Category: Nintendo

“With gaming as a nucleus of the overall business model”.

Nintendo has mentioned on a number of occasions in recent years how it wants to go beyond video games and the company’s American president Doug Bowser has now reiterated this during an interview with the Washington Post.

Bowser mentioned how Nintendo is currently “evolving into being an entertainment company with gaming as a nucleus of the overall business model”. While Nintendo has dabbled in other areas such as love hotels and playing cards throughout its history, its recent push in other areas like theme parks and the movie industry have been significant game changers. It’s also teamed up with toy icons like LEGO and released multiple mobile games.

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“Straight out of the video game”.

If you’re obsessed with the farming and lifestyle sim Stardew Valley, you might be interested in getting your hands on “the official” cookbook by Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone and author Ryan Novak.

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Celebrate Paldean Winds Ep 1 with a free Cetitan.

In case you missed it, the first episode of the new Pokémon web series Paldean Winds is now officially live.

As part of this, The Pokémon Company is giving away a free Cetitan in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. As highlighted by Serebii.net, the code you’ll need for this one is L1KEAFLUTE, and you have until 31st August 2024 to redeem it.

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Were tears shed?

Believe it or not, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom does have an ending. It might be a 200-hour sprawling epic where you support Addison over 80 times or dig into every single nook and cranny of Hyrule, but there is a main story — and its ending is a doozy.

We’re still thinking about it nearly four months after the game came out, and now is the time when we unleash all of those feelings — good and bad — unto the world.

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Game reaches 2 million sales worldwide.

We were promised a “big year” for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night back in December 2022. And it’s been a bit of a wait, but, developer ArtPlay has released a new blog update on Kickstarter along with a video to tease the future of the Metroidvania.

First up, the Castlevania-inspired action platformer — which was created by former Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi — has sold over 2 million copies worldwide since it launched in 2019. An impressive figure for a game that could potentially never have been made.

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Just a little change, small to say the least.

Believe it or not, Disney Dreamlight Valley is celebrating its one-year anniversary and to mark the occasion, two familiar faces will be your guest, as Belle and Beast are sauntering into the game with the next update.

The classic pair will enter the Valley as a part of the upcoming ‘Enchanted Adventure’ update, which is set to kick off a little later this month after being initially teased with the reveal of the new 2023 roadmap back in June. The news was shared by the official @DisneyDLV Twitter account, which posted the following image accompanied by some gorgeous string music — all together now, “tale as old as time…”

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Deep breath…

The first episode of the Pokémon web series Paldean Winds is available to watch now on The Official Pokémon YouTube channel.

The new miniseries was announced during the August 2023 Pokémon Presents and has been produced by Studio WIT, the same talent behind last year’s Pokémon: Hisuian Snow. Set in the Paldea region — the home region for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet — the Paldean Winds will follow three students from the academy as they make a video showcasing their school.

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No sweat!

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom provides so many outfit options that you’d be lying if you said that you didn’t want Link to look his best at all times. You know what makes this difficult, though? The bulky Flamebreaker Armour set. For many of us, this was our main defence against the scorching fire caves for the majority of the game and the fact of the matter is, it just ain’t cute. But what if you could explore Hyrule’s hottest spots without needing to change into this monstrosity every time?

As it turns out, you can — in caves, at least. In a new glitch revealed by YouTube channel Gaming Reinvented, we can see that getting rid of Link’s nasty habit of catching fire when not in the appropriate clothing is actually a rather simple one.

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It’s off to a wonderful start.

Ahead of the launch of Super Mario Bros. Wonder next month, it seems the game is already dominating the charts on Amazon in certain parts of the world.

Following the special Direct presentation last week, revealing even more about the new entry, Wonder has now gone straight to the top of Amazon’s best-selling video game in the US. It’s ahead of games like Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI and other Switch games such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Basically, it’s a positive sign for this new chapter in Mario’s 2D history.

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Kirby, Joy Mech Fight & more.

Nintendo has added four more games to the Switch Online library today. These games are available on the NES, SNES and Game Boy Color libraries.

For NES the titles include Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day! and Joy Mech Fight. On SNES we’ve got Kirby’s Star Stacker and joining the Game Boy Color library is Quest for Camelot.

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