Category: Nintendo

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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A surprise crossover.

In yet another surprise collaboration announcement at this year’s Game Awards, Apex Legends has announced a crossover with Square Enix’s action role-playing game Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

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Smashing expectations.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is celebrating its 5th anniversary today, 7th December 2023, and we’re publishing a handful of pieces to celebrate. Here, we’ll be discussing the future of the Smash series — what’s next? Is there even a next? And where do we think Sakurai will be involved?

It’s hard to believe that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is five years old. It’s one of the defining games of the Nintendo Switch, and along with its incredible roster of characters, stages, music — basically everything — it’s easily one of the best fighting games ever. At least, in our humble opinion.

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Who is the winner?

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is celebrating its 5th anniversary today, 7th December 2023, and we’re publishing a handful of pieces to celebrate this gargantuan fighter’s birthday. First up, we asked you to vote for your favourite Smash Ultimate character reveal trailers…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a phenomenal game; of that, there is no doubt. However, if we’re being honest with ourselves, our favourite memory of Smash Ultimate was finding out which characters would be included as additional downloadable content.

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Ooh, pretty.

The Pokémon Company has announced that special distribution events have begun for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, allowing players to download Darkrai and a shiny Lucario.

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Splatoon and Mario Kart events postponed too.

Nintendo has today announced that the first Nintendo Live event of 2024, which was set to take place in Tokyo, has been cancelled. Alongside this, several competitive events including the ‘Splatoon Koshien 2023 National Finals,’ the ‘Splatoon 3 World Championship 2024′ and the ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge Final Stage’ have been postponed.

Nintendo cites safety concerns as the main reason for the changes following the company receiving numerous threats targeting its employees and spreading to the wider community.

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Due to “popular demand” in Japan.

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince launched on the Switch last week and apparently it’s already sold out in many stores around Japan. It’s got to the point now where Square Enix has advised fans to consider the digital version if they can’t get hold of a retail copy.

Here’s a translation (via Ryuji of Noisy Pixel):

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Balance adjustments and more.

Following the delivery of the “Final Horizon” update for Sonic Frontiers back in September, Sega has now released a brand new patch for the game, bumping it up to Version 1.41.

It includes some balance adjustments for the game’s “Easy Mode” and also makes changes to some of the controls for the new characters Amy, Knuckles, and Tails. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of Sega’s official patch notes page:

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All seven Nintendo Switch games featured.

Wholesome Games brings its bite-sized indie game showcase to The Game Awards 2023 with Wholesome Snack.

The 30-minute presentation returns from last year and brings us a plethora of cute, cuddly, and cosy titles coming to multiple platforms. A handful of these games are coming to Switch, so we wanted to gather up the highlights and show you what you can get cosy with in 2024.

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“bullet hell… in space!”.

Revealed as a “one more thing” announcement at today’s Day of the Devs digital showcase, Poncle announced that Vampire Survivors will be landing an all-new DLC package, featuring a collaboration with… wait for it… Among Us.

We don’t know all that much about what the DLC will have in store at the time of writing apart from that it will see some familiar crewmates thrown into a space-set version of the bullet hell roguelike that we haven’t been able to take our eyes off this year. Interesting, right?

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