Category: Nintendo

“my vision has been less aligned with the team”.

Omar Cornut, one of the co-founders of developer Lizardcube, has announced his departure from the company after his own aspirations and vision became less aligned with the wider team.

Lizarcube is known for its work on Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap and Streets of Rage 4, with Cornut and Ben Fiquet kickstarting the company out of a shared love of old Sega licenses. Cornut states “I want to make games differently” and that he “didn’t want to be swimming against the tide”, prompting him to leave Lizardcube in the capable hands of Fiquet and the rest of the team.

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Nintendo confirms.

The Zelda timeline has ignited all sorts of debates and theories over the years, and now it seems Nintendo has officially added the newest entry Echoes of Wisdom.

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Murder on the Point-and-Click Express.

It’s a story you’ve probably heard before: there’s a detective, a rich, old heiress with an amended will, and an assembled group of people all hoping to benefit from it. And then, as these stories usually do, it ends in murder. On a train! But don’t be fooled by the plentiful Agatha Christie-isms: this work of whodunnitry is wholly unique while paying tribute to its influences, and may even be one of our favourite modern point-and-clicks.

In the astoundingly well-named Loco Motive, you play as three separate characters – Arthur, a paperwork-loving estate attorney; Herman Merman, a crime novel-author-turned-detective; and Diana, a spy and bounty hunter working for the Inland Revenue Service, which we really hope isn’t a real thing. These three are your guides as you try to piece together the mysterious and sudden murder of a rich matriarch on a train through a series of goofy, absurd item combinations, interspersed with plot twists, reveals, and comedic cutscenes.

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Guns, motorbikes, and some crucial backstory.

With less than a month to go until Sonic the Hedgehog 3 film hits movie theatres, Paramount Pictures has dropped the second official trailer, and Shadow the Hedgehog is clearly the star of the show here.

The trailer gives Sonic (and Shadow) fans plenty to chew over, with Gerald Robotnik, the Space Colony ARK, and Maria Robotnik — crucial to Shadow’s backstory — showcased.

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“Cats are amazing animals”.

Stray caught everyone a little by surprise when it first leapt onto PlayStation consoles back in 2022. A cyberpunk platformer where you play as a cute kitty sure looked sweet, but it was surprisingly heartfelt? Surprisingly fun to play? And (un)surprisingly drove any real-world cats in its vicinity wild? We weren’t expecting that.

Things blew up really rather fast, with the cat platformer (catformer?) going on to be nominated at just about every awards show going. It even picked up a few big ones, including Best Independent Game at The Game Awards. Having clawed its way onto Xbox last year, we imagined it was only a matter of time before the cute kitty made its way to Switch. And right we were. Stray slinked into the June 2024 Nintendo Direct, with a November 19th release date following shortly after.

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Update today.

Square Enix has rolled out an update for its 2019 Switch release Final Fantasy VII and it makes a surprising change. Version 1.03/1.04 removes the restrictions on the “sharing features” across Switch and multiple other platforms. Here are the full patch notes:

FINAL FANTASY VII Update Nov. 6, 2024

All previous restrictions for sharing features have been removed from FINAL FANTASY VII on the following platforms:
– PlayStation 4: patch ver. 1.04
– Nintendo Switch: patch ver. 1.03
– Xbox One: patch ver. 1.04
– Microsoft Store (Windows): patch ver. 1.04

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When light faces dark.

Another week, another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Before we dive into this week’s battle, let’s see how things panned out last time. We looked at Double Dragon for the NES, and it was yet another close call. After over 1,600 votes from our dear readers, it was the Western design that took home the win with 53% of the vote. Well done!

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Zelda and Sonic also featured.

Super Mario Party Jamboree got off to a strong last month in the UK and Japan, and we’ve now got an update from Circana’s executive director and video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella about how it performed in the US.

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Pre-orders open soon.

First 4 Figures has released all sorts of high-quality statues and with this in mind, it’s now teasing a “sneak peek” of its latest Banjo-Kazooie figure.

This one is based on the transformation “Washer Banjo” and pre-orders will be opening in 10 days on 3rd December 2024. If you sign up to the First 4 Figures email, you can also get $10 off the regular price.

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