Category: Nintendo

The trailer and Collector’s Edition give some hints.

How are all of the RPG fans doing after that Nintendo Direct, hey? One of the highlights of the show was Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, which made its long-awaited return after years of silence. We got music, a new trailer, and a release date of 14th November.

We also know some new features are coming to the game. Nintendo Life had the opportunity to go hands-on with the remake, and we were told by Square Enix that the job system will be “modernised”. We weren’t told what that meant exactly, but today’s trailer — and the newly-revealed Collector’s Edition — may provide a few hints.

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So much more than “Sanrio meets Animal Crossing”.

“One World, Connecting Smiles.” That’s the tagline Sanrio, the company responsible for creating Hello Kitty, established back in 2021. Its brand is all about ‘Minna Nakayoku’, which means ‘all of us friends’ or ‘Getting Along Together’. Unity, friendship, and love encompass the world of Sanrio, and it’s worked. For me, Hello Kitty has always been that unifying figure – an icon, kind of like a cuter Barbie, who is capable of anything but always puts her friends first. I had Hello Kitty Dream World figures, where the eponymous cat had a mushroom house, a pineapple juice bar (complete with a pineapple-costumed figure), and even a dolphin yacht. There was also a bee costume figure with detachable bee wings. What’s not to love?

Hello Kitty is one of the biggest brands in the world (for context, Hello Kitty grossed more merch money than Frozen, Batman, and Sesame Street in 2018). So it might be a surprise that she’s never really had a successful video game, despite starring in many, dating all the way back to the Famicom. That is, until 2023’s Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

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Round Up: Everything announced in the June ’24 Direct.

Well, the June 2024 Nintendo Direct has been broadcast. Nintendo warned us that there was definitely a Summer Direct coming (as is typical), and the 40-minute presentation was packed with Switch announcements for games coming in the second half of 2024, plus a select few for 2025. Metroid Prime 4 news, finally!

No mention of ‘Switch 2’ (again, something Nintendo flagged beforehand), but there’s still plenty on the horizon for Switch as the console cruises through its eighth year.

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Tip off.

Thanks to today’s Nintendo Direct Showcase, we have had our first look at Nintendo Switch Sports next sport update: Basketball.

The new mode will be tipping off on Switch this summer and promises a handful of different game modes including solo three-point contest, 2-on-2 and more.

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DMCA’d.

It should come as no surprise that Nintendo is pretty protective regarding its IP. Going after emulators, ROM hacks, and reproductions is one thing, but it looks like the firm is starting to aim its sights on something rather surprising: sheet music.

According to two separate community posts on YouTube, it seems like Nintendo is looking to take down fan-arranged sheet music based on its franchises. The first is via the popular channel Sheet Music Boss, which states “In a classic Nintendo move they’ve DMCAed all of our *correctly licensed* sheet music”, before expressing frustration toward the situation:

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Well done, young man.

The latest UK Charts are here and it’s a resounding success for the newly released Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, which beats the likes of EA Sports FC 24 and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door to claim the top spot. Naturally, the game fared better on PS5, but the Switch performed admirably, pulling in a total of 27% of the overall sales.

Elsewhere, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Bros. Wonder maintain their presence in the top 10, while Minecraft is just about hanging in there after slipping from number 8 to number 10. Further down the list, Tears of the Kingdom has seen a slight boost in sales to land at number 17, while Mario vs. Donkey Kong climbs the vines to settle in at number 22.

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“They probably filled them”.

Remember last year when Bandai Namco announced a new in-house development team ‘Studio 2 & Studio S’ for commissioned projects – with Nintendo series like Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart seemingly a big part of the plans? After advertising for multiple roles, it appears there’s been a small development.

As spotted by ‘Stealth’ on social media platform ‘X’, it looks like certain roles tied to “Nintendo games” are no longer being promoted, which suggests Nintendo has “probably” filled these positions.

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Nintendo’s former president famously took a pay cut.

The former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata had an incredibly positive impact on the video game industry during his lifetime, and it seems FromSoftware’s current president (and Elden Ring game director) Hidetaka Miyazaki has drawn from the teachings of this Nintendo legend.

Speaking to PC Gamer recently about the “brutal waves” of industry layoffs so far this year, Miyazaki cited the “old ex-president of Nintendo, Iwata-san”, who took a 50 percent pay reduction during his time at the helm of the company, to ensure Nintendo’s employees could focus on “making good things”.

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I’m Vengeance.

Last week saw the release of the updated Vengeance form of Shin Megami Tensei V, one of the finest RPGs to appear on Switch or anywhere else over the last few years. In our original review we called it “the best entry yet in this dark, engrossing series,” awarding it 9/10.

This follow-up, however, takes things up a gear and exemplifies “an enhanced re-release done right” — at least that’s what our intrepid reviewer Mitch Vogel thinks:

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A forgiving rematch.

You probably thought we had emptied the well of Breath of the Wild secrets, didn’t you? We did too. As it turns out, there were still features we didn’t know about.

One such fact has recently been exposed by the YouTube channel Gaming Reinvented, which explained in a recent video that the Champion’s Ballad‘s Blight battles actually get easier with repeated attempts. Who would have thought that Calamity Ganon would be so forgiving?

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