Who gets the Birdie?
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Looking back on last week, Tetris Attack on the Game Boy entered the ring for a classic duel, with North America and Europe going head-to-head against Japan. Rather expectedly, including Nintendo’s characters gave Japan a significant advantage, and the region won comfortably with 75% of the vote.
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“We would like to express our deepest sympathies”.
The Pokémon Company has donated 50 million yen (about USD 345,770) to Japan’s Red Cross Society after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s Noto Peninsula earlier this week.
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“It’s going to be met with a lot of excitement”.
It’s a new year and sure enough new rumours are already popping up about what other games could be made available to Nintendo fans in the future.
The latest story doing the rounds suggests a Microsoft game “met with high critical acclaim” and well-received by fans will be released on a “competitor system” in 2024. This claim comes from the host of the ‘Nate the Hate Podcast‘, who goes on to mention how the same title was in the “game of the year conversation” in the year of its release.
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Featuring a new card battle system & online play.
Devolver Digital and UK studio Nerial have today locked in a release date for Reigns: Three Kingdoms on the Nintendo Switch and PC, announcing it will be arriving next week on 11th January 2024.
This fifth entry in the Reigns strategy series was originally “available exclusively for Netflix members” in November 2022 and draws inspiration from the Chinese epic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”.
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The man, the myth, the legend.
Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring, and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds just about as much prestige in the ranks of Nintendo as Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and the late, great Satoru Iwata.
Yet for as vital as Aonuma has proven himself to be for the growth of The Legend of Zelda, there’s another creator who has arguably taken even more of a crucial role in the franchise’s development in recent years: Hidemaro Fujibayashi. In fact, as of 2023, Fujibayashi holds the most directorial credits for the Zelda franchise, helming Oracle of Ages and Seasons, Four Swords, The Minish Cap, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom. He also served as story writer and sub-director on Phantom Hourglass.
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Back for more in ’24.
And just like that, we’re one week into 2024 — well, near enough — and it’s time for the first What Are You Playing of the year!
Before we dive into a weekend of gaming plans, remaining Quality Street and questionable leftover Christmas cheese, however, let’s take a look at what happened in the world of Nintendo this week. We laid out our gaming predictions for the year ahead, ran through some of the discounted delights in yet another eShop sale (will it ever end?) and restarted the ‘Switch 2’ chatter with the predictions of an industry analyst.
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The first Splatfest of 2024 starts next week.
The “sneak peek” of the Splatoon 3 FrostyFest is now officially underway. The theme, as previously revealed, is “Who do you spend holidays with?” and the choices are friends, family or “solo”.
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The show opens this March.
It’s a new year and that means Nintendo has a whole bunch of new games to release. One of these happens to be Princess Peach: Showtime! for the Switch.
This title was originally confirmed to be arriving on 22nd March 2024 during last year’s September Direct and in the latest update, an ESRB rating for the game has now been spotted online. This seemingly confirms its release is still on track.
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Mario vs DK! Ace Attorney! Prince of Persia!
Happy new year and welcome to the first of our monthly physical release round-ups of 2024!
January is usually one of the quietest months of the year for new launches, but we do have a decent number of titles launching soon that we think are worth a good look. We’ve been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail in the coming weeks, including some highlights picked by us as well as lots of other games and accessories that are launching soon. Have a browse through and see if anything takes your fancy:
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A look at Atari’s lineup of neo-retro revivals.
Before there was Nintendo, there was Atari.
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