Howl could they do this to Chibiterasu? We were more than a little surprised when Hideki Kamiya and Capcom popped up at The Game Awards to announce an Okami sequel. Surprised, but excited. The title is still in early development and we know very little about it, but in a recent interview with IGN, some…
Shuffle and splash. If you’re heading to the public bath at Tokyo Plaza Harajuku Harakado in Japan next week, then you might get a little surprise in the form of Super Mario-themed hanafuda cards. Nintendo is teaming up with Kosugiyu Harajuku (via Famitsu, Siliconera) to allow people who visit the B1 floor bath to play…
Not a fan of Switch Online, huh? Before Nintendo Switch Online, there was Virtual Console. Available on the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U, the Virtual Console was effectively a line of purchasable retro games available via the Wii Shop Channel and eShop. Unlike Nintendo Switch Online, which offers up a range of playable games for…
Get the flowers and choccy ready. We are quickly closing in on Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma‘s 30th May release date and, with love in the air this Valentine’s Day, publisher Marvelous! has shared a pair of new trailers to introduce the game’s romance candidates. Broken into ‘Meet the Bachelors‘ and ‘Meet the Bachelorettes,’ the…
No word of a localisation yet. At the end of last year, Falcom announced that it was working on a Switch remaster of the 2012 PS Vita title Ys Memoire: Memories of Celceta (in Japan, at least). Well, what do you know, that very remaster now has a release date of 22nd May 2025 (thanks,…
’26th Anniversary Remaster’ didn’t have the same ring to it. Nightdive Studios’ previously announced spruce up of the classic action RPG System Shock 2 has been announced for Switch and given a new name: say hello to System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Formerly known as System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition, this remaster will be…
Or $50 trade-in at GameStop. According to a recent post on the Switch 2 subreddit (thanks, wccftech), early units of Nintendo’s upcoming new console are being sold on the Chinese black market for nearly $40,000. This is supposedly sourced via the same leaker from the Xiahongshu forums who revealed the CAD model for the Switch…
Quality over quantity. This review was originally published in May 2014. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library. Although Wario’s core platforming series has been overshadowed for years by the surrealist microgames of WarioWare, his excellent platformers have the sort of devoted…
And Animal Well wins ‘Best Direction’. The 28th annual DICE Awards ceremony has recently taken place in Las Vegas, and though Astro Bot robbed Nintendo of any potential wins (perhaps deservedly, to be honest – it’s a bloomin’ good game), there were a few notable nods toward a couple of outstanding indie titles available on…
Let’s hope it can stick this one. After a handful of delays, Level-5 has today announced the new new release date for Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, which we can now expect to put down roots on Switch on 21st May 2025. This highly anticipated life-sim has felt like a long time…