Category: Nintendo

Houston, we have a new obsession.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kate looks back on a 2023 game from Rocket Rat that very nearly slipped through our net…

Hey, you. If I’ve pitched this title correctly, you’re here because, like me, you are a thrall to the roguelike/lite deckbuilding genre. You’re in the right place, my friend, and I won’t waste your time: Today, we’re here to talk about Cobalt Core, one of the most underrated games of last year.

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Uhhh… meow?

Yes, a live-action Minecraft movie is really happening. We know Jason Momoa is involved. We know Jack Black is involved. And, as of today, we know that director Jared Hess wants to get it right — or, at least, not get it wrong (thanks, Eurogamer).

In a recent interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Hess confessed that the production team is keen to “avoid an ‘Ugly Sonic’ situation” with the upcoming live-action movie — a reference to the blue blur’s original design that debuted in the 2019 Sonic The Hedgehog trailer before being swiftly scrapped thanks to the ensuing online backlash.

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Knight and day.

Publisher Deck13 Spotlight and developer Argonwood have announced that the medieval-inspired turn-based strategy game Rising Lords will be bringing the battle to Switch on 18th January.

Taking place in the fictional kingdom of Aubelin, Rising Lords will see you playing as a Lord who is attempting to rise (shocking with that title, we know) through the ranks and gain power over the land.

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Save data will carry over.

Ahead of the Fate/Samurai Remnant DLC release next month, Koei Tecmo has now made a demo of the action role-playing game available on the Switch eShop.

The demo will allow you to test out the earlier stages of the game and save data will carry over to the full game if you decide to purchase it. The full version of the title will set you back $59.99 / £54.99.

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It’s also offering free product repairs.

Following in the footsteps of The Pokémon Company, Nintendo has announced it will donate 50 million yen to the Red Cross Society after a devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s Noto Peninsula earlier this month.

As part of this, Nintendo has announced it will also provide free repairs to anyone in disaster zones. Here’s the official statement (via a translation of a NintendoCoLtd post on social media):

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Trade-off.

UK retailer GAME will reportedly be refusing physical video game trade-ins from February 2024. This news comes from Eurogamer, which has spoken to numerous staff across multiple branches of the county’s largest video game retailer.

GAME has yet to make an official announcement to the public, but multiple staff working for the company have confirmed that they have been told the service will be ending on 16th February. That means you have a month to pop in and trade in your games for credit.

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Say hello to CitraVR.

The popular open-source 3DS emulator Citra is making its way to the Meta Quest platform as a native OpenXR application called CitraVR on January 20th, 2024.

As reported by UploadVR, the application will launch in beta on SideQuest and GitHub, skipping Steam as a result of the Dolphin emulator’s legal issues. Users will be able to play 3DS titles legally by dumping their games through a hacked 3DS. You can, of course, also download ROMs, though Citra itself doesn’t endorse doing so.

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EMMI-bo.

Although the critically acclaimed Metroid Dread was primarily developed by Spanish studio MercurySteam, Nintendo itself was heavily involved in the game’s creation and marketing, as you’d expect.

Like many major releases on the Nintendo Switch, Metroid Dread also benefitted from the launch of amiibo, with a Samus/E.M.M.I dual pack available alongside the game itself. Nintendo developer Uenaka Minoru has recently spoken on the creation of the amiibo via a recruitment page and how his studies in ‘artistic anatomy’ at graduate school helped inform the overall look of the figures (thanks, Nintendo Everything).

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NF-Terminated.

GameStop has announced that it has “decided to wind down” its NFT marketplace after initially launching in July 2022.

As reported by Decrypt (thanks, VGC), users will be unable to buy, sell, or create NFTs as of February 2nd, 2024, with GameStop citing the “continuing regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space” as its reasoning for the closure.

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Enter the deranged mind of Postal Dude.

It appears Postal: Brain Damaged is finally making its way to the Nintendo Switch, with the team announcing the news earlier this week on Steam.

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