Category: Nintendo

Give me something to break.

Visco Corporation, responsible for shoot ’em up Andros Dunos (1992), was a Neo Geo stalwart, releasing 15 titles across SNK’s arcade and console hardware. One of its only forays into the fighting game arena was Breakers and its semi-sequel, Breakers Revenge. In 1996, the fighting game market was flooded. And, while it postdates Super Street Fighter II Turbo by two years, we always adored Breakers and felt it deserved wider recognition. Sadly, it never caught fire in arcades, struggling to be noticed, and never received an official home port outside of the Neo Geo CD.

The absolute best way to bring a 26-year-old fighting game back is by opening it up to the global stage, and on this front Breakers Collection gets it impeccably right. Featuring both Crossplay and an online versus mode buoyed by all-important rollback netcode, the game’s arrival on Switch has been a long time coming.

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Where’s that Pokémon?

Squishmallows makers JazWares responded to this story, with a spokesperson confirming the following to Polygon:

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‘Rear Sekai’ will launch 2023 in Japan.

Publisher Bushiroad has revealed a brand new action RPG, coming to Switch in Japan in 2023, with Story of Seasons and Rune Factory producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto developing the game.

Reported by Nintendo Everything (via Famitsu) the new game is titled Rear Sekai, and was teased at the Bushiroad New Year Grand Presentation 2023 earlier today. At the same presentation, Bushiroad established its brand new label, Bushiroad Games, which will be focused on expanding into console games publishing, while announcing other Switch games such as a title based on Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight, Macross Shooting Insight, Goblin Slayer Another Adventurer: Nightmare Feast, and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation – Quest of Memories.

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Unlimited powaaaaah!

Strap yourselves in for another glitch from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, folks!

This latest game-breaking trick comes courtesy of Gaming Reinvented (via users Simaubaka and LegendofLinkk) and essentially provides Link with invincibility and unlimited stamina, if executed successfully. Gaming Reinvented breaks down the glitch into two “phases”, the first being the ‘Inventory Storage’ glitch, which effectively forms the basis of the whole shebang, and the second being the ‘Aqua Reverse Memory Storage’ phase (or “ARMS”, if you like).

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The best eShop games of December, chosen by us!

Happy new year readers! Okay, so we’re over a week into 2023 already — you might be moving on from last year, trying to look ahead to the best to come. But we just need to look back at 2022 one last time for the best eShop games in December.

Now, December is normally a quiet month for game releases — but Nintendo had to drop five short little indie showcase videos in its festive House of Indies series right before Christmas. Some of those had shadow drops in them which made our wallets feel even lighter than usual at this time of year. We’re truly spoilt!

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Mmm, Ganon.

We must admit: Zelda rankings tend to look a little samey, perhaps with a few spicy changes based on the person. But you’ll never find Breath of the Wild at the bottom, or Tri Force Heroes at the top, even if the person making that list is the world’s most contrary list-maker.

So, we’ve been mixing things up by celebrating the individual successes that each Zelda game has, and highlighting the incredible things that can be found in each one (even if the rest of the game is a bit duff). We’ve already ranked every version of Fairy Fountain, ranked all the instruments that Link gets to play, and figured out the 15 best dungeons in the series — and now, we’re onto boss battles!

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Pocket power.

Hello folks, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!

In our final edition of 2022, we took a look at the GameCube remake of Hideo Kojima’s stealth masterpiece: Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. As expected, the Yoji Shinkawa designed cover for the Euopean and Japanese variant took the lion’s share of the vote with 78%. That said, there were plenty of fans of the North American design who understandably thought that the stark red colour of Shinkawa’s effort was a tad garish.

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Also known for his role in the Terminator movies.

A report from Variety has revealed Earl Boen – the original voice of Monkey Island‘s main antagonist Captain LeChuck – has passed away at the age of 81 after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer late last year.

Apart from featuring in the Monkey Island series until 2010, Boen voiced characters and narrated games like World of Warcraft, Metal Gear Solid 2 (Sergei Gurlukovich), Baldur’s Gate and Psychonauts (Butcher).

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What’s the verdict?

At the end of last year, the Souls-like title Mortal Shell: Complete Edition got a surprise release on the Nintendo Switch.

If you’ve been wondering how this particular version of the game compares to the rest, Digital Foundry has got you covered with its latest technical analysis. So, how does it hold up? Its ambition comes at a cost when it comes to performance and overall playability.

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Arriving towards the end of February.

One of the highlight survival horror experiences on the Nintendo Switch last year was the indie title Signalis. If you’ve been holding out for a physical release, you’re in luck – with the developer Rose-engine announcing a hard copy published by Humble Games.

It will release towards the “end of February 2023” on the Switch and PlayStation 4 in North America, Europe and Australia. And if you put down a pre-order at a local retailer, you’ll apparently get the “lenticular memory” bonus item (see it in action in the video below). Amazon currently has this physical version arriving on the 21st for $29.99 USD.

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