Category: Nintendo

Switch sales increase by 37% over November.

The latest GfK data puts EA Sports FC 24 at the top of the physical and digital pile for December 2023 for the UK (thanks, GamesIndustry).

Thanks to a bunch of sales and discounts, the latest entry in EA’s not-FIFA-but-still-basically-FIFA franchise took the lion’s share of 6.9 million digital and physical sales in the region, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III coming in second place, and Hogwarts Legacy in third.

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“You ever make it to King Koopa?”.

If you’ve hopped onto social media this morning, you’ve undoubtedly been inundated with coverage of the 81st Golden Globe Awards event. We’re here to add to that, because we’re nice, but also because it’s kind of, sort of relevant to Nintendo.

You see, when presenting the nominees for Best Original Song, artists Andra Day and Jon Batiste just couldn’t help but reminisce over playing Super Mario Bros. when they were younger. Hey, we’ve all been there, right? Okay, not while presenting an award at the Golden Globes, but maybe in line at a Starbucks.

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Platforms and release date TBA.

The manga and anime series Hunter x Hunter is getting a new fighting game and it’s being developed by Eighting and published by Bushiroad Games. It’s officially titled Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact.

Platforms and a release date haven’t been revealed just yet. It’s also unclear what type of fighting game it will be, but you can see Gon, Netero and Leorio getting ready to fight.

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“We tried our very best to avoid being in this position”.

Bossa Studios, the UK team behind the Surgeon Simulator series, has been forced to lay off around one-third of its staff at the end of 2023.

Co-founder Henrique Olifiers told GamesIndustry.biz it was the result of a “perfect storm of events” and the team tried very hard to “avoid being in this position”:

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Our favourite eShop games in from December!

Happy New Year lovely readers! It’s 2024, and with another fantastic year of Switch (and maybe Switch 2?) gaming ahead of us, we need to stop, think, and have one last look back at 2023 with eShop Selects this month!

December is usually a quiet month for game releases as publishers and developers make way for the holidays and take a well-earned rest. That doesn’t mean nothing dropped on the eShop, of course. We’re here to run down the best of December’s eShop offerings.

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Who gets the Birdie?

Hi folks, and welcome back to Box Art Brawl!

Looking back on last week, Tetris Attack on the Game Boy entered the ring for a classic duel, with North America and Europe going head-to-head against Japan. Rather expectedly, including Nintendo’s characters gave Japan a significant advantage, and the region won comfortably with 75% of the vote.

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“We would like to express our deepest sympathies”.

The Pokémon Company has donated 50 million yen (about USD 345,770) to Japan’s Red Cross Society after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s Noto Peninsula earlier this week.

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“It’s going to be met with a lot of excitement”.

It’s a new year and sure enough new rumours are already popping up about what other games could be made available to Nintendo fans in the future.

The latest story doing the rounds suggests a Microsoft game “met with high critical acclaim” and well-received by fans will be released on a “competitor system” in 2024. This claim comes from the host of the ‘Nate the Hate Podcast‘, who goes on to mention how the same title was in the “game of the year conversation” in the year of its release.

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Featuring a new card battle system & online play.

Devolver Digital and UK studio Nerial have today locked in a release date for Reigns: Three Kingdoms on the Nintendo Switch and PC, announcing it will be arriving next week on 11th January 2024.

This fifth entry in the Reigns strategy series was originally “available exclusively for Netflix members” in November 2022 and draws inspiration from the Chinese epic “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”.

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The man, the myth, the legend.

Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring, and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds just about as much prestige in the ranks of Nintendo as Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and the late, great Satoru Iwata.

Yet for as vital as Aonuma has proven himself to be for the growth of The Legend of Zelda, there’s another creator who has arguably taken even more of a crucial role in the franchise’s development in recent years: Hidemaro Fujibayashi. In fact, as of 2023, Fujibayashi holds the most directorial credits for the Zelda franchise, helming Oracle of Ages and Seasons, Four Swords, The Minish Cap, Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom. He also served as story writer and sub-director on Phantom Hourglass.

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