Category: Nintendo

Known for fighting games and Pikmin.

Developer Eighting, which is most well-known for developing licensed fighting games on Japanese tokusatsu shows and anime has revealed it led the development of the Basketball update for Nintendo Switch Sports.

A post on the developer’s website revealed that it was “in charge of planning and developing the free update” for the sports title. The update launched earlier today (or yesterday, depending on your timezone), and gives you multiple ways to play this brand new sport. This brings the total number of sports in the game to eight. Coincidence? Well… yes, probably.

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Spoiler alert.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot recently celebrated eight million downloads since its original release, so what’s next for this ever-growing experience? According to a new datamine, Goku and friends might be getting some DLC based on…spoiler…Dragon Ball Daima.

If you’re not familiar with Dragon Ball Daima, it’s the new series coming out later this year featuring “original work, story and characters” by the legendary series creator Akira Toriyama. A new datamine of the game’s files has supposedly uncovered a lines referencing ‘Daima’ and ‘DLC Story 07’.

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Shoot some hoops today.

After revealing Basketball would be coming to Nintendo Switch Sports during its latest Direct broadcast, Nintendo has now officially released this free court sport update.

As already revealed, it comes with a trio of different game modes including two-on-two matches, a solo three-point contest and a ‘Five Streak Battle’. Included with this is local and online multiplayer support as well.

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The first update for the Switch version has arrived.

Following its release in May, Nintendo has now released its first update for the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

It includes a bunch of fixes. Here’s the full rundown courtesy of Nintendo’s support page:

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A new brotherhood?

Remember Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood? Maybe you don’t for various reasons, but the DS game was the first ever Sonic the Hedgehog RPG — and the last.

However, in a recent interview with Good Vibes Gaming, Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka spoke about his desire to make an RPG starring Sonic, admitting that he has asked himself “Why haven’t we done a Sonic RPG in all this time?”. It seems like Iizuka-san might have forgotten about Sonic Chronicles, but we’ll let him off — it was developed by BioWare, after all.

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The highest of bars.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Gavin ponders what ‘success’ looks like for systems with impossibly popular predecessors…

Looking back at Nintendo’s home console hardware sales over the past four decades, the line plotted by lifetime figures for each system shows a steady decline for the first two decades before a couple of huge electrocardiogram-style peaks bringing us to today.

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It’s all in the mouth.

Masahiro Sakurai is back with another game development video and today’s lesson is all about Manga-like visuals.

The legendary game designer discusses the expressive and unrealistic techniques employed by manga and anime artists to achieve the most expressive result, specifically, how a character’s mouth appears in profile and from the front.

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No stone left unturned.

It has been a little over a year since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom landed on Switch and for many of us, the adventure is over. Sure, we might drop into Hyrule to mop up a couple more quest, do some more exploring or get lost in the wonder of it all, but, generally speaking, we’re done.

The same cannot be said for speedrunner and content creator SmallAnt. After announcing that he had reached the hallowed 100% completion rate within the first two weeks of the game’s launch, you might think that the streamer would also be finished with Link’s latest adventure. You would be wrong.

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“A new culinary adventure awaits”.

You’ve probably cooked all sorts of delights (and not-so-tasty dishes) in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and if you’re interested in applying these skills to the real world, then this new “unofficial” cookbook based on The Legend of Zelda series might be for you.

This is the ‘2nd Unofficial Legend Of Zelda Cookbook‘ by Aimee Wood, which is described as an “expansion pack sequel with 90+ unofficial new recipes”. It’s a 200+ page expansion, with more than nine new chapters and there’ll even be collector’s editions.

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It’s arriving in “Winter 2024” locally.

Following an announcement in May about Taito Milestones 3 coming to the West in “Winter 2024“, Taito has now shared an update about the collection’s Japanese release. It will be arriving later this year on 28th November and comes with a total of 10 titles:

“The release date for the Nintendo Switch software “Taito Milestone 3” has been set for Thursday, November 28, 2024. We are also pleased to announce that the game will include a total of 10 titles, including “Dead Connection,” which will be ported for the first time.”

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