Category: Nintendo

Can someone please make this?

Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link might not necessarily be everyone’s favourite, but there are plenty of Nintendo fans out there who still have fond memories of the 1988 NES title.

If you have ever wondered what this game could potentially look like if it was revived during another generation (like the GBA era), then check out the wonderful fan art from pixel artist and Twitter user ‘huttaburger‘. For the enemy designs, they apparently took some inspiration from Link to the Past and the original Zelda title.

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Link used Master Sword! It’s super effective!

You may already know by now that I love deep dives, especially into the Zelda and Pokémon series — I’ve probably written thousands of words doing trailer breakdowns and lore explanations across the games over the past couple of years here on Nintendo Life.

So imagine how I feel discovering that there’s an artist out there making a Pokémon X Zelda mash-up, with incredible thought put into the details. Bilsu Art has been showing off his “Zelda-Based Fakemon Region” for the past few weeks on his YouTube channel, and I’m already completely in love with it.

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Damages estimated at “tens of millions of yen”.

A number of burglaries at trading card stores have been reported in Tokyo, Japan, as a result of the rising popularity and value of Pokémon cards. Since last summer, Japan Times reports that damages from these burglaries are estimated to be around tens of millions of yen.

According to an investigative source, there have been unprecedented five cases where the main target has been trading cards — and the Pokémon Trading Card Game is usually involved. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has reported on one specific case, where 60 cards — worth a staggering ¥8.5 million — were stolen from a store in Machida, a city located in the western part of Tokyo.

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Grab your dartboard.

Another year, another round of ‘New Nintendo Switch Pro/2/+/On/Up/Over’ rumours. Whispers of new or updated Switch hardware have been doing the rounds since practically the launch of the console back in 2017, and the start of 2023 has brought with it a fresh round of speculation as to when exactly Nintendo will debut its next video game console.

Announcing and launching new hardware are two very different things, of course, but Switch will soon be entering its seventh year on store shelves and it’s getting to the point where, based on the evidence of past console cycles, official news of a true successor can’t be too far off — even given Nintendo’s willingness to subvert expectations, to leave Sony and Microsoft to fight over hardware specs since the Wii era, and to lean into its catalogue of evergreen games which keep its hardware selling well into its twilight years.

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Can we fix it? Yes we can.

Epic Games took to the @FortniteStatus Twitter account yesterday to announce that a period of game downtime was scheduled for this morning (10th January) to fix several mechanical issues. The maintenance was performed as planned and the Fortnite serves are now back online.

Of the many issues that the patch set out to tackle, the most prominent was with the recently-added Shockwave Hammer – a new weapon which had an easily exploited glitch to remove its cooldown period (thanks, Eurogamer). Ever since the weapon’s addition in last month’s Chapter 4 update, the hammer became a fan-favourite, but it was quickly removed from the game (‘vaulted’, as the kids say) for its glitches.

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Surprisingly affordable, starting at $400.

Since the Switch launched back in 2017, we’ve seen an influx of powerful, dedicated handheld systems that many have deemed to be ‘rivals’ to Nintendo’s hybrid platform. We prefer to view them simply as alternative devices to potentially suit a wide range of gaming preferences, with products like the Steam Deck and the Aya Neo Next providing relatively approachable (albeit often quite expensive) solutions if you’re after something to go alongside your Switch.

The latest premium handheld device to hit the market comes via hardware company Razer, which recently announced a release date of January 26th, 2023 for its portable Android and streaming console, dubbed the Razer Edge. Reservations can currently be made on the official Razer website for a fee of $5, with the prices starting at $399.99.

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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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