Graveyard Keeper receiving physical release on Nintendo Switch
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According to retailer listings, Graveyard Keeper is set for physical release on Nintendo Switch with a new Undead Edition. The game will apparently be dropping to retailers on March 14, 2025.
Graveyard Keeper: Undead Edition includes the game and three major pieces of DLC. Breaking Dead, Game of Crone, and Stranger Sins are all packed in.
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ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 3 and 4 coming to Nintendo Switch
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December 18: SNK is back with two more collections for Nintendo Switch with ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 3 and 4. These two packages arrive on April 10, 2025 in Japan.
ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 3 contains 3 Count Bout, Baseball Stars 2, Blazing Star, Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, The King of Fighters 96, Last Resort, Ninja Combat, Samurai Shodown III: Blades of Blood, Sengoku, and World Heroes Perfect. You’ll get Art of Fighting 3, The King of Fighters 2000, The Last Blade, Metal Slug, Neo Geo Cup ’98: The Road to the Victory, Ninja Commando, Pulstar, Puzzled, Ragnagard, and The Super Spy in ACA NeoGeo Selection Vol. 4.
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Stardew Valley sales are at 7.9 million on Nintendo Switch, 41 million total
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ConcernedApe has provided sales figures for Stardew Valley, including specific data for Nintendo Switch.
Usually when we hear about sales figures for games, it’s based on performance across all consoles. We do know that 41 million copies have been sold in total. However, on Nintendo Switch specifically, ConcernedApe confirms that 7.9 million units have been sold on the platform.
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Famitsu’s most wanted games – December 29, 2024
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It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD enters the top five.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between December 11 and December 17.
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Nintendo pre-order updates – December 29, 2024
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Nintendo and Acquire brainstormed over 100 possible names for Mario & Luigi: Brothership
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December 5: The Mario & Luigi: Brothership name has been well-received by fans, but it seems that it wasn’t an easy process to get there.
Associate producer Tomoki Fukushima and producer Akira Otani spoke about this in a new interview published today. It turns out that Nintendo and Acquire brainstormed over 100 possible names for Mario & Luigi: Brothership. Also shared is that both the west and Japan are using the same title for the first time.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership devs explain change in composers, finding ‘Mario-ness’ following Miyamoto feedback
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The developers of Mario & Luigi: Brothership have opened up about what it was like creating music for the game, including shifting composers from Yoko Shimomura to Hideki Sakamoto and some initial feedback from Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. This information comes from a Famitsu interview with director Haruyuki Ohashi and producer Akira Otani.
Shimomura previously handled music for the series previously. However, with the franchise seeing various changes including Acquire taking on development, Otani said they “decided to get a fresh start”.
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Rating Nintendo’s 2024, Switch games and announcements
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It’s another year in the books for Nintendo Switch, and for what is most likely the console’s final stretch, it wasn’t quite as empty as people were expecting. We had many prolific releases, from Zelda to Mario to Mario to Mario. Okay, it was mostly Mario, but between a new Mario Party title and the first entry in the Mario & Luigi series in over ten years, there was a lot to love in 2024. We’re going over all of Nintendo’s news, announcements, and games from this year and asking you the question: how would you rate Nintendo’s 2024 on a scale of 1-10?
Freedom Wars Remastered getting physical release in Asia with English support, pre-orders open
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It seems that Freedom Wars Remastered won’t be available physically in the west, but in Asia, Bandai Namco has other plans. The game will be sold at retail in the region – and English support will be included.
Remember that Nintendo Switch is a region free console. That means the system is compatible with all games regardless of region. If you import the physical version in Asia, it can be played just like any other title.
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Top 20 favorite games of 2024 from Japanese developers
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This week’s issue of Famitsu contains a huge feature in which the magazine caught up with a ton of developers to find out about their favorite games they played in 2024. The overall results have been combined to give us a look at the top 20.
A Nintendo Switch game tops the chart – that being Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. From Nintendo, the one title that appears is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at #13. Other notable games on the list include Unicorn Overlord, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven, Balatro, and Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island.
The full lineup is as follows:
