Category: Nintendo

“He’s a true genius in that world”.

The Legend of Zelda live-action movie has been in the headlines quite a bit over the past few weeks, and now Sony has chimed in, reiterating just how “massive” it’s going to be thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto’s “strong vision” of this particular world.

Here’s exactly what Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman had to say during an interview with Deadline – noting how The Super Mario Bros. Movie also benefited from its collaboration with Miyamoto and labelling him a “true genius” when it comes to Zelda, as he knows the world and “understands it thoroughly”:

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Out on Switch next week.

Nintendo of Canada has announced it will be celebrating the upcoming launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch by partnering with a bunch of streamers for the launch of the game.

According to an official post on the Nintendo website, the lineup of streamers includes TeaWithMandy, Le Jeu C’est Sérieux, and Thedragonfeeney. Here’s the full rundown, with the streams going live next weekend:

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Alear-ning curve.

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has opened a new student-taught class which delves into the game design of the Fire Emblem series. Yes, Fire Emblem. At university. And there we were thinking that ‘Film Studies’ sounded cool.

‘Fire Emblem Design and Analysis‘ will be getting underway at Carnegie Mellon in the Fall semester of this year and promises to help students “gain a deeper understanding of the game design, mechanics and writing of the Fire Emblem series”. To do this, the class will be examining such topics as the evolution of game mechanics (durability and the weapon triangle both get a shoutout), unit archetypes and series lore before being graded via in-class quizzes and projects.

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The best kind of Ai(Ai).

The years straddling the turn of the millennium were tumultuous for Sega and its fans. The launch of the Dreamcast in 1999 following a series of hardware missteps and company infighting was exciting, but the system failed to gain sufficient traction despite its innovations and array of patented blue-sky software. News in early 2001 that Sega would quit the hardware business to develop games on other platforms rocked fans to the core, but within a matter of months the company’s debut GameCube title — adapted from the arcade original that debuted in June ’01 — would demonstrate that, despite Dreamcast’s demise, Sega’s inimitable arcade style and spirit was alive and well.

Super Monkey Ball felt like a mission statement when it arrived as a GameCube launch title. With a premise as zany as it was instantly understandable, you shift a free-floating course below the feet (well, ball) of your monkey to guide them to a goal while collecting bananas. Simple! The game was a blast of colourful arcade fun from Sega veteran Toshihiro Nagoshi and signalled to fans not to worry, everything was going to be just fine.

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Apocalypse wow.

Update : Set your doomsday clocks, folks, because Splatoon 3’s end-of-the-world Splatfest gets underway this weekend.

The event will be kicking off on 18th May (17th in North America) and asks the surprisingly dark question, “What would you do at the world’s end?“. Be sure to head over to the polling station in Splatsville Square to cast your vote for either Team Same Ol’, Bucket List or Save the Day and then prepare yourself for a weekend of splatting.

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The famous five.

Publisher Spike Chunsoft has announced that it is bringing the popular anime and manga series ‘The Quintessential Quintuplets‘ to Switch on 23rd May in the form of two brand-new visual novels.

The Quintessential Quintuplets – Memories of a Quintessential Summer and The Quintessential Quintuplets – Five Memories Spent With You will be available both individually (for £28.99 / £34.99) and as part of a Double Pack (£49.99 / $59.99) when they arrive on the Switch eShop next week.

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The Deluxe Edition comes with a new outfit set.

In case you missed the original announcement in April, Luffy and his pirate crew are sailing onto the Nintendo Switch this July in One Piece Odyssey.

In the leadup to the game’s release, Bandai Namco has now shared the “in-game opening movie” straight from the Switch version. This includes another look at the Deluxe Edition which will come with an additional scenario “reunion of memories”, a traveling outfit set, and the newly added “city of water outfit set” for the Switch version.

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A release could still be “quite far”.

It’s been a while since the previous Deltarune update, and now the creator Toby Fox (who is also known for Undertale) has sent out a “Spring 2024” newsletter, detailing the latest progress.

Following on from Chapter 3, the latest news is development on Chapter 4 is “going better than ever”. He’s hired “a few more people” to help out and the team is on track to meet its internal deadline:

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A monster medley.

Dave The Diver‘s next free DLC is just on the horizon, and you better get running, because a kaiju is on the loose.

Godzilla will be stomping its way into the Blue Hole next week, on 23rd May, developer Mintrocket has announced. However, at the bottom of a detailed blog post over on PlayStation.Blog, there’s a little asterisk mentioning that the “Godzilla Content Pack is a time-limited free DLC, only available from May 23 until November 23 “. It isn’t quite clear whether it will only be available during that period or will be paid DLC after this period. Still, if you nab it next week, it’ll be free! So it’s time to dive in.

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Never say di(c)e.

If you cast your mind back to April, you might remember that the dice-based tactical RPG Dicefolk was confirmed to be coming to Switch. One month on, publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and developers LEAP Game Studios and Tiny Ghoul have announced that this monster-catching roguelike will be heading our way on 20th June.

There are a lot of different genre terms going on here, so if you haven’t come across Dicefolk before, we’ll do our best to break it down for you (but you should also check out the above explanatory trailer, of course).

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