Category: Nintendo

“Mobile apps will not be the primary path”.

When it comes to Nintendo’s mobile offerings, it’s safe to say that the general consensus amongst fans is something along the lines of “yeah, good effort, but not what we’re looking for”. Despite this, Mario Kart Tour in particular has seen considerable success over the last few years with no signs of slowing down, but when you look at games like Super Mario Run and Dr. Mario World, it certainly feels like they’ve just sort of come and gone (quite literally with Dr. Mario’s case).

With this in mind, Variety recently sat down to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto on the upcoming launch of the new Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the legendary creator made it quite clear that future Mario titles will likely not appear on smartphones in any capacity, stating “Mobile apps will not be the primary path of future Mario games.”

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Get your violins out.

If you’ve had your eye on Tin Hearts, a Lemmings-inspired puzzle game from publisher Wired Productions and developer Rogue Sun, then the good news is that it’s heading to the Switch later this month on April 20th, 2023.

Tin Hearts has been cooking for a little while now, but with the game boasting over 40 levels of “time-bending, soldier-routing riddles” and the ex-Lionhead pedigree on the dev team, we’re hopeful this one is going to be worth the wait. We’ve in for a treat in the audio department, too, with the game’s soundtrack being handled by award-winning composer Matthew Chastney, who has previously produced music for movie trailers including Joker and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

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Coming to 12 European regions.

After Splatoon 3 was released in September of last year, we did wonder whether the European championship would return with it. Well, it looks like this is the case, as Nintendo has today announced that the competition is returning for 2023.

The details are a little thin on the event for the moment, but we do know that the championship will soon be making its way across 12 European regions, challenging teams in both Turf War and Anarchy Battle modes to find out who is the best of the best.

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“Thank you for playing”.

Last week, after ending 3DS and Wii U eShop sales, Nintendo announced it would be extending the period to redeem a code to make up for certain technical difficulties.

The new date was extended until 4th April 2023 in Japan, and that means this extra time to redeem codes has now also ended here in the west. This marks the end of the ability to purchase or acquire new digital software in any way or form on these eShops.

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Pokémon Stadium returns.

Nintendo has announced it will be adding the original Pokémon Stadium to the Switch N64 service next week on 12th April.

This arena battle title was first released in 2000 and features “the original 151 Pokémon” from the Pokémon Red Version, Pokémon Blue Version and Pokémon Yellow Version games. It includes a selection of solo and multiplayer modes, including minigames. Nintendo has also confirms the following:

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Hear us roar.

Disney Dreamlight Valley is bringing in more content from The Lion King with its next new update — Pride of the Valley

The April update was teased way back at the beginning of the year, and we got a brief sneak peek at it during the February 2023 Nintendo Direct, but now we know when it’s coming, and what to expect from this year’s second major update.

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It just can’t wait to be king (or queen).

Gameloft revealed that Disney Dreamlight Valley’s next big update will drop on 5th April, but now we have a name and some patch notes to go with this week’s content update.

Shared on the official website, Pride of the Valley will be available from this Wednesday and with it comes The Lion King Realm, new items at Scrooge McDuck’s Store, and the Easter Eggstravaganza. Along with this wealth of new content (more below), a handful of bug fixes are also in the works and will be live simultaneously.

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Mega Man, Advance Wars, and more.

It’s April already? Crikey.

Yes, another month is here, and that means there’s a tasty handful of new games to look forward to in the coming weeks. March brought us excellent titles like Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, Have A Nice Death, and more.

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Policy change extends free Joy-Con drift repairs to new territories.

Nintendo will now offer free repairs of faulty Joy-Con to Switch owners in the UK, European Economic Area, and Switzerland.

This is according to an update to the company’s support page on its UK site (which appears to be reflected on other official sites across affected territories), which labels the now-infamous ‘Joy-Con drift’ as “responsiveness syndrome or so-called ‘drifting'”.

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A different kind of ‘game card’.

If you have ever read up on the history of Nintendo, you know that before it went into the video game business, the company began life by making cards and other novelties. The hanafuda and playing cards which Nintendo produced from its formation in 1889 took a back seat following the popularity of toys like the Ultra Hand in the 1960s, and the company would soon move into electronic games and, ultimately, arcade and video games.

But this is not to say that the company left cards behind completely. Nintendo-branded Japanese Menko cards were released in Japan in the early 1980s and collector Ben Gilmore has a sizeable colletion of these lesser-known Nintendo-branded cards. This milk cap/Pog-like tabletop game is older than Nintendo itself, and there are Nintendo Menkos with Mario designs that date from the plumber’s pre-NES arcade days.

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