“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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Pre-orders are now live.
The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection lands on the Switch next week and to build up some excitement, Nintendo has shared a new launch trailer.
It shows off plenty of famous faces from the Star Wars galaxy including several heroes and villains. You can also see plenty of firefights as well as some lightsaber battles, and it’s all looking quite promising at the moment.
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Deal me in.
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 is laying all his cards on the table…
It’s early March and I am already filled with embarrassment at the thought of my 2024 Nintendo Year in Review. Last year’s results were to be expected — “You didn’t see enough daylight once Tears of the Kingdom was out, but here’s another 43 games you played, too” — though this time I am fearful that things might be a little less jolly. “You logged 2,000 combined hours on Balatro and Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, are you okay?”
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is the one to beat, though.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts — commonly known as BAFTA — has announced the nominees for the BAFTA Games Awards 2024.
The Best Game category is stacked, as it has been for all game awards ceremonies over the past few months. Nintendo has both The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder competing for the top prize alongside Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Dave The Diver — the biggest surprise in the line-up.
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My kingdom for a unicorn.
How do you follow up a game like 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim? Before that ambitious, phenomenal sci-fi adventure, developer Vanillaware found its niche in creating rich, beautiful-looking worlds with a magical, medieval twist. Sometimes it was traditional Western fantasy, while others it jumped back to Edo Japan. Unicorn Overlord marks the developer’s return to the former, taking place in a fantasy realm overtaken by an evil lord. That sounds like the exact opposite of 13 Sentinels’ winding plot, but Unicorn Overlord is ambitious in an entirely different way. It’s also absolutely brilliant, effortlessly blending multiple systems to create a wonderful tactical RPG with a twist.
At the start of the game, you witness the fall of the Kingdom of Cornia thanks to a revolt led by General Valmore. At the same time, the young prince Alain flees the kingdom with the Holy Knight Josef, to ensure the bloodline survives. The revolt, however, is successful, and the Zenioran Army rises up and gradually overtakes all five nations of Valmore. Ten years later, Alain returns to build a liberation army to take back his kingdom and restore order to the continent of Fevrith.
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