Category: Nintendo

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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Back for more in ’24.

And just like that, we’re one week into 2024 — well, near enough — and it’s time for the first What Are You Playing of the year!

Before we dive into a weekend of gaming plans, remaining Quality Street and questionable leftover Christmas cheese, however, let’s take a look at what happened in the world of Nintendo this week. We laid out our gaming predictions for the year ahead, ran through some of the discounted delights in yet another eShop sale (will it ever end?) and restarted the ‘Switch 2’ chatter with the predictions of an industry analyst.

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The first Splatfest of 2024 starts next week.

The “sneak peek” of the Splatoon 3 FrostyFest is now officially underway. The theme, as previously revealed, is “Who do you spend holidays with?” and the choices are friends, family or “solo”.

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The show opens this March.

It’s a new year and that means Nintendo has a whole bunch of new games to release. One of these happens to be Princess Peach: Showtime! for the Switch.

This title was originally confirmed to be arriving on 22nd March 2024 during last year’s September Direct and in the latest update, an ESRB rating for the game has now been spotted online. This seemingly confirms its release is still on track.

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Mario vs DK! Ace Attorney! Prince of Persia!

Happy new year and welcome to the first of our monthly physical release round-ups of 2024!

January is usually one of the quietest months of the year for new launches, but we do have a decent number of titles launching soon that we think are worth a good look. We’ve been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail in the coming weeks, including some highlights picked by us as well as lots of other games and accessories that are launching soon. Have a browse through and see if anything takes your fancy:

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A look at Atari’s lineup of neo-retro revivals.

Before there was Nintendo, there was Atari.

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Fan-favourite monster results arriving in March.

Capcom has been gearing up for the 20th anniversary of Monster Hunter for a while now and today’s New Year’s video message from series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto gives some indication of what’s in store for 2024.

To be clear, the message is not packed with information on anniversary plans, though Tsujimoto does confirm that the results of the fan-favourite monster voting will be revealed to mark the occasion this March. We can expect to see a new piece of artwork featuring the three most popular monsters too.

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Winners to be revealed at the New York Game Awards.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom received a lot of nominations last year, and now to top it off it’s been nominated for another ‘Game of the Year’ award, this time by the New York Videogame Critics Circle.

The main event will take place on 23rd January 2024 where the winners of the 2024 New York Game Awards will be announced. Apart from a ‘Game of the Year’ nomination, Tears of the Kingdom has also been nominated for “best music” and “best kids game”.

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Available next week.

To celebrate the new year, Bandai Namco has announced its next wave of songs coming to Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival.

These songs will be made available to Taiko Music Pass users and are timed in with the Winter Season. This service is available to subscribers only. Here’s what’s arriving next week on 11th January:

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“Accessible design is good design”.

One of the first major releases this year is Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the first brand-new console game in the series since 2010’s The Forgotten Sands (yes, really!). And recently, developer Ubisoft has unveiled the upcoming release’s frame rate, resolution and accessibility options on Switch.

And it’s good news for Switch owners for this upcoming Metroidvania-style take on the legendary franchise. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will run at 60fps on the Switch, both handheld and docked. This was stated by The Game Awards’ host Geoff Keighley way back in the summer of 2023, but it’s good to get the official word. Handheld, the resolution will be at 720p while docked it’ll be 1080p — standard stuff, then.

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