Launching on Switch In 2025.
In case you missed it, the Arc System Works fighter Guilty Gear Strive is on its way to the Nintendo Switch next year.
Ahead of this launch, the developer has shared a “first in-game look” at Queen Dizzy, a new Season 4 DLC fighter launching on 31st October 2024 in existing versions of the game. The Switch version will launch with 28 playable characters.
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“We have no intention of expanding”.
The Nintendo Museum looks amazing but it’s located in Japan and not everybody will be able to make the trip. So, is there a chance of Nintendo opening more museums outside of its homeland?
Well, as you can see in the headline, according to Miyamoto it won’t be happening. In a recent Game Watch interview, the Nintendo legend mentioned how the company had “no intention” of expanding the museum to other locations.
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Music to our ears.
AI is, for better or worse, one of the hot topics of 2024. It’s bloomin’ everywhere at the moment. Naturally, there’s a lot of speculation on whether major video game companies will implement the technology into their work (and many, it seems, already have), but Nintendo fans will no doubt be delighted to hear that the Japanese firm may be steering its ship in a completely different direction.
In fact, famed creator Shigeru Miyamoto pretty much said as much during a recent interview with The New York Times (thanks, IGN). In discussing Nintendo’s ongoing approach with game development, he mentioned AI as a key topic that the company is aware of, but perhaps not interested in pursuing (at least, not in the same way as its peers).
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Get ready to go Berzerk.
Just the other day, Atari and developer Digital Eclipse announced that a new paid DLC expansion for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration would be launching, er, tomorrow (that’s 26th September 2024).
Now, thanks to a reveal YouTube MetalJesusRocks, we now have a complete view of every new game being added to the new content in addition to some more of that lovely timeline loveliness. There are 19 titles in total, though there are a few, shall we say, “duplicates” (not really duplicates, but you get what we mean).
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Rhoam wasn’t built in a day.
It’s finally here, folks! We’ve reached the launch week of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (it launches tomorrow, in fact) and it’s time to see the results of the very first review courtesy of Famitsu.
Shared by Ryokutya2089 (via Gematsu), the Japanese publication awarded the Zelda-led adventure a 35/40, with a 10/9/8/8 critic split.
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He’ll voice Shadow in a level inspired by the movie.
Sega’s latest Sonic Central shared all sorts of updates, including a look at the story in the upcoming release Sonic X Shadow Generations. However, it didn’t end there, with Sony’s ‘State of Play’ broadcast sharing a little bit more information.
In case you missed it, Sega announced there will be some special Sonic 3 movie content coming later this year on 12th December 2024. Most notably, Keanu Reeves will feature in a special update where he voices Shadow. This ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Movie Pack’ is inspired by scenes from the third live-action movie.
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Tracer is issuing “takedown notices on behalf of Nintendo”.
Nintendo has been cracking down on all sorts of things recently, and now according to a new story from The Verge, it’s reportedly targeting AI-generated Mario pictures.
A company called Tracer is apparently working on Nintendo’s “behalf” and has filed takedown notices to remove “dozens” of posts on social media platform ‘X’. This supposedly includes images generated by xAI’s Grok AI tool. The same service is also using AI to help assist its own process:
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PlayStation’s ‘State of Play 2024’ confirms.
In August, Sony’s official PlayStation website featured a huge banner suggesting LEGO Horizon Adventures would be arriving on multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch on 14th November 2024.
During its ‘State of Play 2024’ broadcast today, Sony has now officially confirmed this launch date. Pre-orders will open from 3rd October 2024 across all platforms.
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The prototype of the ultimate life form, in brick form.
There’s a heck of a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog LEGO out there nowadays, but during today’s Sonic Central, a rather exciting set for Sonic Adventure 2 fans was teased.
During a 3-minute-long LEGO Sonic-themed skit, Sega showed off a brand new set featuring Shadow the Hedgehog and one of the big bosses of Sonic Adventure 2, the Biolizard.
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A sit-down with the creator of My Summer Vacation & Attack of the Friday Monsters.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, summer has come to an end. Fortunately, through the magic of video games — and the video games created by one man in particular — it’s never too late to take a little summer holiday…
With the recent English-language release of Spike Chunsoft’s open-world summer simulator, Natsu-Mon, coming hot on the heels of 2022’s Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation, and the upcoming Shin-chan: Shiro and the Coal Town, the time seemed right to sit down with Natsu-Mon director, game designer, and writer, Kaz Ayabe. We discuss the hard-earned breakthrough in the West of the ‘cosy game’ genre he helped establish in Japan with his long-running series Boku No Natsuyasumi — colloquially known as ‘Bokunatsu’ — made popular on PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 3.
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