Category: Nintendo

We’re crossing our fingers.

The God of Random Numbers is real, and he’s in your house right now, sniffing all your dice. If you don’t pray to him, you’ll never see a natural 20 again, and all of your card decks will be stacked against you for the rest of time.

Or… RNG is exactly what it sounds like. Random. Mashing B, or A, or whatever button you fancy when the Poké Ball is tick-tocking to one side and another isn’t going to influence the outcome in any way. It’s a placebo, a meaningless ritual that keeps you busy while waiting for the game to arbitrarily decide the result.

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A projector for those ready to go all in.

When shopping around for a new TV, it’s easy enough to know what to look for and what questions to ask. What’s the picture size and resolution? How many HDMI inputs does it have? Does it come with any smart features built-in? Is it HDR-compatible? But what if you’re interested in a projector instead? What do you need to know then?

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If you can dodge a ball, you can dodge a…lawnmower?

Game Swing’s OddBallers, a raucous top-down dodgeball party game, has been doing the rounds for quite some time now, having languished in various unreleased forms since it was first announced as “coming soon” a fair old while ago. Now it’s suddenly dropped onto Nintendo Switch and, far from the mess we had thought it might turn out to be, it’s actually a really fun little slice of multiplayer mayhem. However, it’s not without its issues.

Oddballers sees players jump into colourful top-down arenas in order to hurl dodgeballs, chickens, bombs, and lots of other goofy items at one another in order to emerge victorious. The action is then made even more chaotic by a multitude of environmental dangers; lawnmowers, acid bombs, electrical charges, and so on, that keep you on your toes as you charge around looking to wipe out your friends and/or a bunch of the game’s relatively capable bots.

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It’s-a-surprise!

Nintendo UK has opened a brand new Twitter account for the My Nintendo Store in the UK and Ireland. The handle @MyNintendoUK was taken in January 2023, and the account just dropped its first tweet earlier today.

The account will likely share updates for new stock and special edition pre-orders, which is something Nintendo UK has had issues with previously — particularly with Xenoblade Chronicles 3‘s limited edition and Bayonetta 1‘s physical release.

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You might need deep pockets, mind.

The Pokémon Centre has released two new premium Kotobukiya figures for Koraidon and Miraidon from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

Priced at £229.99 each (yes, each), both figues come with a Scarlet and Violet book stand, with Koraidon measuring in at 16 x 23.1 x 21.1 cm and Miraidon coming in slightly smaller at 16 x 22.1 x 21.1 cm.

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“Thank you all so much”.

Monster Hunter Rise made its debut on the PlayStation and Xbox last month, and it seems to have boosted the game’s overall sales. In a new update from Capcom, the base game has now officially surpassed 12 million sales.

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Pika-two!

We’re now getting updates about video game movies on a regular basis, but one we haven’t heard about for a while is the sequel to Detective Pikachu – so what’s happened?

After the star of the movie Justice Smith claimed a second film was unlikely to happen in 2021, we’ve finally got a new update. According to a Legendary Entertainment rep (via Polygon), this second project is still “in active development”.

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Take a look.

Nintendo has not exactly made many changes to the Switch user interface or the eShop over the years, but today is different.

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“You’re not real…”.

Animation artist Densle has been working on creating an amazing and intricate story set in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In this story, a gas-masked player terrorises villagers and NPCs like Tom Nook and Isabelle, until finally, they decide to fight back.

The latest episodes — a two-parter called Reset — handle Isabelle’s journey to find out what the heck is going on after the gas mask player resets the island to avoid the wrath of the villagers. The poor creatures get booted onto other islands, including Pietro, who gets sent to a deserted island, cursed to wait for someone who actually likes his whole clown thing. We’ll take you, Pietro. We love you.

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Improvements, tweaks and fixes.

The Pokémon-like creature catcher/battler Temtem has today received a fresh new update thanks to the folks at development studio Crema, boosting the game up to ver.1.2.2.

While not quite as large as some of the game’s former updates, this patch is all about tweaking the product as it stands to improve the play experience for as many people as possible. As usual, many of the fixes seen in this update are a product of community suggestions, which is always good to see!

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