Nintendo release when?
After a surprise announcement at The Game Awards in 2022, the sequel to Hades has finally entered its early access phase.
While it’s only available on PC for now, it’s given many fans of Supergiant’s original roguelike hope there’ll be an announcement about console devices at some point in the future.
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Winning roll.
Ah, Super Monkey Ball… Since its debut back in 2001, Sega’s platforming, puzzle-solving, party extravaganza has had its ups and downs over the years, but has nevertheless remained a firm favourite with gamers – particularly those with a certain proclivity for Nintendo consoles.
In fact, Super Monkey Ball has shown up on pretty much every Nintendo platform bar the Wii U (pause for tiny violin) since its inception, making it almost as synonymous with The Big N as franchises like Animal Crossing, Mario Party, and — bizarre as it may be — Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Pulp fiction.
LCB Game Studio’s acclaimed visual novel is getting a bundled release this summer in The Pixel Pups Collection. Consisting of Mothmen 1966, Varney Lake, and Bahnsen Knights, the trio play homage to classic pulp horror using 8- and 16-bit visual styles.
And today, LCB Games has revealed that it’s partnering with Meridiem Games to release a special physical version of the collection. The physical version will come with exclusive cases and postcards designed to look like pulp novel covers.
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Rope burn’d.
Of all the studios to potentially work on a Donkey Kong project, Vicarious Visions (now known simply as Blizzard Albany) admittedly wasn’t particularly high up on our list.
However, details have emerged of a now-cancelled DK project at the studio via a new video from Did You Know Gaming (with prior reporting from DK Vine). According to the research, leadership at Vicarious Visions had wanted to collaborate more closely with Nintendo after the studio’s work on Skylanders: Superchargers (which, if you remember, included the likes of Bowser and Donkey Kong on Wii U, Wii, and 3DS). It had received developer kits for the Nintendo Switch and wanted to create something truly unique for the upcoming system.
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Get it while you can.
The Pokémon Company is currently running a new limited-time distribution for the latest Switch titles Scarlet and Violet.
This time it’s a special Gift Distribution for a Flutter Mane based on a Pokémon used in last year’s Korean Trainers Cup stream. It will be available until 7th May 2024. Here are the details courtesy of Serebii.net, along with the code:
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Heart Palpatinetions.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim celebrates Revenge of the Fifth with a DS throwback…
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Our picks for the best eShop games in April.
It’s that time — welcome back to our monthly eShop Selects feature! This time, we’re covering April — somehow, we’re already in May.
As mentioned last month, we’ve made another change to the piece. Now you’ll be voting for your favourite hidden gem for the current month within this piece, rather than separately. Phew. So much change!
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Vincent van Goomba.
Hey folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
We had a veritable doozy last week when we checked out Pokémon Yellow Version for the humble Game Boy; truly one of the standout titles in the gargantuan franchise.
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Spooky surprise.
Next month, Nintendo is reviving the 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion 2 on the Nintendo Switch. In the lead up to Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, it’s now uploaded a new trailer for the game titled ‘Rude Awakening’.
In this “visually enhanced” adventure for the Siwtch, Professor E.Gadd calls on Luigi after the Dark Moon is shattered:
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“A galaxy of savings”.
As part of this year’s Star Wars Day celebrations, there’s currently a sale taking place on the Switch eShop in select regions. So if you’re looking for a Star Wars game to play this weekend, here’s a list of games you can currently grab on sale:
“You can score a discount on several Star Wars games right now! We hope you enjoy your adventures in a galaxy far, far away!”
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