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New Brain Age Coming To The Nintendo Switch
Nintendo has announced the return of their mind fitness title Brain Age, bringing the series to the Nintendo Switch for the first time.  The new title is called officially called Train Your Brain: Nintendo Switch Training For Adults It will launch in Japan on December 27th There's currently no word if the game will be[...]
"Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order" DLC Pack 1 Is Out
Cool new for fans of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, as Nintendo and Team Ninja have released the first DLC pack today The pack will give you four new heroes to fight with in the form of the Marvel Knights: Punisher, Blade, Moon Knight, and Morbius Along with these four, you're getting some[...]
Meet The Cast of Game Freak's "Little Town Hero" In New Trailer
It looks like this colorful little adventure is poised to have something for everyone, from catchy music to unique mechanics. Little Town Hero will arrive on October 16 as a Nintendo Switch exclusive You can pre-order it now via the Nintendo Switch eShop. Game Freak has debuted a new trailer for its upcoming role-playing game Little Town[...]
Someone Discovered An N64 Prototype Controller
For all of the years we've had game consoles in our homes, many agree one of the worst controllers ever created was the N64 controller by Nintendo Some find it to be a thing of beauty, but for those of us who wrecked our thumbs on the thumbstick and had to deal with the Z-Button[...]
Review: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Even some entities from other Nintendo properties like Super Mario Bros and Kirby's Dream Land All revolving around something called the Wind Fish Like the heads of Nintendo dropped acid one night and wrote a new adventure Now, 26 years later, we have a remake of the original So how does it hold up? We[...]
Giveaway: Nintendo Switch Lite Courtesy Of eBay
Would you like to win a Nintendo Switch Lite, completely free and ready to play your favorite Switch titles? All you need is a Twitter account We've partnered with eBay to give away a single unit of what will be one of the biggest must-have gifts of the 2019 holiday season Of course, eBay would[...]
Nintendo Is Doing Another College Tour This Fall
This morning, Nintendo announced they would be doing another college tour this fall, bringing the Nintendo Switch to a campus near you Well, near you if you're in the mid-west and southwest For two-day periods, the company will be bringing the setup you see here to several colleges from Illinois to California, showing off Switch[...]
Review: S.H. Figuarts & Bandai's Super Mario Figures
Figuarts and Bandai released a set of Super Mario figures from Nintendo The companies have released a few different sets of the toys, and we got what is essentially a starter kit for the entire line in the mail for review. Credit: Gavin Sheehan So to start things off, we have Mario This is a fully poseable[...]
Nintendo Shows Off More Of "The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening"
Apparently, Shigeru Miyamoto had made a request as to whether or not they could do a Zelda-version of Mario Maker, where you could build your own old-school dungeons. Credit: Nintendo "I talk to Mr Miyamoto regularly about 'the next Zelda game,' and one time, he asked me if I could come up with a game that features[...]
Nintendo Is Now Selling The SNES Controllers For The Switch
Those of you who have been waiting for the Nintendo Switch controller for Nintendo Switch Online, the wait is over as they are for sale The company put up a listing for the controllers this past week, as you can now purchase them for $30 a pop Plus, this isn't a pre-order for the holiday[...]
"Luigi's Mansion 3" Will Include Paid Multiplayer DLC
Game Informer is reporting that Nintendo will be releasing a multiplayer DLC for both the ScareScraper and ScreamPark modes in the game You'll still get those modes with some games, but in the future, if you wish to expand on them, you'll need to pay for them What exactly will be in each mode int he[...]
"The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" is Simple but Brutal
Nintendo was showing off a new dungeon for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening at PAX West earlier this month The dungeon shown off at the convention required some strategic bomb usage, which is absolutely not my forte It doesn't help that you need significantly more bombs to progress through the dungeon and the final boss[...]
"Luigi's Mansion 3" Co-Op is Shared-Screen Insanity
Nintendo decided to show off Luigi's Mansion 3's co-op mode at PAX West As this is Luigi's Mansion, the co-op experience is shared-screen with one player taking the role of Luigi and the other becoming Gooigi Because obviously Luigi's best ghost hunting pal is his own goo clone. The co-op in Luigi's Mansion 3 is absolutely a case of[...]
