The less things change, the more they stay the same.

After selling over 120 million Switch units, Nintendo didn’t need to start 2025 with a bang, but I wasn’t expecting this much of a whimper. We finally got our first official look at the Switch 2, and if you like curved plastic and magnets seen from a variety of angles, you’re probably pretty happy right now. If you’re like me and left wanting, it’s not hard to understand why.

A game all about competition with bargain bin online features.

Nintendo's summer offering to satisfy the thirst of old-school Nintendo fans is Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, which is essentially a collection of speedrunning challenges. Instead of igniting discussions about who’s the fastest or most clever when it comes to titles like Super Mario... Read more...

With the Kingdom Hearts games coming to Switch exclusively via the cloud, one NWR editor has had enough.

With Nintendo on the cusp of releasing their new OLED model, it would seem that a more powerful revision is at least 12 months away, if not significantly longer than that. We've already seen a number of high profile titles make their way to, or be announced for, the Nintendo platform as cloud versions:... Read more...

Part high school sim, part RPG, all heart.

Atlus has been nothing short of prolific in their development of RPGs, especially those of the turn-based variety. None, however, have reached the heights of popularity like their Persona series, games featuring a protagonist who transfers to a new school, befriends a bunch of his or her classmates,... Read more...

Reviewing games and taking names, including my own.

In February of 2020, I had the pleasure of reviewing Two Point Hospital, a hospital management sim published by SEGA and developed by folks who worked on Theme Hospital once upon a time. You can read that review here, but it's only the second 10/10 score I've awarded across almost 200 reviews. Coming... Read more...

Nintendo's shoddy online service continues to disappoint.

For years, Nintendo’s online offerings have been at times barebones, inferior, and baffling. But the saving grace was that they didn’t cost anything. There was no membership like Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus required. When Nintendo finally announced a paid membership required for online... Read more...