Category: Nintendo

You Can Now Play Game Freak’s Pre-Pokémon Platformer, Pulseman, On NSO’s Expansion Pack

A Mega Man-like from the folk behind Pokémon.

If the news of an Indie World Direct, the reveal of more Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC and two new amiibo, wasn’t enough for you, Nintendo has also added four new games to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive library on the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack — all within the last 24 hours.

While the likes of Street Fighter II’: Special Champion Edition and Kid Chameleon are more than enough to get excited about, it is the addition of Pulseman that has really got our Nintendo senses tingling. This is because the title comes from none other than Game Freak, working in its pre-Pokémon Red and Blue days.

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Surprise! Xenoblade Chronicles 3 “Final DLC” Launches On Switch Next Week

“Join a cast of new and familiar characters”.

Alongside the amiibo announcement, Nintendo has confirmed “the final DLC” in the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Expansion Pass will arrive next week on 25th April.

The trailer above provides fans with a glimpse of what’s to come in ‘Future Redeemed’ and also shows off a cast of “new and familiar characters” – including Shulk. According to the PR, this DLC will include an “original story scenario” connecting all three installments of the Xenoblade Chronicles series together.

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Review: Disney Speedstorm – Great Courses And Characters, But Stutters On Switch

Super karting, quite artistic, FPS atrocious.

It’s hard to review a game when it has something that doesn’t bother some players but is considered a dealbreaker for others. Disney Speedstorm is a particularly tricky course to navigate, then, because it has two of them.

Let’s get this out of the way first, then, so as to not waste some people’s time. If you’re the sort of person who won’t accept a karting game if it doesn’t run at 60fps, you should probably move on at this point, because you will not be happy with what you find here.

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Sunsoft’s Classic Platformer Trip World Will Get New Colour Re-Release On Switch, GB And GBC

Pre-orders open later this month.

Limited Run Games has today announced that it is re-releasing the much sought-after Sunsoft platformer, Trip World, in an all-new colourised form: Trip World DX. The game will be released physically on Switch, Game Boy and Game Boy Color, with pre-orders opening on 28th April.

Originally released in Japan in 1992 and Europe in 1993 (before coming to the regions’ 3DS Virtual Console in 2011 and 2012 respectively), Trip World never received an official US release and original copies of the game have been hard to come by ever since. In this new remaster, Limited Run Games has worked with original developers Sunsoft to give the title its first worldwide release, adding in new features such as complete colour gameplay, remastered audio, original design documents, video interviews and more.

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Community: Have You Played A Great Switch Game We Missed? Let Us Know About It

Let us know what passed us by.

Just four months into 2023, and well, it’s been a bit of a banger year for games so far, hasn’t it? So Nintendo has been a little bit quiet in the run-up to a certain Zelda game launching in May, but in terms of indie titles and smaller games, we’ve barely been able to keep up.

So, it’s about that time of the year when we ask for your help, lovely readers. The last time we reached out for suggestions was in October 2022, and we had so many outstanding-looking suggestions that we expanded our selection to 24 hidden gems that slipped through the cracks. But another six months have gone by, and it’s time to stuff ourselves silly with titles that you think deserve some extra love.

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Random: New Pokémon Anime Ad Takes Over Shibuya’s Digital Billboards

A big screen event.

The newest Pokémon anime series, Pokémon Horizons, has finally kicked off in Japan and The Pokémon Company is ensuring that everyone knows about it.

Following the Japanese hour-long series premiere, a special promo was played across multiple digital billboards in Shibuya, showcasing a boatload of clips for the episodes to come (thanks, Comicbook).

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Two Brand-New Game Boy Platformers Are Up For Pre-Order

Bitmap Soft is back with more neo-retro titles.

Although you might not believe it, the Game Boy remains a vibrant platform for small devs continuing to explore the handheld’s potential several decades after its 1989 launch and publishers are still producing physical games for it.

Bitmap Soft is one of the most prolific publishers in this neo-retro space, and it has two new Game Boy titles lined up for release in the middle of May, with pre-orders now live.

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