Category: Nintendo

Finally, some vampire killers.

Ode to Castlevania is a full-circle moment for Vampire Survivors. Heavily inspired by the franchise, and originally built with assets influenced by Konami’s whip-cracking series, Luca Galante and Poncle have blown all of their other excellent DLC out of the water. If your jaw isn’t on the floor by the time you roll credits, we’ll get back in our coffin.

This is Vampire Survivors’ second collaboration with Konami following the Contra-themed Operation Guns DLC. This time it’s the same great, roguelike, auto-shooting, time-sucking Vampire Survivors gameplay, but now with a distinct twist to delight Castlevania fans. And while those fans will get the most out of the DLC, it doesn’t really matter whether you’ve played a Castlevania game before — this DLC is a must-play, in our book.

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Back to the farm we go.

Stardew Valley‘s long-awaited 1.6 update has landed on Switch, bringing with it a whole new crop of features. Developer ConcernedApe shared the news on Twitter (now known as X) earlier today.

First landing on PC back in March, this has been the longest fans have had to wait for a big update to make the jump from PCs to consoles. But it sounds like the wait has been worth it.

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Snip, snip.

Video game preservation still has a long way to go, but it’s difficult to imagine a re-release of Human Entertainment’s Clock Tower ten, or even five years ago. Yet thanks to rapidly growing interest in retro gaming and the resulting explosion of compilations and re-releases over the last few years, this curious SNES survival horror is now available worldwide in all its glory.

Originally exclusive to Japan, Clock Tower: Rewind presents the original 1995 game along with an enhanced version of the 1997 ‘First Fear’ PS1 port, adding in new scenarios and minor improvements such as the ability to run upstairs (both versions also include a rewind feature). On top of that, you’ve got a bunch of extras to peruse, including interviews with creator Hifumi Kono, motion comics, scans of the Japanese manual and strategy guide, and more. It’s a generous package that goes a long way to compensating for the game’s relatively short two-to-three-hour runtime (multiple endings included).

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Earning 3x more per day than Pokémon GO, apparently.

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket arrived on mobile last week, and, after racking up an impressive 10 million downloads in its first 48 hours, it has reportedly been pulling in some beefy revenue numbers over the weekend (thanks, VGC).

As reported by MobileGamer.biz, the mobile market research firm AppMagic estimates that TCG Pocket has been bringing in a sweet $3 million per day since launch, racking up $12 million in its first four days on the market.

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Gonna get yourself connected.

As the very first Mario & Luigi RPG to be released on a full-fat home console, we’ve been champing at the bit to discover whether or not Nintendo would capitalise on the extra grunt of the Switch to serve us up the biggest and best turn-based Bros. romp yet in the form of Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

We had some concerns during our preview. As much as we love the new graphical stylings and flashy additions to the series’ core combat, early areas were rather small-scale and not quite as challenging or inventive as we’d been prepping for. However! Fear not intrepid explorers, for more alluring high-seas hijinks, as it turns out, were waiting just around the corner. They have corners at sea, right?

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Keep your playlist spoiler free.

In case you missed it, Nintendo’s new smartphone app ‘Nintendo Music’ has a spoiler prevention feature.

If you don’t want special moments in certain games revealed before you’ve actually got the chance to play them, then you might want to activate this feature.

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Our picks for the best eShop games in October.

eShop Selects is back once again to tuck you in for the cosy autumnal weather!

We can’t believe there’s only a few more months left until 2025. That doesn’t feel right. And with a busy November ahead, it’s only right we start stockpiling some video games. As always, our staff and contributors voted for their top three eShop games from the list of games we’ve reviewed; only the best count, and the top three will make our list below.

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Live and learn.

It’s time for another clash of the covers as we dive into this week’s Box Art Brawl!

Before we meet our contemporary contenders, let’s throw things back to last week when we matched up a trio of designs for the NES classic Kid Icarus. The votes were pretty evenly spread across our three options, but it was ultimately Japan’s colourful variant that walked away with 42% of the vote and the win. The pixel art North American design landed second with 34%, while Europe rounded things out with the remaining 24%.

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Set sail with Mario and Luigi next week.

Nintendo’s new RPG game Mario & Luigi: Brothership arrives next week on the Switch and we’ve now got an update about the eShop version’s file size.

According to multiple eShop pages, this new entry in the Mario & Luigi series will take up around 9.8GB (so close to 10GB). The last entry in the series dates back to the 3DS era in 2018/19 with the release of Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey.

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Sweet dreams.

Nintendo’s new music app for smartphone devices might have stolen the spotlight over the past few days, but don’t forget about the Japanese company’s new sound clock, Alarmo.

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