We’re off to ‘Frisco.
Nintendo has announced plans to open a second Official Store in the USA.
The company will be opening a brick-and-mortar shop in San Francisco, specifically in the iconic Union Square, deemed the “teeming commercial hub of the city”. Currently, the store is scheduled to open in 2025, with more details to be revealed in the future.
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Pre-order, if you dare.
If you cast your mind back to earlier in the year, you might remember the horrors of the GameStop-exclusive Banjo-Kazooie Funko Pop. With its big head and soulless, staring eyes, the figure was… well, a Funko Pop, but it was also an acknowledgement that the Rare pair still exist, so we’ll take what we can get.
Now, Funko has revealed another Banjo-Kazooie Pop figure. Sure, all of the horrifying details are still present and correct — seriously, what horrors have those eyes seen? — but, again, it’s new Banjo merch!
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Game launches later this year.
It’s been a fair while since we received some concrete news regarding WayForward’s enhanced port of Clock Tower for the Switch, but we’ve just received confirmation that the game will receive two gorgeous physical editions via Limited Run Games.
With pre-orders opening on 31st May 2024 and closing on 30th June 2024, fans will have roughly one month to secure either a Standard Edition of the game or a Collector’s Edition. The estimated shipping date is between 11th October – 11th November 2024, but for those who might be opting for a digital copy, it might be best to wait for confirmation from WayForward itself on its release date.
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The 3DS title soars onto Switch next month.
The original Monster Hunter Stories game is returning on the Switch next month and if you weren’t already interested, this new gameplay footage might be worth a look.
Capcom has showcased the opening gameplay and cinematic (which has some “dark” moments, as noted by the team). Although it’s not Switch footage, it’s perhaps the most footage we’ve seen of this remastered version so far.
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A brand new update for the Mario mobile game.
Nintendo’s mobile game Super Mario Run will be hosting a new Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door crossover event.
It runs from now until 27th June 2024 and requires you to unlock statues of Paper Mario and other cast members in the latest Switch release, which you can then place in your kingdom. Here’s a quick look, courtesy of ‘OatmealDome’ on social media:
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Super ‘master ‘maker.
With official word that a Nintendo Switch “successor” will be announced before April 2025, there’s really no debating that Switch is in the twilight of its years. We’re well into Year 8 now, and we’re being served up a series of remakes and remasters of old favourites while Nintendo’s premier teams focus on brand-new games for the brand-new system.
First-party-wise, in the last six months we’ve had Super Mario RPG, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, and the Nintendo-published Another Code: Recollection — and we also got Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Advance Wars 1+2, and Metroid Prime Remastered last year. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is launching today, with Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD arriving next month. If you’re a sucker for new versions of old classics, you’ve been like a pig in mud on Switch and elsewhere over the last couple of years.
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Your one-stop shop for a paper classic.
Welcome to our Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Guide hub!
This Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Guide covers the 2004 GameCube RPG and the 2024 Nintendo Switch remake. This critically acclaimed adventure, which is the sequel to the N64 Paper Mario, is easily one of the best Mario RPGs of all time. We gave the Switch remake a 9/10, calling it “the definitive way to play Thousand-Year Door”.
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Player survived 28 days, 23 hours, and 30 minutes after shutdown.
The last remaining player to play Pokémon X & Y via the Nintendo 3DS online servers has shared a message of thanks after surviving for 28 days, 23 hours, and 30 minutes after the official shutdown.
Known only as ‘Amanda’, the player’s message was relayed online by Joziken (one of the ‘Elite Four’ of the Nintendo Network) via X (thanks, GamesRadar). She stated “I just wanted to say thank you to all those who were rooting for me over the past month as I held on to remain online, I never thought I’d end up being the final Pokemon player on the Nintendo Network, but it happened anyway.”
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Including the Mii Fighters and Pokémon Trainer.
Since the final update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate earlier this year, Nintendo has been restocking the game’s amiibo.
With this in mind, the my Nintendo Store in the US has apparently had another big restock, and this time you can even get your hands on the Mii Fighters and Pokémon Trainer. Up until now, these were supposedly some of the “rarest” Smash Bros. amiibo.
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Wave 1 is now available.
Nintendo is going all out with the launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch, and as part of this, it has added a new batch of icons to its ‘Missions and Rewards’ scheme for the online service.
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