March2024
News Super Mario 'Mario Kart' LEGO Releasing In 2025
Ready, set, build!
As part of the Super Mario Day celebrations, Nintendo has announced it will be releasing Mario Kart sets in 2025. At the very end of LEGO's Super Mario broadcast, it shared an incredibly brief teaser - showing off the outline of a kart. This new line will be part of the Super Mario line, but nothing else has been shared about it...
Soapbox It's Time For Mario's Weird Minigames To Make A Comeback
The Mansion always wins
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Jim's after some more bitesize Mario weirdness, which he got his fix of on the DS... Super Mario Bros. Wonder was great. It had elephants, it had sweet little blobs of...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Nook’s Cranny & Rosie’s House - Is It Any Good?
The Rose and Cranny
The LEGO Animal Crossing range brings a variety of Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters to blocky life across five sets (initially, at least) that enable you to connect them and create your own Animal Crossing island in Lego form. Keen Lego fans will spy a similarity to the defunct Fabuland theme, now with a Nintendo...
News Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Community Pays Tribute To Akira Toriyama
"The Dragon Ball community united as one"
The world this week is mourning the loss of the legendary manga artist and character designer Akira Toriyama, and as part of this, the online community of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is paying tribute. After the game's development team issued a brief message acknowledging Toriyama's passing, the entire...
News Nintendo's Free Super Mario Bros. Movie Guidebook Is Now Available In English
"Discover all the secrets"
As part of this week's Super Mario celebrations, Nintendo has now released an English version of its Super Mario Bros. Movie digital guidebook. In case you missed our original post, this guide allows Mario Movie fans to "enhance" their viewing experience with all sorts of "Easter eggs and fun facts". Although the guide...
News Game Boy Emulator Developer Permanently Removes App From Google Play Store
"My family comes first"
Following the news about Yuzu's takedown earlier this week, there's now another Nintendo-related emulator story making headlines. As reported by The Verge, Pizza Emulators - known for work on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance emulators on Android - has decided to permanently remove its apps from Google's Play Store. The...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Isabelle’s House Visit - Is It Any Good?
House call
The LEGO Animal Crossing sets released in March 2024 feature a range of different minifigures and island elements bringing back memories of 2020's Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the form of everyone's favourite plastic bricks. As we run through each of the sets to see which one is best, here we're looking at Isabelle's House Visit —...
Japanese Charts Mario vs. Donkey Kong Drops To Second As Final Fantasy Makes A Splash
Back with a bang
This week's Japanese charts are now in from Famitsu (via Gematsu) and it is no surprise that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's debut has shaken things up a little. Square Enix's latest take on the iconic RPG has stormed to the top of the charts in its first week, with a whopping 262,252 units sold. The rest of the chart is dominated by...
News Princess Peach: Showtime! Developer Seemingly Revealed In Demo's Code
We've got a Good-Feel(ing) about this
Nintendo has released a free demo for Princess Peach: Showtime! and aside from giving us our first hands-on experience with the upcoming adventure, it seems that it also contains some important information about Showtime's as-yet-undisclosed developer. According to dataminer @LuigiBlood, Good-Feel has been in...
News Mother 3 Switch Icons Out Now, But They're Only Available In Japan
Like the game, they're not available locally
Last month, Nintendo surprised fans by adding Mother 3 to the Switch Online's GBA library in Japan. Now, to add to the suffering here in the West, it's also made Mother 3 icons available to Switch Online subscribers in Japan. The character icons cost 10 Platinum Points each and the borders and...
News Princess Peach: Showtime! Demo Now Available On The Switch eShop
Nintendo has also released a new overview trailer
There have been some rumours floating around about Nintendo releasing a Princess Peach: Showtime! demo this week and it's now been officially confirmed. Yes, in the lead up to Mario Day later this week, Nintendo has made a demo for this upcoming Switch release available on the eShop. And for those...
Review LEGO Animal Crossing - Bunnie's Outdoor Activities - Is It Any Good?
New Horizons on the block
Nintendo's latest collaboration with Lego has resulted in a handful of Animal Crossing sets, a crossover that fans have been begging for ever since the firms' first collaboration, the LEGO Super Mario sets, were announced back in March 2020 — coincidentally Animal Crossing: New Horizons' launch month. In the years since,...
Random New Pokémon Ad Positions 3DS As 'Retro', And The Internet Disagrees
New Pokémon ScaVi ad seems to think so
Get your Rawst Berries at the ready, folks, because you're about to feel a burn. The 3DS is now a retro console. Okay, maybe not officially. But it is certainly old enough for Nintendo to be using it in sentimental flashback sequences and for that, we feel ancient. This revelation came to us thanks to a new...
