Category: Nintendo

But his voice will be in the Luigi’s Mansion 2 re-release.

In case you missed it, Nintendo has announced Charles Martinet – the legendary voice of Mario – is “stepping back from recording” and will instead take up the new role of Mario Ambassador.

Following this news, it was confirmed Martinet would not be voicing the iconic video game mascot in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and now it’s also been confirmed he won’t be voicing his arch-rival Wario in the upcoming title WarioWare: Move It!, due out on Switch this November.

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And even The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

Last month, a report suggested a sequel to Ubisoft’s open-world adventure Immortals: Fenyx Rising had been cancelled.

If you were curious to know what the sequel, codenamed “Oxygen” might have been about, apparently the team was aiming to create a “Polynesian action-adventure” drawing inspiration and traits from the recent GOTY hit Elden Ring as well as the GameCube classic, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

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Update: The collab was teased last week.

Update : Devolver Digital has stopped teasing us, and has officially revealed — and dropped — a brand new crossover for Cult of the Lamb with Don’t Starve Together.

This brand new update, to celebrate Cult of the Lamb’s first anniversary, adds a new Pentinence Mode. Your little Lamb will need to eat and sleep to survive along with its followers. There’s also the Webber, a new follower who can never die of starvation.

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Pokémon came home.

After the Pokémon World Championships made its long-awaited return in London last year, it was announced that the 2023 Championships would be taking place at the Pacifico Yokohama in Japan.

This would be only the second time the tournament has been held outside of North America, making this truly a monumental announcement — somehow, even with Pokémon being huge in Japan, the Championship Series had never been held there. Many felt that this was truly going to be something special. The question is, did the 2023 World Championships live up to the hype?

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Moving on to be the Mario Ambassador.

Charles Martinet — the legendary voice of Mario, who made his debut as the plumber back when Super Mario 64 launched — is stepping back from the microphone and will no longer be recording his voice for Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and many other characters.

Nintendo made the announcement on Twitter today, confirming that the iconic voice actor will be “stepping back from recording character voices from our games”. But don’t worry, as Martinet won’t be stepping away from Mario entirely. Nintendo has created a brand new role for the actor: Mario Ambassador.

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A handful of fixes.

Tales of Symphonia Remastered for the Nintendo Switch has seen its fair share of criticism, but it seems like Bandai Namco is at least looking to continue supporting the game with numerous updates and patches.

The latest is relatively minor, but there are a few things here that should make for a more pleasing experience for fans. So without any further waffle, let’s take a look at what’s in store for us:

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Not for honour.

We recently got the chance to have a pop at Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 at the invite of Konami. We had around an hour or so to dig into Metal Gear Solid and its two sequels (as well as have a quick gander at all the bonus content on offer), which isn’t a huge amount of time for games of this scale, but we were able to get a broad idea of how the collection pans out. So, what’s the damage?

We started off with the OG, Metal Gear Solid. We were initially struck with the reality that this really is a warts-and-all kind of port, sticking to the original PS1 version’s low resolution and frame rate. We had a bit of a giddy retro thrill seeing it run as originally intended, but it does feel like a bit of a missed opportunity to not take things even further and provide a way to play these games that’s more in line with modern sensibilities.

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“I thought, ‘Hey, I can probably do that'”.

As the reputed black sheep of the Nintendo console family, one might think 1995’s Virtual Boy to be the last piece of hardware capable of garnering an enthusiast following today. Discontinued after less than a year on the market and never released in Europe, the elusive red-and-black headset is remembered as a headache-inducing, seemingly epic misfire from legendary Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi.

Nonetheless, a small but passionate community of engineers and developers is working to keep the Virtual Boy alive nearly three decades on from its premature and unfortunate demise. Their wares, which include high-quality after-market hardware and commercially successful small-batch physical copies of newly developed games, are a sign of sustained interest in the system.

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Hard Choice Man.

Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

In last week’s battle, we took a look at Pokémon Stadium for the N64, pitting Europe and North America against Japan. It was a fairly close match, but Japan just about managed to take the crown with 58% of the vote.

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Version 1.3.2 has arrived.

Following a successful launch in June and even some DLC, Spike Chunsoft has now released another minor update for the noir detective adventure game Master Detective Archives: Rain Code.

This is a relatively small hotfix but it will improve the overall game experience on the Nintendo Switch. Here are the full patch notes via Spike Chunsoft. Keep in mind, this patch is required to access the latest DLC.

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