Category: Nintendo

Full Moon.

Moon Studios, the developer behind the Ori series and the upcoming action RPG No Rest for the Wicked, has announced that it is now “fully independent” after purchasing the publishing rights to its next game from the recently sold Private Division.

In a new YouTube update on No Rest for the Wicked’s next patch, studio co-founders Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol confessed that Take-Two’s sale of Private Division was “unexpected news”, but the team saw it as an “opportunity”. Having negotiated with the former publisher, Moon Studios was able to buy NRFTW’s publishing rights, granting the studio full independence.

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“The most complete final version of the trilogy”.

Inti Creates has kicked off 2025 with the announcement of a new Azure Striker Gunvolt Trilogy Enhanced collection.

It will be releasing for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 on 24th July 2025 and contains the following games along with all of the DLC:

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The first update of 2025.

Nintendo has announced it will be rolling out Splatoon 3‘s first update of the year this week – bumping the game up to Version 9.3.0.

This update will include adjustments to weapons, Splatfest changes, and all sorts of bug fixes. You can see a rough machine translation of the Japanese patch notes below (note: This post will be updated with English patch notes when they go live).

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Out today on Switch.

Today marks the release of Beyond the Ice Palace 2, and no, you’re not imagining things — this is a sequel the 1988 Amiga, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum platformer.

Taking the shape of a Soulslike Metroidvania, Beyond the Ice Palace 2 sees you take up the chains of the Cursed King who has broken from from imprisonment. Touting some brutally difficult combat and platforming and some excellent pixel art, it takes the classic formula established 37 years ago and brings it up to a more modern standard.

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Now it’s really blossoming.

Adglobe and Live Wire’s critically acclaimed Metroidvania Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist has received a free update, and its adds a few brand new features to the already fantastic game.

In version 1.1.0, which is now live on Steam and is coming to consoles soon, you’ll be able to take part in Boss Rush Mode. You unlock this once you’ve defeated every single boss in the game, and it can be accessed from the Memories menu at any rest point.

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Now that’s an Odyssey.

No matter how hard you went on the MAR10 Day celebrations yesterday, we’d wager that you probably didn’t put as much effort into marking the occasion as Guillaume Lazert, a French fan who embarked on a two-day, 110km (68 miles) trip just to draw Mario’s face (thanks, NME).

You see, Lazert is a self-professed “GPS artist”, whose canvas is the walking app Strava and whose paint is… uhh, walking. By tracking his routes around Paris, Lazert has previously etched out images of the Eiffel Tower and an outline of France, but, for a MAR10 Day special, he decided to focus on something a little more gamey.

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Drawing inspiration from Vangelis, Ghibli & more.

Earthblade, the next game from Celeste developer Extremely OK Games, was sadly cancelled earlier this year following what studio founder Maddy Thorson described as “a disagreement about the IP rights of Celeste”. We only got a very small taste of what this follow-up would offer — a Game Awards reveal trailer and the odd blog post — but now composer Lena Raine has shared a “concept album” of her work on the project and, expectedly, it sounds beautiful (thanks, Eurogamer).

‘EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate’ is now available to listen to and buy on Bandcamp. It consists of nine brand new tracks, both “conceptual and implemented”, which Raine hopes will tell her own version of the game, and draws inspiration from the likes of Vangelis, Joe Hisaishi’s work on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Yoko Kanno’s Cowboy Bebop score.

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Expect more “over the next year”.

A lot of classic video games are coming up on major milestones and anniversaries, and one of them happens to be Square Enix’s legendary 1995 RPG Chrono Trigger.

Today actually happens to be the game’s 30th anniversary since its initial Super Famicom and SNES release and to mark this special occasion, Square Enix has announced it is planning a variety of projects over the next year which will apparently go “beyond the world of the game”. This comes from a translation via the official company and game social media accounts. Here it is in full:

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Microsoft could be testing the waters…

The Switch 2 is just around the corner and according to a new report it could be joined by a new Xbox handheld “later in 2025”.

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Bop to the beat.

The MAR10 Day celebrations this year have been fairly lowkey, but we’re not entirely done just yet. In case you missed it, Nintendo has added a new soundtrack to its Nintendo Music mobile application and sure enough it’s a Mario one!

Following on from Super Mario Bros. 2 last month and the Zelda: Link to the Past album last week, the latest soundtrack comes from Nintendo’s all-time NES classic Super Mario Bros. 3. This album is loaded with 42 tracks and has a total runtime of 32 minutes. Here’s the full rundown:

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