Category: Nintendo

Third-party games will reportedly be the second stage.

Ahead of Nintendo’s Switch 2 broadcast this week, new reports and rumours about third-party access to development kits have emerged. This follows a report last week claiming the Switch 2 would have a “3-phase” launch plan, with third-party games reportedly the second stage.

According to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman, he’s heard “many developers” are still without a kit – especially “medium to small developers” and Nintendo is apparently being “very selective” about who has access to the new hardware.

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Double the boost power with two more F-Zero albums.

Nintendo’s weekly album update has arrived for the Nintendo Music app and this time it’s loaded with high-speed beats from the F-Zero series.

Included this week is the SNES soundtrack for F-Zero and along with this is the album for the 64DD F-Zero X Expansion Kit. And if you’re wondering, the original N64 F-Zero soundtrack was added to the service last November. Here’s the full list of songs included in both soundtracks:

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Unofficial PC ports to get mods & performance boosts.

By this point, you’re probably well aware of N64 Recompiled which, in basic terms, allows N64 games to be played on PC by natively running the game’s code on your target platform. Most recently, we’ve seen Majora’s Mask get a “PC port” thanks to the project.

And it sounds like things are expanding even more, as Wes Fenlon, author of newsletter Read Only Memo, has caught up with the program’s creator, Wiseguy, to discuss what’s coming in a “re-debut” (spotted via Android Authority).

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Two days remain.

We are rapidly approaching the big Switch 2 Direct on 2nd April, and Nintendo is ensuring the hype train is fully stocked and ready to leave the station as it has just shared a new image of the console via the Nintendo Today app.

Now, the vast majority of us will likely see this image tomorrow when the regional clocks tick over to the ‘One Day To Go’ message that the app has been counting towards in recent days, but thanks to the magic of timezones, those in Japan have already caught a glimpse of the fresh snap.

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Totally Bazaar.

Marvelous announced the next title in the beloved Story of Seasons series during last week’s Nintendo Direct, and we’re sticking with the remakes! But this time, we’re diverging from the undisputed classics and going a bit off-piste.

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar launches on Switch on 27th August 2025, and it’s a remake of Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar, which came to the DS in 2008 in Japan, and 2010/11 for North America and Europe. It’s not one of the most well-known entries, and it’s not even the next game after the previous remake, A Wonderful Life, but it’s getting a brand new art style and plenty of new features all the same.

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Is it finally time?

Speculation surrounding a potential remake of Final Fantasy IX has seemingly been growing for years at this point, rising exponentially when an NVIDIA leak made mention of the unannounced project in 2021.

Now, we may well be on the brink of a reveal as Square Enix teases “a variety of projects” in accordance with the original game’s 25th anniversary on its official website (thanks Push Square).

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Out next week.

Square Enix has announced it will be releasing a two-in-one physical Switch collection for Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II.

According to Square Enix Asia’s Facebook page, this bundle will be made available on 2nd April 2025.

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X/10.

Recently, we crossed one of the last remaining Wii U winners off our Switch port list thanks to the arrival of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition.

We’d waited a long time to extol the virtues of this excellent entry to people who never picked up a Wii U, and the wait, thankfully, was worth it. PJ awarded the Switch edition an ‘Outstanding’ 10/10 in his review, calling it “an absolute must-play” that ranks “up there with the all-time great sci-fi RPGs”.

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It’s about time.

Well, that’s been quite the week, huh? Let’s chill out with another edition of Box Art Brawl.

Last time, we saw two covers for NSO newbie Nobunaga’s Ambition go head-to-head, and it’s got to be said, it wasn’t even close. The epic Japanese art comfortably walked away with the win, taking 74% of the vote and leaving North America with the remaining 26%.

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Here are the full patch notes.

Super Evil Megacorp has this week released its ‘Balance of Power’ update for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate.

This is a massive update adding boss updates, control improvements, bug fixes and much more. The team also has much more planned for 2025. Here’s the full rundown via the official Steam page:

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