Category: Nintendo

“Set in a nostalgic world where action figures come to life”.

The former Kickstarter fighter Knock Off: Battle for Imagination is apparently on its way to the Nintendo Switch in Q4 2025.

This information was shared during the Latin American Games Showcase, with the game’s aesthetics already drawing some comparisons to old school fighting game releases such as ClayFighter. As you can see, it brings together a bunch of toylike fighters inspired by cartoon series and franchises of the ’80s and ’90s.

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Here’s what critics and fans had to say.

Although Sonic the Hedgehog 3 isn’t officially out in cinemas until later this month, the blue carpet premiere got underway this week and the first impressions are now rolling in.

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One is for “Switch Online members only”.

Ahead of next year, the My Nintendo Store is offering two new themed calendars. One is available to regular members and the other is a Switch Online exclusive.

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Preparing for a cosy 2025.

With The Game Awards just two days away, we’re getting a deluge of new game announcements and showcases, and one of today’s headliners is the Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition.

The 35-minute presentation showcased tons of cuddly, cosy games, alongside a couple of tearjerkers and some surprise DLC announcements.

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But will it be a critical success?

Thanks in no small part to Baldur’s Gate 3 last year, D&D appears to be very much in at the moment (finally). We have seen a few games take advantage of this new-found interest on Switch in recent months and developer Ludogram Games looks to be joining them with Worlds of Aria.

This fantasy co-op adventure launched on Steam back in September but will be making the jump over to Switch on 23rd January 2025. It looks to offer a more accessible entry point into the world of D&D, but it still has all the hallmarks of choose-your-own-adventure dice rolling to ensure that no newcomers miss out too much.

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Manual labour.

Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop is a roguelite fix-’em-up that combines the frantic buttons-and-levers work of Space Team and the chaotic manual-flipping of Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes with the repetitive, greasy work of car mechanics. You are the sole useful employee of the titular Rocket Shop, a podunk space garage that looks like it would serve roaches in the instant coffee and use spit to polish headlights, and it is your job to fix the spaceships that come into the shop each day.

Every ship has a bunch of broken modules. Some are easy to understand, like Fuel, Oil, Headlights, and Star Maps, and some take a turn into absurdity, like Tomfoolery, VR, and the Rebreather, which sounds like it might be straightforward but is actually full of snails and pancakes.

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No, not that – and definitely not THAT.

It’s that time of the year when in the middle of our personal GOTY list scrambles we sit back for a couple of hours to enjoy Geoff Keighley’s annual round-up. For the last 10 years, though it’s presented as a gong show and celebration, The Game Awards has essentially been a multiplatform conference, a platform for the big three, big third parties, and big indies to come together and get a trailer broadcast to the masses as holiday season approaches.

Say what you like, but you’ve got to give it to Keighley – it’s a big production and pulling off a show of that scale is a hell of a job. Juggling all those names and trying to squeeze in enough variety to showcase the enormous breadth of the industry is no mean feat – and it’s been a bumpy ride.

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We feel the need.

In 2024, the Switch’s transfer speeds leave a lot to be desired, but that might be one of the wrinkles Nintendo is hoping to iron out with ‘Switch 2’, if the speculation surrounding a new job listing is to be believed (thanks, Gameranx).

Yep, the latest chatter from the ‘Switch 2’ rumour mill is all about microSD cards, specifically, Samsung’s upcoming ‘SD Express’ cards, which the company revealed earlier this year. Samsung claims that these microSDs can reach transfer speeds of up to 800 MB/S — a noticeable bump on the current Switch’s 60 MB/S on the branded SanDisk cards and 150 MB/S max on the SanDisk SDXC card — and it looks like Nintendo is hoping to support it in the future.

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Here’s why he’s not feeling “confident”.

We’re still over a year away from the next Super Mario movie, but one voice actor who featured in the first film as Spike is already having doubts about a possible return.

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Wave Race 64 returns!

In this week’s update for Nintendo Music, Nintendo has added the soundtrack from the 1996 N64 title Wave Race 64.

This soundtrack includes 32 tracks all up and has a runtime of 36 minutes. You’ll be able to listen to tracks from the title screen, the watercraft select screen, Sunny Beach, and the fancy Twilight City. There are also select versions of songs from 1996 and 1997.

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