Category: Nintendo

And nearly 7 since its first announcement.

In recent years, Nintendo has become extremely efficient when it comes to announcing and releasing its games. Tears of the Kingdom aside, there has mostly been only a handful of months between the initial announcement and the release of many of the company’s major software titles.

The same, however, cannot be said for Metroid Prime 4. Initially announced on June 13th, 2017 (nearly 7 years ago), the game’s development was rebooted exactly 5 years ago, with an announcement posted on Nintendo’s YouTube channel on January 25th, 2019 from Nintendo EPD’s Shinya Takahashi (thanks, Stealth).

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“We intend to investigate and take appropriate measures”.

Palworld has been the talk of the video game space since last week and its popularity continues to rise with over eight million sales now. It’s admittedly drawn a lot of comparisons to the Pokémon series in this short time, and now it seems The Pokémon Company has issued an official statement in response.

While ‘Palworld’ isn’t directly named, The Pokémon Company notes in this statement issued on 25th January 2024 how it does not permit any use of the Pokémon IP in this game and “intends to investigate” any infringement of IP rights related to Pokémon. Here’s the statement in full:

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Get them while you can.

Nintendo has already shared some Splatoon 3 news this week and a new update, and now in addition to this, is a My Nintendo Store merchandise restock.

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EXS to impress.

Japanese developer Frenchbread’s phenomenal anime fighter, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late, impressed the heck out of us when it dropped in its final revised form on Switch back in 2020. Nabbing a 9/10 score in our review, it quickly became one of those very special games that we just straight-up refuse to ever delete off our SD cards. Still easily one of the console’s best fighters, it’s a slick and addictive work of indie art that only missed out on a perfect score due to some very disappointing online issues. And hey, now it’s got a sequel!

Yep, UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes (herein referred to as ‘UNI2’ because we’re down with the kids) sees you return to a world where humans ravaged by the ‘Hollow Night’ (scary void monsters) become In-Births. In-Births gain the ability to control a power known as EXS, and that’s how…well, that’s how they fight so good. We don’t understand much more of the story in all honesty, beyond this and the fact there’s a 500-year-old girl named Linne knocking about, we’re just happy that we understand what the franchise’s crazy name is all about now.

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“I am extremely humbled”.

Koji Kondo, Nintendo’s in-house composer one of the most renowned names in the video game composers industry, is to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, the Academy has announced.

Kondo will be honoured during the 27th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony, which takes place on 15th February. The composer of many games in the Mario and Zelda series, Kondo joins the likes of Shigeru Miyamoto, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hideo Kojima, Todd Howard, and Sid Meier, among many other industry titans, in the Hall of Fame.

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Farewell, friend.

Nintendo has announced that online play for Steel Diver: Sub Wars has been permanently discontinued on the 3DS ahead of the full online shutdown on April 8th, 2024 (thanks, Nintendo Everything).

Now, the service has technically been offline for a little while now after Nintendo commenced emergency maintenance on September 4th, 2023. According to an official post, however, the firm has been unable to resolve the issues and has thrown in the towel. As such, the game’s online service has effectively been discontinued.

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Single-player splatting.

Well, this is a surprise! Out of the blue, Nintendo has announced that the long-awaited Splatoon 3 ‘Side Order‘ DLC will be coming our way on 22nd February.

This one has been a long time coming. The single-player expansion was first announced back in last year’s February Direct, and was given a ‘Spring 2024’ release window in the September one. Today’s surprise announcement looks like things jumped forward a little, though.

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Fibre-wired.

Before IO Interactive blew everyone’s socks off with the sublime World of Assassination Trilogy, Hitman: Blood Money was widely considered to be the crown jewel of the stealth franchise. In fact, many consider Blood Money to be the progenitor of World of Assassination; a game that thrives on freedom of choice, offering up a total of 14 excellent sandboxes, from a Chilean vineyard to the White House.

This re-release on Switch, dubbed Hitman: Blood Money – Reprisal, is a straightforward port of the original, retaining the same controls and visuals with slight tweaks to the user interface. What Feral Interactive has done, however, is take a few cues from IO’s more modern Hitman titles and introduce a few quality-of-life updates for players who might not have joined Agent 47 back in 2006.

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Where is my super suit?

Outright Games and Hasbro have today announced that the popular cartoon series PJ Masks will be swooping back onto the Switch as PJ Masks Power Heroes: Mighty Alliance steps out of the shadows on 15th March.

Following on from 2021’s Heroes of the Night, this side-scrolling adventure game will once again see you playing as the superhero squad, setting out to thwart Luna Girl, Night Ninja and Romeo’s evil plans.

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We’re ready when you are, Nintendo.

It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for Retro Studios to get Metroid Prime 4 out the door, and well technically speaking it’s been more than six years since the original announcement. One of the more recent updates was about a company recruitment drive, so what’s the latest? The Nintendo-focused YouTube channel ‘SuperMetalDave64’ has reportedly spotted some new information online related to a new Retro Studios partnership and details about Metroid Prime 4’s playtesting.

The latest video from this channel sheds light on a new Retro “production partnership” with Next-Gen Dreams 3D – a “triple AAA co-developer production studio for hire” that has previously worked with companies like Ubisoft and TakeTwo and specialises in stylised trailers. It previously worked on a Game Awards trailer for the TakeTwo title Judas. The head of Next-Gen also has Retro Studios listed on their work profile with the date of “September 2022” attached.

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