TodayMon, 18th Feb 2019

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  Rumour Nintendo Has Plans To Revive A "Dead And Buried" Game

  Kingdom Hearts III also deemed unfeasible on Switch

  Last week, Game Informer's Senior Editor Imran Khan participated in the Kinda Funny Games show and ended up making reference to a "dead and buried" title Nintendo supposedly has intentions of reviving, even though it was "officially" canned. This is what he had to say, as transcribed by Nintendo...

  • 1 hour ago
  • Rumour
  • Nintendo
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Kingdom Hearts

YesterdaySun, 17th Feb 2019

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  News Four New DLC Fighters Join BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle This Spring

  The more the merrier

  Sure enough, there was a DLC announcement at EVO Japan 2019, which recently took place in Fukuoka. Arc System Works revealed Naoto Kurogane (BlazBlue: Central Fiction), Teddie (Persona 4 Arena), Seth (Under Night In-Birth) and Heart Aino (Arcana Heart 3) will all join BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle as DLC fighters this Spring in...

  • 12 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Switch eShop
  • DLC
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  Talking Point The Pokémon Trading Card Game Is In Desperate Need of An Evolution

  The famous card game is in danger of being left behind by its rivals

  Ever since the release of Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016, the Pokémon brand has been going through a period of transition. There’s been a handful of mobile games ranging from the simplistic Magikarp Jump to the surprisingly complex Pokémon Duel. We’ve seen the company’s...

  • 13 hours ago
  • Features
  • Talking Point
  • Pokemon
  • Pokemon Trading Card Game
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  Video We Weren't Sure We Wanted A Zelda: Link's Awakening Remake, Until We Got It

  Be careful what you (don't) wish for?

  One of the biggest reveals of last week's Nintendo Direct was Zelda: Link's Awakening, a remake of the 1993 Game Boy classic that's coming to Switch later this year. Link's Awakening is one of the most beloved entries in the entire series, so it was, on paper, an obvious candidate for the remake treatment. Even...

  • 17 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Zelda
  • Video
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  News Rune Factory 5 Scheduled To Arrive In 2020 On Nintendo Switch

  The waiting game

  Around the halfway mark of the recent Nintendo Direct presentation, it was revealed the Rune Factory franchise was making a return. This brief segment included the announcement of Rune Factory 4 Special, arriving later this year on the Switch, and Rune Factory 5 - with more information about this new entry to be revealed soon. At...

  • 17 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Upcoming Releases
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  News Switch Stretch Goal Announced For SNES Style RPG Chained Echoes

  Mechs and airships, what more could you want?

  German-based game developer Matthias Linda is hoping to release his SNES style RPG Chained Echoes on the Nintendo Switch. This game has been in development for two and half years and is inspired by fantasy titles of the '90s, taking place in a 16-bit world where dragons are as common as piloted...

  • 20 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Kickstarter
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  News Studio Head Of PlatinumGames Talks About Astral Chain In Official Blog Post

  Due out this August

  One of the shock announcements of the recent February Direct was Astral Chain. While we were all led to believe PlatinumGames was hard at work on Bayonetta 3, it turns out the team has also been devel

  • 22 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Upcoming Releases
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  News Umihara Kawase Joins The Crystal Crisis Roster As The 20th Character

  Out this May

  In case you forgot, last May, Nicalis announced a new game called Crystal Crisis would be coming to the Switch. This crossover puzzle-fighter was scheduled to arrive this April and is now actually due out

  • 1 day ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Switch eShop
  • Upcoming Releases

Saturday16th Feb 2019

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  News Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Fighters Won't Receive Custom Palutena's Guidance Sequences

  Even though Piranha Plant got one

  Apart from Persona 5's Joker, we still don't know anything about the upcoming DLC fighters being added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. While there's been a number of developing rumours about possible characters who could be added, there's been no other information about what to expect. Until now, that is. In...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Super Smash Bros
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  News Number Of Players For Link's Awakening On Switch To Be Determined

  Isn't it a solo experience?

  Nintendo arguably left the best announcement until last in the most recent Direct presentation. In case you missed it, we're talking about the reveal of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the Nintendo Switch - a remake of the Game Boy classic, first released in 1993. With very few details about the game available...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Zelda
  • Upcoming Releases
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  Rumour Nintendo Could Make Its First VR Announcement For Switch This Year

  Labo might be one of the games to support it

  An article by Emily Rogers over on Nintendo World Report suggests a VR-related announcement for the Switch could arrive as early as this year. This information allegedly comes from “multiple sources” as Rogers goes onto state how a “small, select number of traditional first-party software titles”...

  • 2 days ago
  • Rumour
  • Nintendo Switch
  • VR
  • Nintendo Labo
  • Nintendo
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  News Dead Cells Switch Update Adds 60fps And Custom Game Support

  It’s finally here

  Shortly after the Switch release of Dead Cells in August last year, the game's developer Motion Twin was forced to issue an apology because of the frame rate issues. In certain areas of the title, players were reportedly experiencing significant dips in performance, resulting in entire sections of the game running well-below...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Switch eShop
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  Review Q.U.B.E. 2 - A Well-Engineered Tribute To Valve's Physics-Based Masterpiece, Portal

  Opening a Portal to fun

  It's something approaching a tragedy that no Nintendo platform has ever played host to one of Valve's two Portal games. All platform allegiances aside, these are two of the finest first-person physics puzzlers ever committed to ones and zeros. Fortunately, they're also two of the most influential. Nintendo fans were able to...

  • 2 days ago
  • Reviews
  • Switch eShop
  • QUBE 2
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  News Chucklefish Outlines Upcoming Quality Of Life And Community Feedback Patch For Wargroove

  Release date to be confirmed

  Wargroove is still less than a month old and already the team at Chucklefish are eager to share information about the future of the game with the player base. During a recent Twitch live stream, followed by a summary post over on the Wargroove subreddit, the developer outlined the upcoming quality of life and community...

  • 2 days ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
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  Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 16th)

  Here are our picks, but what are yours?

  We're finally at the end of what has been a pretty eventful week - you know, with that little video presentation thingy from Nintendo and all that - so it's time to settle down and recover with some games-based chat. As ever, members of the Nintendo Life team have gathered to share their weekend plans and we'd...

  • 2 days ago
  • Talking Point
  • Nintendo Switch
  • What Are You Playing
  • Features