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Deals Get $20 eShop Credit And A Carry Case With This Mario Red Joy-Con Switch Bundle
A Walmart-exclusive bundle
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been and gone, and while there were a few decent deals to be had, the best bargains came in the form of console bundles with various games and goodies thown in. On Tuesday Nintendo's UK store had a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bundle up (now sold out, unfortunately) and an officially-endorsed...
News Pokémon Sword And Shield's Online Features Will Be Down For Maintenance This Week
3 hours of behind-the-scenes tweaking on Wednesday or Thursday
The online part of Pokémon Sword and Shield will be temporarily interrupted this week on Wednesday or Thursday depending on your location, with planned maintenance and tweaking taking place. As spotted by Serebii.net, online features for the latest entry in the Pokémon series will be...
Review Farming Simulator 20 - Fine Farming With Some Serious Simulation
Keep farm and carry on
While reviews of any sort can only ever be subjective, sometimes writers have to don a different 'hat', so to speak. Games often have particular tempos or ways of doing things that may not marry with your mindset at the time, with other work and deadlines looming. Farming Simulator 20 requires a very particular hat – a...
News Classic RPG Neverwinter Nights Brings Vintage D&D Adventuring To Switch Today
Finally joining stablemates Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale
After both original Baldur's Gate RPGs and Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale dropped on Switch back in October, it's finally time for the similarly Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights to join its brethren on consoles today. Tak
"The same general game, but now it's version five or six"
Reggie "The Regginator" Fils-Aimé, former Nintendo of America President, has been discussing - among many other things - how Nintendo believed that before the Wii the games industry was in trouble, with stagnation setting in and increasing complexity in games blocking growth. Speaking with...
News Reggie Asked To Speak To Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Before Accepting The NOA Job
"It actually was a bit of a disruption in the process."
In an interview with GameDaily.biz, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé has shed some more light on his legacy at Nintendo and his relationship with Satoru Iwata. In particular, he has shared a story about how during his initial recruitment pr
News Win Prizes Every Day Until Christmas With Nintendo's Festive Gaming Calendar (Europe)
Consoles, games and more up for grabs for 24 days
Childish it may be, but whatever your age there is something incredibly, unnaturally exciting about an advent calendar, even if you know there's nothing of value hidden inside. Well, now that December has begun Nintendo of Europe has got into the festive spirit and started its own Advent...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch Action-RPGs
Hack-and-slashers welcome
When does an RPG become an action RPG? Is it the moment turn-based battles are switched out for real-time combat? When does an action RPG stray into hack-and-slash territory, then? Do numbers have to go up? What year is this? Who is the President? It's questions like these that keep the more fastidious among us up at...
Feature What Is A Wunderling? Developer Retroid On Its Upcoming 2D 'Goomba Sim'
"Mango, Potato, Lime, Lemon, Pear, Fat Banana Man, Pumpkin... we seriously don't know"
Another day, another Goomba. It's World 1-1 and Mario sets off on another adventure. He runs to the right to find the obligatory '?' Blocks and the first Goomba dutifully trundling towards him. The lowly henchman - if that label is appropriate for a 'mushroom'...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch FPS Games
The finest First-Person Shooters on Switch
Nintendo Switch's bulging catalogue of games covers almost every genre imaginable, and the First-Person Shooter is no exception. Despite hosting some classics on its platforms (GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark helped define the FPS on consoles, and the Metroid Prime series fused the exploration of the 2D...
Guide How To Fix A Drifting Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Analogue Stick
Several solutions to fix drift and put Joy back in the Con
Switch has proved to be a roaring success since launching in 2017 and Nintendo deserves credit for delivering a console to suit multiple purposes and lifestyles. Its popularity as a portable device relies on it being hard-wearing and – on the whole – it’s a solid, durable bit of kit...
Guide Pokémon Sword And Shield Best Starter - Grookey, Scorbunny, Sobble And Their Evolutions
Who's the best?
Hurrah, Pokémon Sword and Shield are finally here! Many of you have probably already started your journey through the Galar region and are getting intimately acquainted with Gen 8. For those of you on the cusp of starting the adventure, you'll soon be faced with a choice that every Pokémon trainer encounters at the beginning of a...
