Category: Nintendo

Sonic X Shadow Generations Showcases Side-By-Side Of Old & New Stages

Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, and Sonic 06 favourites return.

Continuing the Year of Shadow celebrations, Sega has shared a brand new trailer for Sonic X Shadow Generations, which showcases a couple of the stages returning for Shadow’s side of the adventure.

And, just like with Sonic’s stages in Sonic Generations, Shadow will also be revisiting levels from previous titles. Sega has highlighted three of those, and they’ll be familiar to all of you diehard Shadow fans.

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Mini Review: Toree’s Panic Pack (Switch) – A Third Pop Of 99¢ Platforming Pleasure

The only moral Toree.

Toree’s Panic Pack costs 89p. 99¢. That’ll probably either perk up your ears, or make your face twist in reasonable scepticism. Luckily, as with all the previous Toree games, it’s absolutely worthy of the former and certainly not the latter.

Previous games in the series of short and colourful 3D platformers have had a mantra of ‘easy to pick up, difficult to master’, and if you’ve indulged in any of them and have been hankering for something a bit more ‘difficult to pick up, aching to master’, well you’ve struck gold here, sunshine.

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Japanese Charts: Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Gets Off To A Flying Start

But it can’t scare off Luigi.

Famitsu‘s latest look at the Japanese gaming charts is in and it’s another clean sweep for the Switch.

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD holds onto the top spot for the third week in a row — way to go, bro — but there are also two new entries this time around which have snuck into the proceedings. Aerial action was clearly a popular choice this week, as Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition flew into second place with 14,322 sales in its debut. Princess Maker 2 Regeneration also nabbed a spot in the top ten, with 3,685 units sold.

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GoldenEye 007 And Perfect Dark Artist Brett Jones Has Died

An absolute legend.

Former Rare artist Brett Jones, who worked on the classic N64 games GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, has died.

Jones’ work on the classic first-person shooter was wide-ranging and included concept art and character creation, model rigging, animation, and texturing. He would go on to do much of the same work on Perfect Dark, including work on the protagonist herself and leading efforts on the game’s memorable motion-captured animation.

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Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Remixing the Remix.

And just like that, Nintendo’s next major release of 2024 is right around the corner. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition lands on Switch on 18th July (that’s tomorrow!) and the reviews are here to give us an idea of what to expect.

Before we dive into the round-up, let’s first provide a brief refresher of what we had to say about this one. We scored Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition a ‘Good’ 7/10 in our review. While we were left “fully entertained” by its bite-sized speedrunning challenges and whistle-stop tour of Nintendo’s history, we couldn’t help but see it as “a downgrade in many ways to NES Remix“. Check out our full thoughts below:

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Talking Point: Could Ganondorf Ever Be The Star Of A Zelda Game?

Gerudo or Gerudon’t?

After decades of patiently explaining to elderly relatives, “No, Zelda is the princess”, 2024 is going to be the year that Grandma is finally right. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is boldly going where no mainline series entry has gone before by putting the titular princess in the driver’s seat. How shocking! How bold! How unlike anything that we Zelda fans have been calling for for years. Ahem.

The ‘Zelda is the hero’ reveal was only surprising because of how long it’s taken. Aside from the obvious protagonist confusion, the series has been crying out for the Hylian monarch to take a starring role. She shines as Sheik in Ocarina of Time (our apologies to those who have avoided that spoiler for the last 25 years), she edged into the spotlight in Spirit Tracks despite it very much still being Link’s adventure, and Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom really leaned into the cool magic shenanigans. Sounds a lot like a game-leading hero, if you ask us.

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Deals: Now’s The Time To Upgrade Your Switch’s Micro SD Card

Great discounts on 1.5TB, 1TB and more.

As you’ll likely be aware if you’ve been anywhere near our home page over the last two days, Amazon’s Prime Day sale is now well underway. There are some tempting deals on Switch OLED consoles and all sorts of accessories, but we’d argue that the event’s microSD card deals are the ones you really shouldn’t be missing.

For the remainder of today only, you can grab microSD cards of any size for fantastic prices – there are even great deals on the Sandisk 1.5TB microSD card, which should eradicate any Switch storage woes for good. These prices are about as good as it gets, making now an absolutely perfect opportunity to expand your Switch’s storage.

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Sega Takes Legal Action Against Social Media User For Harassment Toward Employee

Good on you, Sega.

Sega has announced that it has taken legal action against an individual committing consistent harassment against one of its employees (thanks, Automaton).

In a post on its Japanese corporate site, Sega explained that it had been in contact with the individual in question for some time, but after the harassment had not improved, the firm was forced to take legal action.

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