Category: Nintendo

Visit the “Land of the East” for the first time ever.

One of the highlights of the Marvelous showcase earlier today was the official reveal of the new tentatively titled game Rune Factory: Project Dragon. Rune Factory 6 has also been announced alongside it.

This new spin-off in the fantasy lifestyle series is set in the “Eastern lands with a Japanese-style aesthetic” – completely new to the series. Project Dragon’s general producer is Tsukuda Kenichiro, the producer is Fujii Hisashi and the director is Maekawa Shiro. Here’s a bit about it from the series director:

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Shield with it.

It was back in Eiji Aonuma’s 10-minute gameplay demonstration for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that we first got a glimpse at the possibilities of shield fusing. The series producer took a Puffshroom, stuck it to Link’s shield, and faced a Construct head on, sending up a cloud of smoke around them both.

At the time, this was hardly a game-changing revelation. “Great,” we thought, “we can make some weird-looking shields and take on foes with various mushroom abilities”. Then the game came out and we discovered that shield fusing had the potential to be so much more than just some fungal fun.

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The sky’s the limit.

PQube and Octeto Studios have today revealed a brand new JRPG set in the open skies, as we got our first look at Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire which will be “coming soon” for Nintendo Switch.

This one wears its Skies of Arcadia inspirations proudly on its wing (still waiting for that Switch remake, by the way). You take on the role of Glenn Windwalker (fantastic name), the captain of a group of sky pirates who jets off on the adventure of a lifetime. There are various islands to explore both on the ground and in the sky as you go about recruiting your crew and catering to their individual strengths to achieve the best results in battle.

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Cassette Beasts! Bat Boy! Skye Tales!

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 – Highlights

MAQUETTE (Annapurna Interactive, 25th May) – MAQUETTE is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge. Head to the center of the world and you’ll feel like a giant, towering over buildings and walls. But venture further out and start to feel small as things get larger and larger – to the point where cracks in the ground become chasms! In MAQUETTE you will explore the scales of everyday problems in a modern-day love story, where sometimes the smallest of issues can become insurmountable obstacles. Solve the puzzle today on Nintendo Switch!

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New game modes, subclasses and more.

After releasing on PC earlier this month, Cellar Door Games has now announced that Rogue Legacy 2‘s meaty ‘Swan Song’ update has now made its way over to Switch.

As the name suggests, this is the final content update that will be coming to the game and, we must admit, it’s a pretty good one to go out on. There are a boatload of new additions that have come to the game as a part of this update including three new game modes, a collection of new fabled weapons, the addition of special ‘Dreams’ challenges, and much more.

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“Coming 202furr”.

If you love all things cats and also cat puns, you might want to be on the lookout for Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean.

At the recent PlayStation game broadcast, this new entry – filled with all sorts of cat puns – was announced for multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch and will be arriving at some point in 2024. Here’s a bit about what to expect:

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Splatoon fans have definitely noticed.

Square Enix unveiled its new team-based shooter Foamstars during the latest PlayStation broadcast and if you haven’t already seen the announcement trailer, to cut to the chase – social media can’t stop comparing it to Nintendo’s popular ink-shooter series Splatoon.

As you can see in the video above, there are some obvious similarities – with Square Enix’s new game also being a turf war, where you paint the map in your own team’s colours. And instead of ink and squids, players cover maps in foam and ride around on surfboards. It’s a safe bet Square Enix at least took some inspiration from the Splatoon series, and it’s admittedly not the first developer to do this, either.

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Download it today.

The Pokémon Company and Nintendo have released a new update for the Switch title Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, bumping both games up to Version 1.3.1.

As previously revealed, this latest update fixes some issues tied to competition. Here’s a rough Google translation of the official Japanese announcement. We’ll share the English patch notes soon.

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“I’ve goofed too close to the sun this time”.

Well, this is one we’re almost sure we haven’t seen before. Indie developer Strange Scaffold has revealed that its ‘narrative poker adventure’ game Sunshine Shuffle has been blocked from the Switch eShop in North America due to concerns over child gambling.

According to Xalavier Nelson Jr., the game was supposed to launch on the eShop today (May 24th, 2023) but his own media campaign about the game not teaching children to gamble has seemingly convinced Nintendo that it is indeed about child gambling. Whoops.

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The stock market reacts.

Embracer Group — the owners of huge IPs including The Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, and Borderlands — has seen its shares drop by a whopping 39.28% in the past day after it announced the surprise “negative outcome” of a potential $2 billion contracted development deal.

The drop occurred this morning following the candid public statement from the company as a part of its quarterly sales report. In this statement, the Swedish company explained that the deal would have enabled a catch-up payment for “already capitalized costs for a range of large-budget games” and would have improved future profit predictions on games currently in development.

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