TodaySun, 26th Apr 2020

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  9

  Review MotoGP 20 - Tremendous Two-Wheeled Racing Action On Your Switch

  Hello, Moto

  With over 25 years of experience in the racing game development scene, it’s safe to say Italian studio Milestone has cemented its place as one of its most prevalent developers. Outside of the official F1 and WRC games, it’s established a foothold in almost every facet of modern motorsport and while double-A budgets haven’t always...

  • 53 mins ago
  • Reviews
  • Switch eShop
  • Moto GP
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  51

  Poll Box Art Brawl #40 - Mega Man

  It's not like 'Phil Megaman'

  Are we back? We're back. Yes, it's time for another edition of Box Art Brawl, the weekly public vote where you decide the best (or 'least bad') of three regional box art variants. Last week we watched cult classic Wetrix take itself to task. Following a wet and wild wrestling match, the Japanese cover emerged soaked but...

  • 5 hours ago
  • Poll
  • Box Art Brawl
  • Retro
  • Mega Man
  • NES
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  26

  News Retro-Inspired Racer 80's Overdrive Speeds Onto The Switch eShop Early Next Month

  Clear up 7th May

  After a cheeky tease in March, it's now official – on 7th May, the retro racer 80's Overdrive pulls up on the Switch eShop in North America, Europe, and multiple other locations. There's currently no word on the price. If you enjoy classic racing games like Out Run and Top Gear

  • 5 hours ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Upcoming Releases
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  45

  News A Cool Animal Crossing: New Leaf Feature Might Be Coming To New Horizons

  Could it be making the Switch?

  There's the chance for a lot of things to make a return in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The art gallery update for the museum was caught out ahead of its release, so what else could be on the way? The dataminer Ninji has a theory that one particular feature from

  • 10 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Animal Crossing
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  51

  News Hamster Is Adding A Handful Of Data East Classics To The Arcade Archives

  More retro goodness

  In recent weeks, Hamster Corporation has experienced some minor setbacks due to the suspension of the CERO (Computer Entertainment Rating Agency) in Japan. Apart from a reshuffle in its development schedule, it appears to be business as usual for the company. In the coming months, it will be adding a handful of Data East...

  • 14 hours ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Arcade Archives
  • Hamster
  • Data East
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  9

  News Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 5 Could Happen, But Would Require "A Much Bigger Budget"

  And development team

  As we already know, Krome Studios would like to port Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 2 and 3 to the Nintendo Switch – provided the original sells enough, but what are the chances of a brand new entry in the Aussie-made 3D platformer series happening? According to the creator Steve Stamatiadis, the studio is open to a fifth entry in...

  • 16 hours ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Krome Studios
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  17

  News Atooi Explains Reasoning Behind Chicken Wiggle Workshop Name Change

  Now known as 'Hatch Tales'

  After a successful Kickstarter, Atooi recently decided to change the name of its upcoming Switch release, Chicken Wiggle Workshop. It's now officially known as Hatch Tales. At the time, the developer said it was to avoid customer confusion. Over on the official Atooi website, the reason for this decision has been explained...

  • 16 hours ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Switch eShop
  • Upcoming Releases
  • Kickstarter
  • Atooi

YesterdaySat, 25th Apr 2020

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  110

  Random Cadence Of Hyrule Guitarist Jokingly Petitions For Time Travel Cheater Stamp In Animal Crossing

  Insists he was "just poking some fun"

  Update: Jules insists this was a joke specifically targeting a friend of his and further explained how he thinks time travel is still a valid way to play and enjoy Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Original article: One heated topic that keeps resurfacing on a weekly basis is time travelling in Animal Crossing:...

  • 1 day ago
  • Random
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Animal Crossing
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  91

  News Animal Crossing Appears To Have Nerfed Tarantula And Scorpion Spawn Rates

  Data mine of recent update reveals all

  Earlier this week, Nintendo rolled out Version 1.2.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It added Leif, Redd, new seasonal events, and the 'Bank of Nook' even lowered the interest rate for all savings accounts. These wer

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Animal Crossing
  • Updates
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  108

  Random Accurate Portrayal Of Famous Statues Send Animal Crossing Fans Wild

  "i need the animal crossing **** statue"

  The latest update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has reduced the interest on all savings accounts, nerfed bug spawn rates, and now the Redd's statues appear to be causing a stir on social media. Famous statues like Michaelangelo's 'D

  • 1 day ago
  • Random
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Animal Crossing
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  130

  News The Pokémon Company Apologises For Featuring Dewgong In The Fourth Episode Of Twilight Wings

  As it's not available in Sword and Shield

  Earlier in the week, The Pokémon Company aired the fourth episode of its online anime series, Pokémon: Twilight Wings. It's been created to help promote Pokémon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch. The latest ep starred the Water-type Gym Leader, Nessa, and as beautifully-told, as the story was, fans...

