Category: Nintendo

New 18+ LEGO Mario Kart Set Is A Better Build Than We Expected

Pole position on our wishlists.

During the MAR10 Day celebrations last year, Nintendo dropped a teaser for an upcoming Mario Kart ‘big build’ set – with a silhouette that showcased a more detailed kart than we had previously seen from the child-friendly builds. A year of silence ensued, but we’d expect our first official look to arrive later on today after an official LEGO retailer site revealed a bunch of details about the upcoming set. Mamma mia!

According to the Australian LEGO Certified Stores site, the ‘LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart’ set (nice and snappy, eh?) is set to launch on 15th May for $249.99 AUD, which is around £122 / $158. And it’s one for grown-ups only, apparently consisting of 1,972 pieces and earning itself an adult ’18+’ age rating in the process.

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Leaked 18+ LEGO Mario Kart Set Is A Better Build Than We Expected

Pole position on our wishlists.

During the MAR10 Day celebrations last year, Nintendo dropped a teaser for an upcoming Mario Kart ‘big build’ set – with a silhouette that showcased a more detailed kart than we had previously seen from the child-friendly builds. A year of silence ensued, but we’d expect our first official look to arrive later on today after an official LEGO retailer site revealed a bunch of details about the upcoming set. Mamma mia!

According to the Australian LEGO Certified Stores site, the ‘LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart’ set (nice and snappy, eh?) is set to launch on 15th May for $249.99 AUD, which is around £122 / $158. And it’s one for grown-ups only, apparently consisting of 1,972 pieces and earning itself an adult ’18+’ age rating in the process.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship Of Doom (NES)

Hyaaah!

Hello chums, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we looked at Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, and the result was pretty definitive. The Western design won with 69% of the vote, with some of you noting that the Japanese variant didn’t even look like it belonged to the Pokémon franchise. User Kienda said “If someone showed me the Japanese case out of context, I wouldn’t even twig it was a Pokémon game”. Yep, fair comment!

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Pokémon Almost Became A “Gritty” Baseball-Themed RPG In The West

“Could we make it that they’re all baseball players in a baseball league?”.

Gail Tilden, former Nintendo of America’s marketing boss, recently spoke to The Video Game History Foundation’s Frank Cifaldi at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, and one of the topics she touched upon was the small matter of launching Pokémon in the West.

As you’ll probably be aware, Pokémon—or Pocket Monsters, as it’s known in Japan—was already something of a phenomenon in its homeland before it reached North America and Europe, and it was Tilden’s job to repackage it for Western tastes.

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Opinion: The Best Tony Hawk Game Is Grinding Back, And I Can Only Hold My Breath

Not the same?

When Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 launched, I only had one thought on my mind: “This is awesome, but can we please get 3 + 4?”

I had dabbled with the first two entries back in the day, but it was only when Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 launched in 2001 that I properly got hooked on the series. It felt perfect, and despite classics like Metroid Prime and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker sitting higher on my ‘best GameCube’ list, there’s no other game I sunk more hours into than THPS 3.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (8th March)

No luck Hunting them Monsters then?

The weekend has rolled around once more so it’s time for another edition of What Are You Playing!

After last week’s Poké-fest, it’s been a slightly quieter one in Nintendo land over recent days. The Game Boy NSO library was treated to a duo of new titles, Nintendo started slashing some prices ahead of MAR10 Day and we finally got the official announcement of the worst-kept secret in the biz, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4.

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Skullgirls Dev Is Off The Game, Taking Legal Action Against Publisher

“Thank you all for everything – you deserve nothing but the best”.

Hidden Variable, the LA-based developer of Skullgirls Mobile, has issued a statement revealing that the team is “no longer involved in the development of Skullgirls Mobile, 2nd Encore, or other Skullgirls IP-related efforts” since 21st January and has initiated legal proceedings against publisher Autumn Games.

Posted to social media platforms (thanks, Event Hubs), the statement says that the legal papers have been filed in LA and the team won’t be making further comment “until this dispute is resolved”.

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Monolith Soft Adds Final Fantasy Cutscene Artist To Its Ranks, So What’s It Cooking For Switch 2?

The future is bright(er).

If our hopes of some Monolith Soft Switch 2 goodness weren’t already high enough, today, they reached a new peak as we learned that the team has added a fresh cutscene director to its ranks with a pretty beefy portfolio to his name.

As brought to our attention by Stealth40K on BlueSky, the Nintendo-owned studio signed Daisuke Honda to its freelance staff late last year. One glance at the cutscene director’s LinkedIn page reveals names like Square Enix and NetEase games, having previously worked on the likes of Final Fantasy XVI, VII Remake, Kingdom Hearts III and Visions of Mana.

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