Category: Nintendo

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Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl – good to see you again.

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“Stay tuned for more information”.

Anime Expo 2023 is currently taking place in LA this weekend, and apart from some new game announcements, Good Smile Company has also been announcing some new figma.

The main one of interest to Nintendo fans is this new Max Factory one of Link based on his latest appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This is an early look at the figure in the image below.

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A new 2 vs. 2 Bandai Namco fighter.

If you happen to be a fan of the manga and anime series Jujustu Kaisen, you might be interested to know a new 2 vs. 2 action arena fighting game is on the way.

Bandai Namco has announced Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash will be “coming soon” to the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms.

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Tears of the Switch-dom?

In case you missed it, we’re already in July, and that means it’s time to reflect on the first half of the year and talk about the best games of 2023 so far.

Now, dear readers, you might be thinking “but wait, isn’t it Zelda?” and to that we say “we’re not restricted to just one game”. While the latest Legend of Zelda will certainly come up, 2023 has been a banner year for all sorts of titles on the Switch.

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Things that go ‘baa’ in the night.

Farming games are well-tilled territory. It’s near-impossible to play a new one without comparing it to the many predecessors on Switch. Everdream Valley knows this, and uses it to both its benefit and detriment.

Released on PC and PlayStation last month from newbie developer Mooneaters and publisher Untold Tales, this debut squeezes its way onto the Switch’s crowded farming sim market (farmers market?). The game does a lot differently; unfortunately, we found those differences didn’t necessarily make for a better farm sim experience. But, depending on how you play other farm sims, your (horse) mileage may vary.

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Sorry, GameCube fans.

Nintendo’s Switch Online service added Game Boy games in February this year, but there are obviously requests for even more platforms, so is there a chance of other legacy systems being added?

According to the company’s president Shuntaro Furukawa, Nintendo “currently have no specifics to share”. He responded with this classic line when asked about the possibility of “other platforms” like the 3DS software library joining one of the subscription tiers in the future.

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Will focus exclusively on the publishing side of the business.

Although The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is still meant to be coming to the Nintendo Switch at some point later this year, Daedalic Entertainment has now announced it will be shutting down its internal development teams to focus on publishing.

Unfortunately, as part of this company restructuring, 25 employees have been affected. Daedalic will support these same individuals in finding new opportunities within its network. This “new beginning” also brings the development of Daedalic’s other Lord of the Rings game to a halt.

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It’s going back to Redmond.

Nintendo was known in its earlier years of video game development for its durable and long-lasting hardware, but one system that trumped all was the legendary Game Boy. In fact, there’s one famous Game Boy as you might recall that was damaged in a bombing during the Gulf War and still works!

In an update, the Game Boy has apparently been retired from active duty. ‘VGArtandTidbits’ on Twitter asked one of the Nintendo New York Store employees about it “after not seeing it on display for a while” and was informed the famous handheld had been returned to Nintendo’s headquarters in Redmond Washington.

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The Mario franchise is full of odd stories.

There’s nothing that the gaming community loves more than someone finding a ‘cursed copy’ of a beloved childhood game or a way to visit a secret world inside a game universe.

The Mario franchise has been the source of a lot of myths and secrets, including the Paper Mario serial code mystery and the elusive Minus World.

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Including Pikmin 4!

The summer’s usually a quieter time for new releases as we await the holiday season rush (Nintendo’s October and November are already taken care of), but that means for now, we can really concentrate on quality over quantity.

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. Pikmin 4‘s certainly the standout this month, but have a browse through and see if anything takes your fancy:

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