Category: Nintendo

Can you Diglett?

Get your appropriate ageing GIF at the ready (Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan, the Tenth Doctor, that Titanic one — the choice is yours) because we have to break it to you that Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are now 20 years old.

While we let that sink in, let’s run through some facts. Released on the Game Boy Advance on 29th January 2004 in Japan (the games would be released in September and October in North America and Europe respectively), FireRed and LeafGreen saw The Pokémon Company turn to the past for the first time in the series, remaking Gen I’s Pokémon Red and Blue in a similar style that Trainers had seen in Gen III’s Ruby and Sapphire two years prior.

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Piecing it together.

It’s National Puzzle Day in the United States, so the perfect time to revisit and update this selection of Switch’s best puzzlers and brain-ticklers, hmm?

Apparently, it’s also Curmudgeons Day, National Corn Chip Day, and National Bubble Wrap Day, but we don’t have lists for any of those (and no, we didn’t make any of those up).

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Welcome back, Elizabeth Maxwell.

With the release of Slave Zero X on Nintendo Switch fast approaching, we can exclusively reveal that voice actor Elizabeth Maxwell will lend her talents to the upcoming retro slasher.

If the name sounds familiar, then it should. Elizabeth Maxwell is no stranger to the world of video game voiceover work and has previously contributed to games such as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Riju), Fire Emblem Engage (Sephia), Persona 5 Royal (Sae Niijima), Final Fantasy VII Remake, Horizon: Forbidden West, and many more.

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Here’s your first look at ‘Goku’s Next Journey’.

Update :

At Dragon Ball Battle Hour 2024, Bandai Namco and CyberConnect2 announced the new Dragon Ball Kakarot DLC ‘Goku’s Next Journey’, which will launch in February 2024.

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Reader’s digest.

Updated with Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy and Bahnsen Knights! Hold it (and enjoy!).

The portability of Nintendo Switch makes it a great system to play a wide variety of genres, and while visual novels can be enjoyed perfectly well on your TV, there’s something about playing them on a handheld which just feels ‘right’. Since launch, the console has accrued some great examples of the genre, and the catalogue of great visual novels on Switch is growing all the time. Everyone loves a good book, right?

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GBA gems we’d dig on Switch.

With Golden Sun and The Lost Age making their arrival on Nintendo Switch Online, we’ve given this list a bit of a spruce up and added a few more dream titles to the service.

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Legendary.

Ready for another clash of the covers? Welcome to this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl!

Before we introduce today’s fighters, let’s take a look at the last match-up. It was a big’un as we matched four different covers for the OG Metroid against each other. While there was a good split in the votes, the North American Classic Series option took home gold with 47%, followed by Europe on 29%, the standard North American / UK edition on 13% and the Japanese cover on 11%.

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One for Macbat 64 & Toree 3D fans.

Update :

Here’s your reminder that this new (and free) update for Super Kiwi 64 is now live on the Nintendo Switch.

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Get them while you can.

If you’re a big fan of Shovel Knight, you might want to check out the latest officially licensed limited edition controllers from ‘CptnAlex Designs’.

There are two sets available. Both are available to pre-order for $165.00 until 29th February 2024. There are 1,000 sets of these controllers each, and pre-orders will ship in either the second or third quarter of this year. They also come with an exclusive enamel pin and some other items.

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Update now.

The multiplayer survival game Don’t Starve Together has this week received a new update on the Nintendo Switch, adding in Winter’s Feast. Klei Entertainment has released the full patch notes on its official forums, here’s the rundown:

Update 1.11.0 (Nintendo Switch – released January 23, 2024)

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