Category: Nintendo

The goal is to authentically capture “the spirit of Minecraft”.

During Minecraft Live 2024, Mojang shared an “exclusive insight” of the upcoming Minecraft movie, due out in April 2025.

The live-action project is being led by director Jared Hess and producer and creative director of entertainment at Mojang, Torfi Frans Olafsson. Both understand how creators have already made such amazing animated stories and content based on Minecraft, and so the decision was made to do something different with a movie on a much larger scale.

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The world warrior.

Shuhei Matsumoto may not yet be as familiar in the fighting game world as the exuberant Yoshinori Ono, but with his playful personality and regular online announcements, panels and interviews, he’s certainly on his way.

Since 2017 he has been assisting with and spearheading productions on the likes of Street Fighter 6, Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, the Capcom Fighting Collection, and now the superb Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.

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One foot in the grave.

Upon first boot, Night Slashers: Remake introduces itself within a mock 4:3 arcade screen bezel, where the first character appears against beautifully drawn scenery, trailed by awesome flesh-decayed zombies. At this point, we thought, “Damn, this looks great.” A moment later, the screen flashed into full widescreen, revealing the actual makeover, and informing us that we had been momentarily fooled by the original arcade graphics. The redrawn aesthetic, in contrast, is a giant leap down.

This anecdote tells you all you need to know about the biggest issue of this remake of Data East’s beat ’em up: its visuals are astoundingly tasteless. And no, it’s not a nostalgia issue. The graphics of the far superior arcade original are replaced with an art style that looks reminiscent of stiff, early-’00s Flash games. The new, shadow-puppet-like sprites lack depth, and their overly smooth limbs seem to float about in rest animations and skate unusually across the floor.

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And insists it “won’t stop producing content”.

Ace Attorney fans worried about the series dropping off can seemingly relax, with Capcom recently easing any concerns in a recent interview.

Speaking to Netlab, Capcom’s Kenichi Hashimoto has mentioned how the Japanese developer and publisher “won’t stop” producing Ace Attorney content. There are apparently plenty of “directions” the team is looking at taking this long-running series. This even potentially includes more “mixed media”.

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The team behind ‘Tetris: The Grand Master’ series.

If you need more Tetris in your life, Tetris: The Grand Master developer Arika has announced it’s signed a license agreement for a new Tetris game.

According to a translation of the official PR, the new title is based on the concept of “Tetris that makes you better at Tetris” (thanks, Gematsu).

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The new system is apparently “ready” to go.

There have been all sorts of rumours popping up about the Switch “successor” and now another individual has chimed in.

The latest claims about Nintendo’s next-generation hardware come from Ruben Mercado – the CEO of video game accessories manufacturer Blade. Speaking to the Spanish website Vandal on a podcast recently, Mercado said the new device is apparently “done” and “ready” to go.

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Pika your battles.

Last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced that they were filing a patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair. While the latter studio claimed it was “unaware of the specific patents we are accused of infringing upon,” online speculation soon began to throw out various plausible-sounding submissions from Nintendo’s back catalogue.

While there’s still no official word on which designs are relevant to this case, MBHB law firm associate Andrew Velzen has noted (via GamesIndustry.biz) that some seemingly key patents were in fact filed after Palworld’s release, suggesting Nintendo has been on the lawsuit drive for a while.

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With another lengthy title.

Koei Tecmo today took to the Tokyo Game Show to announce Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian, a new Atelier RPG coming to Switch at some point in 2025.

This is a spin-off of the mobile game Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator and will be set in the same world. We have very little information about what the new RPG will have in store, though Koei Tecmo describes it as a “completely offline” experience, so make of that what you will.

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Pole position.

The latest boxed charts data from Japan is now available courtesy of Famitsu, and once again, we can see that the Switch is still comfortably dominating in the region both with hardware and software sales. Astro Bot is the only representative from Sony’s PS5 platform.

Frankly, it’s mad that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe keeps selling so well. More than 7 years after its Switch debut with mere months (weeks..?!) to go until we learn more about the Switch successor, the arcade racer has now surpassed a mind-boggling 6 million units sold in the region. Worldwide, of course, the latest data confirms that the game is now sitting well above 60 million units sold.

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That’s pretty much all, folks.

Fans of old-school sports compilations may remember Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge on Super Nintendo. In it, you played as the titular animated youngsters, who competed in enjoyable cartoon versions of familiar events. SNES also had Looney Tunes B-Ball, a beautifully animated genre classic that put a colourful spin on the NBA Jam formula.

Bamtang Games hopes to bring back this forgotten subgenre with Looney Tunes: Wacky World Of Sports, a collection of four game types, pitting the original Warner Brothers animated line-up against each other in solo and multiplayer tournaments.

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