Category: Nintendo

There’s a change in the wind.

Given the sheer amount of time that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had been in development, it was obvious that the game would make a number of quality-of-life improvements over its predecessor, Breath of the Wild.

We won’t lie, there were moments in the run-up to its release in which we wondered just how different Tears of the Kingdom would wind up being. After all, we knew that the game would take place within the same world as Breath of the Wild and utilise the same visual style and general gameplay mechanics. But this is Nintendo we’re talking about here. If something like Super Mario Galaxy 2 is anything to go by, we would have been perfectly happy with ‘just’ more of the same.

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Tearing up?

“What do you mean? I’ve barely scratched the surface!”

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Download Part One now.

PlatinumGames has today announced that some brand new DLC for 2020’s The Wonderful 101: Remastered is finally available to download. What’s more, this new content — originally promised as a stretch goal via the game’s Kickstarter campaign — is completely free.

Part One of the DLC is available to download today and the story will continue next week as the second part releases on 26th May.

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Rollback netcode has also been confirmed.

Mortal Kombat 1 got announced by Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios yesterday, and the good news is it’s launching for Nintendo Switch on 19th September 2023.

The brutal and bloody trailer helped set the scene for this new era in the iconic fighting series, but there’s also an FAQ on the official game website revealing one other interesting detail – Kameo Fighters.

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Releasing on 26th May.

Nintendo has announced a new batch of games for the Switch Online service. The latest additions are part of the expansion tier – adding three Super Mario Game Boy Advance titles to the service.

The games included are Super Mario Advance (2001), Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (2001) and Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2002). They’ll be arriving next week on 26th May and include some additional ‘Advance’ features.

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BWAAAH!

We had a good time with Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope when it was released on the Switch in late 2022, and the game has just been recognised for its excellent soundtrack at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards, where it took home the prize for Best Original Video Game Score.

The award was presented to Gareth Coker, Grant Kirkhope and Yoko Shimomura for their work on the project, with Kirkhope releasing the following tweet to express his gratitude.

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You have my full support.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim wants to spread the love for a certain Hylian in need of support…

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Get special ‘mon by connecting.

The Pokémon Company has finally confirmed that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will be receiving its long-awaited Pokémon HOME support next week from 24th May.

It has been a long old wait since the last update on the connectivity back in February, but we suppose that late May is still technically “early 2023”, right?

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That’s Smurftastic!

If you’re a fan of The Smurfs – Mission Vileaf on the Switch, then good news, because it’s getting a sequel later this year titled The Smurfs 2 – The Prisoner of the Green Stone.

Announced by publisher Microids, the sequel sees you take on the role of Handy Smurf, who is missing a key ingredient – the Green Stone – for his new invention, the SmurfoMix. After the stone shattered and is scattered across the land, Handy Smurf must ally himself with someone entirely unexpected – the evil Gargamel.

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Competition fixes incoming.

Game Freak has already released a number of updates for the newest Pokémon game entries Scarlet and Violet, and it seems the next one will be arriving at some point next week.

As highlighted by Serebii.net, this new patch will resolve a problem tied to a competition issue. The website shares a bit more information about what exactly players can expect:

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