Time flies when you’re crafting, building and surviving.
Mojang’s survival-crafting hit Minecraft is currently celebrating its 15th anniversary and as part of this, there’s a special sale on the Switch eShop.
Between now and 4th June 2024, you can get a 50% discount on Minecraft, reducing it to just US$14.99 (or your regional equivalent). Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Legends are also half-price.
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“You never know what happens in the world”.
Wario hasn’t been introduced to Mario’s cinematic universe (at least yet), but one Hollywood movie star who is apparently “up for” the role on the big screen is Danny DeVito.
When asked about the possibility of voicing Mario’s archrival in the sequel, DeVito mentioned how he was “ready to do a lot of things”. Here’s what he jokingly had to say during a recent chat with the YouTube channel ‘The Movie Dweeb’:
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The video game equivalent of Limp Bizkit.
Fans of unconventional narrative-driven games may be familiar with Hypnospace Outlaw, a cool project from a few years ago that aimed to simulate an alternate take on the social environment of the late ’90s internet. Though Hypnospace Outlaw will be receiving a proper sequel with the upcoming Dreamsettler, Tendershoot decided to give waiting players a more unconventional spin-off release that takes things in a much different direction. Dubbed Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer, this classic-style boomer shooter launched on PC and Xbox in 2023 and sort of bears some narrative connections to Hypnospace Outlaw. It’s a decent game in its own right, and even though it didn’t manage to ‘wow’ us, we’d still suggest you give it a look.
The story of Slayers X is rather fascinating, as there are essentially two levels to it. On the first, you have the premise: this is the in-universe game that Zane Lofton from Hypnospace Outlaw referenced. He essentially designed this with the help of a friend, so the experience you’re ultimately getting with Slayers X is something an immature, horny teenager would make if he was given free rein to express himself. This leads to the second narrative level, the ‘in-game’ plot. You play the role of “Big Z”, an X-Slayer in-training who is forced into action when the monstrous Psyko Sindikate attacks his town, kills both his mom and mentor, and kidnaps one of his fellow X-Slayers. He thus sets out on a quest for revenge, blowing up a whole lot of baddies along the way as he fights to free his friend.
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Peek à Khu.
Renowned Pokémon leaker Khu has suggested that we will have to wait a while to see the first Generation 10 games which, they hint, may align with the series’ 30th anniversary.
In a recent tweet, the Pokémon leaker asked if we are “prepared for G10?” and accompanied the question with “30thA”. The series’ 30th anniversary will fall in 2026, one year after the release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A.
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All the GB and GBC games, ranked by you.
Updated with Baseball, Alleyway, and Super Mario Land. Enjoy!
Remember, this list evolves as users rate the games within, so head to the game profiles and rate them out of 10 if you’d like to see the rankings below alter. Enjoy!
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A Platinum Points prize if you missed out last time.
Around this time last year, Nintendo revealed a swanky Tears of the Kingdom glow-in-the-dark keychain as a My Nintendo reward. It disappeared pretty swiftly, with many clamouring to splash their prized Platinum Points on the product, but now, it’s back.
Yes, the exclusive reward has been restocked on both the European and North American My Nintendo Stores. For just 600 Platinum Points in Europe and 550 in the US (plus shipping, of course), you can get your (ultra)hands on the reward that escaped so many of us last time.
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“A classic turns the page”.
Nintendo’s Switch revival of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is going to refresh the game with some additional content and features, and with this in mind, its social media account has now highlighted the new galleries in the game.
This includes an art gallery and a sound gallery, where you’ll be able to see all sorts of cool concept art and designs, as well as individual sound bytes of characters and more. If you are returning player, this will might add some extra value to the package. Here’s a look at the official screenshots Nintendo has released via its social channels. You can also click on the post below to see these galleries in motion.
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Super Mario Land and more!
Nintendo has added three more Game Boy classics to the Switch Online service today. Here’s the rundown: Alleyway, Baseball and Super Mario Land (finally).
Apart from these three titles, Japan this week has also received Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls), which was originally released by Nintendo in 1992. This game was originally revealed for Nintendo’s Switch Online service in February 2023.
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And which outstayed their welcome?
We’ve all watched films that could have stood to lose 30 minutes from their runtime. That whole last act of Bad Boys II? Should’ve been left on the cutting room floor, mate. It’s the same with many a game. Alien: Isolation is fantastic, but how much better might it have been with a little tightening, to remove some flab in the middle?
Our video producer Felix-from-Nintendo-Life — yes, that’s his legal name now, for sure — has explored a good handful of the games that, for him, had the absolute perfect runtime. Not too short and, crucially, not too long, the games he looks at in the video above struck the perfect Goldilocks balance.
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Cabinet envy.
Masahiro Sakurai’s latest YouTube video has us looking at our measly game collections in shame as the legendary designer has given a full rundown of his storage solutions for just about every cartridge/disk size that you can think of.
It should come as no surprise that this is a man with a beefy games collection (even if he has said that he prefers to buy digitally these days) and the latest video gives a full tour of how all of those purchases can fit into one house. The answer: with careful planning.
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