Guide Which Switch Games Don't Work With Nintendo Switch Lite?
The games you can't play without Joy-Con Controllers
The new, portable-only version of Switch offers a cheaper way of jumping on the Switch train with a focus on handheld play which makes it a true replacement for Nintendo 3DS. However, it's important to remember that unlile the standard Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite does not support Docked Mode and...
Feature Best Nintendo Switch RPGs
Our round-up of the best RPGs on Switch
In the two-and-a-half years since launch, Nintendo Switch has collected a huge number of quality titles across almost every category, and the RPG genre is certainly no exception. The following is a selection of the console's essential role-playing games - in no particular order - which will evolve over time as...
Feature Pokémon Sword And Shield: What UK Locations Are The Towns In Galar Based On?
The real-world towns and cities we think inspired Pokémon Sword and Shield
All right, guv'nor? As you are almost certainly aware, the Galar region in Pokémon Sword and Shield is based on the United Kingdom. While the first four regions we encountered in the games - Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh - were all based on locations in Japan, Unova from...
Poll Box Art Brawl #19 - Contra III: The Alien Wars
You mean Super Probotector: Alien Rebels, no?
And we're back for another edition of Box Art Brawl, our series of bloody bouts between video game box covers from video game territories across the globe. Konami up to its old tricks. Last week North America was deemed to have the best Donkey Kong 64 cover, winning the day with its brazen boldness...
Not cheap, but cheaper (Update: deal has now gone)
Update: Looks like the Amazon US $199.99 deal has now expired, but the UK one is still available. Original Story: If you're anything like us and have splurged on loads of games in the Switch eShop Cyber Deals sale, you're going to need to expand the storage in your Switch. We thought 400GB would be...
Please understand
Ring Fit Adventure - Nintendo's latest attempt to get gamers off the sofa and into shape by gamifying your exercise regimen - has been on shelves for nearly a month-and-a-half now and it seems to have gone down very well indeed with Switch gamers. That's certainly the case in Japan where it has released a statement on its website...
There are brilliant Pokémon and Brilliant Pokémon - we explain the latter
As you've been wandering around the Galar region in Pokémon Sword and Shield, you'll probably have seen certain Pokémon with a glowing yellow 'aura' hanging around in the tall grass. What do those yellow glowing Pokémon signify? Well, settle down and relax as we lay it...
Deals These Are The Switch eShop Games You Should Download This Black Friday
Our pick of the best Cyber Deals games in North America and Europe
Now that Nintendo of America has finally announced its Cyber Deals sale to match its European counterpart, everyone can get in on the Black Friday frenzy of great deals. If you buy your games digitally, or you've just been waiting for digital-only titles to drop in price, now's the...
Random If Cranky Kong Was Once Donkey Kong, What Does The Future Hold For Funky Kong?
DK devs weigh in
With Donkey Kong Country turning 25 last week and soaking up the lion's share of the anniversary headlines, we thought we'd give its younger sibling a chance to shine. Donkey Kong 64 celebrated its 20th birthday on 22nd November and we caught up with Mark Stevenson and
Town by town, route by route through Galar
Trying to find out where you can catch a specific Pokémon in Pokémon Sword and Shield? In this guide we highlights all the main locations, the towns with Gym leaders to defeat and where to catch certain Pokémon to complete your Galar Pokédex. Below you'll find the main towns and sub-areas. On the...
Deals Bag The Best In-Store And Digital-Only Nintendo Switch Black Friday Deals
The best Switch Black Friday deals you can only buy in-store
Fancy stretching your legs and getting some fresh are over the Black Friday period? If you're brave enough to head out into the real world there are several deals on Nintendo Switch consoles and games which aren't available for delivery - yes, you'll have to leave the house and actually go...
Guide How To Use All Power-Ups In Super Mario Maker 2
Now featuring the Master Sword! All the power-ups, what they do and where to find them
Now updated with the Master Sword. The sheer number of possibilities and combinations available to creators in Super Mario Maker 2 is a little mind-boggling. The deluge of options including terrain, items, enemies and gizmos can be overwhelming to new players,...
