Category: Nintendo

Hopefully there are plenty of units to go around.

As exciting as new console launches are, it’s become increasingly difficult in recent years to secure certain systems on release. Sony’s PlayStation 5 was hugely impacted by this coming off the pandemic, so how will it be for Nintendo’s Switch successor this many years on?

Bloomberg has released a new report about the possible shipment data for the Switch 2 in the first year of its life, and according to Robin Zhu – an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, Nintendo’s supply chain is ready to sell more than 20 million units in 2025.

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Is the cake a lie?

Hollow Knight fans have been waiting over five years now for Silksong, so when will we hear more about it? While the best guesses have been shared time and time again, the next date fans have discovered actually lines up with Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct.

Hollow Knight fan and YouTuber ‘fireb0rn’ highlights how a member of Team Cherry has changed their social media profile to a picture of chocolate cake after also teasing in a post how “something big is coming”. Long story short, someone ended up reverse image searching the picture of the cake and the first search result was for a recipe with the date “2nd April” at the top of the page. See where this is going here?

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The stop-gap generation.

And so it begins. Nintendo has pulled back the curtain on its next generation of hardware to reveal… exactly the thing everyone expected.

Officially revealed earlier today following months — no, years — of rumours, speculation, and leaks, the Nintendo Switch 2 is, on the face of it, what most people wanted. It’s the same basic concept, just a bit bigger, with more power and some improvements, plus hints at a couple of gimmicks not explicitly detailed in the trailer. We also glimpsed a few seconds of a new Mario Kart.

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2 soon.

They only went and did it!

Yes, finally we can all relax and enjoy Nintendo’s new hardware: Switch 2 is real, it’s been officially revealed, and it’s looking a bit sexy.

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The mystery continues… maybe.

Last year, we had a great time with Revolution Software’s ‘Reforged’ remaster of the classic point-and-click adventure Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. “It sure would be neat if the rest of the series received such a treatment,” we thought to ourselves, “if only Revolution had something up its sleeve…”

As it turns out, it does! Or, more accurately, it might. Three weeks ago, the studio released its ‘Christmas Video 2024‘, thanking fans for their support over the past 12 months and showing off some of the game’s original art. It’s a sweet video that, we’ll admit, flew under the radar for us a little; but, as noted by Game Watcher (and brought to our attention by our friends over at Push Square), the message also contains a tease of what the future might hold — ooh, how sneaky!

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Smile, Juliet.

The Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP developer Dragami Games has not only continued to address various issues with multiple patches but it’s also adding additional content to the game.

With this in mind, Dragami Games company CEO Yoshima Yasuda has now announced the team will be adding a photo mode “soon”. Nothing else was detailed, but typically these modes allow you to take shots of the main character and sometimes even change the outfits and camera settings.

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Wave 1 is now available.

Nintendo has rolled out another batch of icons, this time celebrating the release of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for Switch.

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Cramp Rock.

It’s not every controller review that we have to start with a rundown of the current state of Fortnite, but bear with us, we promise it’s relevant.

The classic looting and shooting that we all know and love is now just a small part of the “Fortnite ecosystem” *squirms*, a hub-world for games that bundle the battle royale in with the survival sim LEGO Fortnite, the racer Rocket Racing, and the Rock Band-esque rhythm game, Fortnite Festival.

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“Without Nasir, there is no DOOM”.

Co-founder of id Software and one of the minds behind the seminal FPS Doom, John Romero, has honoured a legendary Square programmer on social media, calling him an “inspiration”.

Sharing his thoughts in the wake of Japanese broadcaster NHK’s interview with Nasir Gebelli, who lead programmer on the Final Fantasy games on NES and SNES action RPG Secret of Mana, Romero says “Without Nasir, there is no DOOM.” High, high praise indeed.

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PDF Software.

Your eyes are not deceiving you, reader — the hugely influential FPS DOOM is now fully playable inside a PDF file. Did anyone ask for this? Probably. And it’s a pretty impressive feat.

Reported on by IGN (via Push Square), a high-school student known as ading2210 on github has ported DOOM into a PDF that you can play inside a Chromium-based browser. Dubbed DOOMPDF, it’s missing some text and sound, but it’s otherwise a fully functioning black-and-white version of DOOM.

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