Category: Nintendo

Another big one for Square’s latest.

Famitsu is back with our latest look at the physical software sales chart for Japan, and it’s another week in the top spot for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake.

Square Enix’s latest pulled in an additional 91,362 copies between Switch and PS5 this week, which is far from its debut’s 821,770 total, but it’s still enough to keep the Nintendo version in pole position. Meanwhile, the PS5 edition slips to third after another strong week from Super Mario Party Jamboree.

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DUNCAN.

Nightdive Studios has released a new patch for Killing Time: Resurrected on Switch, bringing the game up to version 1.1 and adding a wealth of new features and improvements.

The highlights here include the ability to toggle low and high res weapons and actors independently of one another, the ability to burn enemies to cinders with fire attacks, and a new ‘Duncan Chase’ mode that can be activated by setting your player name to “DUNCAN” at the beginning. We’ve yet to test this out, so we can’t comment on what it does, exactly, but we’ll give it a whirl shortly and update this article with the details.

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Sailing the high seas.

Following Nintendo’s recent investigation into the Switch “pirate” James ‘Archbox’ Williams, the video game giant is now reportedly seeking “new targets”.

As highlighted by Stephen Totilo of Game File, the company doesn’t appear to be done with the SwitchPirates subreddit just yet:

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“Happening in 2025”.

Palworld may be in the firing line of Nintendo, but it’s still going about its usual business with new announcements, updates, and now collaborations.

In the latest development, the Palworld developer Pocketpair has announced it’s teaming up with the action-adventure sandbox game Terraria. There are no details about what exactly to expect from this crossover, but it’s coming at some point in 2025.

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We’re wait-Ing.

So… where is it?

When Metroid Prime Remastered launched on 9th February 2023, we were utterly convinced that its sequels, Prime 2: Echoes and Prime 3: Corruption, would follow suit sometime after. Now that 2025 is fast approaching, our certainty has waned, yet we remain confident that Nintendo will complete the saga on Switch before Metroid Prime 4: Beyond launches. The question, however, is when.

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Y’all got no taste, or what?

When we check out the latest UK Charts data each week, we generally have a pretty good idea of where some of the newest titles will end up placing. Granted, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake was a little lower than our estimates when it debuted in 14th place last week, but when we scrolled through this week’s list and found it had disappeared entirely, well, we frankly couldn’t believe it.

Alas, it’s true. The exceptional RPG remake from Square Enix has crashed out of the top 40 altogether, marking a stark difference between audiences’ tastes in the UK when compared to Japan. We knew it would never do gangbusters, of course – Dragon Quest never really does well in the UK – but goodness, this is absurd. At least its performance over in Japan will likely be enough to keep Squeenix satisfied for now.

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Res(leriana)t easy.

Back in September, Koei Tecmo announced another Atelier game for Switch. We still don’t have a precise release date for the catchily-titled (deep breath) Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian, but we do know that it’ll be launching at some point in 2025. Other details are slim, but Koei Tecmo has shed a little more light on the upcoming project in a recent tweet.

Let’s get the biggie out of the way first: Atelier Resleriana will not include a gacha system. The game’s mobile predecessor, Atelier Resleriana: Forgotten Alchemy and the Polar Night Liberator, was guilty of relying perhaps a little too heavily on pull rates and paid-only options, so it’s nice to hear that we’ll see no such systems in the console spin-off.

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Feel the beat in Rift of the NecroDancer.

Brace Yourself Games – known for titles like Crypt of the NecroDancer and Cadence of Hyrule – has announced its new rhythm title Rift of the NecroDancer will launch on 5th February 2025.

This game was confirmed for the Switch in 2023 during an Indie Direct and since then it’s received some delays. The developer has also suffered some layoffs during this period, and also ended up releasing additional DLC for Crypt of the NecroDancer earlier this year.

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As the “highest tier” guests get an early tour.

Earlier this month, Nintendo finally lifted the lid on Super Nintendo World’s expansion Donkey Kong Country. It’s scheduled to open next month on 11th December 2024 and ahead of the big launch, Universal has revealed the entrance and welcomed the first guests to the park.

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Sublime Switch combat.

Scroll through the eShop any week, and under the new releases section, you are bound to find a Metroidvania, if not several. The genre is packed with so many games that few manage to break out. However, Red Candle Games’ Nine Sols did manage to make a name for itself earlier this year on PC, and now that it has come to Switch, it is clear to see why.

It fuses the intense, precise parrying system seen in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with satisfying skills, abilities, and upgrades that are all accentuated by strong sound design and visuals. While the worldbuilding and design didn’t particularly grab us, its combat is enough to make it stand out when compared to its 2024 Metroidvania competition.

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