Video Nintendo Releases Two New Commercials For Princess Peach: Showtime!
The show starts later this month
While a lot of the focus is on Mario this week, Nintendo has still been able to spare some time to promote Peach's upcoming Switch release. Princess Peach: Showtime! will be arriving on 22nd March 2024, and ahead of the game's launch, Nintendo has uploaded two brand new commercials giving players a quick glimpse...
PSA You Have Until Next Week To Add "Unused" 3DS And Wii U Funds To Your Nintendo Account
The deadline is almost here
As we get closer to the official shutdown of online play and other functionality for the 3DS and Wii U next month, Nintendo has issued a reminder this week to merge your unused eShop balance while you still can. If you haven't already, now is the time to add these funds to your Nintendo Account, so they can then be used...
News Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Official Tournament Celebrates Mario Day Later This Week (North America)
Mario fans, start your engines
Although Nintendo has now completed its DLC distribution for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, it's not done with the Switch entry just yet. As part of this week's 'MAR10 Day' celebrations, Nintendo has announced a special tournament. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Open Tournament for March 2024 will take place later this week on 10th...
News Nintendo Switch Online 14-Day Free Trial Is Now Available (North America)
Wahoo!
Mario Day is almost upon us (10th March - MAR10, get it??) and Nintendo is wasting no time with getting the celebrations underway. Those who want to make the most of the calendar event of the year can now pick up a 14-day Nintendo Switch Online trial for free. This offer will be sticking around until 18th March at 6am GMT / 5am CET / 1am ET...
Reaction Nintendo's Switch Emulator Fallout Is Shocking Only Because It Took This Long
Emulator action
Well, that was quick... But also slow. That Nintendo would take action against programs that circumvent security and open up obvious avenues to playing Switch games without having purchased them is entirely unsurprising given the platform holder's historic 'emulation is piracy' stance. But the speed with which Tropic Haze, the...
News Former Switch Exclusive Octopath Traveler "Delisted" On The eShop, But There's No Need To Worry
Update: Square Enix is "working on this"
Update [Tue 5th Mar, 2024 12:55 GMT]: Square Enix has publicly acknowledged Octopath Traveler's temporary removal from the Switch eShop. The publisher and developer — who worked with former Tenchu developer Acquire to create the turn-based RPG — states "We are working on this and will update when the...
Guide Where To Buy Japanese Nintendo Switch eShop Credit
Here's how to get Japan-exclusive eShop games
The Nintendo Switch eShop is home to thousands of great games at this point, but some are locked away, exclusive to particular regions. If you're wondering how to download Japanese Switch games, you're in the right place. One of the great things about the Nintendo Switch eShop is that you can create...
News Super Mario LEGO Announcement Teased Ahead Of Mario Day 2024
Details about new sets might have been leaked
Following the arrival of the Animal Crossing sets last week, Nintendo and LEGO are now teasing "something" ahead of 'MAR10 Day' later this week. Whatever is planned is apparently getting revealed on 9th March during an "exciting" Super Mario-themed broadcast. In the brief trailer above, you can hear...
News Switch Online's Missions & Rewards Adds New Icons You Can Only "Get By Playing"
Super Mario World icons now available
Nintendo has just made new themed icons available to Switch Online members. These include a set of icons based on the Super Nintendo hit Super Mario World as well as the popular Switch release Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Redeeming these icons is a little different this time. Not only do you need a Switch...
News My Nintendo Store Adds Two New Super Mario Themed Items (North America)
MAR10 Day is on the horizon
Ahead of Mario Day, Nintendo has added two brand new physical items to the My Nintendo Store in North America. First up we have a Mario Zipper Pouch, priced at 800 Platinum Points. You'll be able to store your everyday essentials in this "colourful faux leather pouch". Store your everyday essentials with this colorful...
UK Charts Final Fantasy Pushes Mario vs. Donkey Kong Further Down The Standings
Cloud watching
The latest UK charts are in and it is no surprise who's sitting at the top spot this week. We predicted it, you predicted it, of course, this week's champ is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the PS5. Square Enix's latest managed to beat both EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy this time around (which is no mean feat) and it means that...
Rumour Paper Mario & Luigi's Mansion 2 News Potentially Coming On MAR10
Popping up
Update [Sun 10th Mar, 2024 14:30 GMT]: Release dates for both of these upcoming Switch releases have now been officially confirmed: <related ids="163314"> Original article [Mon 4th Mar, 2024 15:05 GMT]: With MAR10 just a few days away, we're all getting ready to celebrate Nintendo's mascot — probably by playing Mario games or...