Category: Nintendo

Nintendo is skipping the event this year.

Who remembered that Gamescom gives out awards? Yep. At the end of every event, the show hands out awards to all eligible games that are present at the Cologne-based expo. One of these categories is the ‘Best Nintendo Game’, which has been around since 2012. However, the award won’t be handed out this year as the organisers have scrapped the award for 2024.

TheGamer, who reported on the story, reached out to Gamescom’s organisers about the decision to scrap the award, and their response revealed that there were “too few submissions” for the category. Here’s the brief statement in full:

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“We’ve made adjustments to improve the overall gameplay experience”.

Some of you may have seen earlier this week that BAKERU, the previously Japan-only 3D action platformer from Good-Feel, was announced to be coming to Western shores for a fresh English release in just a few short weeks.

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Plus a free update.

Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and developer LEAP Studios have today unveiled the first DLC pack for the dice-based monster-catching roguelike Dicefolk, set to roll onto Switch this Fall.

The ‘Will Chimeras Pack’ adds 21 brand new ‘Chimera’ creatures into the game and a bonus ‘Will Talisman’ — a modifier which influences which Chimera you will encounter and recruit throughout a run — to mix up your strategy. There’s also a batch of new enchanted equipment for even more mid-run customisation.

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Launching this October.

PQube & Octeto Studios have revealed the release date for Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire, an intriguing Skies of Arcadia-inspired RPG in which players partake in aerial combat controlled via classic turn-based gameplay.

Launching for the Nintendo Switch on 10th October 2024, there’s a demo available via Steam right now if you want to get a taste of the action ahead of its release. The general gist of the story, however, is that you take control of captain Glenn Windwalker who must recruit and manage a group of rag-tag pirates. You’ll be able to explore various locations on foot, but the real meat of the gameplay takes place in the skies.

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Updates for GO, Unite, TCG Pocket and more…

At the 2024 Pokémon World Championships closing ceremony, The Pokémon Company CEO and President Mr. Tsunekazu Ishihara shared updates for Pokémon GO, Pokémon Unite, the Pokémon Trading Card Game (and Pocket), and also the future World Championships locations. Here’s the full rundown:

Pokémon GO

Pokémon GO is getting Morpeko and “something big” is on the way…

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Don’t expect news about games or the “Switch successor”.

In some surprise news, Nintendo of America has announced a ‘Nintendo Direct’ tour of the Nintendo Museum this week.

This livestream will take place on 19th August at 3pm PT. You can see your local time and date for this broadcast on Nintendo of America’s YouTube channel and in the video above.

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“We know this last minute delay might be frustrating”.

We’ve got some good (and bad) news for anyone who has been waiting for the arrival of Hatch Tales on the Nintendo Switch.

Firstly, Atooi’s Jools Watsham has announced development is finally complete in the latest Kickstarter update. However, there’s been one more “last minute delay”, due to a whirlwind of activity this month. The developer is now “on the cusp” of submitting the game to Nintendo for its “final approval”, so expect another update soon:

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Issue #15 – August 2024.

Hello there. We’re back once again for another good ol’ rummage through the Nintendo Life Mailbox.

It’s been a relatively quiet few weeks on the gaming front, as people head off on holidays for a break from their inboxes. We, however, are here to check ours!

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Lock n’ load.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition Box Art Brawl!

We had a doozy of a brawl last week as we looked at The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords for the GBA. You folks really surprised us with this one, though: we weren’t too keen on the Japanese box art for this, deemed it to be fairly busy in comparison to the others, but your votes are the ones that matter, and so Japan won the day with 47% of the vote. Europe came in second place with 29%, and North America managed 25%.

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Square Enix is publishing this enhanced version.

During Nintendo’s June Direct, Square Enix announced an enhanced version of Mistwalker’s turn-based Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian on multiple platforms including the Switch.

FANTASIAN Neo Dimension (from the creator of the Final Fantasy series Hironobu Sakaguchi) has now been rated by the ESRB, and it’s revealed a little bit more about what to expect from this new enhanced release. The game was also previously locked in for a ‘Holiday 2024‘ launch on the Switch – so it seems it’s still on track for this window.

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