Category: Nintendo

It’s a wild word out there.

This year marks five years since the last mainline Animal Crossing game launched. Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out at the perfect time and made an absolutely huge splash worldwide. But with its fifth anniversary fast approaching, we’re sure lots of fans are champing at the bit for a new game.

So, if you were browsing the PlayStation Store over the weekend and thought you spotted an Animal Crossing gamer, no, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. As our friends over at Good Vibes Gaming have pointed out, there’s a game that looks an awful lot like Animal Crossing on there.

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Hitting snooze.

Nintendo has announced that it is delaying the availability of Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo for non-Nintendo Switch Online members until early March 2025.

This marks a delay of nearly two months after the firm initially confirmed that NSO exclusivity would remain in place until mid-January 2025. Furthermore, its availability in the UK and Ireland will be limited to the ‘My Nintendo Store’ website, while European customers may be able to pick it up at select retailers.

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2025 off to a predictably sleepy start.

The latest UK charts are in and, with only one new release to speak of, the list is much as you might expect.

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana was the only new entry to the chart this week, just sneaking into the top 40 to land in 38th in its debut week (with a 53%/47% console split for PS5 and Switch, respectively).

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Please sir, can I have some Mordor?

The year is 2025 and Lord of the Rings feels very much like it’s “a thing” again. We’re not sure that it ever really went away, to be honest, but we’ve got The Rings of Power on TV (and it’s actually rather good now), the War of the Rohirrim hit cinemas, a ‘Hunt for Gollum‘ movie is planned, and, perhaps most importantly for us, more Middle Earth games are on the horizon.

Gollum launched on multiple consoles in 2023 — though the Switch version is still in limbo (something we’re sure you were all devastated about) after Daedalic shut down its internal development team. But Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game — surely a shoo-in for 2025’s Clunkiest Title Award — is right around the corner, bringing a slice of Hobbit life to Switch in March. And, with Embracer Group now legally behind the IP’s wheel, we’d be surprised if things are stopping there.

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Long live the Empire.

Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl, folks!

Last week, we took a look at Crash Nitro Kart for the GameCube, a sequel to Crash Team Racing that never quite managed to step out of its predecessor’s shadow. North America sealed the deal this time with 53% of the vote, while EU managed 30% and Japan just 17% (bit awkward – we like the Japanese variant). Well done, North America!

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Instead we got Switch Online’s retro subscription tiers.

Before Nintendo’s subscription service took off, fans were able to individually buy and download first-party retro titles and play them whenever they wanted thanks to the Virtual Console service.

Although this was eventually replaced with Switch Online’s tier-based retro library, Nintendo apparently had plans to carry over the existing Virtual Console service and add online functionality. This information comes from “a new leak of iQue emails not too long ago” according to Yakumono’s Blog, run by dataminer (and Nintendo Life user) LuigiBlood.

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An era’s end.

A lot has changed in video gaming since Switch launched in 2017. Beyond all Nintendo’s handheld hybrid switching, we now live in a world where a Nintendo game on mobile is a fairly normal occurrence and both Microsoft and Sony publish games on Nintendo’s console. Crazy.

As we await official word on the next generation of Nintendo hardware, it’s got us thinking back on the current cycle and the games that defined the era for Switch owners.

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“2005… I’ll never forget it”.

It seems funny to think back on it now, but during the early days of Resident Evil – when decomposing zombies were the top dog and Raccoon City was everybody’s favourite apocalyptic holiday destination – the idea that the franchise would find itself in the rural outskirts of Europe in which you fight a child-like evil castellan seemed utterly absurd.

That’s exactly what Resident Evil 4 was, however – absurd. Although the series has always enjoyed its own endearing sense of lunacy amongst the gritty, survival horror tropes, RE4 went above and beyond with its utterly ridiculous storyline and gameplay.

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Fingers crossed.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has been nominated for another award. This time it’s up for ‘Adventure game of the year’ at the 28th annual DICE Awards.

The other nominees include 1000xRESIST, Animal Well, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. That’s some tough competition, but there’s always a chance it could take out the top spot.

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Some fans placed an order in 2017.

If you pre-ordered Metroid Prime 4 on Amazon multiple years ago, you might want to check the status of your order.

Amazon customers have been receiving emails recently, confirming the cancellation of this item “due to a lack of availability” and providing refunds. A user on the Metroid subreddit, who ordered the title in 2017 (alongside the original announcement), shared the message they received:

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