Category: Nintendo

Gripping stuff.

In today’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gameplay trailer, we found out that yes, Link can indeed build vehicles. And he does this using the brand new ability ‘Ultrahand‘.

Now, if you’ve been around these parts for a while, then you probably spotted this name and went “wait, what, Ultra Hand? Like the 1960s toy?” And we’re pretty sure that’s what this big gameplay feature is referencing. The toy was created in 1996 by Gunpei Yokoi, who played a pretty major role in video game development, as he designed the D-pad, Game Boy, and WonderSwan.

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Going up.

A brand new gameplay trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is finally here, and this is our best look yet at the highly anticipated open-world adventure.

We got a good look at this skyward world of Hyrule, along with a handful of new abilities that Link will be able to use during his adventure.

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A race worth fighting for?

Gameloft’s Disney Speedstorm races into early access on 18th April on Switch, and we’ve got a trailer that breaks down the game’s Founder’s Pack.

The live service racer has three different tiers that you can kick off the racing with from its early access launch next month, and each one will give you access to additional racers (without having to unlock them), exclusive cosmetics, and in-game currency such as tokens and Golden Pass Credits. A new season will kick off every 6-8 weeks, and if you pre-order today, you’ll get an exclusive bonus racing suit and car decor.

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“This has been the product of many months of work”.

The development team behind the GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has shared some surprising news – announcing Dolphin will be “coming soon” to Valve’s Steam service in Q2 2023. You can even wishlist the free download right now.

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Stars, dots & stripes.

If you happen to be located in North America, there’s apparently a small eShop goodbye gift from Nintendo in the form of “free” 3DS HOME menu themes. Users in this region can currently claim a ‘Dots & Stripes: Yellow & White’ theme and a ‘Stars: Gold & Black’ theme from the Theme Shop. These themes previously cost $0.99 USD.

If you boot up the Theme Shop in other locations like the UK and Europe, the main section of it features the ‘basic colour set’ and the ‘simple colour set’, which most 3DS users should have already redeemed by now. Unfortunately, the ‘Dots & Stripes’ and ‘Stars’ themes are not free here. If we about any other Theme Shop updates, we’ll let you know.

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Update: Poké Transporter issues arise.

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1DS, 2DS, 3DS, more?

Call us nostalgic, but the closure of the 3DS eShop has us reminiscing about the many incredible years of portable gaming we’ve enjoyed with Nintendo’s last dedicated handheld console and its wider family.

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Shake your speed shoes.

Samba de Amigo: Party Central will be getting Sonic the Hedgehog content when it launches exclusively on Switch this summer.

The blue blur will be joining the maraca-shaking monkey on the stage with two Sonic songs — ‘Escape from the City’ from Sonic Adventure 2 and ‘Fist Bump’ from Sonic Forces. There’s also a stage based on City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic will be shaking down.

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And a whole 10 minutes, too!

The silence is over! The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is getting a focused gameplay trailer tomorrow, 28th March.

At 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm BST tomorrow (or 12am AET on 29th March), Nintendo is dropping a brand new video focused entirely on the highly anticipated sequel to Breath of the Wild. Series producer Eiji Aonuma will be on hand and “roughly 10 minutes of gameplay” will be shown.

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Producer Ryo Ishida reveals.

Last year’s Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series — a remastered compilation of two classic PlayStation and PS2 platformers — was actually developed for Switch first, producer Ryo Ishida has revealed.

In an interview in the newest issue of Lost In Cult (via Nintendo Everything), Ishida shares some brief insight into the development of the game, and that they were actually finished with the Switch version of it before it was even announced at the February 2022 Nintendo Direct.

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