“We tried our very best to avoid being in this position”. Bossa Studios, the UK team behind the Surgeon Simulator series, has been forced to lay off around one-third of its staff at the end of 2023. Co-founder Henrique Olifiers told GamesIndustry.biz it was the result of a “perfect storm of events” and the team…
Our favourite eShop games in from December! Happy New Year lovely readers! It’s 2024, and with another fantastic year of Switch (and maybe Switch 2?) gaming ahead of us, we need to stop, think, and have one last look back at 2023 with eShop Selects this month! December is usually a quiet month for game…
Who gets the Birdie? Hi folks, and welcome back to Box Art Brawl! Looking back on last week, Tetris Attack on the Game Boy entered the ring for a classic duel, with North America and Europe going head-to-head against Japan. Rather expectedly, including Nintendo’s characters gave Japan a significant advantage, and the region won comfortably…
“We would like to express our deepest sympathies”. The Pokémon Company has donated 50 million yen (about USD 345,770) to Japan’s Red Cross Society after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s Noto Peninsula earlier this week. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“It’s going to be met with a lot of excitement”. It’s a new year and sure enough new rumours are already popping up about what other games could be made available to Nintendo fans in the future. The latest story doing the rounds suggests a Microsoft game “met with high critical acclaim” and well-received by…
Featuring a new card battle system & online play. Devolver Digital and UK studio Nerial have today locked in a release date for Reigns: Three Kingdoms on the Nintendo Switch and PC, announcing it will be arriving next week on 11th January 2024. This fifth entry in the Reigns strategy series was originally “available exclusively…
The man, the myth, the legend. Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring, and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds just about as much prestige in the ranks of…
Back for more in ’24. And just like that, we’re one week into 2024 — well, near enough — and it’s time for the first What Are You Playing of the year! Before we dive into a weekend of gaming plans, remaining Quality Street and questionable leftover Christmas cheese, however, let’s take a look at…
The first Splatfest of 2024 starts next week. The “sneak peek” of the Splatoon 3 FrostyFest is now officially underway. The theme, as previously revealed, is “Who do you spend holidays with?” and the choices are friends, family or “solo”. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The show opens this March. It’s a new year and that means Nintendo has a whole bunch of new games to release. One of these happens to be Princess Peach: Showtime! for the Switch. This title was originally confirmed to be arriving on 22nd March 2024 during last year’s September Direct and in the latest…