  • 1 day ago
  • Pokemon
  • The Pokemon Company
  • Sword and Shield
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Anime
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  41

  Reminder Grab Three New Trials Of Mana Spirits In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

  The latest spirit event is now live

  To promote the release of Trials of Mana on the Nintendo Switch this week, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is hosting a limited-time spirit event that adds three new and appropriately-themed spirits to the game. The event lasts a total of five days and is now officially live. Defeating each of the spirits in battle...

  • 2 days ago
  • Reminder
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Super Smash Bros
  • Trials of Mana
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  81

  News Street Fighter Producer Says He's Open To More Entries On Nintendo Switch

  "we do see Switch as an important platform"

  In the first month of this year, EB Games Canada tweeted news about Street Fighter V: Champion Edition coming to the Nintendo Switch. It caused quite a stir on social media until it was confirmed as an error. Street Fighter's executive producer Yoshinori Ono even joked how it was news to his own team at...

  • 1 day ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Street Fighter
  • Capcom
  • Yoshinori Ono
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  82

  Community Tried Super Mario Maker 2's World Maker Yet? Share Your Codes Here

  Share and play creations from all over the world

  Earlier this week, we were treated to Super Mario Maker 2's final major update - and wow, what an update it is. Alongside a number of new power-ups and course parts, we can finally do the one thing we've always dreamt of doing ever since the original Mario Maker came out on Wii U -

  • 1 day ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Super Mario
  • Community
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  26

  Review Picross S4 - More Of The Same, But That's Fine

  The strongest entry yet

  The Picross series has become a rather expected staple of Nintendo’s digital release schedule by now. Every few months, you can reasonably expect another mainline entry or spin-off to show up, and you more or less know exactly what that next new entry will be offering: a substantial new set of nonagram puzzles for you to...

  • 1 day ago
  • Reviews
  • Switch eShop
  • Picross S4
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  108

  Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 25th)

  Here are our picks, but what are yours?

  Yet another week has passed by, this time with the return of Crazy Redd in Animal Crossing, a welcome Switch eShop update and concerning reports of Nintendo Account hacks

  • 1 day ago
  • Talking Point
  • Nintendo Switch
  • What Are You Playing
  • Features

Friday24th Apr 2020

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  80

  News Nintendo Confirms That Around 160,000 Accounts May Have Been Hacked, Personal Info Possibly At Risk

  Emails, date of birth and more may have been accessed

  This week, an increasing number of Nintendo account holders have been reporting suspicious activity on their accounts, sometimes including unauthorised logins and payments used to buy digital goods on Nintendo's digital stores. In response, Nintendo advised players to set up 2-Step Verification...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Nintendo
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  25

  Video A Closer Look At The Mini Nintendo Switch Dock With GameCube Ports

  And a handle, too

  Earlier this month, we highlighted a third-party Switch dock like no other. The 'Power-Bay' from Taiwan-based accessory maker Brook is just like the official dock, but as we noticed the first time around, it looked just like a mini GameCube. Our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney has now got hold of this unique-looking...

  • 3 days ago
  • Video
  • Nintendo Switch
  • GameCube
  • Accessories
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  98

  News Frustrated Super Smash Bros. Fans Get #FixUltimateOnline Trending On Social Media

  "We pay for this service Nintendo, sort yourselves out."

  Fans of Nintendo's super-popular, franchise-crossing fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate have taken to Twitter to express their frustration over the game's online play. Over the past few hours, more and more tweets have been flooding in using the hashtag '#FixUltimateOnline', sometimes...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Super Smash Bros
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  43

  Random Lord Of The Rings Actor Elijah Wood Visits Animal Crossing Player's Island To Sell His Turnips

  Direct from Driftwood

  The American actor Elijah Wood, best known for his role as the hobbit Frodo in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, appears to be playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch like the rest of us. According to Polygon, Wood recently visited the island of Twitter user directedbyrian, after the Animal Crossing player...

  • 3 days ago
  • Random
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Animal Crossing
  • Elijah Wood
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  34

  Random Nintendo Says Streets Of Rage 4 Is Out On Switch, But It Definitely Isn't

  Here we go again

  It would appear that Nintendo is still confused over the official release date of Streets of Rage 4 on Switch, following up on its initial erroneous eShop listing with a new, incorrect news post. You may remember that at the start of the month, the Nintendo Switch eShop updated to reveal that Streets of Rage 4 would be coming out...

