Category: Nintendo

Fur-tastic news.

If you’ve played the Cat Quest games or are looking at getting into them, you might be interested to know there’s a physical Switch collection on the way. Developer ‘The Gentlebros’ originally announced this news in September.

Like the digital version, the hard copy of Cat Quest: The Fur-tastic Trilogy includes Cat Quest, Cat Quest II as well as Cat Quest III on one game cartridge. In addition to this, the hard copy also includes an exclusive vinyl sticker and a digital art book.

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“We hope to announce more early next year”.

In August, it was announced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate would be getting DLC in the future.

Developer Super Evil Megacorp recently spoke to My Nintendo News about this content on the way to the game and while it couldn’t go into much detail because it’s apparently “top secret”, lead gameplay designed Daniel Stansens kind of shared a little bit more information. Here’s what was said:

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Pokén around.

The first generation of Pokémon games features some of the most iconic locations in the entire franchise. The eerie Lavender Town, the winding Viridian Forest, and the quaint Pallet Town where all players start their journey.

Pallet Town isn’t just a fanciful creation, but draws real-life inspiration from Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri’s hometown of Machida within the Tokyo Metropolis. While the Machida of today and of Tajiri’s childhood are very different, there are yet many elements within the city that evoke the adventurous feeling of Ash Ketchum’s hometown.

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Let’s kill some time.

The weekend is here, which means it’s time to kick back and enjoy some quality time with games. Before we find out what we’re diving into, however, let’s take a look back at some of this week’s biggest stories.

First up, it looks like the GameCube controller might be making some sort of comeback, which is pretty wild. We also heard word from Nintendo that NSO is promising to bring “excitement” in 2025, so let’s all look forward to that. And of course, we gave our final verdict on the bizarre, but rather delightful Alarmo clock.

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Expect fixes and more.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night didn’t arrive in the best state on the Switch, but it’s been continually updated with new content, features and fixes. The next one has now been announced for “all platforms” and will be arriving early next week.

This update will include bug fixes addressing a store soft lock issue, classic mode slow loads and a fix for the Switch-specific Glacial Tomb crash. Here’s the full message, courtesy of the Bloodstained social media account:

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“Another modern way” to revisit the sequel.

Nintendo delivered quite a surprise for N64 fans this week, announcing Rare’s 3D platformer Banjo-Tooie would be joining the Expansion Pack service next week on 25th October 2024.

As part of this announcement, Rare (known nowadays for titles like Sea of Thieves) has taken to social media to voice its own excitement about fans having access to this classic in “another modern way”. Here’s what the UK-based studio had to say:

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“We expect future chapters to roll out in a timelier fashion. Hopefully.”.

Back in 2018, Dutch indie studio HomeBear — a two-person team made up of partners Joshua van Kuilenburg and You Miichi — released NAIRI: Tower Of Shirin, a lovingly-made point-and-click adventure game which we awarded an 8/10 in our review.

It’s been a fair old while, but the duo is now gearing up for release of the sequel, Nairi: Rising Tide. Having last spoken to the team way back in the mists of time (March 2018), we recently caught up with Joshua van Kuilenburg once more via email to find out why it’s taken so long to return to Nairi’s world, and what’s changed since those distant days when Switch was but a year old…

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Reach out, touch faith.

Fancy learning Latin? Well, you’re guaranteed to learn at least one word in the classical language by playing Faith: The Unholy Trinity: Mortis, or “death”, which flashes on screen every time you succumb. Facing off against legions of the damned armed with only a wooden crucifix and, well, your faith, it’s a given you’ll be succumbing quite a bit.

Dying a lot comes with the price of admission for developer Airdorf Games’ 8-bit horror odyssey, one that truly puts the ‘cult’ in cult status, which it has enjoyed since releasing on Steam and itch.io between 2017 and 2022. Now on the Nintendo Switch, fans of retro horror are in for a wholly unique entry in the genre that looks, sounds, and feels like nothing else.

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Coming to ‘current consoles’.

Developer Argonaut Games has continued its prmotion of the recently-announced remaster for Croc: Legend of the Gobbos with a rather nifty conparison video.

Although not officially confirmed for the Switch at the time of writing, the game is scheduled to release on ‘current consoles’, so we’re going to assume (hope) that this means a launch on Nintendo’s hybrid platform is on the cards.

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This new feature will launch in early 2025.

RPG Maker With made its debut on the Switch earlier this month here in the West, and now in an update, it’s been announced it will be coming to PlayStation 5 and 4 in Japan on 30th January 2025.

As part of this news, the development team Gotcha Gotcha Games has confirmed there will be cross-play support with the Nintendo version of the game. This will allow users across Switch and PlayStation platforms to share creations and assets via the “Maker Plaza”.

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