Mario vs. Donkey Kong! Tomb Raider! Slave Zero X!
The shortest month of the year is here… but it also might be one of the most-packed.
February 2024 sees Nintendo’s next big remake land on the Switch, but this is the month of the retro throwback, and the eShop (and our shelves) will be bursting with new titles to pick up and download.
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Pokémon, snapped.
If we had to pick the gaming hot topic for January 2024, it would be ‘not-Pokémon’. Palworld seems to be the lookalike on everybody’s lips, but that doesn’t mean that it is the only game saying “Ditto” to the Pokémon formula out there. And, boy, does Nintendo know it.
Yes, as flagged by Games Radar, Nintendo of America has filed an opposition to the attempt to trademark the term ‘PokeZoo‘. This ‘new’ IP was set to be a trading card game which boasts, according to its website description, “groundbreaking mechanics that break the 4th Wall”. Mhmm.
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“The share price looks overvalued”.
The much-rumoured Switch successor that Nintendo fans and investors alike are eager to see officially revealed will struggle to match the current console’s overall hardware sales, according to analysts quoted in a new Bloomberg report (thanks, GoNintendo)
Anticipation for the system has sent shares of the company to a record high in recent weeks, although industry analysts for Goldman Sachs, CLSA Securities, and Macquarie Group have suggested that Nintendo will have its work cut out to exceed the level of interest and unit sales that the current console has enjoyed since 2017. Switch has sold over 132 million units as of November 2023.
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Confirmed in California WARN notice.
SEGA of America has submitted a notice of layoffs which will affect 61 of its employees on 8th March 2024.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice was submitted earlier this month on 8th January in Orange County, California, and was flagged by the Twitter account @WhatLayoff (via GamesIndustry.biz).
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It worked on three RPG games for Switch.
There’s some industry news coming out of Japan today that Square Enix has absorbed the developer Tokyo RPG Factory.
As part of this, Tokyo RPG Factory will be immediately dissolved and “will cease to exist as an individual entity” (thanks, Gematsu). Tokyo RPG Factory was a subsidiary of Square Enix and was founded by Yosuke Matsuda a decade ago.
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Returning next month.
Nintendo’s upcoming release Mario vs. Donkey Kong will revive the 2004 Game Boy Advance title next month on the Switch.
If you haven’t already seen our own “hands on” here on Nintendo Life, we mentioned how “psyched” we were for the full release, as the Switch version is a game filled with meaningful changes, new modes, and a modern look and feel that should make it even better than the original game.
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Plus One.
The King of the Monsters is making its way to Minecraft in some brand new DLC, available on the Minecraft Marketplace.
The Godzilla DLC is out right now, and what a perfect fit for Minecraft, if we say so ourselves. The idea of the dinosaur-like kaiju stomping around the blocky world of Minecraft is genius, and that’s exactly what it’ll be doing. The DLC has been developed by Japanese studio Team-KYO and Impress and introduces four new gameplay modes that highlight the history of Godzilla and its films.
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Touches base on Switch in March.
MLB The Show 24 has been announced today, along with its release date. The game will be launching on Switch (and all other platforms) on 19th March 2024, with this year’s cover star revealed to be Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Revealed on PlayStation.Blog and through Nintendo’s Twitter, MLB The Show 24 brings back last year’s acclaimed Storylines mode and also promises to be a feature-rich version of the game, just as MLB The Show 23 was. New features for the latest entry in the series will be revealed on Twitch and YouTube in the run-up to the game’s release.
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Jump in.
One of 2023’s indie hits, Gravity Circuit, has today been brought up to speed on Switch with developer Domestic Ant Games bringing the ver. 1.1.0 update over to the hybrid console.
Fans of the action platformer will be pleased to know that this is a big one. Aside from a handful of fixes, tweaks and QoL improvements, the latest update also adds a fresh Boss Rush mode and customisable Armour Paints which can be unlocked for some new abilities.
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“Please don’t do that!”.
CGI trailers that refrain from showing any actual gameplay have often been a source of discourse in the video game community. On the one hand, they can be pretty effective in building hype – particularly if it’s for a highly anticipated release – but on the other, they often fail at demonstrating what the game will actually entail regarding its gameplay.
In his latest YouTube video, legendary creator Masahiro Sakurai takes a stand against trailers that don’t show any actual gameplay, stating “In some cases, trailers like the ones seen on a game’s Steam page won’t show any gameplay footage at all – please don’t do that!”.
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