Return to the battle arena today.
Last week, Nintendo announced it would be adding the original Pokémon Stadium to the Switch Online N64 service.
The big day has now arrived, with the year 2000 release returning with “the original 151 Pokémon” from Pokémon Red Version, Pokémon Blue Version and Pokémon Yellow Version games. Just like the original, there are solo and multiplayer modes included as well as minigames.
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Get the lowdown on Nintendo’s upcoming event.
In-person gaming events have gone through a bit of a rough patch over the last few years. E3 is seemingly dead and buried, and although Geoff Keighley is making hay with Summer Game Fest, some publishers are increasingly forgoing physical events for more focused, curated digital showcases.
Nintendo in particular has been especially fixated on its Direct presentations, and it doesn’t look as though that’s about to change anytime soon. What the company has started, however, is a new in-person event called ‘Nintendo Live’.
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Griddy with anticipation.
The world of Tron is filled with intrigue, opposing forces, and not-so-subtle hints at the influence humans have on the programs living within their computers. While the two films followed humans who made their way to The Grid, TRON: Identity is a visual novel that offers a look at how programs interact when there aren’t any humans around to interfere.
Tron: Identity casts players in the role of Query, a Disciple of Tron who is tasked with discovering the truth behind an explosion. The game does a solid job of casting Query into the classic role of the hard-boiled detective. Though he is significantly less hard-drinking and aggressive than the likes of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, that is certainly the vein of fiction that Bithell Games (Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular, John Wick Hex) mined for inspiration, right down to the near-constant rain that falls on the dark streets of The Grid.
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Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart keep hanging on.
The Easter weekend is over, and that means the UK boxed charts are in. It’s been another quiet week for Nintendo, with two of the Big N’s major titles still making the top ten. And it’s another case of the usual suspects.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey charted in fourth and tenth respectively, with Mario Kart scooting up a place and Odyssey slipping down two. We’ve seen Super Mario Odyssey sales jump up thanks to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and we wonder if this streak will continue.
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“This choice wasn’t made easily”.
Service for the Switch version of Rogue Company will be ending on 20th June 2023, publisher Hi-Rez Studios has announced. The studio released a statement earlier today confirming the decision, along with a note that it will continue to provide full support to the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox versions. (Thanks, Destructoid.)
Developed by First Watch Games, Rogue Company is a free-to-play hero shooter launched on Switch in July 2020 in Early Access until going free-to-play in October 2020 with an open beta. We reviewed the game while it was in the Early Access, giving it a respectable 7/10. The game’s release followed in May 2022.
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Game director seemingly confirms.
Sega recently delivered its first major update for the “open-zone” title Sonic Frontiers and there are more on the way.
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“Pedro Pascal is Wario”.
With a sequel to the Mario Movie looking likely, a lot of fan discussion has now turned to who could be cast in other roles.
Mario’s arch-rival Wario, who started out as the villain in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and has gone on to star in the WarioWare series, has come up quite a bit in conversation, and now even the voice actors of the Mario Movie have given their own thoughts.
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The music clips have already received millions of views.
Nintendo and Illumination’s Mario Movie is absolutely dominating at the box office, but it’s not the only success. The Mario Movie song ‘Peaches’ performed by Jack Black as Bowser has also been charting. Not long after the real-life version of the song was released it made it into the top 100 on iTunes.
Now, according to Universal, Peaches is eligible to submit for ‘best original song’ consideration at The Academy Awards (aka. the Oscars).
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NoA files for DMCA subpoena.
Nintendo of America has filed an application for a DMCA subpoena at a district court in California which, if granted, would order Discord to reveal the identity of the person who leaked The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom‘s art book back in February.
TorrentFreak reported earlier today that the company’s attorneys applied for the DMCA subpoena on 7th April 2023, and it specifically mentions the name of the user who Nintendo believes is responsible for the leak, along with the name of the Discord server where the images reportedly leaked first. As laid out under US copyright law in Section 512(h), a DMCA subpoena requires that a provider — for example, a sales website or a social media platform — must disclose the details of the infringer.
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Plus ‘Sloths and Spa’ free update available now.
Publisher No More Robots is throwing us in at the deep end of Let’s Build A Zoo later this year. The developer of the cute, cosy, and somewhat morally troubling management sim has revealed some brand new DLC for the game — Aquarium Odyssey. So we’ll be able to splice fish together now for some truly terrifying sea creatures.
To celebrate this announcement, developer Springloaded has also dropped a free update for its animal-splicing zoo sim called ‘Sloths and Spas’, which is frankly perfect. We would take this alone without the promise of tons of new content in the future.
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