A “limited time” offer.
Nintendo is currently running a “limited time” promotion where you can earn 1,000 My Nintendo Gold Points when you purchase or renew a 12 month family membership for NSO or the Expansion Pack service.
This offer is currently open to residents located in North America and will be available until 11th August 2024. These Gold Points can be exchanged for games on the eShop and other Nintendo Switch content.
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“We apologize for the inconvenience”.
There have been some concerns raised about the state of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night on the Nintendo Switch in recent times, and it seems the development team is looking to resolve some problems in the next update.
In a brief post on social media from the official account, the team apologised to players for any inconvenience and mentioned how it’s working on fixes to resolve a “Switch crash” as well as some issues associated with other platforms.
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Depicting the opening movie.
The original storyboard documents for Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64 have been discovered online.
David V. Kimball, a marketing director and content creator who has previously made videos about Super Smash Bros. Melee, stumbled across the design documents — drawn by Masahiro Sakurai — by using the Wayback Machine on HAL Laboratory’s website.
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“Literally nobody asked for it, but here it is”.
The age-old question of “Can it run DOOM?” now extends to poker roguelikes, it seems. And if you have ever wondered “Can Balatro run DOOM?” (and why wouldn’t you have wondered that?) the answer is yes. Yes, it can (thanks, Eurogamer).
Reddit user UwUDev took to the official Balatro forum to share footage of their latest project which sees the iconic first-person shooter running on the game’s Joker collection screen, albeit very, very slowly.
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A winner is you.
Back in the days of the Nintendo 3DS eShop, some of you may remember the Denpa Men trilogy, which offered a series of cheap and approachable RPG adventures that felt like a great fit for the portable. However, there was a fourth title released only in Japan in 2014 which experimented with a free-to-play structure that proved reasonably popular. That game died with the ending of online services for the 3DS, so Genius Sonority has seen fit to retool it for the Switch era and release it worldwide as The New Denpa Men. It may not be one of the best free-to-play games available on Switch, but New Denpa Men still proves to be modestly enjoyable.
The narrative in New Denpa Men is hardly in line with the epic and occasionally drawn-out stuff that JRPGs are known for. Here, you command an army of Denpa Men—charmingly weird little dudes that look like a cross between a Mii and a Teletubby—to go on various quests geared towards helping various cutesy yellow creatures with long noses. The episodic structure works well with the bite-sized gameplay design, though it must be said that the localization here is NES-era levels of atrocious. Yet funnily enough, the broken English honestly adds to New Denpa Men’s quirky charm, as it feels strangely in line with the awkward vibe of the characters and world.
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New screenshots also released.
We’re still months out from Sonic X Shadow Generations, but it seems the estimated file size has already been revealed by Nintendo.
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Worth a thousand words.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nathan goes mapping the pixels…
What is your greatest video game pet peeve? That one thing that, when present, ruins your experience, no matter how good the game is otherwise? For me, it’s a bad in-game map.
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BAT!
Welcome back to another edition Box Art Brawl!
Last week, we matched up two covers from Capcom’s Gargoyle’s Quest II: The Demon Darkness and oof, it was a close one! Japan’s action-packed cartoony take just about walked away with the win, taking 53% of the vote and leaving Europe and North America’s shared design with the remaining 47%.
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A new Limited Run release.
Lollipop Chainsaw is making a comeback this September on the Switch, and ahead of the remake’s release, pre-orders for the Limited Run collector’s edition and standard edition have gone live.
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Celebrating five years.
Good Smile Company has this week announced some new figures based on the Nintendo Switch exclusive Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
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