Category: Nintendo

From Concordia, with love.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership is right around the corner and we are excited. We’ve been lucky enough to go hands-on with the latest entry in the wacky RPG series and we came away with 15 minutes of crisp new gameplay footage for you to see the Bros. back in action.

The above clips are taken from an early section of the game, showcasing two different islands that Mario & Luigi set out to save in the hopes of reuniting the fractured nation of Concordia. You’ll see a decent amount of overworld exploring, some of the turn-based battles with the iconic Bro-specific button inputs and a peppering of the dry humour that we so loved in the series’ GBA and DS titles.

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Bringing eFootball to the eMasses.

Now here’s a move that we didn’t expect. Following the split from EA, FIFA has announced that it is partnering with one-time rival Konami on a new eSports collaboration.

To be clear, this isn’t to say that Konami will be taking over the FIFA license, nor that the studio’s current football series, eFootball (formally PES), will be getting a rebrand. Instead, the purpose of this collaboration is to “further boost the joy of the global football community through esports”. M-hmm.

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Sleeping on the job.

Nintendo’s new sound clock device ‘Alarmo’ is now available in select locations around the world and the first impressions have already gone live.

If you are curious to know a little more – even after everything Nintendo has revealed, we’ve put together this brief round up highlighting a few outlets that have already tested it out. So here’s the rundown so far…

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Dear mother can you hear me gaming?

Good grief, first alarm clocks and now this… Rock band Green Day has announced that it is releasing ‘Dookie Demastered’, a collection of extraordinarily unique items that play individual tracks from the band’s iconic 1994 album Dookie.

The items are available to purchase in the US, but only via a limited draw; so essentially you’re free to order however many you like, but you could very well end up with none. Items include a floppy disk (Having a Blast), a doorbell (Longview), and a Big Mouth Billie Bass (Basket Case), but what really caught our attention is a genuine Game Boy cartridge that plays the entirety of Welcome to Paradise.

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Serenity now!

Sigh… Okay, let’s do this.

While fans are absolutely desperate to hear from Nintendo regarding the upcoming Switch successor hardware, the firm has instead revealed an official alarm clock dubbed ‘Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo’.

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It’s a fantasy showdown.

Splatoon 3‘s “regular updates” might have come to an end, but the seasonal events are still alive and kicking — and one of them is right around the corner.

Yes, ‘Splatoween’ is returning to the Splatlands this year and it has a spooky Splatfest to boot. This time, we’ll be picking sides for “What would you be in a fantasy world?” with Team Wizard, Knight and Ninja all up for grabs.

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“Dogoos do bike back”.

Idea Factory has confirmed its “motorcycle combat action game” Neptunia Riders Vs Dogoos will be launching for Switch on 28th January 2025.

In this upcoming release, you’ll be tasked with helping Uzume and the Goddesses escape a dimension filled with Dogoos. Here’s a bit more about it, courtesy of the PR:

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Download it now.

Nintendo has released a new update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, bumping the Switch game up to Version 13.0.3.

This patch addresses an “online” issue linked to ‘Global Smash Power’ not returning to the appropriate levels. As usual, there may be compatibility issues with replay data from previous builds of the game in this latest update, so make sure to save them all before performing this update.

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Respecting Japanese animation in ‘Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town’.

Back in the summer of 2022, the world of Crayon Shin-chan collided with Millennium Kitchen’s My Summer Vacation series in a delightful, beautiful game with an unnecessarily long name. Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey- brought Kay Ayabe’s long-running game series into contact with the celebrated manga and anime property starring the precocious five-year-old Shinnosuke “Shin” Nohara, creating a crossover that felt so right that it’s amazing it didn’t happen sooner.

The upcoming sequel, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town, is a stunning-looking game that builds on the first’s foundations and takes the titular rascal into an imaginary world for this summer holiday. It launched in Japan in February and recently won an Excellence Award for Visual Arts at CEDEC 2024.

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“Players should be able to enjoy the game on an equal footing”.

Remember earlier this year when SEGA announced the strangely Fall Guys-esque free-to-play mobile game Sonic Rumble? Yeah, we do too (unfortunately), but today, we’ve learnt a little more about the game, making it appear somewhat more attractive: namely, there will be no gacha or pay-to-win mechanics (thanks, VGC).

That is according to Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka and the game’s director Makoto Tase who, in a recent interview with Automaton, explained how the team opted against the mechanics due to how poorly received they tend to be in the West.

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