Category: Nintendo

An origami queen.

Norwich-based developer Newfangled Games’ upcoming puzzler is a stunning-looking top-down adventure where the world is made out of paper. Paper Trail has a soft colour palette and a unique visual style to it, but rather than just being a visual quirk, you can fold, crease, and change the paper world around you.

Paper Trail is set to launch this year on Switch and all platforms — including a newly-announced Netflix release. In the game, a young girl called Paige (get it?) is leaving home for the first time to study. You’ll need to help Paige by using your paper-craft skills by folding and unfolding the world to make a path.

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Speakachu.

It’s no secret that Ash Ketchum and Pikachu will soon be leaving the Pokémon anime for good, capping off a storyline that has lasted for the best part of 25 years. Despite being in the company of these characters for so long, it turns out that there are still some notable aspects of each that we didn’t know, like, for example, that Pikachu was originally going to speak… like a human (thanks, Go Nintendo).

Ok, maybe not exactly like a human, but definitely like Team Rocket’s Meowth (which is still a whole lot wider vocabulary than we would want to hear from Pikachu).

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On the way to the ‘My Nintendo Store’ in Australia.

Perhaps one of the hardest products to acquire for the Nintendo Switch is the wireless N64 controller. Not only is it an item exclusively available to Switch Online members, but there’s also incredibly limited stock.

Fortunately, Nintendo has been doing its best to keep up with the demand, and it seems there’s a resupply coming to the Australian My Nintendo Store later this week. As highlighted by the Aussie Nintendo website Vooks.net, there’ll be a restock this Thursday on 16th March at 1pm AEDT.

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“These games will no longer be available”.

We’re getting closer each day to the shutdown of the 3DS and Wii U eShop services. Many companies have been issuing reminders to grab their games on these platforms before its closed, and now Capcom has joined in with a PSA regarding the Monster Hunter games.

On the company’s official Monster Hunter social media accounts – it issued an important reminder that the eShop services will end later this month on 27th March. It means the Monster Hunter titles for this platform will no longer be available for new digital purchases. Fortunately, if you have purchased them beforehand, they can still be redownloaded in the future.

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#18 – Picross your heart.

For the month before the 3DS and Wii U eShops close for new purchases on 27th March, each day we’re going to highlight a specific eShop game for one of those consoles and give a short pitch as to why we think it deserves your love and attention — before it’s too late. The chance to add these to your library will be gone for good soon and, for one reason or another, these eShop-exclusives are close to our hearts.

Today, Gavin picks out a Platinum Point-ed Picross …

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The very best…

Back in January, we ran down every Zelda-themed Nintendo console out there in an attempt to find which one you lovely lot thought was the best. There were a lot of these Hylian designs, with the series clearly standing as one of Nintendo’s most popular choices in the special edition design room, but these are dwarfed in number by the Pokémon designs, which require a Pokédex-length list all of their own.

Ok, that might be a bit of an over-exaggeration, but the point stands that throughout the history of Nintendo’s special edition console releases, there have been a lot of Pokémon designs.

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“It’s exciting to see that demand is still there”.

While the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom might just be the most highly-anticipated video game of all time, the announcement that the title would cost $70 on release opened up the conversation about how much we are all willing to pay for a game in 2023.

Doug Bowser, the head of Nintendo USA, has recently defended the price point of the Breath of the Wild follow-up in an interview with AP News, in which he reaffirmed the company’s stance that this is not Nintendo’s standard pricing going forward and all games will be judged on an individual basis.

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TAS levels up.

A Super Mario 64 speedrunner has managed to do the impossible and get the “Impossible 1-Up” in Cool, Cool Mountain without dying.

Using a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun), Alexpalix1 — also known as PaLiX — demonstrates that it is actually possible to survive grabbing this extra life, provided you have a few hours of spare time as well as do precision-perfect wall-jumping (via GamesRadar).

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Across Switch, Wii U and 3DS.

Nintendo has announced its server maintenance schedule for the next few days and today (13th March) is set to be a big one.

The maintenance officially began earlier on this morning (or yesterday, if you are in North America) with Nintendo working on the save data cloud for Nintendo Switch Online services. This level of tweaking is set to continue across several of the company’s other servers over the next 24 hours, with the risk that these may become temporarily unavailable while the work is taking place (thanks, Nintendo Everything).

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Seeking the novels of tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Michelle reads an incredible novel about games, and argues that books and games should get on the same page…

Two kids pore over Super Mario Bros. in a hospital game room. One asks the other, ‘What’s the secret to landing high on the flagpole?’ This is the beginning of Sam and Sadie’s friendship, the centrepiece of Gabrielle Zevin’s novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

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