Category: Nintendo

Relationships will be broken.

Well here’s a surprise from The Game Awards! The team behind Overcooked, Ghost Town Games, has announced that it’s teaming up with No Man’s Sky‘s Hello Games on an all-new couch co-op experience, Stage Fright.

From what we’ve seen so far, this isn’t Overcooked (nor is it Overcooked 2), but it does look just as chaotic. Hello Games has noted that it aims to bring “a brand new two player experience” to the couch co-op realm, with a spooky setting that has a definite whiff of Luigi’s Mansion.

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Gong show.

It’s time for The Game Awards, the annual bash that sees a load of industry people head to LA to showcase their upcoming games and accept awards in the company of their peers (and sometimes some random who managed to get on stage).

Geoff Keighley’s main show officially kicks off at 5pm PST / 8pm EST / 1am GMT (Fri) / 2am CET (Fri) / 10am JST (Fri), but a pre-show section takes place half an hour before that.

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Hello JimBen (Starr).

Do you need yet another reason to go back to the incredibly moreish poker roguelike Balatro? Yes? well how about eight more Friends of Jimbo!

Friends of Jimbo 3 is out now for free, and it adds eight new cosmetic flairs that you can apply to your cards. And at last, Shovel Knight has managed to dig his way into the game — it was only a matter of time, right? He’s the king of indie crossovers.

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Scaled back ambition.

When Victory Heat Rally first appeared on Kickstarter back in 2020, the game appeared set to pay homage to Sega’s wonderful Super Scaler range of arcade games from the 1980s. In the four years that have followed between that Kickstarter launch and this Switch release, something appears to have been lost along the way.

Rather than the Kickstarter trailer’s segmented rollercoaster-like tracks, which immediately conjured up memories of Seger’s brilliant arcade racer Power Drift, instead the tracks in Victory Heat Rally look a lot more like the typical 3D environments expected from a modern racing game, albeit with cel shading designed to deliberately make them look more basic.

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Lucky dice.

Well, this is becoming something of a trend, isn’t it? After retaking the throne last week, Super Mario Party Jamboree has stuck around at the top of the Japanese charts in Famitsu‘s latest look.

In fact, the top three are unchanged this week, with Jamboree, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe all maintaining their spots on the podium. Echoes of Wisdom has popped back into the top 10 this time around, which is always nice to see, and Mario & Luigi: Brothership has moved up a spot to land in fifth.

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Five gold RINGS.

We’re almost halfway through December, so you know what’s almost upon us? That’s right, it’s nearly time for Christmas Day Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s theatrical release!

Before the blue blur arrives on the big screen for the third time on 20th December, Paramount Pictures is filling the holiday season with festive tie-ins, including the above promo, ‘A Very Sonic Christmas’.

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Pre-orders open next week.

In some surprising news, the excellent Sonic-style platformer Freedom Planet 2 will be getting a Limited Run Games physical release for the Switch.

This game originally launched on the eShop earlier this year and received a 9 out of 10 from us here at Nintendo Life. The physical launch will include a standard edition for $39.99 USD (or your regional equivalent) and a deluxe edition for $69.99 USD.

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Smile, Juliet.

The Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP developer Dragami Games has not only continued to address various issues with multiple patches but it’s also adding additional content to the game.

With this in mind, Dragami Games company CEO Yoshima Yasuda has now announced the team will be adding a photo mode “soon”. Nothing else was detailed, but typically these modes allow you to take shots of the main character and sometimes even change the outfits and camera settings.

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Celebrate the history of Tetris.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tetris this year, Nintendo has added Tetris (NES) and Tetris DX (Game Boy Color) to the Switch Online service this week.

As part of this, Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov has also shared a special message – thanking fans for being part of the Tetris legacy for all of this time:

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You’re gonna have to sleep sometime (we recommend the second half).

Here’s the thing about The Thing: Remastered; it’s still very much 2002’s The Thing. Which is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how much you like your The Thing.

2002’s The Thing, you see, which was developed by Computer Artworks and based on the intensely sexy Kurt Russell movie, The Thing — itself based on a novella that isn’t called The Thing — is a real mixed bag of a game, truth be told. It sets its stall out impressively, digging into the creeping fear and slowly rising paranoia of the classic movie, giving you some light squad control and an intriguing fear/trust system, whilst presenting its tale in environs that, whilst certainly now aged, still absolutely nail the vibe of the thing (didn’t even mean that one). But! It also falls apart quite badly for the second stretch of its slight running time.

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