Category: Nintendo

“It’s a bit of a change of strategy”.

Microsoft and Xbox have mentioned on a number of occasions how they want to make gaming more accessible than ever before, and during a recent appearance at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit earlier this week, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart reiterated this.

While he admits it’s a “bit of a change of strategy” compared to Xbox’s approach in the past and there’s nothing seriously happening right now, the mission is to bring the company’s “first-party experiences” as well as its subscription services to “every screen” that can play games. Here’s what he had to say, courtesy of GameSpot:

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Dragon Quest! Batman! Pokémon DLC!

Well, geez, we’re less than a month away from Christmas and the holiday season, and we’re just over a month away from 2024. Guess it’s time to look at the final month of 2023 and see what games are coming to the Switch.

This is by no means a definitive list of games coming to Nintendo Switch in December 2023, but these are the ones we’re most excited to get our little mitts on. And yes, we know there are only 10 listed in the table below, but you can actually buy all three Batman games —Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight — separately. Good thing we’re a few days ahead of the month, hey?

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Release windows for Inazuma, Fantasy Life, Layton and more.

Level-5 is back with its second-ever Vision Showcase, providing more information on each of its five upcoming games that will be heading our way over the next few years.

The games were the same that we saw in the studio’s March showcase, though the focus this time around was to provide release windows for each of them. Many of these windows are later than expected and Level-5 boss Akihiro Hino was quick to apologise for the delays.

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Rabi-Ribi fans apply here.

Blending metroidvania and bullet-hell mechanics, TEVI is inching ever closer to its Switch launch on November 30th, 2023.

To mark the occasion, we can exclusively reveal a brand new trailer that showcases 4 key boss battles from developer CreSpirit’s (Rabi-Ribi) latest project. It’s a solid demonstration of the characters you’ll come across on your journey, the type of attacks they’ll be unleashing upon you, and what strategy you might need to utilise in order to emerge from each fight victorious.

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Welcome to The Sprawl.

Developer Hilltop Studios has revealed a whole bunch of new information about its upcoming adventure game Lil’ Guardsman in an extended blog post titled ‘Visitor’s Guide to The Sprawl‘.

Launching on Switch in “the coming months” (specific date currently unknown), Lil’ Guardsman contains gameplay inspired by Papers, Please in a colourful high-fantasy world inspired by classic ’90s LucasArts adventure classics like Monkey Island.

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“Y’all are gonna freak out”.

Update :

This absolutely massive Among Us collaboration has now been officially revealed and as part of its “biggest Cosmicube yet” there are crossovers with the following games:

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Download it now!

After the massive final content update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe earlier this month in the form of ‘Wave 6’ of the Booster Course Pass, Nintendo has now released Version 3.0.1.

This is a much smaller update that addresses multiple issues which were likely introduced in Version 3.0.0. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of Nintendo’s official support page:

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Chill Season is almost here.

Splatoon 3‘s updates just keep on coming, with the next one due out this week either today or tomorrow, depending on your location.

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It’s-a bop!

In a game full of memorable moments, one of Mario Wonder‘s more out-there sequences has to be the ‘Piranha Plants on Parade’ musical number. This Wonder effect completely took us by surprise on our first playthrough and has certainly stuck in our heads ever since. Fortunately, it looks like we were not alone in our admiration as some talented players have managed to recreate the musical moment in Super Mario Maker 2.

In case the sequence in question has slipped your mind, this is the moment where your standard platforming level turns into an all-singing and (some) dancing routine thanks to some very well-choreographed Piranha Plants. How exactly could that exist in Mario Maker? you might ask. Well, a couple of different ways, actually.

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Jack of all trades.

One of the Switch’s greatest strengths is that it knows exactly what it is. You’ve got a small handful of streaming apps, sure, but there’s no denying that Nintendo Switch is a game console, through and through. Could its eventual successor be more, though?

Back in 2013 when Microsoft revealed the Xbox One, the company was widely ridiculed for its focus on delivering an ‘all in one’ device; a console that could not only play the latest games, but could stream movies, broadcast live TV, and let you control everything with gestures or your voice. Microsoft’s desire for an always-online Xbox One to be the only piece of tech you’ll ever need in your living room didn’t sit well with gamers, not least because games seemed to be an afterthought, with the firm more concerned about ensuring you were connected to its entertainment ecosystem at all times. 10 years on, however, the landscape for gaming and other media is somewhat different. While Microsoft undoubtedly botched the messaging a decade ago, was it really such a bad idea?

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