The Side Order DLC is finally here.
Update :
Here’s your reminder that this fresh new DLC for Splatoon 3 is now available. You’ll need to update your copy of the game as well, so it’s running on Version 7.0.0. Enjoy!
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“Oh, that’s just mean”.
Mother 3 got a surprise announcement for the Switch Online service yesterday, but the catch is it’s only been confirmed for Japan.
To add to the pain, Nintendo has now released new Switch Online icons based on the Famicom title EarthBound Beginnings. They’ll be available until 28th February 2024, so be sure to redeem them with your Platinum Points while you can.
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To hug while we wait for our English localisation.
The Mother Project is launching four brand new Mother 3 plush toys later this year to commemorate the GBA game’s release on Nintendo Switch Online in Japan. (Thanks Wario64!)
Look, it’s not the NSO localisation we wanted, but at least this is something we could import, love, and understand without needing a whole translation or an English script, right? Sigh.
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Limited Run Games and Konami team up again.
Limited Run Games and Konami are adding another game to the retro specialists’ Carbon Engine rereleases. This time, it’s the GBA platformer Ninja Five-O (or Ninja Cop, as it’s known in Europe) from Hudson Soft. And yep, it’s coming to Switch later this year.
The game was announced at IGN FanFest 2024 and joins Felix the Cat and Rocket Knight Adventures as part of Konami’s slate of LRG rereleases. Originally released on the GBA in 2003, Ninja Five-O was critically acclaimed back in the day, praised for its excellent platforming and level design. However, the game had a pretty low print run, and if you’re a retro games collector, then you probably know that copies sell for over $300 fairly regularly as a result. Thank goodness for this rerelease then, right?
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Round Up: Everything announced in the Partner Showcase.
The first Nintendo Direct of 2024 has been broadcast. The February 2024 presentation was a Partner Showcase highlighting Switch games coming from third-party publishers (so, not Nintendo) in the first half of 2024.
Below you’ll find the video of the full Nintendo Direct February 2024 presentation, every individual game announcement with trailers, plus some official info, or a link to our more detailed coverage. There’s also a poll at the bottom, so let us know your personal highlights from this Nintendo Direct.
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And one is arriving tomorrow.
If there’s one thing we all expected to see at today’s Partner Showcase, it was the reveal of a couple of Xbox titles coming to Switch. And we didn’t just get one — we got two, with release dates!
Two of Obsidian’s Xbox exclusives are jumping ship in 2024 and coming to Switch — the excellent narrative RPG Pentiment and the multiplayer survival game Grounded.
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One that you can’t normally find in Paldea.
Ahead of Pokémon Presents next week, The Pokémon Company has announced a brand new Mass Outbreak event for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet.
This one is a little bit different, with increased spawns of Voltorb and Foongus as well as a special mystery Pokémon. It’s not clear exactly what this mystery Pokémon is just yet, but it’s apparently one that normally can’t be caught in the Paldea region. A lot of trainers are convinced it’s a Hisuian Voltorb.
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Side Order DLC out this week.
Nintendo has announced it will be rolling out Version 7.0.0 of Splatoon 3 for Switch this week.
It will include changes to DLC as part of the Side Order launch, Season and Catalog changes, changes to gear, multiplayer adjustments and much more. There’s also a bunch of bug fixes. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo’s support page:
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Legends never die.
Last month, Riot Games announced a substantial number of layoffs within the company, and one of the casualties was the Riot Forge publishing arm. Over the last few years, Riot Forge partnered with various indie developers to produce a diverse lineup of single-player games set in the world of Runeterra, and these games all proved to be pretty good while being completely different from each other. Presumably, whatever projects it had in the works for the rest of this year have all been cancelled, making the latest release—a cozy RPG called Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story—the last hurrah of Riot Forge. Bandle Tale offers a decent, enjoyable take on a Stardew Valley-esque life sim, and though it has its issues, it feels like a good send-off for one of Riot’s most interesting initiatives.
Bandle Tale is set in the mystical realm of Bandle City, which is linked to the expansive land of Runeterra via magical portals. You play the role of a humble yordle living with their grandpa in the quiet region of Yarnville, which is mostly disconnected from other yordle settlements. Events kick off when you sneak out with your best friend to attend a party, where you inadvertently cause an enormous magical incident with a nearby portal that destroys the entire portal network and throws the entirety of Bandle City into disarray. Luckily, your character has been training for the past century in a magical form of knitting, so they set out to repair the damage done to the portal network and explore the other yordle settlements that they never got to see.
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“I made sure to preserve what I believed to be valuable”.
Shiren the Wanderer is one of the longest-running roguelike series in the world. Debuting back in 1995 as the second entry in the Mystery Dungeon series, Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer introduced the world to the young boy who would explore many procedurally-generated dungeons over the next few decades.
Amazingly, despite being such a long-running franchise, there are actually only five mainline games in the series, and twelve in total (counting mobile games and spin-offs), but Shiren has a loyal following. In the West, we were oblivious to these endless tower-climbing, dungeon-trawling adventures until 2008’s punishingly difficult Wii title, Shiren the Wanderer.
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