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The Switch had some brief moments to shine during the Gamescom Opening Night Live show that just wrapped up in Cologne, Germany.

During the show, the release date for Civilization 7 (announced in June) was officially confirmed for February 11, 2025. The game will adopt standard MSRPs according... Read more...

The old card factory got some new tricks.

Nintendo has taken the wraps off a showcase of its rich history.

As announced yesterday, Nintendo aired a 13 minute video showing off its new Kyoto-based museum. Opening on October 2, the museum is housed in a refurbished card production factory from their days as a producer of hanafuda cards and... Read more...

Of course, we're still waiting for Deca Police too.

Level-5 has had to confirm a delay for one of their planned 2024 releases.

The company announced today that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time - announced in February with a planned October 10 launch date - has been delayed. No reason was given for the delay.

A new window will be announced... Read more...

Hope Nintendo's ready to forward some copyright infringment lawsuits.

Things we missed last week: Namco's fighting game Knuckle Heads (1993) in the Archives and adventure title Farewell North.

Last week was apparently a holiday week in Japan, so if we want to slow down on the shadowdrops, AI stuff, and "hentai" this week that'd be fine by me. As for relevant things,... Read more...

"Dedicated to a single game" my shiny metal *radio edit*

Previous years have had a single-game Direct in August: although we'll get such a Direct this year, it won't have a game focus at all.

Nintendo has announced a "Nintendo Museum Direct" will air tomorrow at 3 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET / 2300 CET. The ten minute show will feature a tour of the new museum in Kyoto all about Nintendo history ahead of its opening this fall.

There's at least one Kickstarter backer looking to be credited as Jay Obber.

The Eric Moussambani of Switch crowdfunding continues to struggle with launching the game.

Backers were notified today - one week ahead of the latest scheduled release date of August 23 - that the game was delayed due to an unspecified date. The email notification confirmed that although the original code for the game was done, the game had not yet gone through Nintendo's approval process, so no new date was provided.

One of the more unique prelaunch promos we've seen.

The early cases of the new Famicom Detective Club will be available starting on Monday night (ET).

Nintendo have announced an expanding demo for August's Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club. The first episode will be available on August 19 (Monday) at 9 p.m. ET, with additional episodes released on the 22nd (Thursday) and 27th (Tuesday) ahead of the full launch on the 29th.

Luckily there shouldn't be anything around it.

A busy September has added just a bit more whimsy.

Devolver Digital have announced the side scrolling platformer The Plucky Squire will release on September 17 for Switch and other platforms.

The Plucky Squire was announced in 2022 as a collaboration between former Game Freak employee James Turner and Curve Digital founder/Fluidity lead Jonathan Biddle.

No listing in NA as of yet, but there's a chance of Greg being a harbinger.

A game many never expected to be localized looks like it's coming to the West after all, if an Australian eShop listing is any indication.

A listing for Good-Feel's Mameda no Bakeru - a spiritual successor to Konami's Goemon games that were created by the future founders of Good-Feel - has been... Read more...

Arceus save me from this sea of AI generated crap for my birthday, please.

Things we missed last week: Tecmo's Stackers (1995 puzzle game) in the Archives and the standalone versions of classic Doom I and II were combined into a new package (for less money and with better WAD support) at QuakeCon with the standalone versions being discontinued. Note that if you own both (as I did) it's a free download.

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Adding Breath of the Wild exploration to a 2D world sounds like something Reese would cook up.

We have new details about the exploration of next month's Echoes of Wisdom.

The near-six minute long trailer (available below) shows how Zelda navigates the world, showing the now-ubiquitous races such as Zora (in both Sea and River residence) and Gorons as well as some Deku Scrubs. Some new abilities... Read more...

A summer vacation, an isekai, and an otome sounds like the setup for a joke. It's not. It's just the tip of the anime spear.

Things we missed last week: World of Goo 2 came out at $29.99 US or equivalent, and Konami's boxing title The Final Round was the Archives release.

The top of the card seems pretty straight forward this week: the big games as featured in the last Indie World show are the double-shot of RPG that... Read more...

The march toward the DS continues, but how much of a boost did Luigi and Mario's remakes provide?

At the close of the Japanese business day today, Nintendo officially revealed their financial results for the April - June quarter - their first of the fiscal year, with a couple of Mario remakes attempting to stem a seemingly inevitable reduction in financial results compared to last year's Tears of the Kingdom/Super Mario Bros movie debut period.

Welp, that's one thing we don't have to put on the bingo card for the inevitable Pokemon Presents.

The Game Boy Advance library for NSO Expansion Pack subscribers is getting some roguelike love next week.

Nintendo has confirmed that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team from 2006 - one of the last first party GBA games in the West - will be added to the library on what Nintendo is calling the 9th of August (though it will likely be the night of the 8th in North America).

The only sport that's taken longer to get a new game than college football.

We've got our first gameplay trailer for Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions. The trailer shows of character creation in addition to single player and online multiplayer modes. Beyond that, the Switch version will also be getting a physical release sometime later this year. The Xbox Series X and Playstation... Read more...

If Nintendo wants to give me a birthday present in two weeks from Thursday, they could stop approving games for a while.

Things we missed last week: As threatened, One Piece Odyssey did drop in all territories, as well as forgetting that The New Denpa Men would confirm that Genius Sonority is the Vince Russo of RPG developers, and F1 Manager 24 drove in but was DQed for being underweight. The Archives had a Vs Series machine in The Adventure of Valkyrie: The Legend of the Key of Time.

Awful lot of games trying to glom off the lighting of a torch in Paris Friday afternoon (or for our American friends, Friday night)

Things we missed last week: A couple of Cosmic Fantasy releases, an early drop of Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus (originally scheduled for August), and a release of the original Rogue as ported by... Epyx. Sure. Football Cup was the Archives release.

The topline of the downloads seems to be focused... Read more...

This came from the SNK side so the bosses will be a right pain in the rear.

Another crossover fighting game is coming to Switch very soon, and though it does run Capcom there's a different dance partner.

A version of 2003 arcade crossover fighter SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos - whose only prior release in North America was on the original Xbox 20 years ago - has been revealed at the EVO fighting game tournament in Las Vegas; it is available now on PC and will launch on Switch this coming Monday.

"Goo"d news for this Friday.

The much-hyped sequel to an early Nintendo indie hit is a couple of weeks from launch.

Tomorrow Corporation have announced that World of Goo 2 will release on Switch on August 2. The game's effective launch trailer will be made available next Friday.

Announced during the Geoff Keighley-hosted... Read more...