Pokémon Stadium returns.
Nintendo has announced it will be adding the original Pokémon Stadium to the Switch N64 service next week on 12th April.
This arena battle title was first released in 2000 and features “the original 151 Pokémon” from the Pokémon Red Version, Pokémon Blue Version and Pokémon Yellow Version games. It includes a selection of solo and multiplayer modes, including minigames. Nintendo has also confirms the following:
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Hear us roar.
Disney Dreamlight Valley is bringing in more content from The Lion King with its next new update — Pride of the Valley
The April update was teased way back at the beginning of the year, and we got a brief sneak peek at it during the February 2023 Nintendo Direct, but now we know when it’s coming, and what to expect from this year’s second major update.
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It just can’t wait to be king (or queen).
Gameloft revealed that Disney Dreamlight Valley’s next big update will drop on 5th April, but now we have a name and some patch notes to go with this week’s content update.
Shared on the official website, Pride of the Valley will be available from this Wednesday and with it comes The Lion King Realm, new items at Scrooge McDuck’s Store, and the Easter Eggstravaganza. Along with this wealth of new content (more below), a handful of bug fixes are also in the works and will be live simultaneously.
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Mega Man, Advance Wars, and more.
It’s April already? Crikey.
Yes, another month is here, and that means there’s a tasty handful of new games to look forward to in the coming weeks. March brought us excellent titles like Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, Have A Nice Death, and more.
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Policy change extends free Joy-Con drift repairs to new territories.
Nintendo will now offer free repairs of faulty Joy-Con to Switch owners in the UK, European Economic Area, and Switzerland.
This is according to an update to the company’s support page on its UK site (which appears to be reflected on other official sites across affected territories), which labels the now-infamous ‘Joy-Con drift’ as “responsiveness syndrome or so-called ‘drifting'”.
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A different kind of ‘game card’.
If you have ever read up on the history of Nintendo, you know that before it went into the video game business, the company began life by making cards and other novelties. The hanafuda and playing cards which Nintendo produced from its formation in 1889 took a back seat following the popularity of toys like the Ultra Hand in the 1960s, and the company would soon move into electronic games and, ultimately, arcade and video games.
But this is not to say that the company left cards behind completely. Nintendo-branded Japanese Menko cards were released in Japan in the early 1980s and collector Ben Gilmore has a sizeable colletion of these lesser-known Nintendo-branded cards. This milk cap/Pog-like tabletop game is older than Nintendo itself, and there are Nintendo Menkos with Mario designs that date from the plumber’s pre-NES arcade days.
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Zion investigates.
The start of this week saw the closure of the 3DS and Wii U eShops, a sad time for all of us, many of whom spent last weekend feeling a little sentimental about all of the brilliant games that we would be losing as we attempted to download as many titles as possible (not speaking from personal experience, of course). But what does this closure mean for the 3DS’ other features? Just three months into what we declared “the year of 3DS StreetPass,” could the feature really be dying just as we were getting started?
This is the precise question that our lovely video producer, Zion, attempted to answer this week. As many of you may be aware, Zion has been making a public push for the return of StreetPass ever since the start of 2023 — we even held a StreetPass event at this year’s PAX West. Aside from providing an update on how this journey has been going so far, the latest video explains the reality of Streetpass in 2023, how the eShop closure has affected the feature, and what its future might look like.
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No copying here.
Hello folks! We made it through April Fools’ Day, so it’s time to say: welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
First off, let’s have a quick look back at last week’s tussle. Super Mario Bros. 2 (or Super Mario USA) took to the stage, and while it was fairly close, Japan won this fight with 59% of the vote. We’re fans off both, so we’re not disappointed with the result at all.
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“This is no joke”.
April Fools’ Day has been one heck of a minefield this year, with some video game companies going an extra step by actually releasing a real product.
With this in mind, Xeno Crisis developers Bitmap Bureau have announced they’ll be bringing the retro-inspired shooter to the Nintendo 64 and GameCube. And yes, it’s not a joke! We’ve seen this Kickstarter release on all sorts of platforms already – including Switch and now pre-orders are live on these classic Nintendo systems.
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A joke too far.
It’s that day of the year again. On the video game front, things are sometimes taken to another level when a joke turns out to be the real deal, and it seems to have happened once again this year, this time with Sega murdering Sonic the Hedgehog (seriously) and a few other amusing announcements.
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