Wait, these games have endings?

The Nintendo Switch Online update today has brought the opportunity to beat two of the NES's most infamously difficult games.

Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ninja Gaiden were this month's recipients of SP versions for the service. Ghosts 'n Goblins picks up in stage 6 with the Dagger equipped, but still requires a second playthrough for the true ending.

It's the rarest of birds: Nintendo price drops.

Three titles will be coming to the Nintendo Selects line in North America on February 4.

Super Mario Maker, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and Star Fox 64 3D are the newest top sellers to be added to the 3DS's discount line. The games will retail for US$19.99/C$29.99, both in stores and on the eShop.

Do you think love can bloom in an action platformer?

The Chris Avellone-penned Degrees of Separation is just under a month away, and the developers have provided new details about its unique gameplay.

A five minute video has been posted by the developers, showing off the abilities of the game's characters Ember and Rime. Narration will be provided by Kira Buckland, the voice of 2B in 2017's Nier: Automata and Eirika/Katarina in Fire Emblem Heroes.

IT'S PASSWORD! IT'S SUPER NINTENDO PASSWORD!

Are you going to PAX South this week? Then don't miss out on one of NWR's panels "Super Nintendo Password"!

The Rules are simple: Each puzzle is described by 5 passwords, by which our special guests gives a one-worded clue to their team mate. If the guesser doesn’t guess the password correctly... Read more...

No charging up lightsabers this time, it seems.

Huh, maybe the bold text isn't gonna show up thi-

Sorry for being late, was watching GDQ VODs. What's up this week?

Right. The big one this week is Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, which is being distributed by Nintendo hence the Friday release. Onimusha Remastered from Capcom is their most important re-release of the month, and a game that's been in the hopper long enough that I played it at PAX East is coming with YIIK.

"I am the leading man. Might need to do something heroic."

April is quickly flooding with massive RPGs.

SquareEnix have announced that Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD will release for Switch on April 16, with Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age following on the 30th of April. Both games are slated to receive physical releases.

The enhanced versions of the PlayStation 2 classics were announced with a large group of Final Fantasy titles in last September's Nintendo Direct.

We have our first split for the game list.

January will see a couple of side-scrolling adventures made available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers.

Zelda II: The Adventures of Link and Sunsoft's Blaster Master will be available in all territories on January 16. The pair of 1988 (Western) action titles will bring the number of games available to 31.

Figures Yoshi would avoid April.

Kirby and Yoshi will be charming Nintendo fans in a couple of months.

Yoshi's Crafted World will release for the Switch on March 29, while Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn for 3DS will precede it on March 8. Both titles will retail for standard Nintendo of America MSRPs ($59.99/$39.99 for Yoshi and Kirby respectively).

Let's roll.

A hidden Capcom gem has been announced for a Switch version.

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, originally released in 2013, will hit Switch on April 23. Inspired by Western RPGs like The Elder Scrolls and Fable, the created player character sets out to destroy a world-ending dragon.

Dragon's Dogma is known for its "pawn" system, in which the character forms a party of four with two members generated by other players via the Internet.

It has been a while.

OlliOlli is about to get a double release on Switch.

The 2D skateboarding adventure will release a "Switch Stance" edition on the eShop February 14, according to a new listing on Nintendo's game page. The two games will release for $14.99 US or $18.89 Canadian.

The Switch edition will contain... Read more...

Buy games, get maximum gold coins and support charity at the same time.

They've done Nintendo system bundles in the past, but Humble is now getting into the direct game sales business.

Switch and 3DS titles can now be purchased on the Humble Store, which previously only sold standalone PC software. A percentage of the cost of each game will go to charity, with the... Read more...

It's a good week to be a remake.

Anything new and exciting this week?

Not so much new, but definitely exciting. We've got the most important re-release of the week in Tales of Vesperia Remaster, plus the re-release of New Super Mario U and Bowser's Inside Story (with added juice). Hell, OutRun's coming out from Sega this week, so that makes it a good one by default.

Courtesy of Super Rare Games

Short-run publisher Super Rare Games has announced their tenth release, and it is none other than "The Adventure Pals", from Massive Monster.

This release will include "a 20 page full colour manual, interior artwork, exclusive sticker, as well as three trading cards randomly selected from the five-card set."

We're raising money for the children!

UPDATE:

Thanks everyone for making this another great year for our Charity Live Stream! We tried a lot of new things this year and would love to hear any feedback you have! The full show recording and bonus segments are coming soon!

ORIGINAL POST:

It's time for Nintendo World Report's Charity Live Stream, where we talk about Nintendo for half a day while raising money for the kids.

The lightest release schedule of 2019, no doubt.

Recovered from all the sales yet?

Well, a bunch of them fly off this week, so there's that. But we're actually getting a bit of a new game reprieve this week, with just sixteen games for NA. Fitness Boxing is the big one, but we're also getting another in the Switch's burgeoning cat game genre.

A few things and a lot of sales to mark this Christmas week

So you had to bow out of the Feats of Strength due to injury, and aired the wrong grievance. And you have to work today. Your holiday is banging.

Humbug.

Anything new and interesting this week, or is everyone too busy putting their games on sale?

Seems like everything is coming out either... Read more...

Four in all, and most of them usually work faster than a jog.

Indie title Joggernauts is the latest to bring the crossover love.

The update, available shortly, will add four new characters from other indie games into the jogging showcase. Cowpokes from West of Loathing, CommanderVideo from the Bit.Trip Runner series, and Hue and Val from Runbow will all be taking to the intergalactic roads.

Our legal department advised us not to use the obvious line about it being on.

One of the first sequels in Nintendo's catalogue is coming to Switch this week.

Hamster have confirmed that Arcade Archives Donkey Kong Jr will arrive this Friday in all territories. The standard ACA pricing of $7.99/€6.99/¥823 will apply.

Originally released in 1982, DK Jr was later converted to the home as one of the Famicom's launch titles and represents an early use of Mario as a villain.

Europe might open the door to a new ability on the eShop.

Nintendo's eShop policies are under legal fire in Europe.

A case originally brought forward by the Norwegian Consumer Council has been brought to Nintendo of Europe's headquarters in Germany by the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (Federation of German Consumer Organizations). At issue is Nintendo's preloading policy, which states that all purchases are final with no ability to obtain a refund if the user changes their mind.

The question is, would Let's Go have ranked higher if combined?

Nintendo already announced big numbers for the Switch today, and the NPD survey is backing them up.

All sales data quoted is for the United States, from November 4 - December 1.

Of the 8.7 million Switches sold in the US through December 1, more than 1.3m of them were sold in November alone.... Read more...