Category: Nintendo

What a way to go.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been out for two whole months now, and it seems that every day more and more people are completing the game’s main story quest and getting back to the larger job at hand — which is still torturing Koroks, apparently.

However, some have not been content to finish the game in quite so conventional a way, and have been going back to the final boss to take it on with much more, shall we say, creative methods (thanks, Kotaku). These range from the extremely clever to the downright ridiculous, so we thought that it would be only right to share some of our favourites with you.

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Pi’illo fight.

The worlds of Mario and Christopher Nolan rarely overlap, and for good reason. Cillian Murphy may make an excellent Oppenheimer, but he’d be a painfully miscast Professor E. Gadd. Yet somehow, ten years ago, that didn’t stand in the way of AlphaDream adding a strong vibe reminiscent of Leonardo DiCaprio’s dream heist in Inception to Mario & Luigi: Dream Team.

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Could it be a Disgaea in disguise?

Developer Nippon Ichi is today celebrating 30 years in the industry and it has set up a special anniversary website to mark the occasion.

The site contains a boatload of neat information covering the company’s history and a special message from President Tetsuhisa Seko, but the part that has caught our eye is the ‘Anniversary Titles’ section, which teases three currently-unannounced games.

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A fantasy throwback.

First revealed for Switch in the June 2023 Direct, MythForce caught our attention with its first-person roguelike gameplay and Saturday morning cartoon visuals. Originally slated for “Q3” of this year, developer Beamdog and publisher Aspyr have now announced that the game will be coming our way on 12th September, and there’s even a new trailer too.

Just in case you missed the announcement last month, MythForce will see you venturing through the crypts and castles of the Cursed Lands in a fantasy dungeon crawl. You play as one of four heroes (online co-op is available), each of whom has their own unique abilities to benefit the roguelike runs from wielding legendary weapons to summoning powerful magic.

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Tuned to perfection?

Playing through Oxenfree II: Lost Signals will feel instantly familiar to anyone who’s experienced the original. Developer Night School Studio hasn’t gone out of its way here to create anything wildly different to its debut title, but has wisely opted to implement everything it’s learned over the past seven years or so to create a game that feels much better paced with a smaller, more focused cast of characters.

Taking place five years after the original, Oxenfree II focuses on Riley Poverly as she returns to the coastal town of Camena (with the original Edward’s Island visible in the distance) to investigate interferences with radio signals throughout the environment. There, she meets up with Jacob Summers, an old acquaintance who becomes her partner over the course of the five-six hour campaign.

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Update: New trailer, game “coming soon”.

Update :

At ID@Xbox today, a new trailer was revealed for the action-brawler Hellboy Web of Wyrd. The game will apparently be “coming soon”.

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New characters and Wave 5 available now.

Nintendo has just released the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 5 Booster Course Pass DLC on the Switch.

Today’s update comes with three new characters and eight new tracks. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of Nintendo’s official support page. This also includes some general adjustments and fixes.

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Will the CMA follow suit in the Activision Blizzard buyout brawl?

After five days of providing evidence, a California judge has today denied the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In short, the deal can now go ahead in the US.

We’re not across the finish line just yet — the deal is still blocked in the UK, remember — but today’s result means that Microsoft can get the ball rolling on the takeover in the US and start to make good on the legally-binding commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles.

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More Con, less Joy.

The Switch Joy-Con is a clever bit of kit. You can clip it into your console and play on the go, take it out and wave it around to mimic bowling, sword swinging or fishing, or slot it into a grip and get an experience closer to a standard controller. Though there is one small issue that has constantly brought them down in our estimation: the dreaded Joy-Con drift.

Fortunately, there are solutions to this problem. We have previously covered ways that you can tackle drift yourself with some simple DIY methods, and there are even special controllers out there now which remove the problem altogether. Then there are the ‘Hall Joysticks’ from Gulikit — a stick replacement that we were lucky enough to recently try out.

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Day 1 is here!

This guide is a work in progress. Deals are being added as you read this, so keep refreshing the page or check back in a little while to see more offers!

Today’s the day – Amazon Prime Day is finally upon us, offering up lots of great deals and discounts for fans of Nintendo and gaming in general.

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