...can we just ask you to check your wishlist and be done with it?

Nintendo has kicked off their Black Friday offers in Europe and Australia with an absolutely gigantic sale.

The eShop update a few moments ago has brought with it more than 1000 new titles on sale around "Black Friday". Several Nintendo first party published games - notably Bravely Default II,... Read more...

This is the game that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend...

A beloved roguelike will make 2021 on Switch as promised.

Devolver Digital have announced a December 9 release for card-based "endless RPG" Loop Hero, which released on PC earlier this year. The game will be $14.99 US, with a 10% preorder discount.

The game takes place in a world destroyed by an evil lich that the player is working to rebuild.

They literally could not have timed this any better considering it's going on sale soon.

Just ahead of its Black Friday sale, more content has come to Mario Kart Live.

The app update, available now, allows for two karts to race splitscreen on the same Switch and also adds a new "Relay Race" multiplayer option that supports up to 4 players. Relay Race can be played with any Grand Prix course set.

Good job, brain(s)!

A demo for the last Nintendo release of 2021 is now available.

Big Brain Academy: Brain vs Brain - due for launch December 3 - now has a demo available on the eShop. According to Nintendo's announcement post, a "selection of activities" will be available for the multiplayer brain game.

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Can I really say I didn't pay for Brilliant Diamond if I had to spend $1600 to get it?

It's a light week because of the Steelix in the room - Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are your monstrous games of the week. And considering I technically paid no money for Brilliant Diamond (thanks to Gold coins) I'm looking forward to being able to play Diamond and Pearl without an effective... Read more...

Hey, we got actual numbers this time!

Nintendo's first month of US sales for the Switch OLED kicked off what the company hopes will be a new, extended winning streak in the console realm, according to the NPD Group.

All data based on dollars from October 3 - 30, unless otherwise noted. Nintendo does not present digital sales to the survey, though some third parties do present their eShop sales as applicable.

Perfect for our launch day SMT V stream tomorrow.

It's now possible to see NWR TV on Twitch on the Switch.

A Twitch viewing app has now been added to the eShop as a free download. Currently, it only supports viewing of existing channels and cannot be used for live streaming directly from the console.

Streaming apps have been added to the Switch at a pace of approximately one a year, with Twitch joining Hulu (Plus), Youtube, and anime streaming service Funimation.

Well, it's not like we needed Pal Park anyway.

The Pokemon Company has revealed what will replace one of the more famous structures in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl - and it'll be legendary.

A new trailer has revealed Ramanas Park, which appears to be replacing the "Pal Park" which was used for catching Pokemon brought from the... Read more...

If that seems abrupt, it is for Switch owners.

Licensing hell is about to make another 2020 game a limited time event.

Bandai Namco have announced a two stage shutdown plan for Jump Force: Deluxe Edition, the crossover anime fighter that released on Switch in August of 2020. The game will be delisted from the eShop (along with its DLC) on February 7, and only basic online play (no rankings or rewards) will be available after August 24, 2022.

No OLED deals this year from the big N.

Nintendo of America has announced their plans for the annual rendition of late stage capitalism known as Black Friday.

The standard Black Friday hardware bundle will return for the week of November 21 (Sunday), with a Switch system, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and a three month individual Switch Online membership for US$299. As with last year's, this will use the 2019-revision of the Switch (increased battery life).

This week's downloads are brought to you by the letter M and the number 18.

Well, we all know what the headliner is this week because I reviewed it last Thursday and this is my goddamn column, if you have a problem with that send your application for news writing to johnrairdin at nintendoworldreport dot com*, Shin Megami Tensei V. The long, long awaited demon RPG drops Friday,... Read more...

Friendships will be forged and quickly ended.

On Friday night to celebrate the release of Mario Party Superstars, the NWR Twitch Channel will be putting on the inaugural edition of Mario Party Monthly! Every first Friday of the month, we'll be diving into the deep end with full online Mario Party games featuring members of the NWR staff (and maybe occasionally special guests)!

The pandemic giveth and the pandemic taketh away.

Nintendo released their fiscal second quarter sales results at the close of business in Japan today, and a slow second quarter release-wise still resulted in major gains from the last non-pandemic year of 2019 - though YoY comparisons are still unfavourable compared to 2020. As well, Nintendo has made revisions in both directions for their projections.

Hey, maybe they can start selling it again for the holiday? Or permanently? Permanently is good.

Eight months after its discontinuation, Super Mario 3D All-Stars has received an update to include another controller for one of its contingent games.

The update is now available for download and adds support for the Nintendo Switch Online-member exclusive Nintendo 64 controller to Super Mario 64. A similar update was released about one year ago that added support for GameCube controllers (via the adapter) in Super Mario Sunshine.

There's a lot to unpack this week.

The next couple of weeks will be crazy, but this week is more of an odd duck. Up front, the most expensive game (in North America) is Cupid Parasite, which we would have had a review for by the end of the week... but we've been alerted to a major patch coming for the visual novel that fixes text on... Read more...

It's not on the webstore or anything like that yet.

After its delay last week we MAY have a new target date for the Advance Wars reboot.

Listings on the on-device eShops in both the United States and Canada have the remakes coming out on April 8, 2022. It was originally slated for release on December 3.

Nintendo has not officially confirmed the new date, though we have requested comment.

...really, haven't 95% of you rolled credits at this point?

If you weren't convinced by our 10/10 review of Metroid Dread, you can now try it out for yourself.

Calling it an "early Halloween treat", the demo for Dread is now live on the eShop in all regions. The amount of content in the demo is not known at this time, nor if there is any sort of save carryover.

Uh, kind of hard to grow a garden in October guys. At least in the Northern hemisphere.

The 20th anniversary of Pikmin's original sprouting will feature the launch of its first mobile title.

The Nintendo and Niantic mobile Pikmin game has been revealed as Pikmin Bloom, which will roll out worldwide in the coming days (beginning in Australia and Singapore). Players will start with... Read more...

"Hey, what's your favourite scary movie?" "50 turns of Mario Party. Absolutely frightening."

Nintendo's second first party release of this month, and the one that will inevitably be the better seller because there is no God and the cage isn't thirty feet... Mario Party Superstars is out this week. And yes, they DID include some of the original's stick-destroying "rotate the stick" games,... Read more...

Looks like Big Brain Academy is going alone

The holiday season has gotten just a bit lighter for Nintendo.

A Nintendo of America tweet has advised that Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp, originally slated for December 3, is now due "spring 2022". According to the notice, "a little more fine tuning" is required.

The WayForward-developed remakes were announced for Switch release outside Japan in June's Nintendo Direct.