Category: Nintendo

Rediscover your sense of adventure.

We love a good video game commercial; especially one that manages to melt our black hearts and cause a salty discharge to emerge from our eyes.

The latest to achieve such a feat is a TV ad from Nintendo of Australia for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It starts off on a surprisingly somber note, featuring a man who clearly has the weight of the world on his shoulders, venturing home after what we assume was a fairly taxing day at work. After saying goodnight to his spouse, he sits down to play some Tears of the Kingdom.

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He will be joined by Piccolo.

Update :

Bandai Namco has now announced the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 DLC ‘Hero of Justice Pack 2’ will be launching tomorrow on 11th May. Along with this new, Gohan (Beast) has been announced as the third playable character in this set.

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“Development is still continuing”.

We’ve finally got an update about the anticipated release Hollow Knight: Silksong, but it might not be the news everyone was expecting.

According to Team Cherry’s marketing and publishing rep Matthew Griffin, Silksong was apparently “planned to release in the 1st half of 2023” but development on the game is still going. The reason it’s taking so long is because it’s become quite a big project and the team wants to release it in the best state possible.

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“We can’t reveal too much yet”.

The Outer Worlds, Kerbal Space Program, and OlliOlli World publisher Private Division has announced it is partnering with Game Freak on a new game.

Described as an action adventure, it doesn’t have a final name yet, but is being referred to as Project Bloom.

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Update: Release date trailer drops for Sunsoft’s retro gem.

Update #2 : It’s been a while, but Bitwave Games has announced that Gimmick! Special Edition, originally published by Sunsoft on NES in Japan and Scandinavia in original, non-Special Edition form, will be landing on Switch (and other platforms) on 6th July 2023.

A new trailer (above) shows off some of the new features, and Bitwave also confirms that a physical edition will be available at some point “later in the year” on both Switch and PS4.

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Now that’s a lot of games.

As a part of the latest financial report for the fiscal year ending March 2023, Nintendo has provided updated figures for both its hardware and software sales. While the Switch’s hardware numbers started to slow as the console reached 125 million units sold (as of March 2023), the big milestone this time around is on the software side of things as the Switch has exceeded one billion sales in that department.

The actual number is 1,036,150,000 units, if we want to be really picky and why shouldn’t we be? That’s a huge figure!

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Feeling the burn.

Nintendo has posted its end-of-year report for FY2023 and as of March 2023, the Switch family of systems has sold over 3 million since the last quarter, bringing the lifetime total number of units sold to a cool 125.62 million.

Back in February the total stood at 122.55, which took sales past the milestones set by both the Game Boy (118.69 units) and Sony’s PlayStation 4 (117.2). The Nintendo DS is still ahead in the ranks of best-selling video game consoles, though, with a whopping 154.02 million lifetime sales to its name. And Sony’s PS2 tops the table with 155 million.

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“It’s definitely going to be something very fresh”.

The Zelda series has always had a dedicated community of speedrunners and later this week on 12th May they’ll be returning for Tears of the Kingdom.

IGN recently spoke to Breath of the Wild speedrunners ‘Player 5’ and Tom “Tallest Thomas” Rasmussen – asking them how they feel about starting over in Tears of the Kingdom and to get an insight into what they’re expecting in the early days of the sequel.

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A new Kickstarter with a Switch port goal.

If you have fond memories of the Nintendo DS generation, you may want to take a look at the Kickstarter campaign for Reflectile – a stylish new precision puzzle game by indie developer Joe Aquiare.

A Switch port has been promised if the project can reach $35,000 USD, and it’s currently at around $8,500 (with a target goal of $15,000 for the initial PC release) with 11 days remaining. You’ll take control of a small tile that must reach a goal at the end of each level. It’s described as a “minimal, stylish, and challenging top-down puzzle game” that’s deceptively simple.

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An itch the Switch can’t fix.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nile is pining for something a little smaller and simpler on his commute…

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Not too long ago, my niece taught me something heartening about the staying power of old tech.

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