Category: Nintendo

Make, Play, & Bin?

No, we didn’t find ours here, not at all…

2018 is a long time ago. It feels like it happened in another dimension, in an alternate (and much nicer) timeline, or some other Marvel universe-typed nonsense. And it’s a timeline we can never get back to. It was also the year that Nintendo dropped its Labo sets, which is infinitely more important and interesting than my ongoing, and seemingly permanent, existential crisis. That’s right, I’m on a permo, kids.

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Let’s do the time warp again.

Ready to feel old? It’s been about 13 years since the launch of the 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII, which itself was released about 13 years after the original on the PSX. That means that it’s time for yet another remake of the storied classic, which has been dubbed Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined this time around. This iteration goes a bit farther than its 3DS predecessor in making various nips and tucks that update the game for a new generation, and I’m pleased to report that this feels like the most enjoyable version of Dragon Quest VII yet.

The narrative places you in the role of a quiet boy living a peaceful life who believes there’s more to the world beyond his small island home. He’s joined in this belief by the adventurous Prince Kiefer and the Mayor’s daughter, Maribel, and it isn’t long until this band of kids discover a mysterious shrine in which ancient stone tablets allow them to travel to various places in the past.

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Deep(wood) respect.

We first noticed Under The Island almost two years ago, when its debut trailer brought all kinds of happy memories from the glory days of GBA Zelda flooding back. This weekend, Top Hat Studios and Slime King Games showcased even more of their upcoming Minish Cap-like, and announced that it’ll arrive on Switch on 17th February.

As you’ll see in the above release date trailer (narrated by none other than our good friend Jon Cartwright, we might add), the GBA charm is strong with this one — that opening dungeon looks more than a little like Deepwood Shrine, no? But that’s not to say that it’s without interesting mechanics of its own.

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Super by name, super by nature.

In the introduction to Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, Keza MacDonald makes a simple promise: over the course of the next 12 chapters, you’ll read something you didn’t already know.

It’s the kind of gauntlet-laying that would have any self-respecting Nintendo fan click their knuckles and close their Bulbapedia tab in a ‘challenge accepted’ kind of way. And yet, 250 pages later, I can honestly say that it rang true.

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Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch 1 & 2 in January.

You’ve got through one month of 2026, and what’s your reward? Ah yes, another dose of eShop Selects!

The Switch 2 has kicked off the year in relatively calm fashion, but before the mad Spring rush hits us, let’s look at some eShop gems that are worth checking out. Yes, there are games other than Animal Crossing: New Horizon out there, we promise.

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Took something perfect and painted it red.

Howdy, Virtual Boy fans! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we matched up a pair of covers for Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island, and it was a pretty close-run contest. The classic SMW2 art came out on top in the end, though, with North America taking 59% of the vote, leaving the pretty Japanese variant with 41%.

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“Please vote for the design you like best”.

When Capcom lifted the lid onMega Man: Dual Override at the end of last year, it also announced a new Robot Master Design Contest.

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Download it now.

Octopath Traveler 0 made its debut on the Switch and Switch 2 late last year, and to get the new year underway, Square Enix has now released another small update for this new entry in the HD-2D RPG series.

It includes improvements to the game’s performance, sound quality, and a handful of other fixes. Here’s the full rundown:

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Image Uploader & cross-platform creations also confirmed.

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WWE 2K25 delivered an excellent Switch 2 port last July, and if you were hoping for the next entry on Nintendo’s new hybrid system, it seems you’re in luck.

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Resin-dent Evil?

For past me, the idea of 3D printing — just the mention of it, the sound of the words — always conjured up images of stuff like Tom Cruise and his wee red balls in Minority Report.

I know, the ‘precog’ machine in that particular movie wasn’t really a 3D printer, and Tom’s wee red balls seemed to be made of some sort of weird wood rather than filament, but it was the same sort of magic inside my simple mind, and the first time I’d considered a machine that could create a fully 3D object in this way. So the two are forever connected, I’m afraid.

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