Category: Nintendo

“Always on gameplay” with an extended life cycle.

During Warner Bros. Q3 earnings call, the company’s CEO David Zaslav has revealed it’s focused on transforming its “biggest franchises” from three to four-year releases into “more always on gameplay” experiences through live services, multiplatform releases, and free-to-play extensions.

The “goal” is to have “more players spending more time on more platforms, with Warner Bros. wanting to “drive engagement and monetization of longer cycles at higher levels”. It’s also identified a “significant opportunity” to generate greater post-purchase revenue”.

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Expansion plan knocks it back to 2028.

Back in August, there was a report from Nikkei claiming Nintendo’s new development building had been delayed due to an “expansion plan”.

Nintendo didn’t officially comment about this at the time, but now within the slides of its latest financial results briefing, it’s confirmed construction has been up-scaled and is now scheduled to be completed by 2028 instead of 2027.

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Grab your trilby and trench coat.

Updated with the world’s greatest detective’s newest adventure on Switch, Murder On The Orient Express, along with our favourite coffee-loving yellow mouse, Detective Pikachu Returns!

Everyone loves a good mystery, and even more so if they’re the one who gets to solve it. The detective genre has evolved a great deal since its point-and-click adventure game roots, and this list proves how much things have changed. In fact, the games that we’re including in this list range from typical noir detective fare to the kinds of games that you’ll probably tell us “don’t count as detective games” in the comments!

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Ah, so relaxing.

GameChops and music artist Funk Fiction have released Sonic & Chill, a relaxing new addition to the ‘& Chill’ album series featuring multiple tunes from classic Sonic games.

Comprised of 14 tracks in total, you’ve got the likes of Chemical Plant Zone, Welcome to Station Square, and Hydrocity Zone to accompany you while you work, relax, or even excerise, if that’s your thing. A physical vinyl release is in works for relase in the coming months, but you can now listen to the whole thing on streaming services.

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Launching Spring 2024.

Developer and publisher Giants Software has announced Farming Simulator Kids for the Nintendo Switch, offering a more child-friendly, accesible take on its long-running Farming Simulator franchise.

Switching out text for more audiovisual cues, Farming Simulator Kids will require players to harvest crops, care for a variety of different animals, and make use of numerous John Deer-manufactured vehicles. Mini-games will break up the gameplay nicely, so kids will be able to hop in and out as they please.

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Teams will vary depending on which region you’re splatting in.

Hot on the heels of the Halloween event, Splatoon 3‘s next Splatfest has been announced for just a couple of week’s time, with the upcoming three-team battle heading to the Splatlands from 18th-19th November.

This next one will be mixing up the format a little as we see the return of regional themes. Yes, the Splatfest question and the optional teams will vary depending on your region, so pay attention now to see what’s on the table for you.

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Super Mario evergreen revenue is up year-on-year.

Nintendo’s Mario Movie, which made its debut earlier this year, has had an incredibly positive impact on the sales and downloads of Super Mario games.

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Ubisoft Montreal cuts 98 positions in total.

Ubisoft is the latest company to lay off employees, with the French publisher’s Montreal studio (Assassin’s Creed) reportedly hit the hardest, cutting 98 jobs. In total though, Ubisoft is axing 124 jobs as part of a global company restructure.

Some of the positions impacted include administration and IT jobs, along with Ubisoft’s IT and SFX teams. It’s doing this to streamline operations and enhance the company’s overall collective efficiency. Notably, production teams won’t be impacted by this restructure:

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Wes Ball is on directing duties.

Nintendo has announced that it is working on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie with producer Avi Arad and director Wes Ball.

Following the immense success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Illumination, the Zelda project will this time be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

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Every first-party game that has sold over one million copies.

Updated with sales figures from Nintendo’s Q2 FY24 financial report – enjoy!

At the time of writing, the Switch has the highest number of software sales of any Nintendo console, ever, with over one billion games sold on the platform since March 2017. What’s more, its lead is so commanding that it will likely hold this pole position for a good few years to come (unless there is a sudden surge in sales for DS games around the corner that nobody saw coming).

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