Pokémon Let’s Go (to bed).
Pokémon Sleep was finally released in select regions earlier this week as an open beta for Android devices. After being the butt of all jokes when it was originally announced and then experiencing a series of delays, it now officially “launches soon” according to The Pokémon Company.
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From super good to Superman.
Just last month, Sonic Origins Plus launched and threw us back into a speed storm of retro hedgehog mayhem. While we enjoyed playing through a lot of these titles again, we were a little confused about why the Game Gear versions of certain games had been included instead of their Master System counterpart. Will there be a Sonic Origins Plus Plus or has Sega just given up on the Master System completely?
Determined to keep the memory of the console alive and well, the wonderful Alex-from-Nintendo-Life-here has made a video in which he runs through his childhood playtime on the console and the eight (yes, eight) games that informed it.
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Atelier Ryza, Fatal Frame, Monster Rancher all included!
Koei Tecmo has today kicked off its eShop summer sale, offering up to 50% off select titles until 30th July.
There is a lot on offer here including games, DLC and even season passes, with varying discounts applied to each. You can use the sale period to pick up Atelier Ryza 1-3 with a tasty price reduction or get in on one of the company’s other titles including Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX or this year’s Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.
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Pre-orders now open.
We are just one week away from the release of Pikmin 4 now. If you have been anticipating this one for the past seven years then we assume that you have already played through the demo and you might even have the preload all set up and ready to go on 21st July. But have you yet acquired all the merch?
There have been some particularly pretty merchandise announcements for the game so far (much of which is coming only to Japan), and the latest item to drop on the European My Nintendo Store might just be pushing our gaming shelves from, “oh, you like Pikmin?” to “oh, you like Pikmin”.
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Make some space for these little buds.
Pikmin 4 is just a few weeks away, and if you happen to have preordered a digital copy of the game from the Switch eShop, you can now preload it. The game download should already be underway unless you need to free up some space on your system or have certain other settings disabled.
While the demo was only around 4.8 GB in size, the full digital version will require 10.4 GB of free space to fit on your home menu. Keep in mind, there will also be future updates for the game as well. And if you haven’t already pre-ordered you can always head on over to the eShop now to claim a copy.
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From the director of Blaster Master Zero.
Japanese developer Inti Creates (known for series like Mega Man Zero and Azure Striker Gunvolt) has today announced a new 2D action side-scrolling game called Umbraclaw.
It’s currently “deep in development” and is the newest game from the Blaster Master Zero director Satoru Nishizawa. You’ll take control of a cat who is trapped in the afterlife and must break the cycle of death and rebirth.
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You can still use multiple accounts on one Switch.
More details have been released about Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince – the next entry in the monster battle spin-off series, coming to the Nintendo Switch this December.
If you are planning to pick this one up, it’s been revealed there will only be “one save slot per Switch account”. Noisy Pixel has apparently been told this by a Square Enix rep. Here’s exactly what the developer and publisher had to say:
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“The worst game we’ve ever reviewed”.
Do you remember earlier this month when people spotted that a blatant clone of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us had appeared on the Switch eShop, lovingly titled The Last Hope – Dead Zone Survival? We didn’t think much of it at an initial glance — heck, the £0.99 price tag didn’t fill us with hope — but the tech experts at Digital Foundry have taken it a step further and have actually subjected themselves to playing the game.
In the outlet’s latest video, John Linneman puts The Last Hope through its paces and it’s fair to say that it is bad. Really bad. In fact, Digital Foundry even goes as far as to say that it is “the worst game we’ve ever reviewed,” with “no redeemable features whatsoever” — yikes.
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’80s and ’90s Nintendo games on the ‘endangered’ list.
You may have read a recent study by the Video Games History Foundation that suggests an eye-watering 87% of video games are “critically endangered”. The organisation, which is devoted to video game preservation and archiving, found that just 13% of games released prior to 2010 were still ‘in print’ and officially available to buy, play, and enjoy.
It’s a shocking, sobering statistic, especially given the relative youth of the medium. Nintendo, thanks to its revered status in the video gaming industry and community, enjoys unrivalled interest and a nostalgia factor that shines a spotlight on even its most obscure titles and territory-exclusive releases. Today, Nintendo Switch Online has taken the place of the Virtual Console which began on Wii, and — compared to many other publishers — a significant amount of its vintage software is relatively easy to play these days, even if it’s tied to a subscription service.
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Whocotate?
It has been over seven long years of waiting, but we are finally nearing the official release of Pikmin 4. The game sprouts on Switch on 21st July and there’s even a free demo out now, so you can start getting (re)acquainted with the plucking and chucking mechanics that have defined the series for the past 22 years.
It was playing through this demo, however, that we suddenly felt like perhaps we had missed an entry in the series. The Captain Olimar prologue followed many of the same beats as the original Pikmin, but now… there’s a dog? And Olimar disappears? This didn’t happen in the first game, did it?
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