Category: Nintendo

Japanese Charts: Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Gets Off To A Flying Start

But it can’t scare off Luigi.

Famitsu‘s latest look at the Japanese gaming charts is in and it’s another clean sweep for the Switch.

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD holds onto the top spot for the third week in a row — way to go, bro — but there are also two new entries this time around which have snuck into the proceedings. Aerial action was clearly a popular choice this week, as Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition flew into second place with 14,322 sales in its debut. Princess Maker 2 Regeneration also nabbed a spot in the top ten, with 3,685 units sold.

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GoldenEye 007 And Perfect Dark Artist Brett Jones Has Died

An absolute legend.

Former Rare artist Brett Jones, who worked on the classic N64 games GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, has died.

Jones’ work on the classic first-person shooter was wide-ranging and included concept art and character creation, model rigging, animation, and texturing. He would go on to do much of the same work on Perfect Dark, including work on the protagonist herself and leading efforts on the game’s memorable motion-captured animation.

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Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

Remixing the Remix.

And just like that, Nintendo’s next major release of 2024 is right around the corner. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition lands on Switch on 18th July (that’s tomorrow!) and the reviews are here to give us an idea of what to expect.

Before we dive into the round-up, let’s first provide a brief refresher of what we had to say about this one. We scored Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition a ‘Good’ 7/10 in our review. While we were left “fully entertained” by its bite-sized speedrunning challenges and whistle-stop tour of Nintendo’s history, we couldn’t help but see it as “a downgrade in many ways to NES Remix“. Check out our full thoughts below:

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Talking Point: Could Ganondorf Ever Be The Star Of A Zelda Game?

Gerudo or Gerudon’t?

After decades of patiently explaining to elderly relatives, “No, Zelda is the princess”, 2024 is going to be the year that Grandma is finally right. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is boldly going where no mainline series entry has gone before by putting the titular princess in the driver’s seat. How shocking! How bold! How unlike anything that we Zelda fans have been calling for for years. Ahem.

The ‘Zelda is the hero’ reveal was only surprising because of how long it’s taken. Aside from the obvious protagonist confusion, the series has been crying out for the Hylian monarch to take a starring role. She shines as Sheik in Ocarina of Time (our apologies to those who have avoided that spoiler for the last 25 years), she edged into the spotlight in Spirit Tracks despite it very much still being Link’s adventure, and Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom really leaned into the cool magic shenanigans. Sounds a lot like a game-leading hero, if you ask us.

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Deals: Now’s The Time To Upgrade Your Switch’s Micro SD Card

Great discounts on 1.5TB, 1TB and more.

As you’ll likely be aware if you’ve been anywhere near our home page over the last two days, Amazon’s Prime Day sale is now well underway. There are some tempting deals on Switch OLED consoles and all sorts of accessories, but we’d argue that the event’s microSD card deals are the ones you really shouldn’t be missing.

For the remainder of today only, you can grab microSD cards of any size for fantastic prices – there are even great deals on the Sandisk 1.5TB microSD card, which should eradicate any Switch storage woes for good. These prices are about as good as it gets, making now an absolutely perfect opportunity to expand your Switch’s storage.

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Sega Takes Legal Action Against Social Media User For Harassment Toward Employee

Good on you, Sega.

Sega has announced that it has taken legal action against an individual committing consistent harassment against one of its employees (thanks, Automaton).

In a post on its Japanese corporate site, Sega explained that it had been in contact with the individual in question for some time, but after the harassment had not improved, the firm was forced to take legal action.

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Splatoon 3 Announces Fresh New Update (Version 8.1.0), Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Following a major update in May.

Nintendo has announced a new update for Splatoon 3, following its big 8.0.0 update in May. This new update will officially bump the third entry up to Version 8.1.0.

According to Nintendo’s support page it comes loaded with changes to player controls, changes to multiplayer, some “other” changes and also multiple bug fixes. It should be live soon.

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