Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Trace Memory

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Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl, are you ready to rank some covers?

Before we head into this week’s competition, however, let’s check out what happened last time. We got all agricultural as we matched up two covers for Harvest Moon 64 in celebration of it landing on NSO. They were both pretty sweet options, but the result wasn’t even close with North America walking away with a staggering 81% of the vote compared to Japan’s 19%. Oof.

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Spike Chunsoft’s Annual Survey Wants To Know More About Your Gaming Interests

“Your input and opinions are incredibly valuable to us”.

Spike Chunsoft, the Japanese developer and publisher behind series like the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, Danganronpa series and ANONYMOUS;CODE wants fans to take its 2023 video game survey, so it can learn more about what they’re interested in.

If you have any of this company’s games before, your input is apparently “incredibly valuable”. And even if you haven’t, feel free to participate!

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Sea Of Stars Developer Sabotage Replacing ‘The Completionist’ NPC

A “small patch” is coming soon.

Sabotage Studio director Thierry Boulanger has announced via Discord the company will be removing the content creator and internet personality Jirard ‘The Completionist’ Khalil from the indie RPG hit Sea of Stars.

Sea of Stars arrived on the Switch earlier this year in August and featured a segment in it where Khalil showed up as a non-playable character known as “Jirard the Constructionist”, who the main heroes of the story could interact with. This decision follows Khalil being accused of “charity fraud” last month.

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Guide: Best Nintendo Switch DLC & Expansions

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Updated with the now-complete Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass and Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. Enjoy!


There was a time, long ago, when games were done when they hit retail shelves. But we’re in the 21st century now, and more often than not, additional post-launch content is released months after a developer’s main game is complete, enriching the experience.

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Feature: “Doing Things A Bit Differently” – Blending Final Fantasy & Devil May Cry Combat In ‘Worldless’

“We actually don’t like to talk about Worldless as a Metroidvania”.

Fans of 2D platformers in the Metroidvania mould aren’t exactly lacking for excellent examples of the genre. It feels like every other game launching at the moment is either a roguelite deckbuilder or an explorative action platformer. It’s a brave developer who dips a toe into this particular genre pool; with so many great alternatives available, merely ‘competent’ just isn’t going to stand out in the crowd.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 16th)

We have liftoff!

Well, the weekend has rolled around once again so it’s time for a spot of gaming, we’d say.

Before we get to that, however, does anyone fancy a quick round-up of the Nintendo highlights from this week? We’ve been taking a look at what classic SEGA franchises you’d like to see return, keeping up with everything going on in Fortnite and gawping at how long we have all played a certain Hylian adventure thanks to Nintendo dropping our years in review.

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Fae Farm Version 2.0.0 Update Adds Free DLC, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

The Coasts of Croakia has arrived.

Earlier this week the relatively new farming sim Fae Farm got a free DLC update Coasts of Croakia – taking players to the Archl-pal-igo Park, where they can learn the language of the many critters roaming the park.

In addition to this, there’s been a bunch of updates to the game adding in new dialogue, an increase to house storage, and much more. We’ve not got the full list of patch notes, detailing exactly what this latest update has added to the game. Here’s the rundown:

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ICYMI: Pokémon Home Update Adds Scarlet & Violet Indigo Disk DLC Compatibility

The Blueberry Pokédex has been added.

Alongside the launch of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet: The Indigo Disk, an update has also arrived for the storage service Pokemon Home.

This bumps the application up to Version 3.2.1 and most importantly adds compatibility for the Part 2 DLC. Here’s a bit about what you can expect from this update, which also comes packed with the Blueberry Pokédex, new challenges and stickers:

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Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The Indigo Disk DLC

Here’s what the critics had to say.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s second DLC expansion ‘The Indigo Disk‘ arrived earlier this week and now the reviews are starting to surface online.

If you haven’t already caught our review here on Nintendo Life, we thought this new part took a few steps forward but could still use some work in other areas, awarding it six out of 10 stars:

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