Category: Nintendo

Hard-locking on one of our Switches, but fine on another.

Limited Run Games’ port of the cult classic Tomba! (or Tombi! in Europe) is out — in fact, it’s been out a while now, having launched on 1st August — and if you’ve been looking forward to this one you’re probably wondering where our review of this Special Edition release has gotten to.

We’ve seen reports online of issues with the 1997 PlayStation platformer ranging from major to minor across all platforms, and the devs have stated that there’s a patch in the works to address known issues. The thing is, we’ve run into a serious issue that renders Tomba essentially unplayable on Nintendo’s console — or one of us has.

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You can now use your controller “like a Joy-Con”.

World of Goo 2 rolled onto the Nintendo Switch eShop earlier this month and following the confirmation of a physical release (due out this October), 2D Boy and Tomorrow Corporation have now issued a new update for the game.

It addresses some bugs, does some other stuff, and perhaps most notably allows players to use their Pro Controllers like a Joy-Con controller. There are also some QoL improvements to the language options. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of a post on social media:

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One of seven games included.

Capcom is bringing its Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection to the Switch at some point later this year and in the lead up to the big release, it’s given fans a look at one of the games in this retro compilation.

It’s footage of ‘X-Men Children of the Atom‘ which originally made its debut in arcades back in the mid ’90s, and followed with a console and PC release in the second half of this same decade.

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“The glove you love is coming back”.

Way back in 2022, it was announced the 3D Nintendo 64 platformer Glover would be making a return on the Switch.

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Once, twice, three times Lakitu.

The Mario Kart franchise has never really been particularly ‘difficult’, per se – at least not when you compare it to something like F-Zero – but there are undoubtedly moments when it feels like the whole world is against you. Indeed, the games have occasionally been labelled as “unfair” thanks to moments of relentless bad luck. Thankfully, these incidences are rare, but goodness, it can feel completely debilitating when it happens.

Take the below short clip from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, for instance, posted on X by user @ArtistRemaining. Taking place during a race on the N64 ‘Yoshi Valley’ track, the player takes a cheeky shortcut on the third and final lap, however the speed boost from two mushrooms lying on the bridge causes the kart to careen off the side and into the void.

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It’s that time again.

It’s the middle of August, which means it’s time for another glimpse at the future of video games with the upcoming Gamescom 2024.

As always, the festivities will kick off with the Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase in Cologne, Germany, during which regular host Geoff Keighley will reveal new trailers and information for some of the biggest games hitting shelves in the foreseeable future.

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Update: The results are in.

Update :

The results are in for the “Which could you eat every day?” Splatfest, and it’s ‘Team Rice’ that takes home the trophy, leave the Bread and the Pasta in the dirt.

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Join our mission to seek out ‘Games of Shame’ and make first contact.

We’ve all got them. Brilliant, much-celebrated video games — sometimes ones boasting a huge lineage of excellent sequels — which, for some reason, we never got around to playing.

It might have been unfortunate timing, with another game arriving to swallow up our time and money. Maybe we own the game (eShop sales, amirite!?) with every intention of playing, or perhaps the overwhelming accumulation of entries intimidated us and we just never found a suitable series pool in which to dip our toe. Whatever the reason, the line must be drawn here.

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Portable magic.

Welcome back to another edition Box Art Brawl!

Last time, we were back with the Mega Man franchise to look at Mega Man Zero 3, the, uh, third entry in the Zero sub-series for GBA. As expected, the beautiful Japanese design won by a landslide, scoring 73% of the vote. The US variant bagged 17%, while the ghastly European design managed 11%.

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Listen to 118 songs.

The Baten Kaitos games made a return last September, and if you enjoy the music from this JRPG series by Monolith Soft, you might be interested in Bandai Namco’s latest announcement.

The soundtracks for Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean as well as Baten Kaitos: Origins are now available on “various music platforms” to stream and download. All up, there are 118 songs you can listen to on platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube Music.

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