Category: Nintendo

It wants to move away from “one-and-done console game”.

After revealing in November last year how it wanted to focus on transforming its biggest franchises into live services, Warner Bros. has now reiterated this at the Morgan Stanley conference earlier this week.

According to WB Discovery gaming boss J.B. Perrette, it’s no longer about launching “a one-and-done console game” but focusing on a live service where players can live, work, build, play and return to regularly:

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Dual-screen dreams.

We are still receiving top-notch releases by the bucketload on Switch, but as the console enters the latter phase of its lifespan, we are well and truly in remake & remaster territory. The Wii U barrel has quickly run dry (though some remain that we’d like to see make the jump to the hybrid) and recent years have seen Nintendo turn to the DS and 3DS catalogue for inspiration — and gosh has it proved useful so far!

Last year brought us the likes of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection and 2024 has already served up Another Code: Recollection, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy and Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, with Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, The Legend of Legacy HD: Remastered and more (probably) still yet to come.

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Wahoo!

Mario Day is almost upon us (10th March – MAR10, get it??) and Nintendo is wasting no time with getting the celebrations underway. Those who want to make the most of the calendar event of the year can now pick up a 14-day Nintendo Switch Online trial for free.

This offer will be sticking around until 18th March at 6am GMT / 5am CET / 1am ET / 11:59pm (17th March) PT and grants you access to all of the features of a standard Nintendo Switch Online subscription. As well as getting involved in online play, you will also be able to hit up the entire NES, SNES and Game Boy NSO libraries.

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The next Legend of Heroes game arrives.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, the 11th entry in Falcom’s long-running Trails series, is launching in the West on Switch on 5th July 2024.

Publisher NIS America shared the announcement on Twitter, along with a brand new, if brief, trailer introducing us to Melchior of the Thorns, a member of the group Almata. We also get to see the main protagonist Van in action against another character. Van can transform into the Grendel, a very cool-looking armoured beast that looks to play a heavy role in the game’s story.

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Sharing is caring.

The Nintendo Switch has crossed the threshold and is now in its eighth year. All attention seems to be turning to what Nintendo has up its sleeve for the next generation of hardware, but for the time being, the Switch is still very much alive and kicking.

To mark the occasion, Switch Weekly has revealed its annual ‘State of Switch’ survey. Also celebrating seven years in the biz, the survey covers all things from your gaming habits, your history with the console and what you would like to see Nintendo do next.

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Details about new sets might have been leaked.

Following the arrival of the Animal Crossing sets last week, Nintendo and LEGO are now teasing “something” ahead of ‘MAR10 Day’ later this week.

Whatever is planned is apparently getting revealed on 9th March during an “exciting” Super Mario-themed broadcast. In the brief trailer above, you can hear some sounds at the end and then the clip is cut.

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Crema: “We’re actually very happy with the final product”.

We’ve got some big news for all the “Tamers” out there today, with the Pokémon-like online game Temtem announcing the final major updates for the game as well as the removal of monetisation.

In an incredibly lengthy message to the game’s community, developer Crema revealed Patch 1.7 and Patch 1.8 would be the last major updates for the game. Patch 1.7 (due out in early June) will contain a new season, a new Tamer Pass, balance changes, quality of life updates, and much more. As for patch 1.8, it will come with even more QoL updates, balance changes, “a renovation and rework” of the game’s economy, and some other additions.

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‘Capcom Highlights’ is a new two day event.

Capcom has hosted all sorts of showcase over the past few years and to kick off 2024 it’s announced ‘Capcom Highlights’ – a new digital event covering all of the latest Capcom titles.

The difference with this event is it’s being divided into two days. Day 1 will take place on 7th March 2024 and the second day will be 11th March 2024. The program runtime will be “between 15-20 minutes” each day.

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3DS emulator Citra to also shut down.

Tropic Haze, the creators of the Switch emulator Yuzu, have agreed to pay Nintendo USD $2.4 million in damages as well as shut down the emulator for the hybrid console, along with the 3DS emulator Citra. This news comes just a week after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the creators, and around a day after Tropic Haze hired its own lawyer.

In this sudden development, a joint motion was filed earlier today (spotted via Ryan Brown on Bluesky) between Nintendo and Tropic Haze. The creator of Yuzu and Citra appears to have accepted Nintendo’s demands without any pushback and have agreed to be barred from working on Yuzu, hosting Yuzu, distributing the code, and even handing Nintendo the rights to yuzu-emu.org.

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Cloud watching.

The latest UK charts are in and it is no surprise who’s sitting at the top spot this week.

We predicted it, you predicted it, of course, this week’s champ is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the PS5. Square Enix’s latest managed to beat both EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy this time around (which is no mean feat) and it means that last week’s bronze medalist, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, has been pushed down the ladder once again.

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