Pinbrawl.
Welcome, one and all, to this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl! Wait, are we… poets??
Last time, we pitted two covers for the NES’ Urban Champion against each other and after a weekend of voting, it was North America that came up with the win. The classic pixel art cover took 59% of the vote, while Europe and Japan’s colourful alternative was left with the remaining 41%.
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“The HUD has been a true labor of love”.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond isn’t out until next year, but if you’re eager to hear a bit more about this anticipated release, read on…
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Sale wraps up this weekend.
This is your friendly reminder that the North American ‘Recollection Collection’ eShop sale ends this Sunday (14th July) at 11:59pm PT, so this is your last chance to save on all the wonderful games listed below.
Nintendo of America has unveiled its latest batch of discounts, with the ‘Recollection Collection‘ sale bringing up to 80% off select titles with a certain throwback feeling.
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Mother pain.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nile deliberates whether or not the time has come to push the (rewind) button…
Last month, Nintendo announced it was adding Metroid: Zero Mission to the Nintendo Switch Online service. For me, that was the impetus for crossing off a major to-do on my backlog: completing all the 2D Metroid games. With Zero Mission, a 2004 Game Boy Advance remake of the 1986 original, being the canonical first entry in the series, it’s a perfect starting point.
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Unbullievabull!
Can you believe we’re basically in the middle of July already? Madness… Well anyway, days of the year be damned, it’s time to play some games.
It’s been a relatively quiet one this week, arguably boosted by the strange and ominous ‘Emio’ trailer posted by Nintendo, indicating that the company may be dipping its toes back into the world of horror gaming…
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Feat. Squid Sisters, Off the Hook and Deep Cut.
Alongside this weekend’s Splatoon 3 ‘Summer Nights’ Splatfest, Nintendo has released a special new interview featuring all of the past and present groups and idols featured throughout the series. This includes ‘Deep Cut’, the ‘Off the Hook’ crew from Splatoon 2, and the ‘Squid Sisters’ from the first Splatoon game.
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“You won’t see a 30th or 40th anniversary”.
Certain series never stop, but it seems the Trails games (which are now 20 years old) are getting to the point of completion.
Speaking to GameSpot recently, the Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo (who is also one of the key devs behind Trails) mentioned how the main story is now “about 80-90% complete” and while there could be “another arc”, whatever happens next wouldn’t continue much longer and don’t expect to see a “30th or 40th anniversary”. Here’s the full exchange:
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And it’s confirmed for Switch.
Canari Games, the studio behind 2023’s fantastic cinematic platformer Lunark, revealed an adorable Link’s Awakening-inspired adventure earlier this year. Back then, the game was only confirmed for PC, but today, the developer has revealed that the game is indeed coming to Switch — and soon!
Castaway launches on Nintendo Switch and all other platforms on 16th August 2024 and will only set you back USD $7.99 / GBP £6.99. In the game, you play as Martin, an adventurer who crash-lands on an island. His pet soon gets kidnapped (pet-napped?) and he has to go and save him.
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Every Persona game and spin-off, ranked by you.
Persona has become one of the most recognisable RPG series of the modern era. Starting life as a Shin Megami Tensei spin-off in 1996 with Revelations: Persona on PS1, Persona took a while to reach a wider audience. A shift in tone, some more slice-of-life and school elements, and a gradual upgrade and explosion in style and aesthetics put Atlus’ turn-based RPG series on the map. It’s far eclipsed SMT in popularity nowadays, with Persona 5 being one of the most recognisable games in the genre.
While Shin Megami Tensei has a storied history with the Big N, Persona took much longer to make the jump to Nintendo systems. A few years of spin-offs on the 3DS and Switch paved the way for Persona 5 Royal and, eventually, the other “modern” Persona games to come to Switch.
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Including Mushihimesama.
Clear River Games has revealed that it’s releasing four critically acclaimed Switch shmups in physical form in Europe.
Three Cave classics — DoDonPachi Resurrection, Espgaluda II, Mushihimesama — and Treasure’s celebrated Radiant Silvergun will all be getting a physical release across Europe soon. More details will be announced in the future.
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