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The best eShop games of January, chosen by you and us!

Welcome to February 2024, and to the first (proper) eShop Selects of 2024. We’ve changed things up a bit for 2024 — alongside our picks for the best eShop game, we asked you lovely readers to choose your favourite eShop-only game of the month, but with a twist.

Staff and contributors at Nintendo Life decide on the top three by an internal vote, all from eShop games we’ve reviewed on the site that were released that month. However, readers will now get to vote on the best game on the eShop that we haven’t reviewed. And we’ll be revealing your January 2024 winner today at the bottom of the article.

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Two Game Boy releases will return.

Konami has started the month of February by announcing Yu-Gi-Oh! will be getting a classic game collection in Japan. The official title according to machine translation is called Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection and it will be released on the Switch and Steam at some point in 2024.

Fans can look forward to multiple games and the first two revealed include the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance titles: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of the Great Duelist and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6: Expert 2.

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Super Jack.

Hi there folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Before we get cracking with this week’s clash, let’s find out how things panned out last time, eh? We looked at Rayman Advance for the, uh, Game Boy Advance (if that wasn’t already obvious), pitting North America against Europe in a classic duel.

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New map, weapons and more.

Bohemia Interactive’s free-to-play looter shooter Vigor is getting a new chapter update next week on 7th February.

It’s called Vigor Chronicles: Isolation and is a “bone-chilling” update – adding Eikevjen as a new map in the Shootout made, the new M14 rifle, the new Viper V4 knife, new melee improvements and a new smoke grenade consumable.

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Pre-orders open later this month.

Ahead of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie and Knuckles Paramount series, First 4 Figures has shared a “sneak peek” of its new ‘Knuckles Standoff’ figure.

This is the second statue in the same series which also features the ‘Sonic Standoff’ figure. As you can see, instead of Knuckle’s look in the video games, it’s based on his appearance in the live-action movies (specifically Sonic the Hedgehog 2) as well as the upcoming Paramount series.

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Gotta score fast.

We’re republishing this list in honour of one of the best Sonic games of all time, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which celebrated its 30th birthday on 2nd February 2024.

It was back in 1991 that Sonic the Hedgehog — the blue dude with the most ‘tude — first burst forth onto the Mega Drive in Japan and Sega finally presented a credible challenger for the platforming crown Nintendo’s jumping plumber had been wearing since the mid-1980s. In the decades since, the blue blur has starred in a host of platform games: some 2D, others 3D, some fantastic, others not so much.

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Oh boy.

It’s Christmas morning, and amidst the thick haze of food already cooking for lunch and the soothing laughter of our children enjoying their new toys, my wife approaches me with a small, square package. I hadn’t seen this under the tree. “That’s your last one,” she says. I instinctively go to shake it – she knows me well enough to catch my wrist. “Don’t do that!” she interjects. Clearly this is an item of some delicacy.

I unwrap it carefully, and as I slip the box free of its decorative coat, I am filled with both giddy elation and a crushing sense of shame: Shame at the sheer averageness of the gifts I have offered her this year compared to the magnificence I hold in my hands; elated, because said magnificence is a boxed, Japanese copy of Mario’s Tennis for the Virtual Boy with manual inside. It’s a Christmas miracle. Eat your heart out, Dickens.

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In the Cho-zone.

School’s out, baby! Sorry, what..? What do you mean we’re adults? Pfft, fine.

Yes, it’s the weekend, which means it’s time to find out which games we’re all planning to boot up. For we do so, however, let’s just recap some of the biggest stories from the week, shall we?

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Despite supposed listings online.

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered is out in just a few weeks and one thing many fans want to know is if there will be a physical version of this retro collection. While there have supposedly been some listings online, officially speaking there’s been no announcement.

During an interview with Nintendo Everything recently, Aspyr’s director of product Chris Bashaar mentioned how there’s been no official announcement. In other words, it’s not an outright “no”, so maybe there’s still hope. Here’s the full exchange:

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“You, as an actor, are so disposable”.

Before the appointment of Sarah Natochenny as the voice of Ash Ketchum, the original voice actor of the Pokémon character was actually Veronica Taylor. Now that Ash’s arc has come to an end in the anime series, Taylor has reflected on her own time when she was essentially “fired” from the role.

As a result the abrupt recast in 2006, she still struggles and isn’t even sure she’s properly said goodbye to Ash just yet. Here’s what she had to say during a chat with Kotaku:

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