Time bending before the DS made it cool.

Some early works from one of the more unique scenario writers in games will be remastered for Switch next year, and no fan translations will be required.

Spike Chunsoft have confirmed that they will be publishing remastered versions of Ever 17 - The Out Of Infinity and Never 7 - The End Of Infinity... Read more...

Ah yes, the "water torture" method of game releases.

A pair of the benefits for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers have updated tonight, with one on a very rapid turnaround.

The Game Boy library has added Donkey Kong Land 2 to the library tonight. The Game Boy rendition of Donkey Kong Country 2 follows last Thursday's release of the original Donkey Kong Land.

Featuring "the fandisc for the game I lost a bet and paid over odds to play".

Things we missed last week: The retcon specialist Life is Strange: Double Exposure dropped digitally, and Taito's boxing title Final Blow was your Archives release.

Thanksgiving week should mean a dearth of NoA shadowdrops, but so I thought in previous weeks and we still ended up going +20 so who... Read more...

Plus one for hitting a relevant anniversary, but whither the other two?

After three Expansion Pack updates in October, November has a solo game for the regular tier Switch Online libraries.

Donkey Kong Land (1995) is now available in the Game Boy library. The game is a bespoke Game Boy version of the original Donkey Kong Country, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week.

Not recommended for those who lost half their blood a few months ago and are about to participate in a cluster*beep*.

Nintendo is offering some sparring before their final release of 2024.

A demo is now live on the eShop for Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer. The third in the series of Imagineer-developed fitness titles is due for launch on December 5.

The demo features one trainer and gives access to... Read more...

It's the rarest thing: Tears of the Kingdom sub-$80 Canadian.

Nintendo's annual Black Friday digital sale is now live, as promised.

Running until 2:59 a.m. ET on December 3, the headliner deal on the first party end is the first ever digital discount for Tears of the Kingdom outside the voucher program, with $20 off to make the obscenely large game $49.99.... Read more...

Based on the new DLC, there's a 1% chance that this is actually Super Game.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble is about to get even more back.

A 2.0 update launching a week from today (26 November) will add a new competitive mode called Super Punchy Brawl, and a quick retry feature. Adventure mode will also add new content.

The 2.0 update will be required for a pair of... Read more...

If you're looking for the sales there's a separate article for that tomorrow.

Things we missed last week: Most importantly, The Rise of the Golden Idol released on Switch. Hopefully, with much fewer bugs than The Case had. There's also a new Beyblade game which launched worldwide for some reason (and only with the season pass for one very obvious reason), and Konami's Table Tennis - the official name - in the Archives.

Now how much would you pay?

Nintendo traditionally offers a few official discounts at every retailer for the kickoff of the United States holiday shopping season, and this year's deals have been revealed.

The headlining deal will be a discount on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which will be sold at US$49.99 starting... Read more...

A way too long list approaches! Command?

Things we missed last week: The Vs series game The Quest of Ki (from Namco) in the Archives. And nothing else that wasn't covered on RFN 900.

It's the curse of the Horizon series to get completely overshadowed by something huge coming out in its release window. The original launched right before... Read more...

...is there a patent lawyer in the audience?

A (pocket) pair of months after receiving legal action from Nintendo and The Pokemon Company, Palworld developer PocketPair have issued an official response.

The report (on the company's news page) outlines the demands from the plaintiffs: an unspecified injunction against the game, and payments... Read more...

Yes, we're aware it says "20XX" for the Switch successor's launch date, you don't need to point that out.

In addition to the backwards compatibility announcement, Nintendo gave some updates on other initiatives. The full presentation slides are here (PDF link), but some highlights:

You know, if you want to remove the asset flips and AI generated stuff, that'd be swell.

Nintendo has dropped some big news for the successor to the Switch today.

At their Corporate Management Policy briefing today following the release of the company's Q2 2024-25 results, it was confirmed that the Switch's successor console - whatever it may be - will feature "full support" for Switch software, as well as Nintendo Switch Online carrying over.

The clock looks to remain undefeated.

At the close of the Japanese business day today, Nintendo released their financial results for the July - September quarter of the fiscal year, and it has resulted in some modifications to their expectations DOWNWARD for the first time in a while.

All figures quoted in yen (¥), for comparison the US$ figures are listed based on a rate of ¥152.224 = $1.

Remember, the official pronunciation is "bu-rut-her-ship".

Things we missed last week: The tastefully named Riot from Tecmo in the Archives.

Despite the best efforts of a company to stand out by coming in at 1-1 conversion between the USD and the yen meaning it's $79.99 US... the big game of the week is of course, Mario and Luigi: Brothership. The new... Read more...

Oh, so that's why all those YT channels got snapped.

Nintendo's month of surprises has continued with a new phone app that apparently aims to revive music for the eShop.

The "Nintendo Music" app is now live in app stores for iOS and Android, and is a free download but requires an active Nintendo Switch Online subscription to use.

The app contains... Read more...

The Definitive Collection For All Fans of Rez, Tetris Effect and Lumines

Today, two major design bureaus, Lost in Cult and Cook and Becker, who you may know from publishing some of the most gorgeous and elaborate (art)books about games, games history and pop-culture revealed their next project. In collaboration with Enhance, the game studio formed by industry icon Tetsuya... Read more...

Time to get stuck on a whole familiar planet.

The entire Xenoblade series needed 88 months to come to the Switch.

Nintendo has posted a trailer for a long-requested Switch release of 2015 Wii U classic Xenoblade Chronicles X, which will launch on March 20, 2025. Preorders are available now digitally for US$59.99 or equivalent.

The game's file size is listed as 15GB on the eShop page, whereas the Wii U original was 22+GB.

What's more horrible: N64 FPS controls, or the fact that we're coming up on a year and a half since the last Genesis update?

A pair of first person shooters with Iguana heritage have been added to the N64's "mature" app tonight.

Turok 2: The Seeds of Evil (1998) and Shadow Man (1999), both titles developed by Acclaim's Iguana studios (Turok in the US, Shadow Man in the UK), are now available on the 17+ NSO app. This is the third expansion pack update for this month, with the recent additions of F-Zeros GP Legend / Climax and last week's foisting of Banjo-Tooie.

The scariest thing about this list is that it's actually being posted on time this week.

Things we missed last week: Not much, but it was enough to bring new records in North America with 79 releases, and Europe right behind that with 78.

This week is already too busy for my liking, with a NA opening salvo of 52, but let's see how it plays out. The big release de semaine is Farmagia,... Read more...