Category: Nintendo

What’s up, Doc?

Publisher and developer Pichon Games has announced that the gorgeous but gory horror adventure The Bunny Graveyard will be making the jump (heheh) over to Switch at some point in 2024.

Originally released on Steam last September, the game sees you playing as a mouse cursor on a computer (yes, really) and setting out to help a bunny discover the truth behind its existence. Of course, this is a horror adventure, so we can expect a fair number of jumps and scares along the way — many of which can be seen in the above Steam launch trailer.

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Bowser, is that you?

Last year, Warner Bros. announced the live-action Minecraft movie would be released in cinemas in April 2025. Now, in a new update, Deadline is reporting the actor and musician Jack Black will be joining the cast.

The Kung Fu Panda and Tenacious D star will supposedly be playing the role of the player character Steve in this Jason Momoa-led film. Production on this new movie is “about to get underway”, but details about the plot haven’t been revealed just yet.

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A demo arrives on Switch next week.

While January isn’t always the biggest month on the video game calender, this year there are already several games to look forward to. One of these is Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown – a new Metroidvania-style take on the classic platforming series.

If you’re wondering just how much bang for your buck you’ll be able to get from this one, according to Game Informer, this new adventure is estimated to be roughly 25 hours. It’s not entirely clear if this is just the main game or a completionist run. However, the length of each playthrough depends on player skill and the amount of exploration.

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More Mario? Surely not!?

Welcome to the future.

You, dear reader, are reading these words in the far-off, distant, sci-fi future year that is 2024. While the hoverboards, flying vehicles, and inside-out trousers have all apparently been delayed in this branch of the timeline due to some spacetime-related cock up, at least Skynet is coming along nicely, eh?

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We all know what we want, though.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of EarthBound (known in Japan as Mother 2) and, according to the official X (formerly Twitter) page, plans are in place to celebrate the hefty milestone (thanks, My Nintendo News).

What these plans are, exactly, is up in the air at the moment, but we’re not expecting anything earth-shattering. After all, Earthbound itself is already playable on Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online service, and we’re way beyond anticipating any official Western release of its sequel, Mother 3.

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Must… Consume… Content.

Ah, what a lovely way to kick off 2024, eh?

Square Enix’s President Takashi Kiryu has revealed that the company will be “aggressive in applying” AI in its content development and publishing divisions in the future after he praised the technology in a New Year’s Letter (thanks, VGC).

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Season Pass roadmap also revealed.

The Koei Tecmo-published action role-playing game Fate/Samurai Remnant will be getting “DLC Vol. 1” next month in February 2024.

It’s officially titled ‘Records Fragment: Keian Command Championship‘ and will be followed by two more DLC episodes later on in 2024. You can check out a teaser trailer of the first DLC above.

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Here are the top 20 picks.

Everyone has a favourite Pokémon and recently in Japan, the strategy guide website ‘GameWith’ ran a poll asking trainers to vote for their top Pokémon from the Scarlet and Violet generation.

“Close to 152,700 people” apparently put their vote in and in the end, the new-generation grass/dark-type evolution Meowscarada won! In second place was the fire-type starter Fuecoco, and the ghost/fire-type Chandelure was in third. You can see the top 20 below, courtesy of Silconera:

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His focus is on Nintendo’s future.

Japanese video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto isn’t getting any younger, so what exactly are his plans regarding retirement?

The Guardian recently asked the Nintendo legend if he was “ever tempted” to call time on his outstanding career and although he’s been at the company since its arcade era, he’s apparently got “no plans to do so”. He’s more focused on the future of the company and the scenario where he needs to “pass things on” to someone.

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Reset Switch.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. We finish up with a look ahead into the (hopefully near) future. Enjoy!

Switch, eh? You think it’s had its final bookend game and then another all-timer comes along to extend the library. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom looked like the perfect finale for an extraordinary console that kicked off with Breath of the Wild, but then Nintendo goes and puts out the best 2D Mario in 30 years with Super Mario Wonder. And between those and continuing into 2024, you’ve got fantastic games like Pikmin 4, Super Mario RPG, and (hopefully) the upcoming Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake extending the bookshelf even further. It’s a heck of a console with an extraordinary library that Just. Keeps. Going.

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