Category: Nintendo

The best Nintendo presents and stocking-fillers!

If you’re looking for the very best Nintendo gift ideas or the top Christmas presents for gamers this year, we’re here to help with this Nintendo-flavoured Holiday gamer gift guide.

Below, you’ll find our top recommendations for stocking fillers and video game-themed gift ideas to brighten your friends and family’s day this Christmas. We’re talking Switch consoles and games, eShop credit, Switch accessories, Nintendo toys, Nintendo homeware ideas, and everything in between!

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Wax-on lyrical.

In the wake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, squat, cartoony, sprite-based scrolling beat ’em ups seem to be very fashionable. The forthcoming Toxic Crusaders is going for a similar look, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons was uncharacteristically cutesy, and now The Karate Kid: Street Rumble features a cast that look like they rolled out of a Gashapon vending machine.

That said, the aesthetic effort here is quite accomplished. Set in a pastel-hued mid-’80s Reseda, California, while locations are rather plain initially, they quickly improve as things progress, with one of the best-looking arcade centre stages we’ve seen in a while. The spritework is excellent, too, with cool characters who are both well-formed and animated, and have a nice finish in terms of colour casting. The pixel art is a far cry from the cutscene art, anyway, which kind of sucks.

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“Enjoy the Pokémon TCG in a more casual way”.

Following a release date announcement at the World Championships in August, The Pokémon Company has now released a gameplay video for its upcoming mobile title Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket.

This new video takes trainers through the steps of joining in on the fun. It’s as simple as opening a booster pack and collecting the cards. You’ll also get two free booster packs per day and as part of the experience, there are new “immersive” animated cards that transport you to the world of Pokémon.

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A supposed “first look”.

Pictured: The current Switch

It’s been a wild week in the world of Nintendo so far, with the supposed design of the Switch successor surfacing online.

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Epic Mickey! The Plucky Squire! Beyond Galaxyland!

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – Highlights

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (THQ Nordic, 24th Sep, $59.99) – Join Mickey Mouse on a colorful adventure as he traverses Wasteland, a world inspired by Disney classic stories. Play the 2010 classic with a variety of upgrades in this enhanced remake of the action-adventure 3D platformer originally released on the Wii system. Along with updated graphics and other improvements, Mickey Mouse’s abilities have been improved with a whole new set of skills and more!

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Do the roar.

After being revealed in last month’s Indie World showcase, FuturLab and Square Enix have today announced that PowerWash Simulator‘s paid Shrek DLC will be making a mess on Switch on 10th October.

Adding to a long list of impressive PowerWash collaborations with the likes of SpongeBob, Final Fantasy and Back to the Future, the Shrek Special Pack offers up a collection of mucky locales from Far, Far Away, and it’s up to you to clean ’em.

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Gotta redraw ’em all.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Emerald for the GBA, 130 artists have collabrated on a project to redraw the sprites for all 386 Pokémon included in the game (thanks, gamesradar).

Not only that, but the revised sprites have been implmented into a fully playable ROM hack called Pokémon Emerald: Respirited, so you can try it out yourself and check out the new representations (we won’t provide a link to the download directly here, but locating it won’t prove particularly difficult).

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Progress carries over to the full game.

The upcoming Square Enix Switch release Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven – a 3D remake of the original 1993 role-playing game – has today received a Switch eShop demo.

It’s available now and will allow players to transfer their save data over to the full game when it arrives on 24th October 2024.

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Including “never-before-seen game drops”.

Minecraft Live is returning once again to celebrate all things related to the blocky world, and the next big event will air on 28th September 2024.

This year’s event will be a bit different, with Mojang and co teasing a “new look and feel” but one a show that is still packed with the “latest and greatest” Minecraft-related news. This will include, “never-before-seen game drops”, exclusive insights into everything on the way to the main game and much more.

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Complete with music from David Wise.

Publisher Knights Peak and developer VEA Games have announced that their upcoming platformer Nikoderiko: The Magical World will be launching on the Switch eShop on 15th October 2024.

Looking like a bit of a cross between Donkey Kong Country and Crash Bandicoot, Nikoderiko sees you follow the story of Niko and Luna as they face off against the villainous Grimbald of the Cobring Gems Company (y’what?). There are all the hallmarks of a classic DKC game here, including side-scrolling platform levels, flying barrels, and ridable creatures.

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