Category: Nintendo

Play your cards right.

Updated with the excellent Balatro and Pocket Card Jockey. Enjoy!

You’d be forgiven for thinking that physical tabletop gaming might have trouble surviving in this digital and ever-mobile age, but collectible card games and traditional board games are arguably more popular than ever. Excellent digital versions of household staples sit alongside entirely original offerings that serve up the full tabletop experience with added digital convenience. Online play can be a real lifesaver if you’re stuck indoors and can’t get to a friend’s house, and not needing to lug a weighty card collection around will do wonders for your posture, too.

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Thank you, NX.

We struggle to remember a time that we thought of the Switch as a ‘new’ console. Maybe back in 2021 with the release of the OLED and the pandemic popularity of Animal Crossing? Perhaps. For the most part, everyone is keen to jump on the “god, the Switch is sooo old” bandwagon. The thing is, they are right and boy are we reminded of that today.

That’s because today, 3rd March 2024, marks seven years since the Switch’s release. As you read this, the console is entering its eighth. Seven years. Let’s let that one sink in for a moment.

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Or Shadow Warriors, if you like.

Welcome to another episode of Box Art Brawl!

This week, we’re going to be checking out Ninja Gaiden Shadow (known as Shadow Warriors in Europe and Australia) from Tecmo for the Game Boy. Before we do so, however, let’s see how we got on last time with Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness for the N64.

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That’s a lot of Knuckles!

Ahead of the launch of the live-action Knuckles television series next month on Paramount’s streaming service, the show’s episode runtime has reportedly been revealed.

As highlighted by a Sonic fan and Tumblr user (via Sonic City) each episode is expected to go for one hour each. It’s a six-episode run, so all up that’s six whole hours of Knuckles action!

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A new Good Smile Company release.

Last month, Good Smile Company teased new figma including a Pop Up Parade version of Kirby car, based on a transformation in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Pre-orders for this item will set you back USD $25.99 (or the regional equivalent).

It’s estimated to ship in Q4 2024 and even zooms about when you pull it back. Here’s a bit of PR:

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A long list of balance changes, too.

If you’re still duking it out in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, you’ll be pleased to hear a new update has now been released.

Update 1.7 includes the new game mode “rotation”, new stage layouts, new campaign power-ups (including the Perfect Krabby Patty), a handful of new items, bug fixes, a general update, and a lot of character balance changes.

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Pre-orders are now live.

The 2022 horror RPG OMORI will be getting a physical collector’s edition for Switch in Summer 2024, courtesy of Fangamer.

This collector’s edition will come with a collector’s box, sheet music booklet, ephemera envelope, pinwheel kit, pressed flower bookmark, Mari’s drawing, bottle cap magnet, Hobbeez receipt, Othermart loyalty card, Kel’s comic, Capt. Spaceboy cutout, a recital ticket, a hidden item, and a piano music box.

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“No one has come close to exhausting its full capabilities”.

Four decades after it became an international sales phenomenon and dominated a crowded games market, the Nintendo Entertainment System – the 8-bit box that gave birth to some of the medium’s biggest enduring franchises – today finds itself playing host to something else entirely: new aftermarket IPs that are strikingly polished and joyously fun.

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Wish upon a card.

We made it out of February and it is finally the weekend!

Keen to keep the good vibes going, this week on Nintendo Life we celebrated the first Pokémon Presents of 2024. And what would you know, it wasn’t all that bad! The big takeaway was the grand reveal of Pokémon Legends: Z-A coming to Switch in 2025, but we also got to see a neat new TCG app too.

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“We are especially disappointed in the actions of the ratings board”.

LocalThunk’s excellent roguelike deckbuilder Balatro has been removed from various Switch eShops “without any advance warning” following an apparent age rating change from 3+ to 18+ by European ratings board PEGI.

Publisher Playstack issued a statement via Twitter saying the publisher is “especially disappointed in the actions of the ratings board” following post-appeal assurances in October 2023 that the game did not contain gambling themes after they had presumably been flagged in the certification process.

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