Pokémon, snapped. If we had to pick the gaming hot topic for January 2024, it would be ‘not-Pokémon’. Palworld seems to be the lookalike on everybody’s lips, but that doesn’t mean that it is the only game saying “Ditto” to the Pokémon formula out there. And, boy, does Nintendo know it. Yes, as flagged by…
Euphoric. Red Art Games has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Japanese firm Sunsoft to release a physical edition of Ufouria: The Saga 2, the sequel to the 1991 Famicom / NES cult classic. With an expected release date of July 5th, 2024, the release will come in two flavours: standard edition…
“At the initial idea stage, we collected over 1,000 ideas”. While the Super Mario series can get quite weird with its lore, world design, and general concepts, nothing comes close to the sheer absurdity of the WarioWare franchise. How many games out there let you pick someone’s nose, perform dental work, and have a back-scratching…
“The share price looks overvalued”. The much-rumoured Switch successor that Nintendo fans and investors alike are eager to see officially revealed will struggle to match the current console’s overall hardware sales, according to analysts quoted in a new Bloomberg report (thanks, GoNintendo) Anticipation for the system has sent shares of the company to a record…
Udpate: Switch and Japanese release date confirmed. Update : According to the latest issue of Famitsu, Riviera: The Promised Land will be launching on Switch on 28th February 2024 in Japan (via Gematsu & Ryokutya2089). A Western release is still yet to be confirmed. It seems that the upcoming port of the GBA and WonderSwan…
Confirmed in California WARN notice. SEGA of America has submitted a notice of layoffs which will affect 61 of its employees on 8th March 2024. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice was submitted earlier this month on 8th January in Orange County, California, and was flagged by the Twitter account @WhatLayoff (via GamesIndustry.biz)….
Bum note. Nintendo is widely known for its wholesome, family-friendly content, but it often likes to push certain boundaries when it comes to its WarioWare franchise, injecting a bit of crude (but still rather tame) humour into its marketing material to reflect Wario’s more ‘off-colour’ personality. To demonstrate this, Nintendo has launched a new WarioWare…
It worked on three RPG games for Switch. There’s some industry news coming out of Japan today that Square Enix has absorbed the developer Tokyo RPG Factory. As part of this, Tokyo RPG Factory will be immediately dissolved and “will cease to exist as an individual entity” (thanks, Gematsu). Tokyo RPG Factory was a subsidiary…
Get them while you can. If you’ve not completed your Zelda amiibo collection, you might be interested to know more restocks are happening. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Returning next month. Nintendo’s upcoming release Mario vs. Donkey Kong will revive the 2004 Game Boy Advance title next month on the Switch. If you haven’t already seen our own “hands on” here on Nintendo Life, we mentioned how “psyched” we were for the full release, as the Switch version is a game filled with…