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Video: Everything The February 2023 Nintendo Direct Didn’t Tell You

There’s a fair bit!

The dust has settled on the latest Nintendo Direct presentation, and whether you’re currently playing through Metroid Prime Remastered or the Game Boy / Game Boy Advance collection for Nintendo Switch Online, there’s likely to have been something for everyone to enjoy here.

But did you know that there were some facts from the Nintendo Direct that weren’t explictely stated? For example, did you know that the release date for the physical edition of Metroid Prime Remastered is actually different depending on your region (spoilers: it’s February 22nd in North America and March 3rd in Europe)?

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UK Daily Deals: Get Hogwarts Legacy for Just £36.99 When Buying a PS5

Hogwarts Legacy is already taking the world by storm, and you may be wondering how you could possibly get in on the action. Well, have no fear, we’ve got some excellent deals for you that will open up the Wizarding World to you right now. Our headline deal today is the PS5 with Hogwarts Legacy Bundle for just £516.98 at Argos. Overall that works out at £479.99 for the PS5, and just £36.99 for Hogwarts Legacy, about £23 off the new game already.

This is perfect for anyone who doesn’t have a new-gen console but still wants to play the game right now! If you’re more interested in Xbox, don’t worry, I’ve got deals there as well, as you can pick up an Xbox Series X console and Hogwarts for just £479.99 from Smyths at the moment, or an Xbox Series S bundle for just £279.99 from GAME. For even more gaming deals, check out all the links just below, or follow @IGNUKDeals on Twitter for more instant updates.

TL;DR – Best UK Deals Right Now

Amazon Hogwarts Legacy Console Bundle Deals

If you are buying the Argos bundle, make sure to just click the ‘Money Off Bundles’ section which will take you to all the current bundle offers Argos has got, including the new Hogwarts Legacy deal. See our full 9/10 review for the game here.

Best Gaming Deals for PS5, Xbox, and PC Right Now

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Best Random Deals I Love Right Now

These are the best deals that I want to highlight, but can’t necessarily fit anywhere else.

Amazing Discounts on Anker Tech Right Now

There’s some great deals on Anker headphones, USB cables and more at Amazon right now. My favourite is definitely on the Soundcore Q45 Adaptive Noise Cancelling Headphones, dropping down to just £97.99. This is a great option for an affordable but amazing set of headphones (instead of dropping £300 on a Bose or Sony set).

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Amazing Password Manager Deal from Keeper (AD)

With Keeper, you can store all of your passwords, credit card info, and other sensitive data in one secure, encrypted digital vault. Plus, they use top-notch encryption technology to keep your stuff safe and have added bonus features like password generation, password sharing, and two-factor authentication.

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Where to Preorder The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in the UK

The best Tears of the Kingdom (or Breath of the Wild 2 as many of us called it for years) preorder deal in the UK is still at Hit for £49.85, or ShopTo for the same price. In case you’re wondering, both ShopTo and Hit are 100% legit UK retailers. We’ve linked out to both of them before, and have had no complaints! I’ll leave all the relevant links down below for Tears of the Kingdom preorders.

Where to Preorder Tears of the Kingdom Collector’s Edition and Amiibo

Preorders for the Collector’s Edition are currently sold out everywhere, including Smyths, GAME, and ShopTo. Amazon currently has a listing up, but has not gone live with it yet.

You can also register your interest in the Collector’s Edition, or the Link – Tears of the Kingdom amiibo (£12.99) from Nintendo right now in the UK. Otherwise, follow and set notifications on for @IGNUKDeals on Twitter as we’ll tweet when more preorders go live.

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Awesome PS5 1TB SSD for £83.72 (Great Deal)

Pick up the perfect PS5 1TB SSD for just £85.51 right now, or upgrade even further and drop £185 on a 2TB SSD instead (that works out at £92.50 per TB).

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Metroid Prime Remastered Is Now on Nintendo Switch

After years of rumors, Metroid Prime Remastered is real. If that wasn’t exciting enough, Nintendo has already released the game digitally. But, if you’d prefer to wait for a physical copy, it’s out on March 3, 2023, and can be preorder right now from the links below.

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Robert Anderson is a deals expert and Commerce Editor for IGN. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter.

Super Mario Bros. Movie Plumbing Commercial & Website Launched

“Fixing pipes is our game!”.

Nintendo and Illumination have launched a new Super Mario Bros. Movie 30-second commercial and website, recreating the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! cartoon theme song dating back to 1989.

You can watch Mario & Luigi rap and even visit a themed Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website, where you can learn more about their “family-owned and operated” business serving Brooklyn and Queens. There’s even an “About Us” section on the website and some classic references thrown in the customer testimonials.

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Soapbox: An Ode To Ramón Salazar, Resident Evil’s Most Absurd Villain

“My, my, we’ve got a feisty one”.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Ollie looks back on the pantheon of resident evils in all the Resident Evils and pens a tribute to perhaps his favourite character in video gamedom…

I have a bit of a confession to make. Back in 2005 when I played Resident Evil 4 for the first time on my trusty GameCube, I completely fell in love with it, but Ramón Salazar and I didn’t get off to the best of starts. After playing through the opening village section of the game, which featured deadly Ganados, the esteemed Dr. Salvador, El Gigante, and the fearsome village chief, Bitores Méndez, my first encounter with Salazar left somewhat of a bitter taste in my mouth.

