Category: Nintendo

Icy Inteleon.

The next 7-Star Tera Raid Battle event has been announced for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and this one will see you facing off against Gen VIII’s Inteleon first from 28th-30th April, before repeating 5th-7th May.

The details of this event were shared on Twitter by @SerebiiNet, revealing that the latest ‘mon to get the seven-star treatment will have the Ice Tera Type and the Mightiest Mark. As is always the case, you will only be able to catch this version of Inteleon once per save file.

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Who is your favourite character?

Back when Fire Emblem Engage was released on the Switch at the start of the year, the Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream ran a poll, asking fans who their favourite character was in the latest release.

Now, after two months, the final rankings are in! Thanks to a translation (via Serenes Forest), we’ve got the “top 25” characters of 39 characters – revealing the game’s protagonist Alear as the favourite!

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“We’re looking at a completely blank slate in terms of future developments”.

Square Enix’s stuffed slate of releases over the past year has given us some stellar titles, but among some of their biggest releases, this year’s Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo should not be overlooked.

Revealed during a Japanese Nintendo Direct in February and then launching just a moth later, this horror visual novel sees you unravelling the mysteries of the real-life urban legends known as The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, (or, sometimes, The Seven Wonders of Honjo). These Mysteries serve as tourist attractions in the Sumida Ward (formerly known as Honjo) of Tokyo, representative of ghost stories that have been passed down over generations since the Edo Period. Many of these stories aren’t set in stone and have had multiple interpretations over the years.

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Part VI – Return of the Gem-i.

It’s been over six months since our last round, so it’s time for another batch of NL ‘reader recommendations‘ with Part 6 of our Games We Missed series.

We asked you recently to send us your nominations for Switch games we weren’t able to review for one reason or another that you think deserve highlighting in this article. With the sheer quantity of games hitting the Switch eShop on a weekly basis, it’s impossible for us to keep up — believe us, nobody knows how many we’re missing more than we do!

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Font-tastic? Or font-al?

Has it sunk in yet that almost every single mainline Final Fantasy game between I and XII is now available on the Switch? That’s thanks to this week’s release of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series, which was long, long overdue.

Back when the games launched on Steam and mobile between 2021 and 2022, lots of people were happy that the classic six Final Fantasy games were finally being made more accessible. But there was one big talking point that swept across the world when it came to the Pixel Remasters — the font.

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You spoony bard!

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

Before we get cracking with this week’s rumble, let’s take a look at how the votes panned out last time. We took a look at Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the DS and, holy moly, it was actually a rather close call. North America won out with 48% of the vote, with Europe just missing out with 41%. Finally, Japan wasn’t quite able to win the hearts of our voters and pulled in just 11% of the vote.

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“Joel changed the course of history”.

We’ve got some sad news on the industry front – with a Miami Herald obituary confirming the former Rare director Joel Hochberg passed away earlier this week, aged 87. Joel lives on through his wife, children, grandchildren and extended family.

As highlighted by GamesIndustry.biz, he signed on with the Ultimate Play the Game and Rare founders Tim & Chris Stamper in 1986, overseeing the company’s business operations within the US, with a division based out of Miami, Florida. During this time he also held a position as the president of Rare’s coin machine company Rare Coin-It Inc.

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Note pad.

Nintendo has always been one for pushing the boat out with its hardware designs, and no more so is this the case than with its controllers. Yes, those of the NES and SNES were pretty conventional by today’s standards (though they were remarkably innovative at the time) but in the ensuing years, the Big N’s controllers have had us waving blocks above our heads, tapping chunky kidney-shaped keys, attaching and detaching buttoned bolt-ons, and even trying to work out how exactly these are meant to be played with only two hands.

Our point is, there’s a lot to choose from when it comes to finding the best Nintendo controller out there. There are so many different options, in fact — and so many different opinions — that attempting to find “the best” feels somewhat like an impossible task.

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Celebrating 10 years of meetups this August.

In the gaming industry, Nintendo sets itself apart not just with the quality of its games and its evergreen catalogue of classic characters, but also a focus on community. Whether through software that brings people of all ages together, hardware features like StreetPass, or the local multiplayer functionality baked into every single Switch console, Nintendo is particularly great at firing up positivity for gaming and giving like-minded fans cause to get together to play and celebrate the games they love. It’s why we’re here writing about them, and why you’re here reading about them. Various Nintendo-focused communities have formed around the world over the years and in the United Kingdom, Nintendo Players UK is the largest.

An independent ‘umbrella’ network of Nintendo fans, NPUK organises physical meetups for gamers in the UK and Ireland and is made up of 29 individual regional communities. Jen Griffiths is part of the NPUK committee and head administrator for this inclusive gaming hub, one which is fast approaching its ten-year milestone this August. “Our ethos,” Jen tells us via email, “is simply to provide free events in person that are inclusive and family-friendly spaces for Nintendo fans to meet and play games with each other.”

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Our not-so-final fantasies.

Who would have thought that in the run-up to the release of Tears of the Kingdom, we would have so much Switch news to talk about in the space of a week?

Nintendo was really firing on all cylinders this time around, as we got an official release date for Xenoblade Chronicles 3‘s final DLC, four new games added to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive NSO library (including an early action platformer from Game Freak) and a brand new Indie World showcase.

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