 lifestyle commercials for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond have been spotted on Nintendo’s official YouTube page. They’re titled “Power Up Your Holidays”, so we’ll seemingly be seeing them in the lead up to the Christmas season.

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Multiple projects are in development.

If you haven’t been keeping a close eye on the Tales Of series, Bandai Namco is reviving Tales of Xillia as a remaster next week. So, what about Tales of Xillia 2?

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Update: Game surpasses one million sales as Joker arrives.

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has already got a huge cast of characters and apparently Sega might not be done just yet.

Speaking to Polygon at the Brasil Game Show recently, the series producer Takashi Iizuka mentioned how DLC could potentially stretch beyond a year. It all depends on how much attention the game is getting from fans and the feedback the team is receiving.

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Move!

There’s been quite a lot of talk recently about the lack of voiceover work in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, and I can understand why. Game Freak has made some pretty decent strides with its cutscenes, depicting characters that animate realistically right down to their facial expressions and mouth movements. Yet they don’t actually talk. It’s weird in practice to see such well-constructed scenes play out in near total silence, but that’s actually not my biggest gripe with the residents of Lumiose City.

If you go into a real-life busy city centre in the middle of the day, one thing you’ll notice is that most people will probably be walking somewhere. Whether they’re darting from shop to shop, slowly ambling along in chattering groups, or even taking a few steps backwards to pick up the sausage that’s slipped out of their hotdog bun, everybody’s moving. Heck, it’s the reason why cities are often described as ‘bustling’ – it literally means ‘full of activity’.

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But producer Kensuke Tanabe decided against it.

Nintendo is shortly launched Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective, a new art book looking at concept art for the original trilogy on GameCube and Wii (with a small section dedicated to Metroid Prime Remastered).

Speaking of the more recent Switch remaster, the book reveals that Retro Studios had originally proposed completely new cutscenes for the game. However, in a producer’s note, Kensuke Tanabe confirmed that he opted against this approach.

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Both versions!

When Nintendo followed up on its recently ‘Close to You’ short with another version that confirmed the presence of Pikmin, the company annoyingly kept it locked to its Nintendo Today! app.

Well, not anymore, because both versions of the film – Pikmin and invisible Pikmin – have been uploaded to YouTube in one 8-minute-long video. Nice!

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Performed by ‘Persona 3’ singer Yumi Kawamura.

Ahead of the release of Persona 3 Reload on the Switch 2 this week, Atlus has announced it will be distributing an update on launch day, adding eight songs to the game.

This will include Yumi Kawamura’s vocal tracks from Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES as background music during dungeon exploration battles. Alongside this, the singer has also shared a special message with fans. Here it is, along with the eight tracks being added:

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From the ‘Persona 3’ singer Yumi Kawamura.

Ahead of the release of Persona 3 Reload on the Switch 2 this week, Atlus has announced it will be distributing an update on launch day, adding eight songs to the game.

This will include Yumi Kawamura’s vocal tracks from Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES as background music during dungeon exploration battles. Alongside this, the singer has also shared a special message with fans. Here it is, along with the eight tracks being added:

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Another smashing patch.

Ahead of Donkey Kong Bananza‘s first DLC in-game event next week, Nintendo has rolled out a new update for the game.

This updates the game to Version 2.0.2 and includes a fix tied to Pauline’s voice when collecting fossils in the two previous updates. It also makes several other changes to improve the gameplay experience. If we hear anything else about this update going on behind the scenes, we’ll let you know.

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