Category: Nintendo

The door’s open.

Last week saw the return of the king of Paper Marios as The Thousand-Year Door launched on Switch in remake form.

Following last year’s excellent Super Mario RPG remake, our deputy editor Alana Hagues once again tackled a turn-based Mario and found this latest Switch remake from Intelligent Systems to be “a fantastic RPG adventure, whether you’re a Mario fan or not, with some best-in-class combat, brilliant writing, and a few little creases ironed out to make this the definitive way to play.”

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Yes, it’s coming to Switch.

News regarding the upcoming Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake has been rather thin on the ground, but judging from a short tease posted on X to mark ‘Dragon Quest Day’, it looks like we’ll be getting a lot more information very soon.

There’s not much to go on from the tease, as it showcases a very short animation of the franchise’s Mark of Erdrick, captioned with the short phrase “The legend of Erdrick draws near”. Crucially, however, we do get confirmation that the game will be heading to the Nintendo Switch in addition to Steam, Windows, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

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The 10th outing featuring more than 150 games.

The digital showcase Indie Live Expo returned for its 10th outing and as part of this, it’s showcased more than 150 games – with plenty of them coming to the Nintendo Switch.

Some of these games have already been released, some are coming soon and the rest are arriving at a later date. So, in case you missed the show – here’s a round up of every wave, with all the Switch announcements:

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*sigh* Bapanada.

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 is finally seeing the Hollow light…

Last year, I decided to take a break from Tears of the Kingdom and pick up a fun-looking, rarely discussed indie which was subject to a tasty little eShop discount at the time. The game was called ‘Hollow Knight‘, or something like that, and I put a decent amount of time into it before getting stuck, putting my controller down and never thinking about it again.

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Fly high, fairy.

Hello folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl.

Before we get cracking, let’s see how things panned out last week, hm? We looked at Super Monkey Ball Adventure, one of several entries for the GameCube. As we’d expected, the busier, more vibrant box art from North America sealed the deal, winning a healthy 79% of the vote.

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“A revolution in N64 native ports for PC”.

The Nintendo 64 emulation scene has come a long way and the latest recompilation project revolutionises native PC ports.

Our friends at Time Extension shared a post recently about N64Recomp – describing the tool as potentially transformative to the world of N64 emulation, as it streamlines the process of native ports and adds modern enhancements such as uncapped frame rates, ultrawide monitor support and even ray tracing.

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Fans in South Korea can get all sorts of bonuses.

The 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion 2 will make return next month on the Switch and ahead of the game’s launch, Nintendo has started to reveal more of the pre-order goodies that will be up for grabs.

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Switch will receive it at a later date.

The toy shooter HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is arriving on Xbox next week, and ahead of this launch, developer Digital Cybercherries has revealed the game will be getting cross-platform support.

While this feature (allowing players to “join forces” across platforms) will roll out for Xbox and PC on 31st May 2024, it seems Switch players will have to wait a little longer with no ‘ETA’ just yet. Here’s what the developer had to say in response to a question about crossplay for Switch:

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Fire Emblem’s fates.

How would you feel if the next mainline Fire Emblem game was exclusively a social sim?

While a change this drastic is almost certainly not in the cards, the identity crisis currently faced by Fire Emblem means that change must come. While Engage’s 1.61 million sales as of March 2023 is respectable for the franchise, it marks a return to 3DS-era numbers after whispers of blockbuster status when Three Houses sold nearly 3 million in its first fiscal year. The reason for this discrepancy is simple: Three Houses expanded the fanbase by shifting the focus away from its strategy elements, whereas Engage doubled down on its strategy roots.

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Are you well?

Wait, it’s Saturday already? Where does the time go?

This week has been an exciting one for fans of the Big N. Not only did Nintendo announce the acquisition of Shiver Entertainment, but we finally got our hands on Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on Switch (and we think it’s a beauty)!

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