Category: Nintendo

Chocobo GP Switch eShop Page Updated With New Release Date

Following the removal of the “Lite” version & Mythril Shop.

At the end of last year, Square Enix announced its racing title Chocobo GP would receive “no further large scale updates” and that it would discontinue sales of the paid currency Mythril in January 2023, which allowed players to spend real money to unlock additional content.

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Feature: The Mysterious Absence Of A Famicom Gem On Switch

Castle’s in the air.

Something very mysterious is going on with a sadly obscure but fondly remembered gem from the Famicom era. It was built on the same game engine as the original Legend of Zelda, but unlike Link who decades on remains at the vaunted heights of gaming’s all-time greats, the protagonist of this bygone classic never even got a proper international release in its day, never mind a sequel.

Spare a thought, then, for the lone samurai Takamaru.

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Zelda: TOTK Players Discover Simple Way To Make Rupees With ‘Frozen Meat Glitch’

Looks like meat’s back on the menu, lads!

In the month since its launch, players have found a variety of different glitches in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to make filling up the inventory that bit easier. With each patch that Nintendo has implemented, more of these glitches have been fixed, but that hasn’t deterred some brave souls from finding newer and easier methods.

One such glitch, lovingly called the ‘frozen meat glitch’ (don’t worry, you’ll see why) is quickly proving to be a speedy way of getting yourself a boatload of rupees with very little effort required (thanks, Kotaku). We have tested the method at Nintendo Life Towers and can confirm that it works as of ver.1.1.2 — but who knows whether it will make it through the next patch…

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Feature: Fire Emblem Engage Devs On “Drastically Different” DLC And Characters “Living As The Person They Want To Be”

“To some extent, all of the characters in the game reflect the theme”.

Nintendo’s 2023 started off with a bang. Fire Emblem Engage launched in January and brought the series back to its combat-focused roots, forgoing the relationship-sim elements that had worked so well in its predecessor, Three Houses, for a game where the action came thick and fast.

We loved it. Engage provided a sleek and visually stunning take on the franchise’s combat mechanics offering up some sweet turn-based tactical action. And this has continued over the ensuing months, with developer Intelligent Systems and Nintendo putting out a whopping four separate waves of DLC, culminating in April’s ‘Fell Xenologue’ story add-on.

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Temtem’s Season Four Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Splash splash.

Developer Crema Games has today announced a brand new update for the Pokémon-inspired MMO Temtem. This one brings the game up to version 1.4.0 and kicks off its fourth season, ‘Splash Up!’.

The new season’s theme looks to be all about the summer with pools and beaches galore. Alongside a long list of improvements, the update also introduces easier access to competitive play, adjustments to Dojo Wars and quests, a new Pride event and much more.

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Feature: A Kou Shibusawa Production – Changing History With Koei Tecmo’s OG Strategy Studio

“The more we learn…the more it fuels our creativity”.

History fans love to ask a good ‘what if?’ question. A completely hypothetical situation to explore how small changes could impact the course of world events. Video games that explore these kinds of questions usually fall into the grand strategy genre, putting players at the head of a faction with the aim to dominate their enemies either through political manipulation or brute force, and seeing what might have happened if some grand historical engagement had gone the other way.

One developer that has always been at the heart of the grand strategy genre is Kou Shibusawa, a division of Koei Tecmo that has been producing some of the best and most celebrated historical strategy titles out there, dating back to the original NES. We had a chance to talk to some of the heads of this celebrated studio to discuss their history in the genre and what keeps players coming back for more.

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Soapbox: Fortnite On Switch Is Five Years Old, And I Have No Idea What It Is Anymore

Was that Ariana Grande shooting Spider-Man?

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim returns to Fortnite to celebrate the Switch port’s fifth anniversary, and he’s not sure what he’s dropped into…

When Fortnite first made the jump to Switch five years ago, I couldn’t get enough. The online shooter had gone portable in early 2018 with the mobile version, but my chunky thumbs and out-of-date phone meant that was never going to cut the mustard. The Switch version, however, hit the sweet spot — portable enough to play it on the go, but just large enough that I could pour a good few hours into it without hand cramp setting in. And I really did pour those hours in.

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