Category: Nintendo

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20th October marks the eighth anniversary of the day we first laid our eyes on the console previously known as the mysterious ‘NX’, the Nintendo Switch.

Revealed in a snappy trailer (teased in a tweet that was apparently controversial inside Nintendo) showcasing the system’s hybrid nature, the video was a dynamic introduction that showed gamers the world over how Nintendo’s next console might fit into their lives, whether sitting on a sofa or a bus or a plane – or perched on garden furniture at a rooftop hipster shindig.

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See over 110 minigames in action.

Super Mario Party Jamboree arrived on the Switch this week and it’s packed to the brim with over 110 exciting minigames.

If you’re not in the mood to see the board game activity in between each round, you’ve come to the right place with our video above featuring every single minigame in this latest entry in the series. We’ve even got some time stamps for anyone looking to cut to a particular type of minigame. Oh, if you’re wondering, the CPU opponents are set to master difficulty.

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It made its debut on Switch Online last week.

The recent Switch Online + Expansion Pack release F-Zero Climax is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow. As part of this, former Nintendo employee Takaya Imamura (who worked on the GBA title and the F-Zero series) back in the day has shared a special code.

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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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