A new Good Smile Company release.
Last month, Good Smile Company teased new figma including a Pop Up Parade version of Kirby car, based on a transformation in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Pre-orders for this item will set you back USD $25.99 (or the regional equivalent).
It’s estimated to ship in Q4 2024 and even zooms about when you pull it back. Here’s a bit of PR:
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A long list of balance changes, too.
If you’re still duking it out in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, you’ll be pleased to hear a new update has now been released.
Update 1.7 includes the new game mode “rotation”, new stage layouts, new campaign power-ups (including the Perfect Krabby Patty), a handful of new items, bug fixes, a general update, and a lot of character balance changes.
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Pre-orders are now live.
The 2022 horror RPG OMORI will be getting a physical collector’s edition for Switch in Summer 2024, courtesy of Fangamer.
This collector’s edition will come with a collector’s box, sheet music booklet, ephemera envelope, pinwheel kit, pressed flower bookmark, Mari’s drawing, bottle cap magnet, Hobbeez receipt, Othermart loyalty card, Kel’s comic, Capt. Spaceboy cutout, a recital ticket, a hidden item, and a piano music box.
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“No one has come close to exhausting its full capabilities”.
Four decades after it became an international sales phenomenon and dominated a crowded games market, the Nintendo Entertainment System – the 8-bit box that gave birth to some of the medium’s biggest enduring franchises – today finds itself playing host to something else entirely: new aftermarket IPs that are strikingly polished and joyously fun.
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Wish upon a card.
We made it out of February and it is finally the weekend!
Keen to keep the good vibes going, this week on Nintendo Life we celebrated the first Pokémon Presents of 2024. And what would you know, it wasn’t all that bad! The big takeaway was the grand reveal of Pokémon Legends: Z-A coming to Switch in 2025, but we also got to see a neat new TCG app too.
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“We are especially disappointed in the actions of the ratings board”.
LocalThunk’s excellent roguelike deckbuilder Balatro has been removed from various Switch eShops “without any advance warning” following an apparent age rating change from 3+ to 18+ by European ratings board PEGI.
Publisher Playstack issued a statement via Twitter saying the publisher is “especially disappointed in the actions of the ratings board” following post-appeal assurances in October 2023 that the game did not contain gambling themes after they had presumably been flagged in the certification process.
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A full house.
Games like Balatro don’t come around very often. It’s the sort of experience that quickly burrows its way into your mind until you can think of little else, so you tell your friends about it, and then they tell their friends about it. Eventually, through the sheer power of word of mouth, a game that has seemingly popped up from nowhere is now one of the clear frontrunners for Game of the Year. We’re not even exaggerating, by the way; it really is that good. It’s destined to sit alongside the likes of Stardew Valley, Celeste, and Undertale as one of, if not the defining example of its respective genre, and frankly, we’re kicking ourselves that we didn’t catch wind of it sooner.
If words like ‘roguelike’ and ‘deckbuilder’ fill you with dread, we understand, but just bear with us on this. Balatro is a roguelike deckbuilder that’s built around the general concept of poker. The idea is that you need to utilise classic poker hands to build up your chips and beat the target score for each round (or, officially, ‘blind’). It sounds simple, and it genuinely is — you don’t even need any prior knowledge of poker hands because a quick tap of the ‘–’ button will bring up a handy list of every possible combination — but the challenge comes when the target chip number starts increasing.
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It’s-a me…. Lisa..?
The Simpsons is, somehow, still a thing in 2024. Regardless of what we might think of its overall quality, however, there’s no denying that the cartoon is able to pull off some truly weird and wacky crossovers.
While presumably not an official crossover by any means, the show has recently strayed into the realm of Mario Kart with a bizarre dream sequence in which Lisa, Homer, Milhouse, and more partake in a race on what appears to be a take on the racing franchise’s Rainbow Road (thanks, Eurogamer).
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Work on the new PS5 game “got really busy”.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out this week and while many PlayStation 5 owners will be likely diving into the highly anticipated release, the game’s producer Yoshinori Kitase is actually planning to return to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Speaking to BAFTA, Kitase mentioned how he had been a lifelong fan of the series since the original game Legend of Zelda on NES and while he was enjoying Tears of the Kingdom, unfortunately, life got in the way (like it probably has for so many other Zelda fans).
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The ‘Space-54 update’ has arrived.
If you’re still enjoying the roguelite bullet shooter Vampire Survivors, you might want to check out its latest update which sends players to space (again).
It’s officially titled the ‘Space-54 Update’ and is completely free. It adds one new bonus stage, two new characters, four new weapons, a new relic, and seven achievements to unlock. There’s also a bit more to uncover as well!
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