Category: Nintendo

The Mansion always wins.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim’s after some more bitesize Mario weirdness, which he got his fix of on the DS…

Super Mario Bros. Wonder was great. It had elephants, it had sweet little blobs of slime, and it had funky music. And yet, as I played through it, I couldn’t help but feel like something was missing. “It’s weird,” I thought to myself, riffing on that Wonder Woman 1984 Pedro Pascal meme, “but it could be weirder”.

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Where does Mario Wonder rank?

Happy MAR10! Well, almost. Mario Day takes place on March 10th, so we’re republishing our list of the very best mainline games starring the plumber.

What’s the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank all the Mario games?

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The Rose and Cranny.

The LEGO Animal Crossing range brings a variety of Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters to blocky life across five sets (initially, at least) that enable you to connect them and create your own Animal Crossing island in Lego form.

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“The Dragon Ball community united as one”.

The world this week is mourning the loss of the legendary manga artist and character designer Akira Toriyama, and as part of this, the online community of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is paying tribute.

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“Discover all the secrets”.

As part of this week’s Super Mario celebrations, Nintendo has now released an English version of its Super Mario Bros. Movie digital guidebook.

In case you missed our original post, this guide allows Mario Movie fans to “enhance” their viewing experience with all sorts of “Easter eggs and fun facts”. Although the guide is free, you will still need a Nintendo Account to view it.

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It’s now 18+.

Good news for deckbuilding fans itching to play the indie smash hit Balatro, as the game has returned to the Switch eShop today in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Just a week ago, the game disappeared from Switch storefronts due to “a reaction to an overnight change to Balatro’s age rating”. Today, publisher Playstack shared the news of Balatro’s return on Twitter. At the moment, the game is still unavailable to buy on the eShop in Japan, but the team are still looking into this.

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All locked behind a paywall.

For a short while, LEGO Fortnite seemed to be pretty popular. Blending Lego with survival mechanics worked wonders and brought in a whole new player base to the free-to-play online battle royal. But today, Epic has announced LEGO Kits, new buildings that you’ll be able to create and add to your villages.

Fan reception to the announcement hasn’t exactly been rapturous, however, as these new Kits — which are being introduced to the Item Shop this weekend — will cost V-Bucks.

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Fancy a winch? Oh, you call it a shift? Same difference, baby.

When we first got wind that Expeditions: A MudRunner Game was on its way to Nintendo Switch, we gotta admit, we were a little bit surprised. This new entry in Saber Interactive’s superb off-road sim series takes the whole mud-running malarkey to a new level, with larger maps, loads more fine details, and improved physics over its well-regarded predecessors. How on earth was this big, modern, physics-heavy driving game going to run in handheld mode on a seven-year-old console?

Well, as it turns out, not without some fairly notable issues. However, we will say straight off the bat that if this is your only way to play, or you’re just a big fan of the previous games, you’ll likely be able to overlook most of the roadblocks. But let’s quickly run through the overall deal with what’s different between this new entry and the sublime Snowrunner first.

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“I can’t believe he is gone….”.

The passing of Dragon Ball creator and manga/anime legend Akira Toriyama at the age of 68 has come as a shock to fans the world over.

From colleagues and collaborators to the millions of people who have enjoyed his work, his death has led to an outpouring of tributes online.

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He also worked on games like Dragon Quest.

There’s some incredibly sad news coming out of Japan today, with the official Dragon Ball social media account revealing the legendary manga creator and character artist Akira Toriyama passed away at the age of 68 on 1st March 2024 from acute subdural hematoma.

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