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Nintendo has de-listed 250 games from the North American DSiWare shop, without warning customers first. Games that received the axe include Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, Zenonia, Mr. Driller, and Dr. Mario Express. Several games seem to have been removed from the Japanese eShop as well, though it appears that Europe has been spared for the time…
UPDATE: Bethesda has confirmed that the physical release of Doom Eternal has been cancelled. “While Doom Eternal is 100% on track for an imminent digital-only release on Nintendo Switch, the absence of a physical release at retail resulted in cancelled pre-orders. Affected customers will receive full refunds and should contact their preferred retailer for more…
FIFA 21 released on the Switch this week to the collective groan of soccer fans. The game is, for all intents and purposes, just FIFA 17 with a fresh coat of paint haphazardly splashed across the pitch. Even the box admits that it only features minor updates to kits, squads, and stadiums. All this for…
Oh boy, those cheeky market analysts are at it again. This time, they’re suggesting that Nintendo should move to a smartphone based business model for the Switch. “With every console generation, the install base resets to zero and their earnings power essentially resets to zero. They can continuously have an install base of say 100…
Copies of Nintendo’s upcoming Super Mario 3D All Stars have leaked online, and are currently being combed through by data miners. According to reports, the games aren’t actually proper remasters, but are rather just ROMs of the original versions running via emulation. Given that the three game compellation is selling for $60 USD, it’s causing…
Nintendo keeps denying that a Switch Pro is in the works, yet the rumour just keeps cropping up like a bad penny. This time, Bloomberg is reporting the company has asked third-party developers to make their upcoming games 4K-ready. Digital Foundry speculated earlier in the year that this may be possible, using Nvidia’s proprietary Deep…
Nintendo finally had a Direct last week. Yay! Remember those? Well, this year we’re celebrating Mario’s 35th anniversary, and we’re getting some “new” releases featuring the shroom popping Italian plumber. Perhaps the biggest announcement was Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which features a trio of remastered classic titles including Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, and Mario Galaxy….
Nintendo dropped Switch Firmware 10.0.0 yesterday. It adds a whole slew of cool new features, like button mapping and the ability to move game data from the internal storage to a MicroSD. Which is certainly handy given the console’s very limited internal storage. But most games will automatically default to the card anyway if its…
Games industry analysts Kantan Games are predicting that Nintendo will absolutely, without a doubt, release an updated “Switch Pro” sometime in 2020. CEO Serkan Toto told reporters that he predicts “4K support, bigger cartridge sizes, and of course beefed-up components.” Toto expects the device will be released sometime after the summer holidays, much like the…
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is probably one of my favourite games of all time. Not only does it have a rich universe, it still holds up as one of the best looking titles of this generation. So when rumours started swirling of a Switch port earlier this year, I was skeptical. Sure, other current…