Category: Nintendo

“You, as an actor, are so disposable”.

Before the appointment of Sarah Natochenny as the voice of Ash Ketchum, the original voice actor of the Pokémon character was actually Veronica Taylor. Now that Ash’s arc has come to an end in the anime series, Taylor has reflected on her own time when she was essentially “fired” from the role.

As a result the abrupt recast in 2006, she still struggles and isn’t even sure she’s properly said goodbye to Ash just yet. Here’s what she had to say during a chat with Kotaku:

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Learn how to make South Indian food.

If you’ve played Venba, which launched on Nintendo Switch in July 2023, and you love cooking, you probably had one big question at the end of the game — how do I make all of that delicious food? Thankfully, the team at Visai Games have a solution that’ll save you a google or three — cookbook DLC!

The developer teased the upcoming DLC over on Twitter and TikTok (thanks, Kotaku!), revealing that fans have been asking how to make all of the recipes that you cook up in the game. From the soft and fluffy breakfast cake idlis to the warming chicken rasam soup to the delicious rice dish biryani, there will be 12 recipes covered in this upcoming DLC.

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Okay campers, rise and shine…

Gooooood morning (afternoon? evening?), all! We’re republishing this piece in honour of Groundhog Day. Whether the groundhog saw its shadow or not, we want to celebrate the best games that throw you into an endless time loop. We’ve also added In Stars and Time and Outer Wilds to the list. Enjoy!

Most video games are either two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Most… but not all. Today, we’re celebrating the games that dip their toes into the underappreciated and underexplored fourth dimension: Time.

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Plus a little logo teaser.

Jim Carrey is back as Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie, Variety has revealed.

Today, the day of the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis’ Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s 30th anniversary, Variety broke the news alongside the official Sonic movie Twitter account revealing a little teaser for the movie.

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But they miss the grand prize.

Thieves have broken into a San Jose, California store called Tofu’s Trading and made off with 35,000 Pokémon Trading Cards along with the store’s cash register, as reported by ACE7 News (via The Guardian).

Though the thieves missed an opportunity to dress up as Team Rocket, they did manage to get in and out of the store within minutes before the police were able to apprehend them. That said, although they did bag a whole bunch of Pokémon cards, they missed out on what we assume would have been quite a lucrative find: a special collection of cards released once per year that was due to launch just two days after the break-in.

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Go on, tell us.

Nintendo surprised Switch owners yesterday with a demo of the upcoming release Mario vs. Donkey Kong.

In case you’ve missed the coverage so far, this title is a revival of the 2004 Game Boy Advance release featuring additional content such as new worlds, co-op, and even multiple difficulty settings.

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Check out the new character trailer.

Remember the Capcom and SNK-inspired 2D-pixel fighter Blazing Strike? It was originally revealed for the Switch and multiple other platforms in 2021.

Now, in an update on the ‘All Aksys’ Twitch channel earlier before, it’s been confirmed this title will be arriving in “Summer 2024“. There’s a new character trailer to go with this announcement, which you can check out above.

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Coming in June.

Aksys Games is bringing Falcom’s action RPG Tokyo Xanadu eX+ to Switch in June 2024. The publisher announced this during today’s All Aksys event, which was streamed on Twitch.

Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is an enhanced version of the PS Vita RPG Tokyo Xanadu, which was released back in 2015. Taking place in an alternate reality of Tokyo, which was hit by an earthquake in 2005, the city has only just recovered from the devastation. However, things aren’t as calm as they seem, as high school student Kou Tokisaka soon discovers. Kou is sucked into another world called ‘Eclipse’ and he eventually teams up with classmate Asuka Hiiragi to seal the eclipse vortexes.

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Hints at the next project?

Monolith Soft has recently updated its recruitment page, and it appears that the Xenoblade series developer is looking for someone with experience in 3D action games.

As spotted by My Nintendo News, the Nintendo subsidiary is looking for an “application programmer” to join the team. Using Google Translate, we can see that the successful candidate will be “in charge of designing and developing various programs for 3D action games”, looking at things such as character control, enemy AI behaviour, scene progression, and all sorts of design elements.

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Scratch that glitch.

A game as massive as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was always going to have a couple of bugs just waiting to be found by the glitch hunters out there. Since its launch, we have seen players discover ways of getting infinite items, fire immunity, even one-hit weapons, but none have felt quite as personal as this — skipping the game’s introductory area.

Let’s not forget, Breath of the Wild‘s Great Plateau was such a sticking point for the glitching community back in the day, with the possibility of skipping it becoming the holy grail of all discoveries. The answer is still yet to be found, so it’s natural that certain players would take to the TOTK equivalent, The Great Sky Islands, with the same level of skippable optimism.

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