Category: Nintendo

Zelda’s adventure is out later this month.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is just weeks out from release, but we already know a little bit about it thanks to hands-on impressions and gameplay reveals.

The map of the Hyrule in this particular entry has also surfaced online, and now we’ve got another look courtesy of Game File’s Stephen Totilo. As you can see in the brief video footage below, there are all sorts of points of interest. This isn’t a complete version of the map (with many points of interest still unidentified) and other sections like the ‘Still World’ are not on display.

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“A must-own for fighting game fans”.

The big week has arrived for the fighting game community, with the launch of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.

Many fighting game fans already suspected this was going to be an all-star package, and it seems like it’s living up to expectations. In our own review here on Nintendo Life, we’ve awarded this collection a “excellent” nine out of ten stars – calling it a stunning showcase of ’90s fighter evolution.

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A baby’s gotta do what a baby’s gotta do.

That Rugrats has somehow managed to remain in the public consciousness for so long is impressive in its own right. This is in part down to Nickelodeon continuing to screen it for younger generations, and that the show ran for 13 years across 172 episodes and spawned two feature films. The most important reason for its extended shelf life, though, is its unexpectedly broad appeal. Formulated by Hungarian-born Gábor Csupó and his wife, Arlene Klasky, Rugrats appeared to be a show about babies for babies, but it was actually a show about babies for children and adults. Thanks to clever writing and a deeper maturity — commonplace during the Simpsons-inspired ’90s — those who loved it 30 years ago will still enjoy it today.

Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland’s most essential victory, then, isn’t necessarily its stage design or graphical style, but tapping into the show’s intelligence. It’s a shame the original voice cast is unavailable, with exchanges instead represented in text, but you can still recall Tommy’s raspy tones in your head.

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No light to illuminate our paths.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is absolutely stuffed to the brim with characters, mechanics, enemies, and things to do. However, one glaring omission is Kass, Breath of the Wild‘s travelling Rito minstrel. Luckily for fans, the recently released Master Works Book does propose a few scenarios as to where Kass may be in the sequel.

Zelda Lore shared an excerpt of the book on Twitter (thanks to Gaming Reinvented for the tip) which covers the potential whereabouts of Kass in Tears of the Kingdom. The bird isn’t present in Hyrule at all in the game, with no explanation at all given for his absence. He’s not even mentioned. At least, until the Master Works book.

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“She is a fan favourite already”.

Yooka-Replaylee was a bit of a welcome surprise when it was announced back in June. It looks utterly gorgeous and promises plenty of tweaks, changes, and accessibility features when it eventually launches. But one thing that many fans spotted was Laylee, Yooka’s purple bat companion, and her new, incredibly fluffy design.

In a Q&A published on the Playtonic YouTube Channel, community manager Steve James sat down with members of the Yooka-Replaylee art team — Ed Bryan, Nikita De Ruysscher, and Steve Mayles — to talk about the game’s brand new look. And one section focuses on the wisecracking bat.

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Let’s-a not!

Researchers from tech company Virtuals Protocol have published a paper on a new text-to-video AI model, MarioVGG, which can simulate Super Mario Bros. footage via some basic text inputs (thanks, ArsTechnica).

The model was fed over 737,000 Mario Bros. frames, showing Nintendo’s prized plumber in 32 different levels with varying degrees of success and failure (141 wins and 139 losses, according to Github). Based on these images, and how they are arranged, the AI model “learns” what commands such as “jump” and “run” correspond to on-screen and is then capable of simulating such commands in a video format, physics and all.

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Margit of error.

There were several moments in Nintendo’s pre-launch Switch marketing that left us a little lost for words: the hybrid form factor, our first look at Breath of the Wild, the way that one guy went to “walk his dog” but spent the entire time sat on a bench.

The reveal that Skyrim would be coming to the iddy biddy console was another. By this point, it was a sure sign that this wasn’t just Nintendo’s kid-friendly affair, but a big, grow-up machine for those who wanted to play big, grown-up, six-year-old games. It was also a sign of the Switch’s power, a wagging finger from Nintendo as if to say “You thought this was only going to run side-scrolling Mario levels? Think again”.

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The speed-based 3D platformer series returns.

A new trailer and PC demo for the upcoming release Toree Saturn have been released, with the developer Siactro also reconfirming the new entry will arrive at some point in 2024. This latest update mentions a Nintendo Switch release, too.

When this new project was originally announced in September last year, there was no Nintendo announcement at that point, so there you go!

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Are you not entertained?

Are you sitting comfortably? Ready to judge some classic covers? It’s time to dive into another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we matched up three different designs for Super R-Type. Despite a good variety between each, it was the North American variant that walked away with the win, taking 49% of the vote and leaving Europe and Japan with the remaining 30% and 25% respectively.

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Five legacy franchises are returning.

It appears there have been some more gameplay leaks of Sega’s legacy revival projects. This information comes from a leaker formerly known as ‘Midori’. According to the source, the footage on display is still “early” in each game’s development cycle.

First up, we have a look at the Crazy Taxi reboot, which shows multiple vehicles speeding around a game world delivering passengers to their destination. This footage supposedly dates back to “2022”, with claims this particular game could still be years out from release.

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