Category: Nintendo

Live performances coming to Japan this May.

The 20th anniversary of the Monster Hunter series is almost upon us (11th March, for those wondering) and today Capcom has announced that it will be celebrating the franchise’s iconic tunes with a series of live orchestral performances later this year.

The first of these performances is set to be held in Tokyo on 11th May 2024, and will offer two different shows a day — ‘Daytime Sound Hunting Quest’ and ‘Night Sound Hunting Quest’ — before moving on to Fukuoka, Sapporo, and Osaka.

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Join Tanjiro and the Demon Slayers this April.

In case you missed it, the popular manga and anime series Demon Slayer is getting its very own Mario Party-style video game this April on the Nintendo Switch. It will star Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the rest of the Demon Slayer Corp as they work their way around themed boards and participate in all sorts of minigames.

The latest update from Sega today is the release of a new overview trailer for Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!. You can check it out above. If you are a fan of games like Mario Party, this could be a lot of fun for up to four friends.

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Sora from Kingdom Hearts completes the set.

Nintendo’s amiibo line is still going strong with new additions regularly. This week though marks the end of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate line with the release of the final amiibo. Yes, we’re now really at the end of this amazing line after all this time.

This last character, as you might recall, is Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series. He was added as the final DLC fighter back in 2021. Ahead of this amiibo’s arrival on 16th February 2024, we’ve been wondering if our community here will be adding Sora to the collection. So vote in our poll and leave a comment below.

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“…it’s a one-way strategy that leaves people behind”.

Former lead designer on Dead Cells Sébastien Bénard has spoken out over Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s announcement to end creative work on the hugely popular indie roguelike.

Bénard, who left as an associate with Motion Twin to form Deepnight Games in 2020, shared a post on his official website, clarifying his thoughts on the game. This follows an admittedly “impulsive” response the developer gave on the official Dead Cells Discord server, where he stated “…I’d just say did the worst imaginable a**hole move against Dead Cells and ” (via PCGamesN & PCGamer).

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An absolute NES-cessity.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Ethan looks back on a pair of Wii U games — and a 3DS sibling — which could help curious gamers navigate the Switch Online retro library if they were given a second chance to shine…

With each passing year, the well of Nintendo franchises that haven’t yet graced the Switch runs ever drier — and I couldn’t be happier. Now that juggernauts like Animal Crossing have had their time in the sun, the later years of the hybrid console’s life have made space for the return of all sorts of niche legacy IP, from Another Code to Famicom Detective Club. But while the Switch has proven to be an oasis for the lesser-known properties in Nintendo’s stable, there’s one particular unsung micro-franchise stuck on last-generation hardware that arguably has the most potential for a revival.

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PDF Peach.

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. All of you romantic lot already knew that, of course, but if (and we’re being strictly hypothetical here) the big day has somehow slipped your mind, you might be on the lookout for the perfect last-minute card.

Well, look no further! As is becoming something of a yearly tradition, Nintendo is spreading the love with a range of downloadable cards this time centred around the upcoming Princess Peach: Showtime! — who knew marketing could be so romantic?

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A linguistic odyssey.

Do you remember the mysterious swirly language dotted around Super Mario Sunshine‘s Isle Delfino? Probably not, and that’s okay — this is a 20-year-old game, after all. But that hasn’t stopped one YouTuber from the channel 2CPhoenix from digging in a little further. Yes, if you hadn’t guessed by now, the language has been translated.

This was no easy feet. The ‘Dolphic’ language (as dubbed by 2CPhoenix) is pretty hard to come by across Isle Delfino. It can only be found in three Sunshine levels where it is often blown up to the point of illegibility, or obscured by some other object. In short, you’re not going to pick it up just by being immersed in the island’s culture.

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What a hoot.

In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”.

We don’t have pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes — so welcome to our semi-regular feature, Back Page. It’s Superb Owl weekend, everyone…

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“We are hoping this will be an easy transition”.

If you’re an Android user and are still playing Pokémon GO regularly, as of next week, Niantic will be changing how trainers with these particular devices redeem “offer codes”.

After 13th February 2024, Android devices will be “unable to redeem offer codes within the app”. From here on out, all users will be required to redeem their offers via Pokémon GO’s web store.

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Expected in 2024 and “likely” to include a custom chip.

The rumours about a supposed successor to the Switch continue, and the latest report (which admittedly supports a lot of previous claims) comes from an “exclusive” by Reuters.

According to the news agency, Nvidia is currently “building a new business unit” specialising in “designing bespoke chips” for hardware firms – with its “source” claiming the tech giant has crafted a “custom design” for Nintendo’s next-generation handheld system.

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