Don’t say it…
Here we go everybody, it’s time for another Indie World showcase!
Yes, after February’s Partner Direct, Nintendo is back with another look at the games heading to Switch in 2024, this time focussing on the indie scene. The showcase kicks off at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST / Thursday 12am AET and promises to bring us 20 minutes of news and announcements.
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SaGa Emerald and new Demon Slayer tag along too.
We are rapidly closing in on the release date of Rabbit & Bear Studios’ Suikoden spiritual successor, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. Set to land on Switch on 23rd April, this upcoming RPG dazzled us when we went hands-on with it last month and we have been excited to see more ever since.
As that all-important release date closes in, we can start to get an idea of what the full game has in store as the first critical review from Famitsu is now in. In short, it’s looking rather good.
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20 minutes of announcements incoming.
Here we go, folks. Yesterday, Nintendo announced that an Indie World showcase will be coming our way today, Wednesday, April 17th, 2023 at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST.
The showcase will last for around 20 minutes and will focus on indie games that are coming to Nintendo Switch in 2024.
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Po and friends are back.
Mojang’s insanely popular survival-crafting game Minecraft is celebrating the new Kung Fu Panda movie with some new themed DLC.
The DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda DLC can be purchased from the Minecraft Marketplace and is an “adventure map” filled with “action-packed battles, epic showdowns from the movies, and pand-tastic co-op action”. Here’s a bit about it:
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If you didn’t play the original release, now you know.
A remaster of Shadows of the Damned is coming to the Switch this year and if you haven’t played the original 2011 game and are wondering what it’s all about, Grasshopper Manufacture founder Goichi “Suda51” Suda has compared it to Super Mario.
“It’s like Super Mario Bros., but in Hell” he told Destructoid in a recent interview. Here’s Suda’s full explanation (via translator):
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“Nintendo is ‘the’ way you understand games”.
The London Developer Conference (LDC) made its almighty return last week, allowing some of the biggest names in the gaming world the chance to talk about the industry, where it currently sits, and where it is likely to go.
One of the speakers in this year’s programme was Keza MacDonald, video games editor for The Guardian and author of 2020’s You Died: The Dark Souls Companion book.
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Cutting corners.
It has been 19 years since Mario Kart DS first hit the tracks. That’s a pretty staggering length of time and one that we’ll probably need a little sit down to fully recover from. But hey, while we freak out about the passing of the years, check this out: speedrunners have found a handful of new shortcuts on the DS’ previously pretty water-tight circuits (thanks, Gaming Reinvented).
The biggie here is on the Waluigi Pinball track where a shortcut that was previously discovered in tool-assisted speedruns (TAS) has been seemingly proven humanly possible by speedrunner iMathII. It’s a tricky manoeuvre that requires the driver to hit a section of the spiral track just right, but if done correctly, the kart is hurled across a large portion of the circuit, landing by the pinball bumpers at the end of the lap. You can see it in action in the above video.
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Party like it’s 2001.
A little while back, we covered the efforts of Eclipse Team, a group of modders looking to create what they deem to be the most ambitious mod of Super Mario Sunshine ever. Dubbed ‘Super Mario Eclipse’, its effectively being billed as an unofficial sequel to the GameCube classic, and as part of the modders’ efforts, they managed to recreate the 2001 SpaceWorld demo level in full.
The mod releases later this year on 30th June, 2024, but it’s not the only option if you’re hankering to experience the original SpaceWorld demo. Another modder by the name of Portable Productions has created ‘Super Mario Sunshine 2001’ (thanks for the heads up, Gaming Reinvented), which will be a fully playable mod accurately recreating elements from Nintendo’s own demo.
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Get ready, squid kids.
Nintendo has been pumping out all sorts of new updates for the squid shooter Splatoon 3 and the next one seemingly arrives later this week.
As highlighted by dataminer and Splatoon 3 enthusiast ‘OatmealDome’ on social media, the next version is expected to drop in a few days. As noted by Nintendo’s official Splatoon account, this update will revamp ‘Undertow Spillway’:
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Get a quick refresher.
Ahead of the return of the 2004 GameCube hit Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo has taken to social media to introduce the cast of characters.
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