Category: Nintendo

Following yet another wave of staff layoffs.

Back in October, it was rumoured that Ubisoft was considering going private after a rough year of releases. Two months on and it appears that the negotiations are still ongoing, with Ubisoft and Tencent apparently engaged in talks about buyout terms.

That is according to the latest report from Reuters, which provides new information from “two people familiar with the matter”. According to the outlet’s sources, Ubisoft shareholders are currently considering a potential buyout of the company, but one that still leaves the founding Guillemot family in control.

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“Video games are meant to be just one thing: fun. Fun for everyone.”.

Today, 6th December 2024, marks the late Satoru Iwata’s 65th birthday.

The legendary President of Nintendo, who held the position from May 2002 until his passing in July 2015, touched the hearts of many while he was the head of the company, revered for his passion for video games, his ability to capture joy, and his humour.

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Keep your arms inside the ride, for now.

Atari’s RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic came speeding onto Switch this week and, honestly, it’s an all-round good time. In our review, we praised the game’s endless creative freedom and its ability to bring hours of rollercoaster-building fun, but there was one small omission in the Switch port that left us scratching our heads: where the heck are the touch controls?

The new control scheme has had some good thought put into it, and we had no issues with the button inputs when playing on the big screen. But given that the 2016 original boasted touchscreen functionality on its smart device launch platforms and, you know, the Switch has a touchscreen, it does feel like a strange feature to not make the cut.

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Capcom’s fighter welcomes “good girl” Mai early next year.

During the development of Smash Ultimate‘s DLC, game director Masahiro Sakurai revealed he couldn’t add Mai Shiranui from SNK’s fighting series because Smash was for the “good boys and girls”.

While Mai unfortunately missed out on joining Nintendo’s all-star brawler, one game she will make a cameo in is Capcom’s Street Fighter 6. A new DLC trailer dropped today and many fans are convinced there’s dialogue in it that is a reference to Sakurai’s famous comment about the SNK and Fatal Fury character.

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What do you think of the final name?

Nintendo is known to workshop all sorts of ideas and game titles, and this was the same case with Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

In the third chapter of the latest ‘Ask the Developer’ series, the development team revealed how Nintendo and Aquire had brainstormed “over 100 options” for the game’s title. And if you couldn’t already work it out, it incorporates the theme of brotherhood and references ShipShape Island.

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Two million units have now been shipped and downloaded.

There have already been a handful of stories about the sales success of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake in countries like Japan, and now Square Enix has shared an update about how the game is performing globally.

Since launching on 14th November 2024 across multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch, two million units of this remake have already been shipped and downloaded worldwide. Square Enix shared a graphic alongside this and thanked everyone for joining the adventure so far:

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Block and move on.

It’s been years now since Nintendo opened the eShop floodgates and started letting everything in. In stark contrast to the Wii U days when even established developers had trouble getting their games on Nintendo platforms, the weekly update is now filled with games that would have been unthinkable just one console generation ago.

For all my moaning to come, I’ll make it clear up front that I’m not advocating going back to those dark days – the breadth and quantity of experiences you can download from the eShop is one of the great strides forward Nintendo made this gen. The problem that needs addressing is one of content management in an overcrowded storefront; for every promising-looking game and genuine gem, there are five cynical, bottom-of-the-barrel releases obscuring it.

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Game to be delisted on 6th December.

The end is nigh for SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive Classics on the Switch eShop, as Sega will be delisting the game from digital storefronts on 6th December 2024.

Sega announced it would be taking the classic game collection down from the eShop — and other games across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation storefronts — last month, and today is the last day you can get your hand on this compilation digitally. That came around quickly, didn’t it?

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Launching Q1 2025.

A new hand-drawn 3D platformer is heading to the Nintendo Switch in Q1 2025, and by gum, it’s looking rather lovely indeed.

Ruffy and the Riverside comes from developer Zockrates Laboratories and looks to bring some of that iconic Nintendo inventiveness into a gorgeous world full of hand-drawn characters and assets. The general concept involves a unique ability to copy and paste (or ‘swap’) textures onto new areas to assist in traversal. So for example, if you see a waterfall, you can paste a vine texture onto the water in order to climb it. Simples!

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Déjà vu.

The upcoming fighting game adaptation of the manga and anime series ‘Hunter x Hunter’ is due out on the Switch and other platforms in 2025, but it seems it’s been refused classification in one particular country ahead of release.

The country (and classification board) that’s knocked back Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact is Australia. The official rating simply notes how it’s been “refused classification”. Automaton-Media reached out to the ACB and has got some extra insight as to why exactly it’s been blocked:

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