Category: Nintendo

“We made this decision out of concern”.

We’ve got some good and bad news fighting game fans. If you were looking forward to the arrival of Hunter X Hunter: Nen x Impact (based on the anime and manga series), Arc System Works has now announced it’s delayed the launch until 2025.

According to a translation by the Arc System Works social account, this delay is to allow the team to implement rollback netcode. The release date will now be shared at a “later time”, so when we get an update, we’ll let you know. Here’s the full message:

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“I really wonder, who’s even complaining about this?

Ahead of the release of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake this November, series’ creator Yuji Horii has addressed the changes to the female characters in the game, who are now showing less skin than the original version of the game.

Speaking during an interview at the Tokyo Game Show (and translated by Valuate News), Horii admits he’s just as confused by the changes to the late Akira Toriyama’s artwork, but goes on to explain how if there’s “too much exposure, the age rating goes up” and it means the game can’t be sold to “all-ages”.

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Update: Coming in November.

Update :

In case you missed it — like us (darn Zelda) — following ratings in Taiwan earlier this summer, the 2D combat-focused Metroidvania Nine Sols has been confirmed for Switch.

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Settling for silver.

The latest UK charts data is here and, to our genuine surprise, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom sadly didn’t nab the top spot this week. Instead, the newly released EA Sports FC 25 has managed to beat the competition to claim the prize.

It’s an unfortunate outcome, though hardly a disastrous one. After all, these are just the boxed charts we’re talking about here; chances are Nintendo managed to flog a load of copies of Echoes of Wisdom via the Switch eShop. We suspect it will also retain popularity for a good few weeks yet, especially in the run up to Christmas. In a nutshell though, this is more indicative of the insane popularity of football games in the UK than it is of Zelda’s commercial performance.

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Set sail this November.

Well, this is a nice surprise. Ahead of next year’s ‘Throes of the Watchmaker’ DLC, Sabotage Studio has today announced another feature-rich free update for the excellent nautical RPG Sea of Stars. What’s more, it’ll set sail on 12th November.

The ‘Dawn of Equinox’ update is all about adding some of the game’s most requested features, with Sabotage stating that it represents the “fully realised vision for Sea of Stars’ spectacular adventure”.

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To the depths.

Publisher and developer Mad Mimic has revealed that its upcoming pirate-themed action-adventure Mark of the Deep will be swashbuckling its way onto Switch on 8th October.

After his ship mysteriously crashes off the coast of a spooky cursed island, Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey sets out to reassemble his crew and take down whatever monsters, gangs or nefarious cult leaders stand in his way.

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Spike Chunsoft says it’s “urgently working on resolving this”.

Switch users across Europe have noticed the recently released game BAKERU has disappeared from Nintendo’s eShop.

In case you’re wondering what’s going on, publisher Spike Chunsoft has actually shared a notice about this on social media – mentioning how it’s “aware of an issue” making the game unavailable and is “urgently working on resolving this”.

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“Both endings of the original Life is Strange are canon”.

What were you getting up to in 2015?

Maybe you were playing video games back then too, so as a refresher, 2015 was the release year for the sweeping epic Metal Gear Solid V, the somewhat polarising Fallout 4, and indie darlings Rocket League and Undertale. If you were one of the few people rocking a Wii U, it’s possible you were lurking in Splatoon lobbies.

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I’ve got it!

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

Last week, we checked out the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country. It was a classic 3-way battle in which Japan managed to emerge victorious with 42% of the vote. Europe followed very closely with 39%, while North America floundered slightly at 19%.

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“Coming soon”.

Following the release of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 ‘Future Saga Chapter 1’ earlier this year, Bandai Namco has now released a teaser trailer for Chapter 2.

This is the second of four DLC chapters and is “coming soon” to the Switch and multiple other platforms.

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