Category: Nintendo

“I’m really looking forward to seeing what Nintendo does with it”.

Rumblings of the Switch successor reached fever pitch last month when Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa took to Twitter to reveal that a console announcement is coming “this fiscal year”. We are still in the dark about what games will be coming to said console (though we have our theories) but thanks to a new interview with VGC, we do know that No More Heroes studio Grasshopper Manufacture is “definitely gonna cook for it”.

That’s according to the studio’s founder and CEO Goichi “Suda51” Suda who, while at this year’s MomoCon in Atlanta, Georgia, was asked about his hopes for Nintendo’s next console and whether he’s currently working on anything for it.

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Another HEE-HOme Run.

It’s been nearly three years now since the launch of the original Shin Megami Tensei V and as is tradition at Atlus, the obligatory enhanced re-release (complete with a new storyline centered around a new girl) has now come to all modern platforms in the form of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance. Boasting a full-length, alternate storyline and a host of gameplay and balance adjustments, SMTV: V is easily the definitive version of an already excellent entry in the long-running series. If you’re at all a fan of SMT, Persona, or JRPGs in general, you owe it to yourself to pick this up at the earliest opportunity.

For this review, we’ll be focusing more on the additions and adjustments being made to the core SMT V experience with this release—if you’d like to get a more detailed evaluation of the underlying gameplay mechanics and such, we’d encourage you to read through our review of the 2021 version, which still largely applies here, as well.

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Out now.

A new update for Outer Wilds on Switch is out now and it’s a doozy.

As detailed on Mobius’ website (thanks, Nintendo Everything), patch 4 introduces a swath of improvements to visuals, gameplay, and UI while squashing a bunch of bugs in the process.

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It wants to create a “lasting relationship” with consumers.

The Switch Online service will seemingly be carried over in some way or form to the next hardware generation, and as we get closer to the reveal of a “successor” system at some point this fiscal year, Nintendo is now seeking recruits in Japan to help sustain its subscription-based offering.

On the back of the video game company showing positive signs of growth with a boost in employees over the previous fiscal year, Nintendo is now looking to fill Switch Online roles tied to ‘game software development’, front-end and back-end engineer services, and a director/planner job.

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“The results are in”.

Earlier this year, Capcom launched a special survey titled ‘Super Elections’ via its Capcom Town website, where fans around the globe could vote on their favourite characters, series and what sequel or new game they would like to see the most.

The votes are now in and the results have been shared across 10 different questions. All up there were 254,148 total votes across the globe with countries like the US, Canada, the UK and Japan participating. We’ve shared some of the responses below:

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The spooky 3DS outing returns later this month.

Luigi’s Mansion 2 returns later this month on the Nintendo Switch in HD, and we’ve now had the chance to go “hands on” with it.

If you haven’t already seen our feature here on Nintendo Life, we mentioned how we couldn’t wait to continue our playthrough. It’s still stuffed “full of charm and atmosphere” and now comes with all sorts of upgrades like new character models, animations, improved controls, gyro aiming and more.

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The good, the bad and the ugly.

The Switch eShop can be a dark and dreary place. The storefront is home to some absolute gems, but a multitude of rushed, rip-off and scam games can turn these beauties from a shining beacon to a needle in a haystack.

Here to prove that there are still some good games out there, our video producer Alex set out on the hunt for something special. To do so, he got his hands on five random eShop games (ones we didn’t review on the site) and took them for a spin in the hope of finding a goodun. Did he manage it? Well, you’ll just have to watch the above video to find out.

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Spotlighting old-school horror.

Blumhouse Productions exploded onto the scene in 2009 as a big deal in the horror film world. The studio had been around since 2002, but Paranormal Activity put it on the map. The use of home cameras to create something that felt much older than it actually was recaptured interest in the ‘found footage’ genre a decade after The Blair Witch Project.

Nowadays, Blumhouse Productions is a juggernaut in the movie industry, with names such as Insidious, Get Out, The Purge, and Five Nights at Freddy’s under its belt. So when the movie studio announced a video game division in late 2023, we were pretty excited. We didn’t get a peep from Blumhouse Games until Summer Game Fest 2024, but the wait was definitely worth it. And the highlight for us? Fear the Spotlight, which is coming to Switch later this year.

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Breaking the fourth, fifth, sixth wall.

Masahiro Sakurai is known for his keen eye for detail and staunch perfectionism, but his latest YouTube video demonstrates just how many revisions are required for even the smallest details.

The majority of the video focuses on one particular example of this. He discusses the Mishima Dojo stage from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, showcasing the initial design submitted by his team. He highlights that the destroyed wall on the left-hand side looked as though something had taken a huge bite out of it, and wasn’t a good representation of how planks of wood would break.

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Smash Bros. Ultimate and Zelda: TOTK targeted.

Nintendo has seemingly issued multiple DMCA takedowns against mods hosted on the community site GameBanana.

As member ‘Waikuteru’ highlighted, more than 60 separate DMCA takedowns have been issued over just a few days with 40 directed at them specifically, rendering their GameBanana profile empty of mod submissions.

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