NWR Reviews Editor's debut book releases today.

Jordan Rudek has spent the last three years working on his first book, A Game In The Life: A Personal Journey Through Timeless Video Games. After many hours of editing, polishing, and reworking, the book is finally releasing today, November 16. It's currently available as an eBook, but a physical version is in the works as well. The snazzy cover was done by none other than Site Director John Rairdin and his wife Kaytee.

It's like reading the showcase but faster.

If you missed today's Indie World Showcase, here is everything that was revealed in a quick roundup.

Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution- 2024 - Long lost follow up to the original Shantae releasing after twenty years. Completed by its original developers

Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition - December 7, 2023 - Open-world, time looping, space adventure.

A long overdue arrival.

Having been announced way back in February 2021, the Switch port of Outer Wilds finally has a release date on Switch. The critically acclaimed indie title will launch on Switch on December 7, 2024. The Switch release will also include the Echoes of the Eye expansion. A physical version was also announced 2024. No specific date was given on the physical version.

Let's see if a Nintendo video bump gets you over the gobs of crapware on the eShop every week.

The second Indie World of the year is about a day out.

Nintendo have confirmed the show will run tomorrow at noon ET / 9 a.m. PT / 1700 CET, and will air for "roughly 20 minutes". It will cover both new announcements and updates on existing titles.

The last Indie World aired in April and gave dates to Oxenfree II: Lost Signals and Mineko's Night Market among others.

In honour of this week's big two releases, I wished upon a star that someone would steal Joanne's heart only to discover she ain't got one.

Things we missed last week: A really busy week on that front with the headliners being Risk of Rain Returns (remaster of the strategy hit) and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, plus Konami's early brawler Shao-lin's Road as the Archives release.

There are of course, two major things that are not only... Read more...

Wonder didn't come out as hard as Tears, but the holiday bump means we could have a new fiscal opening quarter champ.

Nintendo is holding an investor meeting tonight following their second quarter results, and some items have emerged from the meeting notes:

How many April Fools jokes just came true?

Nintendo's second film project is leaving animation and Mario behind.

A release on the company's investor relations page has announced that development has begun on a live-action film based on The Legend of Zelda franchise. Shigeru Miyamoto will be a producer on the film alongside Avi Arad, who... Read more...

This despite a Wii U-esque quarter on the release front.

Nintendo released their fiscal results for the second quarter of 2023-24 fiscal year today, and despite a low quarter in terms of output changes in the yen have caused their financial predictions for the year to go up.

All monetary figures quoted in yen, with a comparison based on current market rate of US$1 = ¥150.58 provided for clarification only.

Probably the last one of the year for the other Nintendo 99.

About the only puzzle not represented in the original Super Mario RPG was Tetris, and now Nintendo is taking steps to rectify that.

Super Mario RPG will be the theme for the 36th running of the Tetris 99 Maximus Cup, which will run from 2 a.m. EST Friday to 1:59 a.m. next Tuesday. As with other cups, earning 100 "points" via placement in 99 matches will unlock the theme.

Time to load up!

Nintendo has announced their annual Black Friday offers for North America, with some new bundles and a new low.

The headliner is a new Switch OLED bundle from November 19 (a week from Sunday) that will include the OLED model, a download code for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, 3 months individual Nintendo... Read more...

A No-Prize to the first person in Talkback to find a) the game that made Donald pull out the document labeled "FYIO", and b) what that is an acronym for.

Things we missed last week: Square Enix Collective title Little Goody Two Shoes dropped.

As tempting as it was to find out one publisher had leapt on all of the worst elements of the eShop (not even the same publisher, use of AI art) and handing in my resignation, we press on as it appears we will... Read more...

And yet you can still buy the DLC. Go figure?

The first Taiko no Tatsujin Switch game is about to bang its last drum.

Bandai Namco have announced that the 2018 release Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n Fun will be delisted from the eShop on November 30. Two TnT games - the Rhythmic Adventure Pack from 2020 and Rhythm Festival from 2022 - will remain available.

Remind us again why something with similar stats to Lapras needed an evolution?

The final content update for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will land just before the start of winter.

The Pokemon Company International have announced that the update including the Indigo Disk DLC will be available on December 14. Previous promotion has only indicated "winter" for the launch.

Players... Read more...

They're three Rainbow Roads short of a full set

The white flag is waving for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, and we have the final added courses.

Launching on November 9, the eight courses include Bowser Castle 3 (SNES), DK Mountain (Double Dash), Daisy Circuit and Rainbow Road (Wii), Rosalina's Ice World (3DS), Madrid Drive, Rome... Read more...

And if you're like most of the staff, you're thinking "wait, there was a Twitch app for the Switch"?

One of the more recent streaming apps on Switch is about to breathe its last.

A notice was posted today confirming that the Switch's Twitch application will no longer be available after January 31, 2024. No reason was given for the shutdown.

The Twitch app was released on Remembrance Day 2021, though recent layoff rounds at Twitch itself have apparently reduced the staff that would support the Switch version.

Several orders of magnitude below Microsoft/ABK, but possibly as damaging.

After dabbling in hotels and cryptocurrency, Atari appears to be re-focusing on games again - as evidenced by an acquisition of the developer of one of their best-received products.

Digital Eclipse, the game historian developer behind 2022's Atari 50 and this years The Making of Karateka, have been acquired by Atari. The deal will cost Atari up to US$20m.

Once again, none of the NES games came out in North America during the original run.

A pair of Famicom games and the story-chronological start of the Castlevania series have been added to the standard tier Switch Online libraries.

Famicom/NES

The home office in Ecumsecum, NS is working on the "Top Ten Reasons Donald Bought A Steam Deck" feature. Last week had two of them.

Things we missed last week: Because of the footnoted releases, North America AND Europe both set new records since the tracking was noted at 71 and 69 (not nice) respectively. Among the unlisted releases was World of Horror, the one-bit eye-stabby RPG.

Well, after that ginormous cluster*bleep*,... Read more...

This is like getting an apple in your Halloween candy.

It appears 1080 Snowboarding is waiting for winter to join the N64 library of the Switch Online Expansion Pack, but we will be getting a game this month anyway.

Mario Party 3 - the last first party N64 release - will be added to the library later this week; although the video indicates a release on the 27th (Friday), it will likely appear in North America on the evening of the 26th (Thursday).

Boy, that escalated quickly.

Although it was Japanese only before, one of the most out-of-nowhere eShop hits has had localized text added.

Known either as "Watermelon Game" or "Suika Game", the mind-blowingly popular streaming smash is now available with English support following its surprise North American launch last Friday. A seasonal (Halloween) theme was also added.