Our favorite Indie World games, Nintendo’s new mystery company, and more! (Plus giveaway results!) | Nintendo Everything Refresh Ep. 032
Posted on 2 years ago by Nicholas Serpa in Podcast, Switch | 0 comments
A surprise Indie World Showcase last week revealed a ton of creative, smaller-scale games coming to Switch over the next few months, making our wishlists even bigger! Join your hosts Nick, Nicolas and Luiz as they rank their favorite games from the showcase, including both exciting new titles (Pepper Grinder!) and some updates on some long-awaited releases (Sports Story!). They’ll also discuss a mysterious new partnership between Nintendo and mobile game developer DeNA, our hands-on impressions of Sonic Frontiers, and so much more!
The Game Awards 2022 nominees announced
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch | 0 comments
The Game Awards 2022 are just a few weeks away, and nominees for the show have now been revealed.
The nominees include 108 different games, individuals, teams and events spanning across a multitude of gaming genres and platforms. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is one of the more notable games here as it’s nominated for Game of the Year, plus Best RPG and Best Score/Music. Nintendo has eleven nominations in total.
The full list of nominees for The Game Awards 2022 is as follows:
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Splatoon 3 Chill Season 2022 revealed
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
Nintendo has just revealed the new Chill Season 2022 for Splatoon 3, which begins on December 1, 2022.
New weapons and stages, new gear and victory emotes, and game modes are all on the way. Fans can get a first look at a trailer that just went live.
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October 2022 NPD: top 20 best-selling games in the U.S.
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
NPD Group has released a listing of the top twenty best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of October 2022.
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Bayonetta 3 both appear despite launching at the end of the month. Persona 5 also cracks the top ten with its re-release on Switch and other platforms.
The results can be found below.
NieR: Automata devs on satisfying demands for Switch port, Smash Bros., more
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
A new interview was recently published in Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream about the Switch version of NieR: Automata, and there was even a bit of joking around about Smash Bros. and more.
It took a few years, but the game finally came to Switch this past October. The game had been one of the more requested ports for the console, and that’s something Square Enix, PlatinumGames, and Virtuos were finally able to deliver on.
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[Let’s Talk] November 2022 Indie World Showcase reactions
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Let's Talk | 0 comments
Nintendo usually closes out the year with an Indie World Showcase, and that ended up happening this week. A new presentation was delivered with about 25 minutes of news regarding indie games for Switch.
One of the biggest of the bunch if Sports Story – the next game from Golf Story developer Sidebar Games – which is finally coming out in December. A few titles saw shadowdrops, including Rogue Legacy 2, A Little to the Left, and Once Upon a Jester. In terms of games we didn’t know about Switch previously, announcements included Venba, Have a Nice Death, ONI: Road to the Mightiest Oni, Pepper Grinder, Wobbledogs, and Inscryption. You can catch up on the full recap here.
So what’d you think of the latest Indie World Showcase? What was your personal highlight? Let us know in the comments.
[Review] Bayonetta 3
Posted on 2 years ago by Dennis Gagliardotto(@LyonHart_) in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release Date: October 28, 2022
Developer: PlatinumGames
Publisher: Nintendo
The wait for Bayonetta 3 has been a long one as fans have been waiting since the reveal of its logo at The Game Awards in 2017. Though we’ve had the previous entries ported over to Switch to play, the latest addition to the series is finally here in what feels like a fever dream. Bayonetta has had long gaps in between each game, but each entry of gaming’s most powerful witch has been well worth the wait, with Bayonetta 3 being no different. The excellence in storytelling, gameplay, theatrics, and PlatinumGames’ signature hack-and-slash mastery improves with each, and while Bayonetta 3 is just under what Bayonetta 2 achieved in 2014, it’s still is a masterful title in a league of its own, held back only by the aging hardware it finds itself restricted to.
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Metroid Prime devs put GameCube dev kit in freezer to fix post-release issue
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GameCube, News, Wii | 0 comments
Believe it or not, the developers at Retro Studios working on Metroid Prime back in the day actually put their dev kit in a freezer while attempting to fix a particular issue that affected a small portion of GameCube owners.
Jack Mathews, a technical lead engineer that worked on the project, shared this story while reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the game. Nintendo had shipped a “bad batch” of GameCubes that affected the CPU, but it turns out that Metroid Prime was the only game that wasn’t working properly. Because of this, animated objects weren’t acting the way they normally would on any other console.
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Miyamoto believes The Super Mario Bros. Movie has solved the challenges with video game movies
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Many games have been adapted for the big screen over the years, but more often than not, they don’t turn out that well. Nintendo is now taking its first shot in this area with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, an animated take on its legendary platforming franchise.
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto believes that the upcoming film will solve issues that have previously impacted film adaptations of games. During a financial results briefing this week, he said that two problems have been kept in mind. The first is that “with video games, it is the gaming experience that makes them compelling, so a movie that adheres to the story of a game will not necessarily be interesting.” Also brought up is how “people who have played the game will expect a movie experience that is faithful to their memories of the game, while those who have never played the game will expect a movie that is enjoyable as an independent piece of entertainment.” Miyamoto said that Nintendo and Illumination “spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out how to overcome these two challenges.”
Miyamoto’s full words:
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Ash Ketchum finally wins the Masters Eight Tournament in the Pokemon anime
Posted on 2 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
The Pokemon anime isn’t something we discuss here too often, but we’re making an exception due to a significant event in the series: Ash Ketchum is the official champion and has become the top Trainer in the Pokemon world after winning the Masters Eight Tournament of the Pokemon World Coronation Series. This just happened in the latest episode of Pokemon Ultimate Journeys: The Series, which premiered today in Japan and will air worldwide in the future. The win is significant since it’s a culmination of Ash’s adventures in the Pokemon world spanning 25 years.
Over the course of Ash’s journey which started in the Kanto region, Ash and his Pikachu have battled numerous rivals. They’ve participated in tournaments before, but they’ve come short of a tournament victory. Ash Ketchum now secured the title of the first-ever Pokemon League Champion at the Manalo Conference in the Alola region.
