Category: Nintendo

Shreddin’ the gnar.

This review originally went live in 2016, and we’re updating and republishing it to celebrate the game’s arrival in Switch’s N64 library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.

Originally released for the Nintendo 64 in 1998, 1080° Snowboarding was Nintendo’s attempt to bring the snowboarding experience to its home console. And the company did a good job: six courses provide a variety of thrills as you hop on a board and tackle the snowy slopes. There are five riders of varying abilities, several boards are available to ride on, and there’s the ability to perform some fancy-looking tricks, too. And it still holds up decently all these years later.

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“It’s a niche, but it’s a dedicated niche, you know?”.

If you have even a passing interest in video games (and we assume that you do, since you have found yourselves here), then you probably will have heard of Did You Know Gaming? Since its launch in 2012, the trivia-focused website and YouTube channel has amassed a huge following, showcasing little-known facts and uncovering lost games that never saw the light of day. Now, the team is turning its attention towards another type of project altogether: a tabletop card game.

Do You Know Gaming?, a collaboration between the DYKG team and Lost in Cult, is a dungeon-crawling trivia game with a 1980s ‘big box’ feel. On a basic level, the card game lets you choose a character — each of whom has their own special abilities such as health bonuses, increased inventory space etc. — and set out on a quest to collect four Relics. Along the way, you’ll encounter monsters who can be damaged by answering gaming trivia questions of varying difficulty, collect loot and take on final bosses. If it sounds like a video game in card form, that’s because it is.

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Out of this world.

The weekend has rolled around once again so it’s time to put those gaming plans into effect.

Before we dive into all that though, let’s take a look at some of the highlights from this week in Nintendo. The big news this time around was, of course, The Game Awards, which saw a whole bunch of titles announced for Switch as well as wins for Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Wonder and Pikmin 4. Nintendo also seized the opportunity and dropped three new titles into the NSO + Expansion Pack N64 library — lucky us!

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Pauline will replace Yellow Toad “if things go according to plan”.

Although Nintendo doesn’t appear to be adding any new content to Super Mario Bros. Wonder any time soon, certain mods out there have been adding all sorts of weird and wonderful things to the new Switch entry.

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The Big Run reward bug is still present.

Earlier this week Nintendo rolled out Version 6.0.1 of Splatoon 3. Although it’s failed to fix certain problems associated with the latest Big Run event, apparently there’s a patch coming in the future that can hopefully address this problem.

Apart from this, Nintendo has shared its usual list of patch notes, so in case you missed it, here they are in full courtesy of the official support page. Once again, this update hasn’t fixed the Big Run reward bug:

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Hand me the bug repellent bat-spray, Robin.

When it comes to superhero games, Rocksteady Studios served us up a trio of the very best examples of the genre with its superlative Batman: Arkham Trilogy. Whether you prefer the smaller scale and comparative intimacy of Batman: Arkham Asylum, the vast open world of Arkham City or the Batmobile-powered battles of Arkham Knight, there’s a lot of top-notch bat-action for bat-fans to dig into throughout this delightfully dark odyssey.

We’ve had our fingers crossed for a long time that at least some of the incredible Arkham games would eventually (bat)wing their way onto the Switch and now we’ve got the entire flipping trilogy to blast our way through. But how do they perform on Nintendo’s ageing portable machine? As expected, 2009’s Arkham Asylum, which debuted on PS3, plays fairly well. With scaled-back graphics and a 30fps target in the mix, it’s a solid port that gets the job done, even if it does with zero panache and a few more stutters and texture pop-in issues than we’d have liked.

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Update: Previous patch did not fix the problem.

Update #2 : Earlier this week, Nintendo announced that it was aware of a bug in Splatoon 3’s latest Big Run event which resulted in players receiving the incorrect reward for their efforts. A patch was released earlier today to fix this problem, but it looks like the bug remains.

In a new post from @nintendo_cs (via @OatmealDome), Nintendo confirmed that ver. 6.0.1 has not fixed the bug, but the team is working on another patch to hopefully combat it in the future.

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Start wins.

This review originally went live in 2013, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in Switch’s N64 library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.

The Nintendo 64 and Rare go together like Banjo and Kazooie. The developer was behind several of the stellar titles found on the system, many of which were some of the most original games in history. One of the most unique titles released by the UK-based developer was the 3D action-shooter Jet Force Gemini, which launched in 1999. While Rare had much success in the first-person shooter genre with titles such as GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, it decided to take a different approach for this title and set about making it a third-person experience.

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All the N64 games, ranked by you.

Remember, this is a dynamic, real-time ranking of every available N64 game playable as part of a Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription. You can add (or maybe even reevaluate) your User Ratings for every game you’ve played at any time, even after publication.

If you’re wanting to pick up a Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to play any or all of these games, grab a subscription here:

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The “World Premieres” are back.

That’s it, folks. Another year, another Game Awards ceremony has come and gone. And what a night, hey?

It was a pretty good night for Nintendo at The Game Awards 2023, with Super Mario Bros. Wonder taking home Best Family Game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom winning Best Action / Adventure, and Pikmin 4 plucked the Best Sim / Strategy Game award. But the biggest winner was, of course, the hugely popular Baldur’s Gate 3, which scooped the most prizes on the night, including the coveted Game of the Year award.

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