Celebrating 30 years.
Long before Nintendo and Illumination’s record-breaking Super Mario Bros. animated movie, there was the infamous live-action film starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, which has since gone on to become a cult hit.
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A reveal is scheduled for next month.
Back in July, Toree 3D developer Siactro made announced plans for a new project, with a reveal scheduled to take place soon.
Now, in an update on social media, it’s been announced an “early demo” of this next game will be making an appearance at SAGE Expo on 1st September. Based on the silhouette featured in the video below, it appears Toree is making a return:
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Hell Wing.
M2’s garage doors are open for business again, continuing to pay homage, and in fastidious attention to detail, to the shoot ’em ups of yesteryear. Zero Fire, a portmanteau of collected titles Zero Wing (1989) and Hellfire (1989) represents Toaplan during the height of its glorious arcade tenure.
Although released just four months apart, Hellfire is chronologically the first in this collection, a side-on horizontal scrolling shoot ’em up that was borne from the instruction to make a game like Konami’s Gradius. Hellfire was the company’s first horizontal foray, and its production was particularly problematic. Director Tatsuya Uemura cited it as being “extremely difficult to make” in an interview for the Toaplan Shooting Chronicle, a music collection, and that it was memorable only for the struggle he and his team experienced during its manufacture.
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Sea of low-quality.
It’s difficult now to remember a time when the Switch eShop wasn’t rammed with low-cost, low-quality games making it laborious to find the great new releases amongst all the dross. What began as an immaculately clean, functional store back in 2017 quickly ballooned and before long Nintendo was inundated with software submissions vying for visibility on a crowded digital marketplace. Inevitably, these included titles from less-than-scrupulous developers and publishers looking to make a quick buck.
In recent months, the number of quick-and-dirty ‘clone’ games seems to have exploded, though. The Last Hope – Dead Zone Survival is a notable example which is no longer on the eShop after it caught the attention of Sony’s copyright lawyers. That was an open-close case, perhaps, but the underhand tactics being employed by select publishers make a handful of PC-based bullshots look like quaint, small-fry false advertising.
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, eat your heart out.
If you had a Nintendo 64 growing up, we bet you had Mario Kart 64. This was many people’s first Mario Kart game, and the rest is history.
Of course, you can play it on the Switch thanks to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Alongside Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart: Super Circuit (both on NSO too) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, that’s four different Mario Kart games on one system.
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Luffy’s actor says he’s missed a lot of GameCube hits.
Ahead of Netflix’s live-action One Piece premiere later this month, Mexican actor Iñaki Godoy (Monkey D. Luffy) has spoken about how Nintendo games have influenced his career.
He loves series like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda – referring to Link and Mario as his “two heroes” growing up while calling the Wii title Super Mario Galaxy “one of the best pieces of art”. Unfortunately, he feels like he’s missing out on some parts of Nintendo’s history – with the 19-year-old actor revealing how he would “really love” a GameCube to experience a number of “iconic” games on this platform including Wind Waker:
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“Stricter checks” have reportedly caught out a lot of trainers.
As you might have already seen, the Pokémon World Championships is taking place this weekend in Yokohama, Japan. While it’s the same format to previous years, it seems there’s actually been a bit of drama in the new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet competition.
In a story on Kotaku, it’s mentioned how a bunch of “stricter checks” have caught a number of professional players off guard – ultimately ending their chance to become 2023’s video game Pokémon master. Anyone using hacked versions of Pokémon to create their own perfect party and skip training has been busted by the tournament organisers.
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“It’s a Snow Day”.
THQ Nordic has announced a brand new South Park game which is coming to Switch in 2024.
South Park: Snow Day! is a 3D co-op title which sees Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny team up to celebrate “the most magical of days in a young child’s life” — a snow day. A teaser trailer was shown off today during the THQ Nordic Digital Showcase 2023 presentation.
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A musical tri-umph.
If you love the Xenoblade Chronicles series, regardless of what your favourite game in the franchise is, there’s something everyone can agree on — the music is phenomenal.
Earlier this year, not only did we get a long-awaited release date for the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 soundtrack, but we also got the reveal stunning new ‘Trinity Box’ soundtrack that would contain music from every single Xenoblade game — from Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition all the way through to Future Redeemed, the final part of Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s DLC.
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Play your cards right.
Episode one of the new Pokémon animation, Pokémon: Path to the Peak, is available to watch now on YouTube.
Announced during the Pokémon Presents August 2023 showcase, episode one — titled ‘The Club’ — is now available to watch on The Official Pokémon YouTube Channel. It premiered at the Pokémon World Championships in Yokohama earlier today. The show itself is named after a Pokémon card of the same name — Path to the Peak.
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