Category: Nintendo

Spotlighting old-school horror.

Blumhouse Productions exploded onto the scene in 2009 as a big deal in the horror film world. The studio had been around since 2002, but Paranormal Activity put it on the map. The use of home cameras to create something that felt much older than it actually was recaptured interest in the ‘found footage’ genre a decade after The Blair Witch Project.

Nowadays, Blumhouse Productions is a juggernaut in the movie industry, with names such as Insidious, Get Out, The Purge, and Five Nights at Freddy’s under its belt. So when the movie studio announced a video game division in late 2023, we were pretty excited. We didn’t get a peep from Blumhouse Games until Summer Game Fest 2024, but the wait was definitely worth it. And the highlight for us? Fear the Spotlight, which is coming to Switch later this year.

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Breaking the fourth, fifth, sixth wall.

Masahiro Sakurai is known for his keen eye for detail and staunch perfectionism, but his latest YouTube video demonstrates just how many revisions are required for even the smallest details.

The majority of the video focuses on one particular example of this. He discusses the Mishima Dojo stage from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, showcasing the initial design submitted by his team. He highlights that the destroyed wall on the left-hand side looked as though something had taken a huge bite out of it, and wasn’t a good representation of how planks of wood would break.

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Smash Bros. Ultimate and Zelda: TOTK targeted.

Nintendo has seemingly issued multiple DMCA takedowns against mods hosted on the community site GameBanana.

As member ‘Waikuteru’ highlighted, more than 60 separate DMCA takedowns have been issued over just a few days with 40 directed at them specifically, rendering their GameBanana profile empty of mod submissions.

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“We’re very sorry that the game wasn’t up to standards”.

The Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection didn’t get off to the best start when it arrived on the Switch last year, but Konami has been slowly improving the overall experience with regular updates.

In a new video update, Konami producer Noriaki Okamura has touched this, admitting the team got “a lot of unhappy feedback” at launch and apologising for the game not being up to the standards players expected:

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Published by Playtonic Friends.

Victory Heat Rally has been a long time coming but the indie title published by Playtonic Friends has finally locked in a Switch eShop release date. It will be speeding onto Nintendo’s hybrid system at some point in “winter 2024“. The exact date will apparently be shared “very soon”.

As previously mentioned, this game is a retro-style racer recreating ‘SuperScaler’ visuals and “harkening back the age of Power Drift, OutRun and Ridge Racer. It’s also filled with plenty of colourful cartoon designs. Here’s some PR and screenshots:

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Let the discounts… BEGIN.

After Nintendo of America announced its ‘Mega Extreme Fun’ sale last week, we had a sneaking suspicion that it wouldn’t be long before the European eShop was treated to one of its own. Well, here it is!

The ‘Summer Sale’ (a groundbreaking title if we’ve ever seen one) has begun on the European Switch eShop today (10th June) and will be offering discounts of up to 75% off select titles until 23rd June.

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Will they continue with ‘Switch 2’?

10th June 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the reveal of Nintendo’s toys-to-life line of figures at E3 2014.

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“Why did I come here? Just to suffer?”.

When the infamous ‘Willy’s Chocolate Experience’ event went viral earlier this year, you would think that organisers would learn from its mistakes and strive to avoid similar mishaps.

Unfortunately, it looks like the video game industry now has its own ‘Willy Wonka’ expo to call its own with the ‘Pokeverse’ fan convention over in Mandaluyong, Manila in the Phillippines. As highlighted by Eurogamer, an attendee by the name of BintuRita has compiled her own experience of the event on social media, relaying an odyssey of misfortune, disappointment, and flat-out ineptitude on the part of the organisers.

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Quite my Tempopo.

Witch Beam, the Brisbane-based dev team behind BAFTA-winning indie hit Unpacking, has revealed that its next project — a musical puzzler by the name of Tempopo — is coming to Switch sometime in 2024.

With Cult Games on publishing duties, the initial trailer debuted in the recent PC Gaming Show, but you can check out the “Director’s Cut” of it above. We recommend watching the whole thing, as the gameplay clips at the end do a better job of explaining the chill vibes and puzzle gameplay than the tone-setting opening.

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Trippy.

Publisher Ysbryd Games has revealed Love Eternal, a surreal 2D platformer in which you bend gravity to your will to overcome increasingly difficult challenges.

Developed by brlka, the game is currently scheduled to release on the Nintendo Switch in 2025, so we’ve got a bit of a wait on our hands for this one. It should be worth it though; judging from the trailer, it definitely seems to be channeling some of that precise, challenging platforming gameplay made popular in games like Celeste. It looks cool.

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