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News Nicalis Is Issuing DMCA Takedown Notices To Free Versions Of Cave Story

"Do not support Nicalis. Do not buy Nicalis games"

Update: Ema – who worked on a fork of the CSE2 version of Cave Story – has gotten in touch to clarify some points: 1. This DMCA is strictly for CSE2, the fanmade decompilation of the original freeware version of Cave Story. Said freeware version is unaffected by the takedown, and can be...

• Thu 26th Nov 2020
• Switch eShop
• Legal
• Cave Story

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...

• Tue 10th Apr 2018
• Switch eShop
• Nicalis
• Sales

Talking Point What Games Are You Playing This Weekend?

These are our picks, but what are yours?

It's a packed session this week as a veritable stampede of writers on Nintendo Life share their chosen gaming goals for the weekend. As you might imagine, there's a lot of Splatoon 2 to be had over the next couple of days, but there's also a handful of unexpected entries, a few predictable entries and even a...

• Sat 10th Mar 2018
• Nintendo Switch
• Features
• Talking Point

News Cave Story+ Receives Free Classic Graphics Update

Just like the good ol’ days

It’s a bit of an understatement to say that Cave Story has been released on a lot of platforms; Cave Story+ on the Switch is just the latest in a long line. Over the years, various iterations have tweaked and iterated on the original art style, and the new release did that yet again and offered a marginally different...

• Fri 4th Aug 2017
• Nintendo Switch
• Cave Story+
• Updates

Nintendo Download 20th July (Europe)

Splatoon 2! Cave Story+! Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star! Boost Beast! More!

The European Nintendo Download is now live, and this week brings quite a few varied options. We have three retail choices on the Switch, along with two download-only options; there are budget options on the New 3DS and Wii U too. Along with the usual discounts there are...

• Thu 20th Jul 2017
• Nintendo Download
• Europe
• Nintendo Switch
• Switch eShop
• Wii U eShop

News Cave Story+ Will Be Receiving Classic Graphics in a Free August Update

Gaming like it's 2004

Cave Story is one of those games that it seems will just never go away for good. The early 2000’s freeware game made big waves in the then fledgling indie scene, and has since been ported to just about every device that can reasonably run it. Throughout all those ports, incremental updates have been made that have improved...

• Tue 11th Jul 2017
• Nintendo Switch
• Cave Story
• Updates

News Cave Story+ to Introduce Local Co-Op on Nintendo Switch, More Info Coming

Time to buy it for the 3678th time

Cave Story is a brilliant game, and it will still be a brilliant game when it arrives as a retail title on Nintendo Switch as Cave Story+. It was arguably a trendsetter, and will go down in the annals as one of the best 'early' Indie games. It must be really good because we sure are tempted to buy it...

• Thu 4th May 2017
• Nintendo Switch
• Cave Story+
• Nicalis

News Cave Story+ Launches on the Switch on 20th June

Digitally and physically

For quite some time now, Nicalis has been not-so-subtly hinting that Cave Story would be making its way over to the Switch. And while it may be the case that the game is available on loads of others platforms already—not to mention the fact that the game is literally available for free—it still stands to reason that...

• Tue 4th Apr 2017
• Nintendo Switch
• Upcoming Releases
• Cave Story