Category: Nintendo

Available now in the US.

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition will land on the Switch this March, and ahead of this Wii U title’s return, pre-order deals are now going live in North America.

If you’re planning on picking up a physical copy, you might want to check out Best Buy, as it will be offering a fancy mini metal poster and stand featuring the game’s key artwork. If you’ve already pre-ordered from this store, this should be added to your existing order.

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Pokéntial earnings.

It must have been tough for chocolate lovers to get any chocolate when Willy Wonka was hiding golden tickets inside the wrappers.

Joking aside, that’s more or less been the vibe from Prismatic Evolutions, the just-released, mega-hyped Pokémon card set that’s memorable for its heavy representation of the fan-favourite Pokémon Eevee, and all its evolutionary forms. The 180+ card set was smoke-signaled by The Pokémon Company a little under four months out from its January 2025 release, and fans have anticipated it as the de facto set to look out for, largely due to its similarity to the most popular TCG expansion from the company’s previous card generation, Evolving Skies.

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Bring on the Smackdown.

After many weeks of teases, The Pokémon Company has finally revealed when we can expect to see Trading Card Game Pocket‘s next expansion and the long-awaited trade feature. Surprise! They’re both arriving next week!

Trading will be the first to be added to the card-collecting app, with the feature going live on Tuesday 28th January. As specified in the info dump from TPC last week, trades can be made between friends and only with cards of the same rarity (◇1-◇4 and ☆1). As expected, consumable items will be required to make a trade, so prepare for even more currencies to keep track of.

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“Now I am the (re)master”.

Always two, there are. No more. No less. Master Yoda’s wise words may have rung true for the Sith, but it couldn’t be further from the rate at which Star Wars games were being pumped out in the early 2000s.

Some showed promise (Episode I: Racer, Battle for Naboo) while others were as dull as The Phantom Menace‘s trade agreements (Obi-Wan’s Adventures). The vast majority fell into a vague middle ground, a place neither Dark nor Light, where games passed the time well enough but wouldn’t occupy enough space in the mind to distract from the next cinematic entry.

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Update: Worldwide release confirmed.

To kick off the new year, Arc System Works has announced Technos The World: Kunio-kun & Arcade Collection for the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. This information was shared in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu.

This new collection will launch in Japan on 24th April 2025 and first-print editions will include a bonus soundtrack. There’s no word about a local release, but we’ll let you know if we hear anything. It’s also mentioned how this collection will include “convenient features” like saving and loading to enhance experience, as well as some additional bug fixes.

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Following “a disagreement about the IP rights of Celeste”.

The Celeste developer Extremely OK Games has made the “difficult decision” to cancel the 2D “expor-action” game Earthblade.

This new project was originally revealed in 2021 and now in a blog update it’s been revealed the project was cancelled “late last month”. Long story short, there’s been conflict within the team “centered around a disagreement about the IP rights of Celeste”.

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Crafting memories.

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land sees the Atelier series reaching new heights with a huge open-world style map and a deep focus on exploration. And in today’s new trailer, Koei Tecmo has detailed many of the game’s new and returning features.

Focusing on the new to start with, Atelier Yumia sees the titular alchemist explore a vast and “seamless” open-world, meaning she has multiple ways of getting around. This includes the ability to double jump, a motorbike that she can just magic out of thin air, and… a gun?

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Switch who?

‘Retro gaming company’ Sjgam has just revealed its latest handheld, the ‘M20 Pro’, and while it appears to be far from the best emulation device money can buy, its design looks… familiar. Let’s not beat about the bush here: it’s a Switch (thanks for the heads up, Notebookcheck).

According to the Sjgam website, the M20 Pro boasts a seven-inch display (1024 x 600 pixels), runs on the Linux-based EmuELEC 4.3 operating system to support over 30 emulators and comes with a dock for TV output. Notebookcheck claims that while the handheld’s Rockchip RK3566 CPU and Mali-G52 GPU make for a decent budget combination, the pairing may struggle with more intense emulators like PSP and N64 — sorry, Banjo.

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More than 10 games in one package.

To kick off the new year, Arc System Works has announced Technos The World: Kunio-kun & Arcade Collection for the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. This information was shared in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu.

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“Crush your enemies and see them driven before you”.

The Switch 2 has dominated the headlines over the past few days, but there’s been plenty of other stuff going on in the world of video games this week.

On the Mortal Kombat front, NetherRealm revealed the official gameplay trailer for Conan the Barbarian featuring the likeness of Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the voice work apparently done by Chris Cox (the same guy who voiced Arnie as the Terminator in Mortal Kombat 11).

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