It’s on with the King of the Kongs.
This review was originally published in June 2011. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy library.
In 1994, Nintendo had a great idea; why not make a true sequel to the original Donkey Kong arcade game? The result is Donkey Kong for the Game Boy, also known as Donkey Kong ’94, which birthed the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.
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Squid kid.
Although the Switch is soon to be replaced by its new and improved successor, Nintendo and other companies are still releasing all sorts of new content on the original hybrid system. This includes many different apps and next week some new Splatoon-themed content will be made available in Japan.
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Mario and Donkey Kong are here.
Nintendo has announced two more Game Boy titles to the Switch Online service and they’re available right now.
First up we have the 1994 title Donkey Kong and along with this is the 1995 puzzle game Mario Picross. You can see both games in action in the video above.
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Judg(e)ment day.
One night in 1993, I saw Terminator 2: Judgment Day for the first time. I was nine and I remember negotiating with my folks to stay up and watch the VHS with a Chinese takeaway. I remember the sweet-and-sour chicken, chow mein, and prawn crackers. I remember the lighting and the layout of the living room. I remember the clanking iron and the low-buzzing drone that represent the two different Terminators. What a night!
This was peak ’90s living and a formative life event – and one of two reasons that Terminator 2D: No Fate is my most anticipated game of the year right now.
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Give us a cooler premise, we dare you.
Games don’t come much cooler than Sonokuni. This is a Hotline Miami-inspired action game developed by the Japanese hip hop group Don Yasa Crew and, just when you thought that premise couldn’t get any sweeter, it’s coming to Switch.
Inspired by Japanese mythology, Sonokuni will see you playing as a lone assassin, Takeru, tasked with taking down a surreal superpower. To do so, you’ll have to punch, kick and parry your way through opponents, all while bending time to make the action feel that bit more cinematic — another mark in the ‘coolness’ column for additional bullet time.
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Spelinker.
You know, we had a sneaky suspicion that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would have some legs on it. From people’s ridiculous Ultrahand creations to glitches to challenge runs, it feels like players are always discovering something weird or new.
Well, fans have now found a huge hole (ahem…) tucked underneath the Hebra Depths, and Gaming Reinvented has provided a breakdown of how to reach it.
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Gentlemen, please…
As long as Pokémon TCG exists, there will always be scalpers looking to make a quick buck from the game’s rare cards and packs.
Case in point, a new video has surfaced in which two men appear to be fighting it out to take advantage of a kiosk restock. The video comes from TikTok user ‘yoc9official‘, who appears to be one of the men directly involved in the altercation, though he claims to be well-intentioned and is simply purchasing cards for his own collection.
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Now back to farming.
In case you missed it, Stardew Valley‘s most recent update (Version 1.6.15.1) included an error on the Switch. While the game was “mostly playable, there were some issues like “crashes”, text problems and some other issues.
Fortunately, the game’s creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone has been working to resolve this issue and a patch for this patch has now been issued. Here’s what he had to say about this, along with the official website notice:
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The manga series ‘Baki the Grappler’ returns.
The manga series Baki the Grappler will be getting a Super Punch-Out!! style 2D action game for Switch this September.
This particular entry, officially known as Baki Hanma: Blood Arena, is based on the Netflix anime and is published by Purple Play and developed by Purple Tree, who also worked on the Punch-Out!! style game Thunder Ray.
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The Big N’s lowest ranking yet.
Metacritic has today revealed its 15th annual game publisher rankings, giving us an updated look at how the biggest publishers of 2024 performed based on critic reviews.
Nintendo wound up in 22nd place out of the 37 publishers in this year’s list which, considering it landed in sixth place last time, is quite the tumble. The Big N took home an average Metascore of 76 on its 13 releases in 2024, with no “Great” games (Metascore of 90 or higher) to its name.
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