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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“I felt robbed, but in an all too familiar way”.
Multiple external translators who worked on games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Mario RPG and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom say that Nintendo’s miscrediting policies have become “ridiculous” after the company repeatedly failed to credit their work.
This is according to a new article from Game Developer in which several anonymous freelance translators confessed to having to sign decade-spanning non-disclosure agreements by Nintendo, preventing them from being able to discuss their work.
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Following last week’s major update.
Nintendo dropped a sizable update for the Switch Online racer F-Zero 99 last week and this week it’s now rolled out a patch resolving some issues.
According to the official support page, Version 1.4.1 fixes an issue with Lucky Ranks and comes with fixes for some “other” problems. Here are the patch notes in full:
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“Starfy dives onto the Nintendo Switch”.
Breaking: Nintendo has added three more classic games to the Switch Online Game Boy Advance library. They include Densetsu no Starfy 1,2 and 3. Enjoy!
Densetsu no Starfy – No sleep ’til Pufftop! A sudden storm has caused Starfy, prince of the floating sky kingdom Pufftop, to plummet from his lofty home into the sea below. Luckily, he is rescued by an old lobster named Lobber who sets the adorable hero on a grand journey back to Pufftop. The way home is full of dangers, though, and Starfy will need to employ a variety of abilities – including Star Spin and Glide – and vehicles like the mighty Mole Tank, to overcome the challenges that await. The legend begins here!
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The Famicom’s crown has been taken.
The Switch is now Nintendo’s longest-serving home console – with some caveats to consider.
This revelation comes thanks to peerless research from our friends over at VGC, who have determined that the Switch has surpassed the Famicom in terms of time on the market before the arrival of a successor.
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Get with the times.
If you head onto the Switch eShop now, chances are you probably won’t have a good time. Unless you go into it knowing what you want to buy ahead of time, the significant slowdown and copious shovelware making up the majority of the ‘Recent Releases’ section will likely be enough to scare you off long before you discover anything worth purchasing.
There are a lot of games on the eShop in 2024; far more than we’re comfortable with, frankly. It might be difficult to imagine now, but when the Switch launched in 2017 with little more than Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Fast RMX, Snipperclips, 1-2 Switch, and a handful of other software titles, the eShop actually ran pretty smoothly. This, coupled with its simplistic design, actually made the user experience reasonably pleasant. Sure, it might have lacked the personality of the Wii U and 3DS eShops, but it worked, and that’s really all that matters.
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Plus, Square Enix reveals new character art.
Just when we thought we couldn’t be any more excited for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Square Enix comes along and pushes our hype levels into overdrive. The remake’s official Japanese site has today been updated with new information and screenshots and several Japanese outlets have published extended gameplay footage showcasing the adventure in action.
Let’s start with the biggie and take a look at some of the new footage. Six different Japanese outlets have been permitted to share up to half an hour of gameplay and each showcases different elements ‚ so yes, there’s a lot to catch up on. Dengeki Online’s capture drops us into the game’s random encounters from the get-go, Famitsu’s contains a good deal of environmental exploration and 4Gamer’s shorter clip gives a whistle-stop tour of several locations in bite-sized chunks.
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Baghead.
Nintendo recently revealed a short, spooky teaser for some sort of Switch game known as Emio. Details are pretty scarce at the moment, so naturally, fans worldwide have begun to analyse the trailer and speculate what it might actually be. Is it a new IP or an entry in an existing franchise? Is it being developed by Nintendo, or is a third-party project funded by The Big N? Is it from Silent Hill 2 developer Bloober Team? Who knows?
Since it’s likely we’re in for a bit of a wait until Nintendo spills the beans – whether that be mere hours or several days – fans have decided to kill some time by doing what they do best: create some awesome Emio fan art.
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Smoke me a kipper.
Originally launching nearly five years after Ace Combat: Infinity and four years after the 3DS release Assault Horizon Legacy+, 2019’s Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown was the first game in the mainline series for over a decade and brought the series back to Strangereal, the franchise’s fictionalised Earth stand-in.
Now, five years further on, Bandai Namco is bringing Skies Unknown to Switch in Deluxe Edition form. The Assault Horizon entries on 3DS familiarised Nintendo players with the series’ arcade-style flighter combat, but we’re very happy to see this particular entry land unexpectedly on Switch — and perhaps a little trepidatious about how this port will hold up on the hybrid system.
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Another Scarlet & Violet starter joins the line up.
The Build-A-Bear Pokémon plush line has continued to expand and following the arrival of Pokémon like Sprigatito from the Scarlet and Violet games, the Paldea Fire-Type Fuecoco has now been confirmed.
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