Nintendo Switch 2 trailer with Mario Kart shows updated Donkey Kong design, 24 players
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch 2 | 0 comments
If you checked out the just-released announcement trailer for Nintendo Switch 2, you may have noticed something interesting about the Mario Kart game shown: there’s an updated design for Donkey Kong, and it seems pretty similar to his look in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Just one game was shown alongside the reveal of the hardware. That was indeed Mario Kart, and given how it’s the best-selling title on the current Nintendo Switch by far, that probably makes sense.
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Nintendo Switch 2 revealed, Direct in April
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Nintendo has finally made an official announcement regarding its next gaming system, the Switch 2. It is confirmed to launch later in 2025.
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Famitsu sales (1/6/25 – 1/12/25)
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Freedom Wars Remastered review for Nintendo Switch
Posted on 5 months ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: January 10, 2025
Developer: Dimps
Publisher: Bandai Namco
Despite the overwhelming and uncontested success of the Nintendo 3DS, I have always felt as though Sony gave up on the PlayStation Vita far too soon, and Freedom Wars is a fine illustration of this point. Originally released in 2014, the game went on to become one of the most successful first-party published titles for the system in Japan and easily filled the void left by the departure of Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise to Nintendo systems. With its post-apocalyptic dystopian setting, more detailed narrative, and varied mission structure that went beyond simply hunting large single targets over and over again, it felt like the next step for hunting-style action RPGs, limited only by its chosen platform. Playing through the game again over a decade later, Freedom Wars Remastered holds up surprisingly well.
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Lunar Remastered Collection release date set for April, physical release confirmed
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
GungHo Online Entertainment just set a release date for Lunar Remastered Collection. The package is confirmed to launch for Nintendo Switch on April 18, 2025.
GungHo previously announced Lunar Remastered Collection last year. We initially had a Spring 2025 launch window.
Rumor: Nintendo Switch 2 reveal happening this week
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Switch 2 | 0 comments
Original: When will Nintendo reveal Switch 2? Apparently that could be happening this week.
During the latest Nate the Hate podcast, it was claimed that an announcement is happening on January 16, this Thursday. Host Nate the Hate said:
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Famitsu sales (12/23/24 – 1/5/25)
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Splatoon 3 Frosty Fest 2025 Splatfest results
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Following the latest Splatoon 3 Splatfest this weekend – specifically for Frosty Fest 2025 – we’ve now got the results. The theme this time around was about what makes players the happiest, and the options were money, experiences, and presents.
Based on the halftime results, it was looking like things were the closest they’ve ever been in terms of clout. Team Money had the slightest of edges with 33.56 percent, followed by Team Presents with 33.51 percent, and even Team Experiences was not far behind at all with 32.93 percent.
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These are the strongest final bosses in Kirby history
Posted on 5 months ago by Ethan in 3DS, Features, General Nintendo, Switch | 0 comments
While we wait for the next entry in the Kirby series (and therefore the next galactic crisis Kirby has to stop), we figure it’s as good a time as any to rank the strongest final bosses that are most canonically powerful. Out of all of Nintendo’s big franchises, Kirby might be the one most famous for its dramatic final boss battles. The scale and scope of these clashes have only increased over the years, and it’s certainly reached a peak with 2022’s Kirby and the Forgotten Land. As new games in the series are released, more lore and story tidbits come out to help us better understand the incredibly dangerous world Kirby happens to live in.
Miyamoto explains how he came up with the famous Mario pipes
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
Have you ever wondered how the famous pipes in the Mario series came to be? Thanks to creator Shigeru Miyamoto, we’ve got some insight.
Shumplations recently translated a classic interview that Game Maestro conducted with Miyamoto in 2000. As he stated during that discussion, Nintendo needed to come up with a way for enemies “that went to the bottom had to re-appear at the top of the screen.” Then while he was walking in Kyoto, he “saw a plastic pipe sticking out of a wall,” and that was the solution he came up with.