"Ori and the Blind Forest" on Switch is the Definitive Version of Actual Heartbreak
Nintendo, Microsoft Studios, and Moon Studios GmbH showed off Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition at PAX West The game was playable on Nintendo Switch, with the altered controls necessary for the Switch's button-layout While that might trip you up a bit at the start, the altered controls are relatively easy to get used to[...]
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The next Tetris 99 Maximus Cup has been announced and this time around the theme will center around the new Nintendo game Super Kirby Clash The seventh cup will kick off at Midnight on September 20th and run until the same time at the end of September 23rd This one has some special rules, which[...]
The First Three "Dragon Quest" Games Are Coming To The Switch
Dragon Quest fans are going to be going back in time later this month as Square Enix is re-releasing the first three games onto the Nintendo Switch All three games will be released on September 27th as digital downloads on the eShop These were some of the best NES era RPGs, and now they're here[...]
Sorry, Goku Is Not Coming To "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate"
You have a greater chance begging Nintendo to include people like Master Chief from Halo or Crash Bandicoot than you ever will of seeing a beloved anime character or a comic book character be added to the game Best of luck to you getting those characters in, by the way. Ever since DLC characters were[...]
Nintendo Reveals The "Ring Fit" And More At Tokyo Game Show
Nintendo did their big reveal during Tokyo Game Show 2019 this week as they showed off the new Ring Fit and accompanying game Ring Fit Adventure The company revealed the new exercise tool utilizing a special rubber ring and leg strap developed to work with the joy-cons of the Nintendo Switch, along with the game[...]
"The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening" Receives A New Overview Trailer
On the UK side of things for Nintendo, a brand new overview trailer was released this week to prep for the release of The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening There isn't a lot of new stuff here, as the game is basically being shown off to people who have never played it before We do[...]
The Next Nintendo Switch Update Will Add Some Minor Features
Nintendo has released the next update for the Nintendo Switch, and with 9.0.0 comes a lot of minor additions people might find useful The company released the details here, and we have some of them for you below But the shorthand to this is you're going to be given a few cool tools to use[...]
"The Witcher III: Wild Hunt" on Switch is Rad, but a Bit Blurry
CD Projekt Red is releasing their massive, groundbreaking game The Witcher III: Wild Hunt with all of its DLC on the Nintendo Switch this year And at PAX West, we got our hands on the game While the basics are unchanged, the Switch port does alter the button controls as A and B are swapped on[...]
Get Ready for Dynamax in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield! ⚔️🛡️
Those who caught the trailer for the game during the Nintendo Direct feature caught a glimpse of a the words "Now Saving" appearing in the top right corner of the game when the trainer enters a shop That got a lot of people speculating that the game will now auto-save when you do certain things[...]
Nintendo Applies For A New Patent On A Hinged Joy-Con
Nintendo appears to be working on something new for the Switch as a new patent reveals a different kind of joy-con controller is on the way A couple of different websites discovered this little gem hiding in the Japanese Patent Office online files, which you can check out here They show designs for a joy-con[...]
"Overwatch" Is Officially Coming To The Nintendo Switch
With the announcement of Overwatch coming to the Nintendo Switch, the question has now come up, would it be possible for cross-play on the console? We know how difficult it is to get Sony to play ball with Microsoft and other PC-related titles on the matter, but Nintendo has been pretty open to the idea[...]
Nintendo To Reveal A New Switch Experience On September 12th
Nintendo has something new on the way that they will be adding to their console, but no one seems to know what it could be The company released a new trailer this past week, which you can watch below, showing several families playing with a new rubber tube thing As you can see from the[...]
Nintendo Looking To Expand Nintendo Switch Online's Services
Apparently, the addition of the SNES library to Nintendo Switch Online will come with a drawback, in the form of the NES library slowing down Ever since it was introduced last year, the company has been pretty consistent when it comes to adding new retro titles to the NES library on the service Each month[...]