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November 28, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 9:11 am EST
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Source: Square Enix
Being the longest tenured employee of a company has perks, like being able to fix stuff you shipped incomplete 24 years ago.
A week of shock game releases for Square Enix has concluded with a remaster of a PlayStation-era hit.
Saga Frontier Remastered has been announced for a Switch eShop release in summer 2021. Originally released on the PS1 in Japan in 1997 and North America the following year, the remastered title will feature new plot events and scenarios in addition to the standard graphical enhancements.
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November 25, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 10:00 am EST
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Source: Taito
"It's Saturday night, I have no date. Just a 2-litre bottle of Shasta and a all-Rush mixtape. Let's rock."
In two weeks, it'll be important to shoot where the ships are going.
Taito have announced a digital release for the Space Invaders Invincible Collection as "Space Invaders Forever" on December 11, both digitally and in a limited physical run. The collection will include the following:
Space Invaders...
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by Donald Theriault - 6:26 am EST
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Source: Nintendo
So is Mario retiring at the end of the fiscal year or something?
The centrepiece of Mario's 30th anniversary won't make it out of it's 35th.
Super Mario Maker, the 2015 Wii U release, will see its online services shut down on March 31, 2021. This will prevent course uploads as well as use of the Super Mario Maker bookmark website, and the game will also be removed from the Wii U eShop.
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November 24, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 7:42 pm EST
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Source: IO Interactive
Hopefully one of the targets is a political figure who resembles Winnie the Pooh.
Hitman 3 is coming to the Switch in cloud form next year, and developer IO Interactive is showing off some of the tech that will be viewable in this version.
IO posted a trailer earlier today that showed off a new location for Agent 47's hunts, the Chinese megacity Chongqing, as well as graphical enhancements for newer consoles in the game's Glacier engine.
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November 23, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 10:16 am EST
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Source: SquareEnix
Attention all fractals: It's (x2) die - again!
After fourteen years, there will be a sequel to The World Ends With You.
Square Enix posted a countdown timer last week that led to the reveal of NEO: The World Ends With You, a Switch and PlayStation 4 game launching in Summer 2021 worldwide.
There will be four playable characters in... Read more...
by Donald Theriault - 8:00 am EST
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Source: NIntendo
We all know this week's all about the sales, but there's a couple of intriguing games too.
The Black Friday sales, which will have probably upwards of 1200 games on sale on Switch, will kick off no later than Wednesday - but if those don't tickle your fancy, there's a few options for new titles this week. The ones I'll be on include Root Double: Before Crime * After Days - a pair of visual novels that you have to solve in order to get the full story, and eventually Picross S5 from Jupiter as announced last week.
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November 20, 2020
by James Jones - 11:04 pm EST
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Join us Saturday, Nov 21 at 1 PM Eastern to celebrate 700 episodes of whatever the hell this is.
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY AT 1 PM EASTERN! Here's the link! The Discord where we will be chatting is here.
Here's how to read this in the timezone of your choice.
Okay, that's the Inverted Pyramid satisfied, so what are you doing?
Radio Free Nintendo is excited to hit our 700th episode, and... Read more...
November 19, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 11:18 pm EST
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Source: IGN
Tonight at 11, your microSD cards are DOOOOOOOOOOOOMED.
We don't know when Doom Eternal will come to Switch yet, but it won't be landing in stores.
In a statement to IGN, Bethesda have confirmed that the Switch version of Doom Eternal would launch digitally only. This follows the cancellation of preorders for the physical release by GameStop, among other retailers.
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November 18, 2020
by Neal Ronaghan - 10:24 am EST
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Catch up on past Picross S games as well with a sale on the Switch and 3DS.
Picross S5 is coming to Nintendo Switch on November 26, according to developer Jupiter.
Priced at $9.99, the latest entry in the series includes more than 300 puzzles, including a handful of Color Picross puzzles and a few large puzzles. The Picross S series has been a mainstay on Switch, with... Read more...
November 17, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 4:01 pm EST
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Source: Nintendo
Time to hit the bricks once again.
New Year's Day isn't normally a day associated with shopping - but it will be in 2021 thanks to LEGO and Nintendo.
A new round of Super Mario-themed LEGO will be sold on January 1 at select retailers and on the LEGO website. Among the new sets:
A 366-piece "Master Your Adventure" set which features...
