Category: Nintendo

If the first 30 minutes are anything to go by.

After spending half an hour with Oxenfree II: Lost Signals at Summer Game Fest, there’s an immediate sense that the sequel is shaping up to be a much bigger, bolder, and indeed stranger experience than its predecessor.

As it probably should be. In speaking with developer Night School’s founder and director, Sean Krankel, he confirmed that while the original Oxenfree was completed in 16 months, the sequel has taken the studio a full three years to craft. You can definitely see the fruits of the studio’s labour, too, with this entry so far proving to be a much more accomplished piece of work in every facet: character models are much more detailed with enhanced animation; environments are brought to life with beautiful colour and lighting; the gameplay feels much smoother and more fluid than before.

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“I don’t know where that came from”.

Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination and producer of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, has denied recent rumours of an upcoming animated Legend of Zelda film.

In an interview with TheWrap (via GameSpot), Meledandri responded to rumours circling around last week that Universal is closing in on a deal to tackle Hyrule next in the Nintendo movie world. At the Annecy International Animation Festival, Meledandri told TheWrap “I don’t know where that came from” regarding the rumour.

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Tails of Trainspot! Nova Lands! Jack Jeanne!

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – New Releases

Alchemic Cutie (CIRCLE Entertainment, 16th Jun, $19.99) – Wimba Island is a huge place with plenty to do. From exploring secret locations to discovering new Jellies scattered all over the island. As the seasons change, so does the island with new areas, different Jellies and items appearing. Enjoy an engaging Jelly raising system, where each Jelly has uniquely generated stats, traits and over 4000 visual styles. You will be able to tame, breed, and raise the perfect jelly companion and take it with you on adventures. Befriend a village of goofy, fun, and sometimes complicated characters. Help them by completing quests or just hang out, mingle and get to know them. Who knows…maybe some might be hiding something…

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Studio Central in your hands.

GB Studio Central — the online community-led publication that focuses on games created in the popular GB Studio — has announced that it’s releasing a magazine. Yes, an actual magazine! And it’s absolutely gorgeous.

Announced last week, GB Studio Magazine aims to curate articles from the GB Studio Central site and present them in beautiful paper form. Led by Eric Mack, presentation-wise, the magazine is meant to invoke Nintendo Power – which is plain to see from the lovely cover. The first cover features the characters and setting of GB Studio’s in-built sample game, which is a nice little touch.

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Grasshopper has also teased a new game.

After much hype and even some technical hiccups, Grasshopper Manufacture was finally able to air its special “Direct” presentation today. Following a reveal of Shadows of the Damned, it’s now teased the game will “probably” be coming to “all current platforms”.

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And there’s more to come.

If you’ve been struggling to keep up with all the game releases so far this year, it’s not just you. In fact, across all platforms, there are more new releases in 2023 compared to the previous year.

Circana video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella recently shared some interesting data on social media – revealing Switch “new release” games have actually increased by +21% compared to 2022. PlayStation is leading the charge at 22% and Xbox is at 13%.

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But there are still some rules that must be followed.

Atlus has a habit of putting restrictions in place when it comes to streaming its new game releases. While it’s understandable in certain cases, in more recent times it’s arguably got a bit heavy-handed in recent times with the re-releases of Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden.

As of this week though, it’s relaxed some of these rules – with Siliconera noting how the company has updated its guidelines for Persona 5 Royal. It now allows content from the “entire game” to appear in video uploads as well as streams.

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Get on the gridiron.

Publisher Top Hat Studios has today announced that it will be throwing Legend Bowl — the retro-inspired American football title — onto the Switch later this summer.

There are a couple of different modes available in this one, headlined by Franchise Mode, which will see you taking on the role of a coach and building a team to compete for the championship. Aside from the gameplay on the field, this mode has a lot of options for behind-the-scenes too including managing your stadium’s facilities, player contracts, off-season activities and more.

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Fun-but-messy foamin’.

When Square Enix’s Foamstars was announced during the recent PlayStation Showcase, Nintendo fans everywhere were thinking one thing: “Er, Splatoon-much!?”

After going hands-on with Foamstars for 45 minutes at Summer Game Fest, this exclamation still rings true. It definitely looks like Splatoon, and it also feels like Splatoon. That said, it also does just about enough to stand on its own two feet, with foam proving to be a welcome change from the ink used in Nintendo’s iconic online team shooter.

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Update: Date announced at PC Gaming Show.

Update: : At this weekend’s PC Gaming Show, Batterystaple Games revealed the official release date for 30XX — 9th August. It arrives on Switch the same day as 1.0 drops on PC.

Here are some more details on the game from the developer:

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