Category: Nintendo

Blocked.

After years of casting rumours and speculation, we finally have our first official look at the live-action Minecraft movie — or ‘A Minecraft Movie‘, to give it its official title — and it looks… well, about as horrifying as you’d think a live-action Minecraft movie would be.

Releasing in cinemas on 4th April 2025, the film sees a group of ordinary humans (played by Jason Mamoa, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Emma Myres and Danielle Brooks) pulled into Mojang’s blocky world thanks to a mysterious portal. There, they meet “expert crafter” Jack Black sorry, Steve, who will have to help them make their way home.

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Wario would be proud.

Nintendo’s Wario Land series has always occupied a unique niche in the company’s extensive catalogue with its weird humour and unconventional approach to platforming tropes, which is why fans have been greatly let down by the fact that there hasn’t been a new entry in over 15 years. To fill the gap, an indie team called Tour De Pizza came out early last year with its own spiritual successor called Pizza Tower, offering a polished and thrilling adventure into a truly insane food-themed world. Since release, Pizza Tower has quickly built up a high reputation for its creativity and gameplay design, and now that it’s come to Switch, we’re pleased to report that it is indeed a fantastic platformer.

Pizza Tower places you in the role of Peppino Spaghetti, the chef and owner of a failing pizzeria who finds himself threatened by an evil sentient pizza named Pizzaface who lives nearby in the titular tower. Pizzaface has a laser on top of the tower which he’s going to use to destroy Peppino’s pizzeria, so our daring chef dashes off to climb the tower and destroy the evil pizza and his minions once and for all.

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Could the Birdman rise once again?

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series celebrates 25 years this month and although there’s not been much talk about this milestone, the social channels for this series have now generated some discussion online.

Activision’s official social media account for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater on ‘X’ has been updated with a new banner and logo acknowledging the 25th anniversary of the long-running skateboarding series. It seems the copyright is also marked with a ‘2024’ date, which has led to even more speculation.

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Stages altered, visual changes and more.

One of the major surprises during Nintendo’s Partner Showcase was the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, coming in 2025.

This new collection will contain eight games (covering series like Street Fighter and Capcom vs. SNK) and will also come with a bunch additional settings, training modes, rollback netcode and much more.

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Greetings!

Wowie zowie! Wrong Mario game, we know, but there’s been quite a deluge of Mario & Luigi: Brothership details over the last 24 hours. After last night’s new screenshots, Nintendo has dropped a brief but delightful new trailer for the upcoming RPG.

Titled ‘Greetings from Concordia’ — a slightly unfortunate name (and timing) given some extremely fresh Playstation game news — the new trailer gives us a look at the brand new world, that Mario and Luigi will be exploring.

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“Failing is part of what makes this game fun”.

The Game Kitchen has been cookin’ good. With Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2, the Spanish developer quickly gained a stellar reputation thanks to some of the best Metroidvanias to emerge in recent years. Their prickly difficulty, moody gothic vibes, and disconcerting take on Andalucian Catholic folklore didn’t stop us from adoring both of The Penitent One’s challenging misadventures in Cvstodia.

With recently announced RTS stealth title The Stone of Madness, we’re set for a surprising change of pace if our recent Gamescom preview is anything to go by. Blasphemous’ high-stakes 2D combat is replaced by methodical exploration of a hand-painted monastery asylum that affords as much experimentation as its watchful guards will allow over the days, or even weeks, leading up to your freedom.

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“you’ll always get their honest reactions”.

Here’s your wholesome story of the day, folks. According to Masahiro Sakurai’s latest YouTube video, the creator used to invite fellow developers’ children to the office to play test upcoming games.

Describing children as “the purest of the pure”, Sakurai states that allowing them to play a game that’s still in development would yield honest feedback that can help drive the team forward. Rather than asking the children directly on what they thought of the game, Sakurai would merely observe their bahaviour from a distance, making note of anything they happened to struggle with, along with moments that provided joy.

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A wild Kickstarter appeared!

We’ve seen all kinds of Pokémon-likes over the years from monster-catching visual novels to roguelikes. But a musical comedy? Like, an actual on-stage musical comedy? That’s new.

Curtain up on Balls: The Monster-Catchin’ Musical Comédy, more specifically on its Kickstarter page, where it is a little over halfway to reaching its $30,000 goal with 23 days to go (ending on 26th September).

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Out on Switch next week.

Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection will launch on the Switch next week, and ahead of the big day, Capcom has been releasing highlights of each game in the collection.

The latest one is a look at ‘X-Men vs. Street Fighter‘ – another all-star fighting game that originally landed in arcades in 1996. Its roster is comprised of all sorts of X-Men and Street Fighters like Rogue, Gambit, Ken, Ryu and Cyclops.

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It will also cover other “retro themed products”.

Yu-Gi-Oh! is reviving its past with an official ‘Yu-Gi-Oh! Retro Games’ account launching on the social media platform ‘X’ today.

This account will cover all things related to retro Yu-Gi-Oh! including the long-running trading card game as well as the upcoming Early Days Collection, which has been confirmed for the Nintendo Switch.

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