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by Donald Theriault - 9:11 am EST
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Source: Nintendo
And 20 million people just breathed a massive sigh of relief.
The winter update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is adding a feature that will warm the hearts of paranoid players everywhere.
Full save data transfer for New Horizons will be available as part of the last update of the year on Thursday (November 19). A single player's resident data will be movable to another Switch, and an Island Transfer tool will be available on the eShop to facilitate moving the entire island to a new system.
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November 16, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 8:43 pm EST
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Source: Nintendo
Purists, rejoice!
The promised camera inversion patch for Super Mario 3D All-Stars has brought another oft-requested feature along with it.
Version 1.1.0 of 3D All-Stars has added support for GameCube controllers in Super Mario Sunshine. The support for the 'Cube controller adapter will only be available in docked mode, and the screen prompts will continue to indicate the Switch buttons.
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by Donald Theriault - 8:00 am EST
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Source: Nintendo
Finally, the world of Breath of the Wild has good map design.
Obviously, the big game of the week is going to be Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, also known as "Link kills 100 monsters for evey Korok Seed in Breath of the Wild" - sadly, they apparently took all of the wrong lessons from The Mandalorian when dealing with the characters in it. Reminder, the demo... Read more...
November 13, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 9:27 am EST
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Source: NPD Group
We know about the hardware but let's go inside the software.
The Switch's record breaking October led to strong performance in the software charts as well.
All data for the period from October 4 - 31 and are based on dollar sales unless otherwise noted. Additionally, Nintendo sales do not include eShop sales while the survey does include other digital platforms.
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November 12, 2020
by Donald Theriault - 6:56 pm EST
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Source: Nintendo
...no, it's actually not Numberwang for once.
Ahead of tomorrow's October sales survey for the United States from the NPD Group, Nintendo has released its first monthly performance press release in quite some time.
The statement from Nintendo confirms total sales of Switch + Switch Lite in October totalled 735,926, making it the best selling... Read more...
November 9, 2020
by Willem Hilhorst - 11:15 am EST
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This sounds like a complete journey through all of Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts: Memory of Melody is releasing this week on Nintendo Switch, but what most Kingdom Hearts fans would like to know has finally been revealed. The full tracklist for the game has been revealed. The game includes 140 songs to choose from with a nice balance of (nearly) all games in the... Read more...
by Donald Theriault - 8:00 am EST
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Source: Nintendo
We get a Yoko Shimomura rhythm game this week! ...wait, who brought in a monkey's paw with a finger curled?
We've got a constrast with the biggest game of the week, as the rhythm game I would buy sight unseen - one with music composed entirely by Mario RPG/Street Fighter/multiple other great games composer Yoko Shimomura - runs smack into reality because it's all Kingdom Hearts music. Yes, Kingdom Hearts,... Read more...
by Donald Theriault - 7:13 am EST
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Source: Nintendo
Where is your money headed on this Black Plague Friday?
Nintendo of America have announced their main offerings for Black Friday 2020.
Specific retailers listed on Nintendo's holiday deals site (including Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, and Target), will have a hardware offering of a second revision Switch with included Mario Kart 8 Deluxe download code and a three month code for Nintendo Switch Online for standard MSRP (US$299.99).
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November 5, 2020
by Neal Ronaghan - 1:00 pm EST
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Take your duo of dogs for a walk in single player, local co-op, or online co-op.
PHOGS! is coming to Nintendo Switch on December 3 for the price of $24.99 USD.
Published by Coatsink and developed by Bit Loom Games, the game stars a pair of pups who control in CatDog fashion as the dogs are links together. Colorful cartoon worlds feature puzzles and secrets that can be found in single-player or co-op - both locally and online.
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by Willem Hilhorst and Donald Theriault - 6:42 am EST
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Source: Nintendo's 2nd Quarter Results, Nintendo's Consolidated Financial Highlights, Nintendo's Dedicated Video Game Sales Unites
Some years, these would have been for a full year. Not in 2020, however.
Nintendo released their financial results for the second fiscal quarter of the 2020-21 fiscal year overnight. The following sales have been measured until September 30th 2020.
All monetary figures reported in yen, with comparisons to the US dollar based on a market rate of $1 = ¥104.32 provided for comparison only.
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