Posted on 1 week ago by Dawn in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

A new February 2025 Pokemon Presents has just been announced, which will air in time for Pokemon Day. Fans can tune in on February 27 at 6 AM PT / 9 AM ET / 2 PM in the UK / 3 PM in Europe. No further details have been announced as of this time regarding the length or content of the presentation.

You’ll be able to watch the February 2025 Pokemon Presents on YouTube. We’ll be sure to share all of the notable news once it’s announced next week.

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Posted on 1 week ago by Dawn in News, Switch eShop | 0 comments

Hamster has confirmed this week’s Arcade Archives game on Nintendo Switch will be Othello. It’ll be ready to go tomorrow, February 20.

Othello, based on the classic board game of the same name, was released by Success in 1984. For those unfamiliar with the game, players place white and black stones alternately, and by sandwiching them vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, they flip their opponent’s stones over and make them their own. The game features evaluation and rewind functions to enable greater strategy and practice.

Arcade Archives Othello will cost $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29 on the Nintendo eShop. You can find coverage of past games in the series here.

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Posted on 1 week ago by Dawn in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

The latest Famitsu review scores for the week of February 19, 2025 are as follows:

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Posted on 1 week ago by Dawn in News, Switch, Switch 2 | 0 comments

Although no official announcement has been made, it has been revealed that Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers will not be redeemable for Nintendo Switch 2 games when the system launches.

A note has been added to the production description, which reads as follows:

Please note that Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers cannot be redeemed for Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive games.

This news follows the announcement that from March 25, users will no longer be able to earn Gold points. No plans for an alternate incentive scheme has been announced by Nintendo at this stage, although it is possible that plans may be revealed during the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct which is scheduled to take place on April 2.

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Posted on 1 week ago by Dawn in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments

Nintendo have announced that beginning from March 25 this year, users will no longer earn My Nintendo Gold Points.

Gold Points are awarded based on 5% of the amount you pay when purchasing eligible digital content, and can be used to purchase downloadable software and DLC on the eShop. No reason for this discontinuation has been offered, but Nintendo have provided an FAQ, which you can read below:

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Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in Features, Mobile | 0 comments

Today, we’re going over which sub-skills are best for which Pokemon according to their Specialty in Pokemon Sleep and some of the things you should consider when assessing whether they’d be worth investing in, or better sent to the Professor for candy that you can invest in better ones.

In Pokemon Sleep, the Pokemon that you recruit have a variety of parameters to consider which can dramatically affect their productivity when you’re awake. Although their Main Skill is fixed by their species, their sub-skills, which they will learn at Level 10, 25, 50, 75, and 100, are randomly selected from a small pool of options, and can make a huge difference on how effective they are at their Specialty.

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Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments

System: Switch
Release date: January 23, 2025
Developer: Passtech Games
Publisher: Nacon

“Once upon a time” is an almost universally recognised phrase, beginning tales that many of us will have heard before, and will almost certainly follow a familiar pattern. There will be a hero, a villain, and in the end the former will defeat the latter, and the tale will have a happy ending. In modern interpretations of these classic tales at least, it’s rare that you’ll find one that doesn’t have a happy ending, unless it has been deliberately contrived for the sake of provoking shock in the audience, which it typically fails to do, being so exaggerated as to feel more cliche than original. Ravenswatch, the second game to be developed by Passtech Games, is an extremely rare example of this inversion of fairy tales done right, with some solid roguelike gameplay to back it up.

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Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in News, Switch | 0 comments

January 28: Splatoon 3 will be running back its Chocolate-themed Splatfest next month: once again, players will be asked their preference between milk chocolate, white chocolate, and dark chocolate.

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Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments

System: Switch
Release date: January 30, 2025
Developer: Sunblink
Publisher: Sunblink

What exactly makes a “cozy game” these days? In many cases it seems to be a bit of a misnomer: for every one that transports you into a relaxed world with a gameplay loop that you can take at your own pace, you’ll find two more that will thrust you into a hellscape of seasonal crops, timed events, and needy NPCs that all require more time management and organizational skills than your actual life does. Hello Kitty Island Adventure is thankfully not one of these latter titles, but it hasn’t quite escaped unscathed from its time trapped on Apple Arcade, and this holds it back from being the experience that it feels like it should be on Nintendo Switch.

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Posted on 3 weeks ago by Dawn in News, Switch eShop | 0 comments

Another Arcade Archives game is about to drop on Nintendo Switch, with Marchen Maze due to release worldwide tomorrow, February 6.

Marchen Maze is an action game originally released by Namco in 1988. In the game players will take on the role as Alice as she journey through various fantasy realms to save them from the evil Queen.

Check out a trailer for the game below:

Announcement trailer

Arcade Archives Marchen Maze will cost $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29 on the Nintendo eShop. You can find coverage of past games in the series here.

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