Category: Nintendo

No sweat!

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom provides so many outfit options that you’d be lying if you said that you didn’t want Link to look his best at all times. You know what makes this difficult, though? The bulky Flamebreaker Armour set. For many of us, this was our main defence against the scorching fire caves for the majority of the game and the fact of the matter is, it just ain’t cute. But what if you could explore Hyrule’s hottest spots without needing to change into this monstrosity every time?

As it turns out, you can — in caves, at least. In a new glitch revealed by YouTube channel Gaming Reinvented, we can see that getting rid of Link’s nasty habit of catching fire when not in the appropriate clothing is actually a rather simple one.

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It’s off to a wonderful start.

Ahead of the launch of Super Mario Bros. Wonder next month, it seems the game is already dominating the charts on Amazon in certain parts of the world.

Following the special Direct presentation last week, revealing even more about the new entry, Wonder has now gone straight to the top of Amazon’s best-selling video game in the US. It’s ahead of games like Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI and other Switch games such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Basically, it’s a positive sign for this new chapter in Mario’s 2D history.

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Kirby, Joy Mech Fight & more.

Nintendo has added four more games to the Switch Online library today. These games are available on the NES, SNES and Game Boy Color libraries.

For NES the titles include Downtown Nekketsu March Super-Awesome Field Day! and Joy Mech Fight. On SNES we’ve got Kirby’s Star Stacker and joining the Game Boy Color library is Quest for Camelot.

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(rock)Steady, this is another (be)bop.

When we first got our hands on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge last year, we were by no means of the impression that the game was lacking in the content department — this is, after all, what we deemed to be “the best Turtles scrolling beat ’em up ever“. A little over a year later, the game’s first DLC, ‘Dimension Shellshock‘, is here to show that sometimes bigger is in fact better, and even more Turtle action is always a good thing.

This DLC comes as a rather solid package. Alongside several new character colour palettes (many of which come from a free update that launched alongside the DLC), there’s also the addition of a brand new game mode, two fresh-faced fighters — Usagi Yojimbo (aka ‘Miyamoto Yojimbo’ in his original comics) and Karai (a mainstay of the 2003 animated TMNT series) — and a number of shredding original music tracks from composer Tee Lopes.

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Everybody Do The Kiba-Dachi.

Digital Eclipse, following on from Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, is continuing its trend of going back to the past to rekindle the games that kicked ass. While the Cowabunga Collection was wrapped in comic book paraphernalia and finished with a lick of old-fashioned Konami, The Making of Karateka follows the clean and tranquil stylings of Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection, a package we commended for being so thoughtfully arranged.

Digital Eclipse’s “interactive documentary” angle, thus far, has been somewhat pioneering, built with robust research, stuffed with original interviews, and showcasing unearthed and playable prototype materials. And, priced at a reasonable $19.99, there’s a good chance that anyone who sits down and actually sifts through everything in The Making of Karateka, from video interviews to superb audio commentaries, will probably spend more time with it than they do with most games, such is the attention span of today’s impulse buyers and the wealth of content on-board. Without even playing the games in the package, you can kick back and enjoy the story of how Karateka came to be, in alluring, personal detail.

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More bundles are on the way.

Nintendo has today announced a new range of Switch bundles that will be coming our way next month including two brand-new Animal Crossing: New Horizons-inspired Switch Lite editions.

The Isabelle’s Aloha Edition and Timmy & Tommy’s Aloha Edition will be available from Target and Walmart respectively in the US from 6th October for a suggested retail price of $199.99, while Nintendo of Europe has confirmed that each will be receiving a wider release on 20th October.

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Marking one year of Splatoon 3.

Somehow, it has been almost a whole year since Splatoon 3 was released and Nintendo is gearing up to mark the occasion in the most appropriate fashion — with a Splatfest, of course. To make the upcoming event that bit more special, the weekend’s splatting will not take place in a unique location as usual, but will instead see all eight Tricolor stages from previous Splatfests make a return.

The news was shared in a post on the Nintendo Japan website, before being shared to the website formally known as Twitter in a translated form by @OatmealDome. The full lineup of eight different stages even includes the special Scorch Gorge variant used for the earlier Zelda Splatfest, so this will be the perfect time to see the sights if you missed out on getting to visit the locations previously.

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Update: Here’s the games lineup for TGS 2023.

Update :

Sega and Atlus have now shared a lineup of the games they’ll be showing at TGS 2023. Here’s the full rundown (via Gematsu) which will feature playable demos, trailers, live stream spotlights and more. As a reminder, the special broadcast stream will take place later this month on 21st September.

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Doug Bowser reconfirms the reveal will “be within the credits”.

Nintendo has reconfirmed Mario’s new voice actor will be revealed in the credits of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and there won’t be any special announcements happening ahead of this release.

Speaking to IGN at Nintendo Live 2023, Nintendo of America’s president Doug Bowser reiterated how there wouldn’t be any name reveal until the game launched and also mentioned how there would be no formal announcement prior to this. Here’s exactly what he had to say:

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A game worth saving (and loading).

For much of the time that Science Adventure fans have known of its existence, Anonymous;Code has been more of a waiting game than, well, an actual game. First announced all the way back in 2016, this sci-fi-heavy visual novel was smacked with delay after delay until it finally saw a Japanese-exclusive release on Switch in 2022. Now, Western players have their chance to experience the game, and we’re happy to report that it was (mostly) worth the wait.

Developed by Mages — the company behind popular titles like Steins;Gate and the Famicom Detective Club remakes — Anonymous;Code is the sixth mainline entry in the developer’s loosely connected Science Adventure series. The game brings the action to the far-flung year of 2037, a hyper-futuristic era dominated by augmented reality, world simulators, and AI girlfriends. You are introduced to protagonist Pollon Takaoka, a teenage hacker with a heart of gold and a desire to help those in need. After a chance encounter with a mysterious girl named Momo Aizaki, Pollon finds himself caught in an earth-shattering conspiracy revolving around the mystery of Cicada 3301 and the prophesied end of the world.

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