Category: Nintendo

Coming in June.

Aksys Games is bringing Falcom’s action RPG Tokyo Xanadu eX+ to Switch in June 2024. The publisher announced this during today’s All Aksys event, which was streamed on Twitch.

Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is an enhanced version of the PS Vita RPG Tokyo Xanadu, which was released back in 2015. Taking place in an alternate reality of Tokyo, which was hit by an earthquake in 2005, the city has only just recovered from the devastation. However, things aren’t as calm as they seem, as high school student Kou Tokisaka soon discovers. Kou is sucked into another world called ‘Eclipse’ and he eventually teams up with classmate Asuka Hiiragi to seal the eclipse vortexes.

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Hints at the next project?

Monolith Soft has recently updated its recruitment page, and it appears that the Xenoblade series developer is looking for someone with experience in 3D action games.

As spotted by My Nintendo News, the Nintendo subsidiary is looking for an “application programmer” to join the team. Using Google Translate, we can see that the successful candidate will be “in charge of designing and developing various programs for 3D action games”, looking at things such as character control, enemy AI behaviour, scene progression, and all sorts of design elements.

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Scratch that glitch.

A game as massive as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was always going to have a couple of bugs just waiting to be found by the glitch hunters out there. Since its launch, we have seen players discover ways of getting infinite items, fire immunity, even one-hit weapons, but none have felt quite as personal as this — skipping the game’s introductory area.

Let’s not forget, Breath of the Wild‘s Great Plateau was such a sticking point for the glitching community back in the day, with the possibility of skipping it becoming the holy grail of all discoveries. The answer is still yet to be found, so it’s natural that certain players would take to the TOTK equivalent, The Great Sky Islands, with the same level of skippable optimism.

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Lookin’ sharp.

Poor Switch Lite. Although Nintendo’s smaller, budget-friendly handheld certainly has its audience, there’s no doubt in our mind that it pales in comparison to the Switch – OLED Model thanks to the latter’s far superior screen.

This could well be a thing of the past, though, as YouTuber and handheld specialist Taki Udon has created a prototype mod that replaces the standard LCD screen in the Switch Lite with an OLED screen. What’s more, Udon has stated that the mod shouldn’t cost too much to implement, with prices ranging from $25-$50 based on overall interest.

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Get ’em while you can.

If you’ve been waiting for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster games for Switch to go on sale, now might be the time to scoop them up.

As highlighted by Nintendo Wire, Square Enix has launched a same for not one or a few of them but all six titles. This includes Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI.

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Available later this month.

Earlier before during Sony’s ‘State of Play’ livestream, Sega announced Sonic X Shadow Generations, a remaster of Sonic Generations featuring a brand-new Shadow story campaign.

To celebrate this announcement, Sega is also giving away a free item in its latest release Sonic Superstars. From 15th February 2024, players will be able to get hold of the Shadow Costume. This will be entirely free for all players and can be equipped in the game’s Story Mode.

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Witness my true power!

SEGA has announced that Sonic X Shadow Generations will be heading to Nintendo Switch in Autumn 2024.

The game will feature a full remaster of the original 2011 Sonic Generations along with a brand-new campaign featuring Shadow the Hedgehog. Sorry, no guns here though. Sonic Generations features 2.5D levels in the style of the original games while also incorporating 3D levels popularised by Sonic Adventure.

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Mario vs. Donkey Kong! Tomb Raider! Slave Zero X!

The shortest month of the year is here… but it also might be one of the most-packed.

February 2024 sees Nintendo’s next big remake land on the Switch, but this is the month of the retro throwback, and the eShop (and our shelves) will be bursting with new titles to pick up and download.

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Pokémon, snapped.

If we had to pick the gaming hot topic for January 2024, it would be ‘not-Pokémon’. Palworld seems to be the lookalike on everybody’s lips, but that doesn’t mean that it is the only game saying “Ditto” to the Pokémon formula out there. And, boy, does Nintendo know it.

Yes, as flagged by Games Radar, Nintendo of America has filed an opposition to the attempt to trademark the term ‘PokeZoo‘. This ‘new’ IP was set to be a trading card game which boasts, according to its website description, “groundbreaking mechanics that break the 4th Wall”. Mhmm.

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“The share price looks overvalued”.

The much-rumoured Switch successor that Nintendo fans and investors alike are eager to see officially revealed will struggle to match the current console’s overall hardware sales, according to analysts quoted in a new Bloomberg report (thanks, GoNintendo)

Anticipation for the system has sent shares of the company to a record high in recent weeks, although industry analysts for Goldman Sachs, CLSA Securities, and Macquarie Group have suggested that Nintendo will have its work cut out to exceed the level of interest and unit sales that the current console has enjoyed since 2017. Switch has sold over 132 million units as of November 2023.

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