Category: Nintendo

Classic Super Mario Soundtrack Joins Nintendo’s Music App For MAR10 Day

Bop to the beat.

The MAR10 Day celebrations this year have been fairly lowkey, but we’re not entirely done just yet. In case you missed it, Nintendo has added a new soundtrack to its Nintendo Music mobile application and sure enough it’s a Mario one!

Following on from Super Mario Bros. 2 last month and the Zelda: Link to the Past album last week, the latest soundtrack comes from Nintendo’s all-time NES classic Super Mario Bros. 3. This album is loaded with 42 tracks and has a total runtime of 32 minutes. Here’s the full rundown:

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Capcom Slashes The Price Of Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney In Big eShop Sale (US)

Mega Man, Resident Evil, Ghost Trick all discounted.

Capcom is having a huge eShop sale right now in the US, with up to 75% off of some of the studio’s biggest IPs. Thanks to the ever-reliable Wario64 for bringing this to our attention!

Monster Hunter is among the biggest here, and while the franchise is currently eating up everyone’s free time on other consoles, those curious about what MonHun is might be tempted to dive into Monster Hunter Rise on Switch at a heavily discounted price of $9.99 — or $19.99 if you want it bundled with the expansion, Sunbreak.

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New Nintendo Patent Hints At Improved Voice Chat On Switch 2

Chatter up!

A new patent from Nintendo seems to suggest that voice chat will be better implemented into Switch 2, finally overcoming one of our biggest complaints with ‘Switch 1’ (thanks, Wccftech).

The patent was filed back in November 2024 before being published by the United States Patent Application Office late last month. The main thrust of the text and diagrams appears to outline something akin to in-game proximity chat, or as the summary confusingly puts it, when “the sound heard by the user can be gradually switched from the sound acquired by the residual virtual microphone at the position before movement to the sound acquired by the virtual microphone at the current position”. Nice and clear, eh?

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New 18+ LEGO Mario Kart Set Is A Better Build Than We Expected

Pole position on our wishlists.

During the MAR10 Day celebrations last year, Nintendo dropped a teaser for an upcoming Mario Kart ‘big build’ set – with a silhouette that showcased a more detailed kart than we had previously seen from the child-friendly builds. A year of silence ensued, but we’d expect our first official look to arrive later on today after an official LEGO retailer site revealed a bunch of details about the upcoming set. Mamma mia!

According to the Australian LEGO Certified Stores site, the ‘LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart’ set (nice and snappy, eh?) is set to launch on 15th May for $249.99 AUD, which is around £122 / $158. And it’s one for grown-ups only, apparently consisting of 1,972 pieces and earning itself an adult ’18+’ age rating in the process.

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Leaked 18+ LEGO Mario Kart Set Is A Better Build Than We Expected

Pole position on our wishlists.

During the MAR10 Day celebrations last year, Nintendo dropped a teaser for an upcoming Mario Kart ‘big build’ set – with a silhouette that showcased a more detailed kart than we had previously seen from the child-friendly builds. A year of silence ensued, but we’d expect our first official look to arrive later on today after an official LEGO retailer site revealed a bunch of details about the upcoming set. Mamma mia!

According to the Australian LEGO Certified Stores site, the ‘LEGO Super Mario: Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart’ set (nice and snappy, eh?) is set to launch on 15th May for $249.99 AUD, which is around £122 / $158. And it’s one for grown-ups only, apparently consisting of 1,972 pieces and earning itself an adult ’18+’ age rating in the process.

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Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship Of Doom (NES)

Hyaaah!

Hello chums, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we looked at Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, and the result was pretty definitive. The Western design won with 69% of the vote, with some of you noting that the Japanese variant didn’t even look like it belonged to the Pokémon franchise. User Kienda said “If someone showed me the Japanese case out of context, I wouldn’t even twig it was a Pokémon game”. Yep, fair comment!

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Pokémon Almost Became A “Gritty” Baseball-Themed RPG In The West

“Could we make it that they’re all baseball players in a baseball league?”.

Gail Tilden, former Nintendo of America’s marketing boss, recently spoke to The Video Game History Foundation’s Frank Cifaldi at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, and one of the topics she touched upon was the small matter of launching Pokémon in the West.

As you’ll probably be aware, Pokémon—or Pocket Monsters, as it’s known in Japan—was already something of a phenomenon in its homeland before it reached North America and Europe, and it was Tilden’s job to repackage it for Western tastes.

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