Category: Nintendo

Optional escapades.

If you’ve played a handful of video games, chances are you’ve lost yourself in the side content more often than the main game.

Sidequests are a procrastinator’s dream. Don’t want to finish the main story? Worried about missing some fantastic rewards or lore dumps? Well, thank goodness there are tons of people across the world that need help rescuing their pets, doing their shopping, or trying to tell their neighbour that they’re in love with them.

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“Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something”.

Stardew Valley is perhaps one of the best-supported indie games of all-time with Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone now working on the title for over 12 years. While there have been questions raised about the farming and lifestyle sim’s future now that the creator’s attention has (mostly) shifted to his new project, what is the actual plan?

Speaking to NPR, Barone mentioned how he doesn’t want to “definitively say that the book is ever closed” on Stardew because he might one day “have a desire to come back and maybe add a thing or two”:

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Swing, king.

This week might not have brought us the Switch 2 bonanza that dominated the last, but there was still plenty to talk about in the world of Nintendo.

We got a teeny, tiny development update from the Silksong team (turns out, the game is still real) and chatted all things space with Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector developer Jump Over The Age. We also wrapped up the Switch 2 aftershocks with reactions to the new Donkey Kong design and various companies’ expected launch windows, and got all excited about next week’s Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket updates.

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Phil Spencer: “We love the work that we do with Nintendo”.

Since Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement last week, multiple companies have revealed they’ll be backing this next-generation hybrid system. Now, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has officially confirmed Xbox’s support.

Speaking on the Gamertag Radio podcast this week, Spencer mentioned how Microsoft was “really looking forward” to supporting Nintendo with Xbox’s software library. This continues Xbox’s mission to bring “more” of the tech giant’s games to “more platforms”:

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Yoshi or Nabbit, make your choice.

I suspect many of my fellow parents can relate to this, but when you have your first child, a whole bevvy of problems that never existed before are suddenly thrust upon you.

“Do we have enough nappies?”

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Best deals and cheapest prices.

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is coming to Switch on 20th March and its release marks the arrival of one of the most anticipated Wii U ports on Nintendo’s hybrid console.

The series has gone from strength to strength on Switch, with XC2 and XC3 bringing new fans into the Xenoblade fold as well as wowing critics. The arrival of this one completes the set on Switch, but this is so much more than an also-ran – we’re incredibly excited to see XCX get the Definitive Edition treatment!

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A drop of over 16%.

EA’s share price has taken a bit of a tumble after the publisher announced it woud be revising its financial outlook following disappointing sales of EA Sports FC 25 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

In just a single day, the company’s share price dropped by more than 16% from 142.35 USD to 118.58 USD. Things are levelling out somewhat at the time of writing, but it certainly marks one of the most volatile downturns in the company’s history.

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The surprise reveal got everyone’s attention.

The Steam Deck is very much focused on the PC market, but even it’s seemingly been unable to avoid the excitement of the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement last week with a reported slump in sales revenue.

As highlighted by Twisted Voxel (via Steam Deck HQ), the Steam Deck is regularly trending at the top of the “top sellers” chart on Steam, but between 14th January – 21st January, Valve’s portable PC hardware dropped from the top three to the 47th spot. This is supposedly its “lowest global ranking since its launch in 2022”. At the time of writing, it’s now back up in second place on the charts – so it’s business as usual.

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Available now in the US.

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition will land on the Switch this March, and ahead of this Wii U title’s return, pre-order deals are now going live in North America.

If you’re planning on picking up a physical copy, you might want to check out Best Buy, as it will be offering a fancy mini metal poster and stand featuring the game’s key artwork. If you’ve already pre-ordered from this store, this should be added to your existing order.

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Pokéntial earnings.

It must have been tough for chocolate lovers to get any chocolate when Willy Wonka was hiding golden tickets inside the wrappers.

Joking aside, that’s more or less been the vibe from Prismatic Evolutions, the just-released, mega-hyped Pokémon card set that’s memorable for its heavy representation of the fan-favourite Pokémon Eevee, and all its evolutionary forms. The 180+ card set was smoke-signaled by The Pokémon Company a little under four months out from its January 2025 release, and fans have anticipated it as the de facto set to look out for, largely due to its similarity to the most popular TCG expansion from the company’s previous card generation, Evolving Skies.

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