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News Neon Nintendo Switch Was The Best Selling Hardware Of March In The U.S.
Well, sort of
The Nintendo Switch has certainly been a hot product, comfortably outselling its Wii U predecessor in under a year and steadily gaining in momentum as it goes into its second year. Although sales had hit a bit of a decline over the last couple months, it would seem that the console is back on the rise again, as the latest NPD results...
News Kirby Star Allies Sets A New Series Sales Record
Surpassing Nightmare in Dreamland, at last
Last month Kirby Star Allies ended a relatively quiet start to 2018 as the first major first party release on the Switch. We thought it was pretty good, and while it didn’t seem like a particularly exceptional release in the pink puff’s long lineage, new NPD results show that it apparently was quite a...
News Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Version 1.4.0 Launches Later This Week
New Blades!
Similarly to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is one of those games that seems nearly infinite, and the expansion pass for the game has added a decent amount of content already. Though the meat of the pass is still yet to come—with challenge battles and new story content on the way—a fresh update is due...
News Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs Developers Share Info On How To Cut Down Load Times
Patch 1.0.2 is on the way
Many of you have no doubt played Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs – Royal Edition, a tactical RPG with heavy JRPG elements that launched on the eShop last week, and noticed the excessive load times. Though they don’t render the experience unplayable, they do present a significant inconvenience that does tend to drag things...
News Check Out 20XX, A Roguelike Inspired By Mega Man X That Could Be Coming To Switch
In the year 20XX...
2018 is definitely shaping up to be the year of Mega Man, with Capcom bringing both of the classic series legacy collections, two Mega Man X legacy collections, and a brand new Mega Man 11 to the Switch. Of course, there’s some other alternatives available on the eShop already—like Mighty Gunvolt Burst—and a new PEGI...
News Sonic Mania Plus Patch Accidentally Leaked To Some UK Players
Whoops
A few weeks ago, it was announced that Sonic Mania would be receiving a fairly substantial update later on this year in the form of Sonic Mania Plus, which will be adding new characters, remixed levels, and various other enhancements to make this fantastic throwback even better. The update is due to release in the summer, yet SEGA...
News Dark Souls: Remastered Will Still Have An Early Network Test
It’ll just be late, like the game
It came as quite the unexpected and strange blow when Namco randomly delayed the Switch version of Dark Souls: Remastered to some undefined point in the summer, citing “the nature of causality” as the reason for the delay. Many fans were understandably distraught at the news, but it also wasn’t made clear...
News Nintendo Switch Version 5.0.2 Is Now Live
It does more than you think!
It’s pretty easy to bag on Nintendo for the company’s near constant deluge of system updates, most of which are used solely to combat piracy in nearly invisible code updates that “enhance stability”. A web browser? eShop Music? Home Screen themes? Nonsense, Nintendo knows that what you need is more stability, but...
News A New Secret Has Been Found In The Master Trials For Breath Of The Wild
The game that keeps on giving
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a game that feels infinite in many ways, with an extremely densely packed and massive overworld that contains untold amounts of secrets and easter eggs. Now that it’s been over a year since release, it was more or less expected that the unstoppable force that is the internet...
Review Streets Of Red - Devil's Dare Deluxe
Cowabunga!
Back in the glory days of the arcade, beat ‘em up games represented some of the most fun and most challenging games that you could find. With a clear narrative and finite stages to follow, these games could be 'beaten', but it often took a monumental effort and a fistful of quarters. Secret Base wanted to revisit that experience in the...
News Graceful Explosion Machine Developers Reminisce About The Game’s Creation
Also, a mysterious new project for 2019
Graceful Explosion Machine was one of the standout titles in the Nintendo Switch launch window, bringing colorful, intense shmup action to the fledgling platform. We absolutely loved it, and as time has gone on, it’s only gotten better, as the developers added in a new scoring system and video capture...
News Nintendo May Be Facing Heat From The FTC Over Its Warranty Policy
*Grabs popcorn*
Nintendo has always been very protective of its tech, and for generations now has held a policy that voids your ability to have the company repair your console for free if you use a third party product in tandem with it. So, for example, if you were to replace the software on the Switch with something of your own design, Nintendo...
