Category: Nintendo

Following a slump in sales.

Square Enix has had a solid run on the Nintendo Switch over the past year with releases such as Live A Live, NieR:Automata, Tactics Ogre: Reborn and more recently Crisis Core, but it seems it’s not been enough. The Japanese publisher and developer has reported a drop in net sales in its latest financial results period (up to 31st December 2022).

Despite net sales falling to 255 billion yen (down by nearly 7% YoY), it’s still got some big plans moving forward – teasing “multiple new titles” including games featuring brand-new IP.

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Nothing sus here.

It’s a new year and that means there’s a new roadmap for the popular multiplayer indie hit Among Us. So, what’s on the agenda for 2023?

Coming soon are user interface and user experience updates. This includes “cleaning up the account merging flow, updating the store to be easier to navigate, making it easier to see how you can report a toxic player” and more.

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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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