Category: Nintendo

World Brothers 2 officially announced.

The Switch has already played host to a number of Earth Defense Force games, and apparently, it will be getting another one in the future.

As revealed by Weekly Famitsu, a new spin-off titled Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is on its way to the Switch and multiple other platforms in Japan. This is a follow up to the 2020/21 voxel graphics release and is apparently set in a parallel world where Earth is made up of digital blocks, with the enemy threat emerging from within the planet.

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Minnie Mouse & Daisy Duck hit the track mid-season.

Update #2 :

Disney Speedstorm Season 3 is now officially live. It adds a total of 5 new racers included Lio, Stitch, Jumba, Captain Gantu and Angel.

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Shoebox showcase.

Call us sentimental, call us paranoid, call us what you will, but around these parts we still love the physical article when it comes to our media, especially video games. While many of us have gone at least part-digital for the sake of saving space and sheer convenience, especially with the portable Switch, even the eShop-only gamers among us hanker for the touch of a cart or a smooth-edged optical disc on occasion. We’re only human.

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Nine challenges and one Splatfest.

Nintendo has today showcased the full lineup events that will be coming to Splatoon 3 throughout August, revealing dates for nine different challenges and reconfirming the upcoming Splatfest weekend.

The full schedule was shown in a video posted to the @NintendoEurope Twitter account, detailing what August’s nine challenges will each entail. This all kicks off today with the ‘Too Many Trizookas!’ challenge, but the rest of the month also sees the likes of ‘Foggy Notion’, ‘Extreme Jump Battle’ and many more make an appearance.

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Left Behind.

You might remember a few weeks back, we highlighted a rather unfortunate new addition to the eShop in the form of The Last Hope – Dead Zone Survival, a blatant rip-off of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us.

Not only is the title itself incredibly similar to the iconic PlayStation franchise, but The Last Hope also borrows heavily from The Last of Us in numerous ways, including gameplay mechanics, story elements, and even character designs (except it was ruddy awful – just check out Push Square’s gameplay video if you need proof). Take a look at the girl in the image above, for example; doesn’t she look almost exactly like Ellie?

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To infarmity and beyond.

We love Stardew Valley. We love space. It makes sense that One Lonely Outpost, a Stardew-inspired planet terraformer, immediately ticked two of our boxes when it launched on Steam early access back in June and now developer and publisher Freedom Games has stated that a Switch port is on the way.

We don’t have a precise console release date for this one just yet, but from what we have seen so far, we can imagine the space farm sim being right at home on Switch. One Lonely Planet will see you starting a life on the distant world of Calypso, building a civilisation from the ground up as you plant, grow and build a functioning little space colony.

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The Atelier Marie Remake arrived last month.

Koei Tecmo and Gust are already gearing up for more entries in the Atelier RPG series, with the companies teasing a new title announcement will be taking place next week on 8th August at 9 pm JST.

This announcement will be made via YouTube and follows on from the release of Atelier Marie Remake: The Alchemist Of Salburg last month and Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key earlier this year. This news was originally shared on social media:

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Just so you know.

One of the most anticipated releases due out this September is Mortal Kombat 1 and this time it’s a reset of the entire timeline. We’re going to learn a lot more in the game’s story, and if you’re wondering just how long it will be, co-creator and Mortal Kombat CCO Ed Boon has now shed some light on this.

In a brief exchange with a fan on social media, Ed revealed how the game would be “similar to MKX-11” in length. If you don’t remember, or simply didn’t play these entries, according to How Long To Beat, the “main story” in Mortal Kombat 11 is about 6 hours.

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“It’s been really hard to get them to say yes”.

Nintendo has a great track record when it comes to releasing video games with its partners, but not everyone has necessarily found it to be an easy process. Jupiter Corporation – the Japanese developer behind the Picross series on the Switch – recently revealed the difficulties of working with the video game giant.

Speaking to VGC, Jupiter’s managing director Norichika Meguro mentioned how the team was eager to work with Nintendo on a collaborative project to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Picross series in 2025, but had been having trouble getting the Mario publisher to agree. In fact, it’s apparently become “more difficult than ever” to work through the approval process:

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Tears of life.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Evan explores the life-ruining properties of TOTK…

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It happened in Yellowstone National Park. Removed from society, cruelly separated from cell phone service, I’d embarked, begrudgingly, upon a technology cleanse. I was receiving no texts, no emails, no DMs, no WhatsApps; I had only the park’s sullen, rag-faced buffalo and hypnotic, deadly thermal pools to keep me company. Ultimately, the lack of contact was transformative, healing; it allowed me to be present and to engage all of my senses. Then, one day, during a particularly meditative hike, I noticed an innocuous pile of lumber along a trail.

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