News Shovel Knight Just Crossed Two Million Units Sold
For shovelry!
Shovel Knight has been one of the biggest indie games to come out in the past few years, demonstrating that not every Kickstarter campaign has to end in a middling final product. The core game was excellent enough on its own, but Yacht Club Games has followed it up with two other full-length campaigns (and a third one to come) that...
News Iconoclasts Is Coming To The Switch Later This Year
With new features, too!
The Switch has proven itself to be quite the haven for indie developers, yet there’s been plenty of popular games from Steam and other platforms that have yet to make the leap to the platform. Iconoclasts is one such game—produced by one man team Joakim Sandberg—although he’s hinted in the past about interest in...
News ARMS Version 5.3.0 Is Now Available
Still kicking
Nintendo has said that it’s done updating ARMS with major new content, but it will continue to provide minor patches that balance the game and add in other quality of life features, along with continuing the popular Party Crashes. The latest of these updates has now gone live, and it surprisingly makes a number of notable changes...
News Bethesda Talks Plans For Future Support On The Switch
Fallout, please?
Lots of noise has been made about third party support on the Switch, with many claiming that this is finally the generation that Nintendo reobtains the trust of major third-party publishers and starts getting big hitter releases alongside other consoles. While the jury is still out on how this is going to pan out, Bethesda is one...
Hands On Welcoming New Neighbors In Story Of Seasons: Trio Of Towns
The more the merrier
About a year ago, Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns brought more farm sim action to the 3DS, making several improvements on the original release and carrying on the spirit of Harvest Moon in a meaningful way. We absolutely loved the original release, but there was DLC released only in Japan shortly after launch that notably...
Lodes of fun
Lode Runner is a name that will likely resonate with older sets of gamers, as the original release saw its debut in 1983 on the Apple II. Praised by fans and critics for its level editor and strategic arcade gameplay, the game kickstarted a franchise that would last through the decades. Though the series has been much quieter in recent...
News Nicalis Is Running A Sale On The North American Switch eShop
Cave Story! Issac! VVVVVV!
Nicalis has been a company that’s given the Switch plenty of solid support, bringing the likes of quality games like Cave Story+, The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+, and The End is Nigh to Nintendo’s platform. Now, some of these games can seem a little on the pricey side—like the 14-year-old Cave Story going for...
News The Debug Code Has Been Found For Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
It only took 13 years!
In the modern age of data mining, its not uncommon for nearly every game or patch’s secrets to be outed within weeks of release. Back before the internet was quite so prevalent, secrets in games remained just that for sometimes years before the knowledge would enter the public consciousness, and many games from that time no...
News Chicken Wiggle Workshop Has Been Successfully Funded For The Switch
With music from Grant Kirkhope!
Chicken Wiggle was an ill-fated release from Atooi that was essentially the right game at the wrong time, releasing on the 3DS eShop last fall after the feeding frenzy of indies on the Switch eShop hit full speed. Hoping to salvage the project, the studio opened a Kickstarter for Chicken Wiggle Workshop a few weeks...
News Choice Provisions Reveals New Information About Retro Challenges In Runner3
“The-game-within-the-game”
Choice Provisions’ Runner3 is one of the most highly anticipated indie releases on the eShop, as the third instalment in the studio’s delightfully crazy rhythm platformer series. The previous two games were both known for their extremely high difficulty, but it was the special stages in those predecessors that...
News New Switch Advertisement Gives A First Look At The Roster For Mario Tennis Aces
A new challenger!
After the rather unfortunate release of Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash on the Wii U, it seems like Camelot is really bringing its A-game for the follow-up in Mario Tennis Aces. Early footage of the game has been promising and the inclusion of a single player story mode seems like it’ll inject plenty of diverse gameplay options...
News Rocket League Version 1.0.5 Is Now Available For Download
Performance Improvements! Tournaments! Monstercat!
Psyonix has been hyping up an impending update for Rocket League on the Switch for some time now, promising new graphics modes, tournament support, and a whole slew of other goodies to keep players hooked in the crazy battle car sport. At last, the update has now gone live, and boy, is it a doozy...
