Category: Nintendo

Bag practice.

This is a warning to all those who are yet to play Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club and want to work through the mystery unspoiled: do not watch Nintendo’s latest trailer for the game.

Yesterday, Nintendo uploaded a new trailer for the 2024 mystery entitled ‘What Lies in the Past’ (we’ve linked it in that last sentence but won’t be embedding it for obvious reasons). It’s an innocent-looking title and, without any form of warning at the start, bar the age certification the Nintendo of America upload, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s just another promo. Perhaps, at a stretch, the reveal of some upcoming DLC. But no, it’s actually loaded with late-game content that you might want to avoid.

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New (and old) challengers join the fight.

The world’s biggest fighting game tournament EVO is scheduled to announce this year’s US game line up next week on 14th January, but it seems it might have already been revealed.

In other words, if you would rather find out in the official broadcast, navigate away from this page right now. Otherwise, here’s the lineup which seems to have been accidentally revealed in the scheduled live-stream’s thumbnail image on YouTube.

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Donkey Kong, Star Wars and much more.

It’s a new year and that means brand new games are already on the way! January isn’t always the most happening month of the year, but in 2025 there’s plenty to be excited about. Our senior video producer Zion Grassl also bought a PS5!

Back to the upcoming releases on the Switch though, there’s Donkey Kong, Star Wars, another Tales game, and much more to look forward to – so here’s the full rundown for the first month of the year:

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It’s the notes you don’t play.

If you’ve been browsing social media for the past few days (heck, let’s not kid ourselves, past few years) you’ll have seen plenty of prognosticating about the arrival of the Switch successor.

The latest whispers suggested that Wednesday 8th January was the first sensible day after the holidays for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on ‘Switch 2’. With everyone across all territories back in the office, it made sense to put all the rumours to bed with an official reveal in early January.

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Free from Vita jail.

Like Nintendo’s own Wii U, the PS Vita has seen a good chunk of its best games migrate to alternative platforms in the years since the system itself veered into the realm of ‘commercial failure’. One of those games is Freedom Wars, a third-person action title created by Dimps that, at the time, was one of the most successful first-party-published Vita games (in Japan, at least). Now, over 10 years later, publisher Bandai Namco has taken the reins to present a remaster for Switch, retaining much of the original’s essence while improving upon the core gameplay.

Freedom Wars Remastered is, at its core, a loose take on Monster Hunter’s gameplay. As a Sinner within an underground Panopticon city, you must complete combat ops. Y’see, in a world in which resources are exceptionally scarce, the very nature of existence is in itself a crime; hence, you begin the game with a rather harsh one million-year sentence. By completing operations and rescuing your fellow citizens from large creatures known as Abductors, you can reduce your sentence and gain entitlements along the way.

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Arriving next month.

The Pokémon Europe International Championships return to London next month (20th-23rd Feb), and while we are, of course, very excited to see the cream of the competitive crop go head to head across a range of disciplines, the big selling point for many will be the pop-up Pokémon Center.

Reservations for this one are expected to open in the coming weeks (yep, if you want to shop, you’ll have to book a slot), but Pokémon site Serebii has today revealed a first look at some of the exclusive merch we can expect to find this year. Spoilers: it looks set to be a big one for Psyduck fans.

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Update: Here’s a closer look at the prototype.

The current Lenovo Legion Go

A new leak has revealed Lenovo is seemingly following up its ‘Legion Go’ handheld gaming device with a “larger” model and it will once again take all sorts of design cues from Nintendo’s hybrid system.

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“If the occasion offers itself, we will try our best”.

If you’re a fan of oldschool 3D platformers, you might want to be on the lookout for Kero Quest 64 at some point in the future.

This Kickstarter project by Stratobox has officially reached its “Switch port stretch goal” after banking more than $25,000 USD. It’s a “collectathon 3D platformer inspired by other games in the genre” and is a project in partnership with GalaxyTrail (Freedom Planet).

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The leash you could do.

Cast your mind back to when you first opened your shiny new Nintendo Switch.

After removing the individually wrapped controllers and clipping them onto the console itself, you delved into the box’s second layer of goodies to find the dock, the power cable… and a couple of plastic stick things.

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Sequel launches this month.

A new trailer for Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter has been revealed ahead of the game’s upcoming launch on 28th January 2025.

Boasting the voiceover talents of Doug Cockle (The Witcher III), the new trailer showcases a boatload of gameplay highlighting the glorious violence and stunning 2D visuals. As for the game itself, users will be treated to either a standard digital edition or a deluxe edition, the latter of which will come with two sets of cosmetic DLCs in the form of the ‘Augur of the Draugr’ set and the ‘Hair to the Throne’ cosmetic pack,

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