Category: Nintendo

LEGO to the City.

Following rumours that LEGO was set to team up with Nintendo and unleash Animal Crossing-themed sets on unsuspecting wallets the world over, a short teaser yesterday revealed… well, very little really. But the leaks were true, and Animal Crossing Lego exists! Yes, official Tom Nook and Isabelle minifigs will be available to purchase at some point in the hopefully near future.

It’s been a long time coming. For years, the Lego Ideas scheme — which lets fans submit designs for votes, with any that receive over 10,000 being judged by an official Lego panel with one being selected for production — has received Animal Crossing-themed submissions, and the massive mainstream popularity and cross-generational appeal of New Horizons on Switch made this collaboration feel like a no-brainer. Following the release and success of the Lego Super Mario sets, it was only a matter of time.

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“I think Star Fox is a very complex title”.

The Star Fox series has been a bit of a mixed bag, hasn’t it? There have been huge genre shifts, recreations, and attempts to capture that same magic that the SNES original — and the N64 sequel — captured.

Now, in an interview with VGC, Dylan Cuthbert, a programmer on the original Star Fox and Star Fox 2 and founder of developer Q-Games, has shared his thoughts on why he thinks other entries haven’t been as successful, mentioning that he thinks that the GameCube entry, Star Fox Adventures, “was too British”.

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Is there a chameleon?

Devolver Digital has announced KarmaZoo for the Switch, a co-op platformer for up to ten players, launching next month on November 14th, 2023.

It boasts some rather lovely pixel-art visuals enhanced with lighting effects and flashes of bold colours, but the true draw here is the co=op gameplay itself. You’ll be matched with randomly selected players online and you’ll need to work together to boost your karma, helping your teammates overcome obstacles or even sacrifice yourself for the greater good.

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Who will win?

The annual Minecraft event ‘Minecraft Live’ is returning on 15th October and once again there’ll be a new mob announced.

The catch is there are three mobs and only one of them will be added to the game. The winner depends on the amount of community votes each mob gets. This year the mobs include the Crab, Armadillo and Penguin. Here’s a bit about each one, along with a look:

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Can we get an eShop demo now?

As we get closer to the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder later this month, it seems Nintendo has started to roll out demos of the game at multiple retailers across the US.

You should be able to play this demo at the Switch kiosks located in stores like Target, Walmart and GameStop. Below is a glimpse of the Target one, which you can see in motion on YouTube.

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Arrives in November.

We hope you’ve made it through Gothic Classic on Switch because the sequel is coming to the console very soon.

THQ Nordic has today revealed that Gothic II Complete Classic — a port of the sequel to the cult-classic PC RPG — will be launching on the Switch on 29th November 2023. This release will also include the Night of the Raven expansion, which adds an entirely new region to the game, new weapons, skills, enemies, and quests.

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(Geru)Do better.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim pleads the case for just a little more Ganondorf action…

The reveal of Tears of the Kingdom‘s Ganondorf has to be one of my favourite all-time moments as a Zelda fan. We all collectively lost our minds over a 0.2-second clip of him shouting and then lost them in a different way altogether when we saw the accompanying key art minutes later — nothing forgives decades of tyranny and bloodshed quite like some killer pecs, after all. I was chuffed to have the gorgeous Gerudo back in my mainline Zelda games and thoroughly grinned throughout Link’s final battle with him.

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It’s the only returning game in the top ten.

It’s time to check out the latest physical charts from Japan, and this time, there are a whole bunch of new releases making up the top ten (well, technically just four split across various platforms, but you get it). Nevertheless, Pikmin 4 is still holding its own at number 5, selling a further 18,307 copies, pushing it ever closer to that 1 million unit milestone.

Otherwise, Koei Tecmo’s Fate/Samurai Remnant comes in at number 1 on the Switch with 34,728 units sold, while its PS5 and PS4 siblings enter the top ten at numbers 3 and 9 respectively. We’ve also got Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai at number 2, while the Switch version of EA Sports FC 24 managed to snatch position number 6, coming in ahead of the PS5 and PS4 variants.

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NES and Game Boy titles included.

A retro collection containing the original NES title A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia and its Game Boy sequel, The Rescue of Princess Blobette, is launching on the Nintendo Switch eShop on October 17th, 2023.

While maintaining the essence of the original games, the new collection will introduce modern quality-of-life enhancements, including filters to change the display’s appearance, a music player, and save states (very much like Nintendo’s own Switch Online collection, then). Each game will also contain the US and Japanese releases.

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Wonder and Superstars arrive later this month.

Mario and Sonic both have new side-scrolling games arriving in the same week later this month and it has been generating some discussion online.

If you’ve been wondering how the developers of Super Mario Bros. Wonder feel about this, according to the game’s producer Takashi Tezuka, the Nintendo team doesn’t mind and is generally looking forward to the return of “2D side-scroller action games”. He did admit though that it was an “interesting coincidence”.

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