Category: Nintendo

“Always happy to host Smash”.

The fighting game championship series EVO this week revealed its roster for 2024 and it features the usual mix of Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and various other notable fighting series. Unfortunately, one popular all-star series that’s been missing for a few years now is Smash Bros. by Nintendo.

Nintendo withdrew from EVO in 2022 after Sony jointly acquired the event in 2021, and while EVO issued its statement at the time about how “saddened” it was by Nintendo’s decision, it’s apparently still happy to welcome it back with open arms.

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2K & Take-Two make cuts.

The video game industry continues to suffer from layoffs, with Visual Concepts Austin becoming the latest studio hit with cuts, Game Developer reports (via Eurogamer).

The 2K Games and Take-Two division based in Austin, Texas already reportedly laid off a number of staff back in September 2023, and Game Developer spotted this latest round via a LinkedIn post from art manager Brad Bowling, who started his post with “Well…the games industry bloodletting continues.”

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Now taking place in April.

Nintendo has finally announced brand new dates for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the Splatoon 3 World Championships, which were both originally meant to take place at Nintendo Live 2024 in Tokyo.

Nintendo shared the new dates on Twitter, with the championships for both games now taking place on 13th April (for Splatoon 3) and 14th April 2024 (for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe). The events will be streamed, with Nintendo to announce details later on.

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Switch makes the catch this month.

Just in time for Super Bowl weekend, Saber Interactive has today announced a new wave of DLC for its arcade gridiron title, Wild Card Football.

The ‘Legacy QB Pack’ is pretty much what you would expect, adding four legendary quarterbacks for you to slot into your lineup. Included this time are Warren Moon, Steve Young, Kurt Warner and Randall Cunningham, each of whom comes with their own unique outfits.

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Novel graphics.

Thanks to yesterday’s quarterly financial results from Nintendo, we have updated figures for the company’s best-selling games on Switch. These numbers are perfectly interesting to look at in list form, but you know what would be more interesting? A fun graph, of course!

One creative on the YouTube channel Pierre485 has done just that and has turned Nintendo’s list of numbers into a bar chart race that documents the ever-changing order of the Switch’s best-sellers.

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“It’s that time of the year again”.

The well-executed beat ’em up rogulike Sifu is teasing some surprises for its second anniversary, even though the developer rolled out the final content update on Switch last November.

In a brief message via social media, Sloclap said it had some “surprises” to share over the coming days, beginning with the anniversary on 10th February (that’s later this week).

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Available now.

Although Super Mario Maker 2 on the Nintendo Switch received its final major update back in April 2020, it still occasionally receives a smaller update. The latest one follows on from an update in 2022 that addressed several issues.

This latest one makes some adjustments for a more “pleasant gaming experience”. Here it is in full:

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Keep it secret, keep it safe.

Nintendo loves a good patent and after the monster year of gaming that was 2023, it should come as no surprise that the company has more in the pipeline. Instead of looking to the future, however, the recently revealed patents appear to concern mechanics that we already know about, potentially putting certain Super Mario Bros. Wonder and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom features under legal lock and key (thanks, Automaton).

The following patents were highlighted in a recent Hatena Blog post from user naoya2k. The post notes that the patents were submitted earlier in 2023, but were only made publicly available towards the end of the year (between November and December).

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Book-smart.

After a puzzle adventure that’s going to bring some spooky chills? CLeM might just be the one for you.

Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Mango Protocol have today released this creepy ‘puzzlevania’ on the Switch eShop, with the above launch trailer giving us all a taste of what’s in store.

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Following rumours about select Xbox games going multi-platform.

There have been industry rumours recently about Microsoft potentially bringing select games to competitor platforms and last weekend it escalated, with games media outlets and key figures claiming Xbox could potentially go “all in” on a new multi-platform model.

It’s got to the point now where Microsoft’s Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has issued a statement (via social media) and rather than deny anything, he’s mentioned how there’ll be a “business update” next week where Microsoft shares its “vision for the future of Xbox”.

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