Category: Nintendo

Airing on the Japanese variety show later this week.

The Pokémon series has come a long way and as of the ninth generation (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet), there are now more than 1,000 Pokémon.

As part of this milestone, the Japanese variety show PokéDoko apparently has a special “world premiere” video scheduled to air during its upcoming episode later this week on 15th January. According to a translation via Serebii.net, it promises to make trainers enjoy the games “100 times more”:

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Grab ’em while you can.

It’s a new year and Nintendo has officially announced its latest batch of Switch Online icons. This first lot for 2023 is focused on Nintendo Switch Sports. Wave 1 is all about golf, although there are also some Sportsmates icons, too.

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Both eShops will close this March.

It’s now officially 2023 and that means we’re getting closer to the closure of the Wii U and 3DS eShops. The last part of the closure will take place on 27th March 2023 and after this you’ll no longer be able to purchase in-game content, download demos, add funds or redeem download codes.

In response to this, indie developer and publisher Markanime Studios is now giving away codes “every day” for two of their Wii U games until it’s no longer possible to redeem codes on the eShop. The two games up for grabs include El Silla and Pad of Time.

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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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