Category: Nintendo

Teams will vary depending on which region you’re splatting in.

Hot on the heels of the Halloween event, Splatoon 3‘s next Splatfest has been announced for just a couple of week’s time, with the upcoming three-team battle heading to the Splatlands from 18th-19th November.

This next one will be mixing up the format a little as we see the return of regional themes. Yes, the Splatfest question and the optional teams will vary depending on your region, so pay attention now to see what’s on the table for you.

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Super Mario evergreen revenue is up year-on-year.

Nintendo’s Mario Movie, which made its debut earlier this year, has had an incredibly positive impact on the sales and downloads of Super Mario games.

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Ubisoft Montreal cuts 98 positions in total.

Ubisoft is the latest company to lay off employees, with the French publisher’s Montreal studio (Assassin’s Creed) reportedly hit the hardest, cutting 98 jobs. In total though, Ubisoft is axing 124 jobs as part of a global company restructure.

Some of the positions impacted include administration and IT jobs, along with Ubisoft’s IT and SFX teams. It’s doing this to streamline operations and enhance the company’s overall collective efficiency. Notably, production teams won’t be impacted by this restructure:

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Wes Ball is on directing duties.

Nintendo has announced that it is working on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie with producer Avi Arad and director Wes Ball.

Following the immense success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Illumination, the Zelda project will this time be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

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Every first-party game that has sold over one million copies.

Updated with sales figures from Nintendo’s Q2 FY24 financial report – enjoy!

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At the time of writing, the Switch has the highest number of software sales of any Nintendo console, ever, with over one billion games sold on the platform since March 2017. What’s more, its lead is so commanding that it will likely hold this pole position for a good few years to come (unless there is a sudden surge in sales for DS games around the corner that nobody saw coming).

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Here we go again.

Rumours of the Switch successor are hotting up by the day, though Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa seems keen to challenge the accuracy of the claims (thanks, Nintendo Everything).

In a recent financial call, the contents of which were written up on the Japanese site Mainichi, Furukawa dug into some of the latest ‘Switch 2′ discussions. Speaking to the claim that Nintendo’s follow-up console was showcased behind closed doors at this year’s Gamescom event, the company president stated, “The rumors online that appear to be public information are not accurate”. (according to Simon Griffin and SatsumaFS’ translation for Nintendo Everything).

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Another gem from First 4 Figures.

Toy and model company First 4 Figures has launched pre-orders for a new product called ‘Banjo-Kazooie Duet’.

Based on the 1998 N64 classic Banjo-Kazooie from developer Rare, the statue comes in three flavours, each accompanied by a rather eye-watering price tag.

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Mario Movie and other projects lend a hand.

Nintendo has today published its financial report for Q2 FY2024 and it looks like things have been going really rather well. On top of some meaty sales figures for the likes of Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4 and the Switch console itself, the report finds that Nintendo’s sales in the first half of the fiscal year have been “the largest since the launch of Nintendo Switch”.

Comprising sales from hardware, software and other “mobile, IP related income” like The Super Mario Bros. Movie, apps and the like, Nintendo’s ¥796.2 billion sales from Q1-Q2 this fiscal year have trumped all other first-half earnings from the Switch’s lifetime — which, when you consider that this console is knocking on its seventh anniversary, isn’t bad going.

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Will be available in Japan at launch.

Physical game manuals have slowly been phased out over the years, but as part of the return of Super Mario RPG on the Switch next week, Nintendo is releasing a new one.

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Pre-orders are live.

8BitDo has this week lifted the lid on its new gamepad the ‘Ultimate C Bluetooth Controller’, compatible with Nintendo Switch.

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