Category: Nintendo

All games and trailers from the August 27th double presentation.

The August 2024 Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase and Indie World Showcase was a 42-minute double presentation of games from third parties and independent developers coming to Switch in 2024 and 2025.

The last Indie World was back in April and there was a Partner Showcase in February, but this combined presentation — the first of its kind Nintendo has ever broadcast — featured plenty of juicy reveals and date announcements, large and small, with nearly 50 game announcements included across the two showcases.

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“What we’re releasing on Switch really represents our full vision”.

Whether you’re an environmentally conscious sort or you find compulsive cleaning relaxing, you’ll probably be happy to hear that Loddlenaut, which launched on Steam last November to Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, is coming to Switch on 19th September.

Dubbed “PowerWash SWIMulator” — a groan-worthy pun of the variety we’d be proud had we come up with it — this new version of indie dev Moon Lagoon’s ocean-cleanup game will come with “a major new free update” integrated (which will be launching on PC), and with influences as wide-ranging as the gorgeous Abzu and the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure 2, it grabbed our attention despite the waves of cosy, cutesy games crashing onto Switch every week.

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Double whammy.

Well folks, we’re back with another Nintendo Indie World showcase. Oh, and a Partner Direct too. What’s that..? Two presentations back-to-back?! Yeah, you better believe it.

As such, we’ve got roughly 40 minutes’ worth of reveals, announcements, and updates to look forward to, so make sure you join us here at 3pm BST / 7am PT / 10am ET / 12am AET (Wed) so you can chat along with your fellow community members as the livestream commences.

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“I chose to handle updating the website myself.

We all remember those days leading up to the launch of Smash Bros. entries like BRAWL and Ultimate; waiting for any scrap of new information on potential fighters, stages, items, and more was certainly taxing at times, but goodness, it felt like Christmas morning everytime something significant was revealed.

In his latest video, Masahiro Sakurai looks back on the creation and implementation of the ‘Dojo’ marketing campaigns for the Super Smas Bros. franchise. As he touched on in a previous video, there was an iteration of the campaign for the original N64 title, though this wasn’t particularly well known outside of Japan, and thanks to the infantcy of the internet back in those days, very little of it lived up to Sakurai’s high standards.

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Some think a demo could be on the way…

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed is one of many games on the way to the Switch in the near future, and if you missed out on a chance to play it at this year’s Gamescom, it seems a surprise could be on the way.

THQ Nordic earlier today informed fans to “stay tuned” if they missed out on the demo at this year’s major gaming event, which took place in Germany last week. It’s led to speculation there could be a “public demo” on the way and as you can see in the shot below, the photo shows an image of the demo from Gamescom:

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It was also part of the “EpicDB leak”.

It looks like Team17’s 1999 turn-based strategy title Worms Armageddon could soon be making a return modern systems.

A new rating for Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition has popped up in Taiwan for multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch. There’s even some artwork attached. It reportedly follows an “Epic Games store database site leak”, which mentioned the same title (thanks, Gematsu):

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The Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase airs today.

Ahead of Nintendo’s Partner Showcase, it seems a release date for LEGO Horizon Adventures might have been revealed ahead of schedule.

On Sony’s official PlayStation website, a huge banner on the main page mentions how this new title will be arriving on multiple platforms (including the Nintendo Switch) on 14th November. This was originally spotted on Reddit, with Gematsu highlighting it on social media.

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Pokémon came home.

It has been 20 years since the first Pokémon World Championships took place in Orlando and in what may be a move to celebrate, the Pokémon World Championships returned to a place where it has frequently been held: Hawai’i. However, this time rather than being on the big island, it went to the island of O’ahu and the city of Honolulu.

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EarthBound turns “adults into kids, and kids into adults”.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nile celebrates the innocence of youth, the pain of growing up, and the magic of a cult classic SNES RPG, which celebrates its 30th anniversary on 27th August 2024…

There’s arguably no more praiseworthy label than calling a piece of media “timeless”, a product so true to its singular vision that its sights, sounds, and ethos succeed in emotionally impacting audiences across generations. Three decades on from its release, EarthBound (Mother 2 in Japan) is, for many, a game that indisputably earns the label.

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Prepare for 40 minutes of news and announcements.

Here we go! Nintendo has announced that an Indie World showcase will be heading our way tomorrow, Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST / Xpm CEST. Not only that, but it will be immediately followed up by a Partner Direct!

From the announcement, we know the showcase will last roughly 40 minutes, bringing us news and announcements about indie games and third-party titles heading to Switch this year. Nintendo quickly followed up the announcement with clarification that the Nintendo Switch’s “successor” won’t be making an appearance.

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