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Talking Point: What Do You Name Link When You’re Playing A Zelda Game?

New game, new name.

We are but a few months away now from the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (finally) and it is fair to say that many of us are just a little bit excited. We recently got a look at the second trailer for it, and one of the ways that we have been channelling this excitement until 12th May is through replaying previous games in the series. This, of course, means that it has once again been time to name The Hero of Time.

For many, there is an obvious answer to this one: Link. That is the name of the series’ lead protagonist, so that is the name that many a dedicated Hylian explorer opts for (bar the odd save file all in lowercase or, in some instances, a file where everyone appears to shout the hero’s name as he goes by, “LINK”).

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Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Metroid Prime Remastered

Morph Ballin’.

Welcome one and all to this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last weekend we took a look at Suda51’s Killer7, one of the ‘Capcom Five’ titles from the glory days of the GameCube. The results were… not close — expectedly so, really. The North American cover held onto the top spot with 58% of votes in its favour. This was followed by Europe on 32% and Japan bringing up the rear with only 10% of the vote.

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Switch’s Game Boy Library Doesn’t Have A Set Schedule, According To Nintendo

“But each collection will continue to grow”.

Nintendo has pumped out classic games for its Switch Online service on a consistent basis. There’s kind of a pattern, but that doesn’t necessarily mean fans should expect the same thing when it comes to the newly released retro libraries.

Axios Gaming co-author Stephen Totilo reached out to Nintendo following the launch of the new Game Boy and Game Boy Advance services for Switch Online to ask it how often fans could expect games to be added to the service. In short: “There is no set schedule for new releases, but each collection will continue to grow.”

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Metroid Prime Engineer “Let Down” By Exclusion Of Original Credits In Remaster

“Everyone’s name should be included”.

Nintendo surprised pretty much everyone earlier this week when it shadow-dropped Metroid Prime Remastered after years of ongoing rumours.

While most people are satisfied, it seems not everyone out there is happy. Former Retro studios engineer Zoid Kirsch, who recently mentioned how he wasn’t very impressed with the quality of the doors in the remaster, has now voiced his frustration about the game’s credits – noting how it does not include the full original credits.

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Psychonauts 2’s Making-Of Documentary Is Now Available to Everyone for Free

Double Fine PsychOdyssey, the 32-part, 20+ hour documentary that chronicles the development of Psychonauts 2, is now available for free for everyone on YouTube.

Double Fine PsychOdyssey was created by 2 Player Productions and Double Fine and follows a similar and equally as wonderful documentary that was released for Double Fine’s Broken Age. It’s an extensive, very rare look behind the curtain of game development and you can check it out now by clicking here.

“Ten years after the release of their flagship video game Psychonauts, Double Fine Productions returns to its most celebrated franchise with Psychonauts 2,” The official description reads. “Now facing the pressure to produce a worthy sequel, the studio must confront overly ambitious designs, poor morale, technical challenges and financial woes, all during a turbulent span of time for the world.

“Double Fine PsychOdyssey is the direct continuation of the acclaimed series Double Fine Adventure, and offers even deeper insight into the passion, humor, and heartbreak of video game development.”

The team at Double Fine also noted that Double Fine PsychOdyssey took six years to make and was created from thousands of hours of footage.

In our review of Psychonauts 2, which was released in August 2021, we said, “It may bring a bit of that mid-2000s action-platformer clunkiness along with it, but Psychonauts 2 is still just about everything I could have hoped for from a sequel to one of my favorite games.”

For more, check out 37 things we learned from another great documentary about the making of 2018’s God of War, all the details on Double Fine founder Tim Schafer’s induction into the AIAS Hall of Fame, and our chat with Schafer on Psychonauts 2’s success, the future of the company, and more.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Hi-Fi Rush Has an Easter Egg That Very Well May Be Teasing The Evil Within 3

An Easter Egg on a screen near the end of Hi-Fi Rush very well may be teasing The Evil Within 3.

As reported by GamesRadar, this screen in question is visible for less than a second during a cinematic that plays before Track 11: The Needle Drop and takes place in an elevator. You can see the screen in the image below or in action courtesy of YouTuber Shirrako, and can see, on the bottom, it says, “Sequel to popular survival horror game franchise announced.”

Now, this could just be a fun nod to The Evil Within and not the tease of an announcement, as there are other Easter Eggs to the franchise in Hi-Fi Rush, including robots who look just like Sebastian Castellanos and Joseph Oda. That being said, it is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of moment and could be a fun thing for fans to find and start theorizing about.

Uncharted 3 did something similar when it included a newspaper that teased The Last of Us. That particular Easter Egg was actually not meant to make it to the final game, so it will be interesting to see what the true story is behind this one.

Tango Gameworks released The Evil Within 2 in 2017 and, in our review, we said, “Although a disjointed plot and weak protagonist make it slow to get started, being pursued through an intriguingly bizarre world by plentiful and disturbing monsters kept my palms sweaty and my heart in my throat thanks to a strict adherence to the most important survival horror rule: you should always be on the back foot.”

It could well be time for a new entry in The Evil Within franchise and it would keep the momentum going for Tango Gameworks after it took the world by storm with the shadow drop of Hi-Fi Rush.

For more, check out our Hi-Fi Rush review and our interview with the game’s director (who actually directed The Evil Within 2!).

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.