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Nintendo has released a cryptic 15-second video titled "Emio" or "笑み男" (Smiling Man) on their social media channels. The video features a lost-footage style scene with a man wearing a trench coat and a brown paper bag with a smiley face drawn on it. Eerie piano music plays in the background as...

Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition is out now on Switch and, by and large, it's turned out to be a successful release for Ubisoft, boasting upgraded visuals from the original alongside some meaningful bonus material. Naturally, however, with multiplatform games such as this, the...

Following its announcement the June 2024 Direct, Nintendo has today revealed that basketball will be hitting the court on Nintendo Switch Sports on 10th July in Europe and on 9th July in North America (thanks to the magic of timezones). The new sport will come as a free add-on for the game...

NIS America has announced that The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II will be making its way to the Switch in 'early 2025'. The news comes as the first instalment launches, at the time of writing... today! Crikey, NIS doesn't hang about, does it? It's part of the much larger 'Trails'...

Indie developer Pacnsac Games has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new NES game which takes plenty of inspiration from Konami's Metal Gear. In fact, if we were being slightly unkind, we'd go as far as to suggest that it's little more than a rip-off and even uses near-identical sprites to...

Nintendo recently updated its Nintendo Switch Online library with a handful of new titles, one of which is making its Western debut for the first time ever. Released alongside Urban Champion, Golf, Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Mach Rider, Solar Jetman and Cobra Triangle is Atlantis no Nazo (The...

Greetings! We're starting to run low on review code for the delightfully chaotic management sim, Let's School, launching on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X | S and PlayStation 5 on 16th July and I just wanted to send over a quick email to ask if you'd like a review key? Let's School is an...

It has felt like a long time coming, but NIS America has today announced that Ys X: Nordics will finally make its Western debut on Switch on 25th October 2024. This comes roughly one year after the latest entry in the long-running Ys series arrived in Japan last September, but we're excited to...

Games are only getting bigger, and if you're wondering what Nintendo's take is on lengthier development cycles, the company president thinks it's "unavoidable". In a recent shareholder Q&A, Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned how game development today is "more prolonged, more complex, and more...

Following the announcement of Isabelle, First 4 Figures has now officially unveiled its Animal Crossing: New Horizons Tom Nook statue. Pre-orders for this one will open in 7 days on 11th July 2024, with the exact pricing not yet revealed. It's a statue that "faithfully captures" Tom Nook's...

2024 has been a challenging year for the video game industry and it seems Japanese developer Tose (a team that's worked on countless Nintendo projects since the Famicom era and also helped out Square Enix over the years) has experienced some financial losses due to multiple projects being...

No plans for the holiday weekend? An insatiable thirst for retro gaming? Nintendo's got your back. In the early hours of July 4, the company added no less than seven Nintendo Entertainment System games to the Nintendo Switch Online service, and it's as eclectic a list as you could wish for...

It's no secret that AI, and specifically generative AI, has become more and more prevalent in recent years, but if you're concerned about Nintendo utilizing the technology in its game development, then you can put those fears to rest... at least for now. During the company's recent annual...

If you're familiar with Walmart, then you might know that the company hosts a third-party marketplace online on which qualified sellers can flog their wares; kind of like eBay or Amazon. This means that some, shall we say, unsavory products might slip through the cracks here and there, and it...

Meridiem is excited to announce that it will be publishing a physical boxed edition of Papetura, the intriguing action-adventure game handcrafted with paper cutouts. Developed by Petums and digitally published by Feardemic, the physical Papetura Craft Edition will be available later in 2024...

In a recent Q&A with investors, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa states the company has concerns over the use of AI, like LLMs, in its first party game development. In the Q&A, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa acknowledged the use of AI-like technologies in gaming, particularly in...

Remember right before the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom when rumors began to circulate that Princess Zelda might be a playable character? That wish was never granted (sorry, spoilers), but the Hylian monarch is getting her time in the spotlight this September when The...

If you've been wanting to give the Switch Online service another shot, but don't necessarily want to fork out the monthly sub for it, Nintendo is now offering Switch users a free 7-day trial. This allows you to "retry the benefits" of this membership service, even if you've tried it out in the...

Earlier in 2024, Nintendo introduced a new system to its Switch Online 'Missions and Rewards' which requires users to play a retro game before they can purchase icons. We've seen it with games like Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and the same "play and redeem"...

Following a system firmware update in June (bumping the Switch up to Version 18.1.0), Nintendo has now rolled out another "rebootless" update. This has been detailed by dataminer 'OatmealDome' on social media, who once again mentions how these updates "do not require the console to be restarted...