LEGO 2K Drive announced for Switch
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
2K, Visual Concepts, and the LEGO Group have announced LEGO 2K Drive, a “AAA driving adventure game”. It will be available for Switch on May 19, 2023.
LEGO 2K Drive will feature an open world with single and multiplayer support plus the ability to create vehicles. There’ll be different biomes, races, minigames, challenges, collectibles, things to destroy, and a story. The customization system has over 1,000 unique LEGO pieces, but there’ll be standard cars to use from LEGO City, Creator, Speed Champions, and even the McLaren Solus GT, and F1 LM. Co-op will be supported, in addition to competitive multiplayer with up to six players – not to mention two-player split-screen.
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Fire Emblem Engage Fell Xenologue DLC release date set for April, trailer
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
Wave 4 of the Fire Emblem Engage Expansion Pass DLC, which is the Fell Xenologue story scenario, now has a release date. Nintendo and Intelligent Systems revealed today that it will launch on April 4, 2023 (April 5 in Europe).
Fell Xenologue is the final piece of major DLC for Fire Emblem Engage. This will be the most significant round of content as previous waves were focused on new characters.
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Tetris 99 announces 32nd Maximus Cup with Fire Emblem Engage theme
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
It’s been a bit since the last notable Tetris 99 event, but the 32nd Maximus Cup has now been announced – and players will have the chance to earn a Fire Emblem Engage theme.
While the event is active, any Nintendo Switch Online member just needs to play the Tetris 99 online mode during the event period. Points are given out based on placement in each match. After reaching 100 points, the unique theme will unlock in Tetris 99 with background art, music and Tetrimino designs inspired by the strategy RPG.
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Anonymous;Code release date set for September in the west, voice cast revealed, new trailer
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Videos | 0 comments
Spike Chunsoft today revealed the final release date for Anonymous;Code in the west, an we also have news about the voice cast.
The title is due out for Switch on September 8, 2023 in North America and Europe. It will be sold both physically and digitally.
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More remakes please, Nintendo
Posted on 1 year ago by Edan(@@Virtualboi92) in Features, Switch | 0 comments
Historically speaking, I’m someone who has long turned my nose up at the industry practice of repackaging something old and passing it off as new. In my mind, the best games have always been transformative experiences that focus on innovating – whether via a new IP in a familiar genre, or an established franchise being taken in an unexpected direction (or, heaven forbid, something new entirely). Even before remakes became the game industry’s golden goose, the deluge of seen-it-before sequels and risk averse, rinse and repeat game design had me reasonably fatigued with the state of things. When I consider the games I have enjoyed the most over the last few months then, I’m scratching my head – because they’re all remakes.
Super Mario World prototype map uncovered
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Decades after the game’s original release, fans have managed to get their hands on the prototype map for Super Mario World.
You may remember the Nintendo “gigaleak” that took between 2018 and 2020. A ton of information was revealed about previously-released games, including protoypes, source code, and much more.
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[Review] The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure
Posted on 1 year ago by Elias in Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release Date: March 14, 2023
Developer: Falcom
Publisher: NIS America
Fans of The Legend of Heroes series will no doubt point out that both original PSP titles Trails from Zero and now its sequel Trails to Azure have an almost legendary status amongst turn-based RPG fans. While access to these games was once difficult to attain, fan translations from The Geofront have actually led to the official English release of this duology for the very first time – showing that hard work, love, and dedication to something can truly pay off in a huge way for players. As a follow-up to The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero, this entry ties up the ends to the Crossbell arc, which is lauded by some as the absolute pinnacle of the series as a whole. Taking a look now, how does Trails to Azure stack up?
Nintendo and PlatinumGames on Bayonetta’s future following Origins
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Nintendo and PlatinumGames have both briefly commented on the future of Bayonetta in a recent interview.
Only a few months after the debut of Bayonetta 3 – which released five years after it was announced – the series just saw the launch of another title with Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon. It sounds like we could be seeing this sort of thing in the future – especially if series creator and Bayonetta Origins writer Hideki Kamiya has his way.
Tokyo Xanadu eX+ coming to Switch
Posted on 1 year ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
Falcom’s RPG Tokyo Xanadu eX+ is heading to Switch, the company revealed today. The game is due out on June 29, 2023 in Japan.
Tokyo Xanadu eX saw its initial release in 2015. It was followed up with Tokyo Xanadu eX+, an enhanced version of the game, a year later. This marks the title’s first appearance on a Nintendo platform.
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Song of Memories coming to Switch eShop next week
Posted on 1 year ago by Dawn in News, Switch eShop | 0 comments
Publisher Future Tech Lab and developer PureWish have announced that visual novel Song of Memories will finally be arriving on Switch digitally via the eShop next week on March 23, with pre-orders now live. The game was previously cancelled back in 2019, with suggestions that a port of the title may not be possible but that options were being considered.
