Read moreApril’s Game Pass leavers include Life Is Strange: True Colors and The Long Dark
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Read moreTotally Accurate Battle Simulator devs release a free archive of 23 playable prototypes
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator – have released its next game, although game (singular) might be inaccurate. Landfall Archives is a digital museum of sorts, compiling 23 playable prototypes and demos from unreleased projects that never crossed the finish line. It’s out now, and best of all, it’s free.Nintendo Will Repair Out-Of-Warranty Joy-Con For Free In The UK, EEA, Switzerland
Policy change extends free Joy-Con drift repairs to new territories.
Nintendo will now offer free repairs of faulty Joy-Con to Switch owners in the UK, European Economic Area, and Switzerland.
This is according to an update to the company’s support page on its UK site (which appears to be reflected on other official sites across affected territories), which labels the now-infamous ‘Joy-Con drift’ as “responsiveness syndrome or so-called ‘drifting'”.
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Ninterview: Menko Cards And Niche Nintendo History – The Hunt For Mario’s Rookie Card
A different kind of ‘game card’.
If you have ever read up on the history of Nintendo, you know that before it went into the video game business, the company began life by making cards and other novelties. The hanafuda and playing cards which Nintendo produced from its formation in 1889 took a back seat following the popularity of toys like the Ultra Hand in the 1960s, and the company would soon move into electronic games and, ultimately, arcade and video games.
But this is not to say that the company left cards behind completely. Nintendo-branded Japanese Menko cards were released in Japan in the early 1980s and collector Ben Gilmore has a sizeable colletion of these lesser-known Nintendo-branded cards. This milk cap/Pog-like tabletop game is older than Nintendo itself, and there are Nintendo Menkos with Mario designs that date from the plumber’s pre-NES arcade days.
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Video: Is 3DS StreetPass Dead?
Zion investigates.
The start of this week saw the closure of the 3DS and Wii U eShops, a sad time for all of us, many of whom spent last weekend feeling a little sentimental about all of the brilliant games that we would be losing as we attempted to download as many titles as possible (not speaking from personal experience, of course). But what does this closure mean for the 3DS’ other features? Just three months into what we declared “the year of 3DS StreetPass,” could the feature really be dying just as we were getting started?
This is the precise question that our lovely video producer, Zion, attempted to answer this week. As many of you may be aware, Zion has been making a public push for the return of StreetPass ever since the start of 2023 — we even held a StreetPass event at this year’s PAX West. Aside from providing an update on how this journey has been going so far, the latest video explains the reality of Streetpass in 2023, how the eShop closure has affected the feature, and what its future might look like.
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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Kirby’s Adventure
No copying here.
Hello folks! We made it through April Fools’ Day, so it’s time to say: welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
First off, let’s have a quick look back at last week’s tussle. Super Mario Bros. 2 (or Super Mario USA) took to the stage, and while it was fairly close, Japan won this fight with 59% of the vote. We’re fans off both, so we’re not disappointed with the result at all.
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Random: Bitmap Is Bringing Xeno Crisis To N64 And GameCube
“This is no joke”.
April Fools’ Day has been one heck of a minefield this year, with some video game companies going an extra step by actually releasing a real product.
With this in mind, Xeno Crisis developers Bitmap Bureau have announced they’ll be bringing the retro-inspired shooter to the Nintendo 64 and GameCube. And yes, it’s not a joke! We’ve seen this Kickstarter release on all sorts of platforms already – including Switch and now pre-orders are live on these classic Nintendo systems.
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The Last Starship’s alpha 2 adds free roam mode, ship docking, and much more
The Last Starship, the new game from the developers of Prison Architect, is currently in the earliest stages of early access. Its latest update is named “Alpha 2” to help make that clear. Released this past week, it expands the industrial and manufacturing aspects of the spacefleet simulator.Marvel’s Avengers final content update makes all cosmetics free
announced in January, but wrapping up a live service game and doing it right is a gradual process. Yesterday saw the release of patch 2.8, its last content update, which made “nearly all” cosmetics free, converted in-game currency into resources, and handed out rewards as a thank you to players.Ark 2 has been delayed, so they’re switching off Survival Evolved and charging $50 for a remaster
ARK 2 has been delayed until the end of 2024. The dinosaur survival sequel currently best known for having Vin Diesel in it, for some reason, was originally aiming for a 2023 release, but developers Studio Wildcard say they need more time.To compensate, they’re going to instead release Ark: Survival Ascended in August, a remaster of the original Ark: Survival Evolved that moves it over to Unreal Engine 5. That’s the good news. The bad news is you can only buy it in a $50 bundle with the sequel (which won’t be finished for at least a year), and that the original Survival Evolved servers will be switched off when Ascended launches.