  • 2 days ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Upcoming Releases
  • Random
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  109

  News Bandai Namco Offers "More Fun For Everyone", Except Switch Owners

  A lovely offer, but Switch gets left out

  Bandai Namco has kicked off a lovely new initiative which promises "more fun for everyone" by giving players access to a free game. Sadly, though, "everyone" doesn't seem to include Switch owners. The company is offering up PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 for free starting from today until 10th May. A press...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Bandai Namco
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  60

  News Sega Shiro Needs To Stop Sega Going Bankrupt In This New Video

  "Sega Shiro, is that a Switch?"

  Sega is currently celebrating its 60th anniversary and is having a whale of a time making off the wall videos to celebrate Hiroshi Fujioka, an actor who played the role of Sega Saturn's mascot back in the day. In the video above we see his son Maito Fujioka reprise the role of the biggest Sega fan to grace the school...

  • 2 days ago
  • Japan
  • Retro
  • Sega
  • Videos
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  20

  News The PM Studios "Stay Safe" Sale Is Now Live, Save Up To 50% On Physical Switch Games

  Keep calm and buy now

  PM Studios is currently hosting a special "Stay Safe" sale on its online store. This sale covers huge discounts, last chance offers on rare stock, new merch, and preorders. It runs from now until 1st July, so you've got plenty of time to order something that might interest you. Some titles on sale for the Nintendo Switch...

  • 3 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • PM Studios
  • Sales
  • North America
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  35

  News Dr. Mario World Continues To Deliver With New Character 'Dr. Goomba Tower'

  Pink Gold Peach is a distant memory now

  Earlier in the month, Nintendo revealed Dr. Nabbit as a playable character in smartphone game Dr. Mario World. As cool as Nabbit is, we thought that having him as a new doctor might be pushing things just a tad. How wrong we were. Yes, introducing Dr. Goomba Tower, an actual, real character that will now...

  • 2 days ago
  • Mobile
  • Updates
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  73

  News The Next Update For The Panzer Dragoon: Remake Adds 60fps Support, HD Rumble And Gyro Controls

  ...and much more!

  Forever Entertainment's Panzer Dragoon: Remake made a surprise landing on the Switch last month, immediately after the Nintendo Direct Mini presentation. While it wasn't released in the best state, it's still been an enjoyable flight and has since received a patch adding in Saori Kobayashi's remixed soundtrack. If you weren't so...

  • 3 days ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Sega
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  46

  Random Former Halo Composer Would "Love To" Work On The Zelda Series

  "I've played all the Zeldas"

  The former Halo composer Martin "Marty" O'Donnell says he would love to one day work on music for The Legend of Zelda series. Speaking to the YouTube channel The Act Man yesterday, O'Donnell spoke about how he had played all of the Zelda games, and would happily compose music for them, if given the opportunity: "I'd...

  • 3 days ago
  • Random
  • Zelda
  • Halo
  • Xbox
  • Bungie
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  17

  News The Japan Retro Game Association Offers Super Famicoms To Avoid Lockdown Boredom

  Donkey Kong Country saves the day

  Despite all the difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation has also brought out some amazing acts of human kindness. Now we can add the Japan Retro Game Association to our list of lovely people, as they have offered to loan out 100 slightly yellowing Super Famicom consoles to Japanese residents...

  • 2 days ago
  • Retro
  • SNES
  • Japan
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  18

  News SuperMash, The "Game That Makes Games", Launches On Switch May 8th

  Mash together different genres

  Developer Digital Continue has announced that SuperMash, star of December's Indie World Showcase, will be launching on Nintendo Switch on 8th May. If you need a recap, SuperMash is described as a "game-making game", where players will experience randomly generated games called Mashes. Essentially, the game creates...

  • 2 days ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Upcoming Releases
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  36

  News Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Will Feature Both The Original And Remastered Soundtracks

  Take your pick

  Yesterday, a number of official Nintendo Twitter accounts shared a quick glimpse at Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition's remastered soundtrack, offering up a short clip of the newly produced Colony 9 theme. Intriguingly, a similar tweet has now appeared from Nintendo's Australia and New Zealand account, but this time it comes...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Upcoming Releases
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  28

  Reminder Tetris 99's Special Ring Fit Adventure Event Kicks Off Today

  Earn a new in-game theme

  Update (Fri 24th Apr, 2020 14:30 BST): As a quick reminder, Tetris 99's 12th Maximus Cup begins today. You can find all the details you need in our original article below - make sure you compete to add that lovely Ring Fit theme to your collection! Original Article (Tue 21st Apr, 2020 02:45 BST): Nintendo's exercise game...

  • 2 days ago
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Switch eShop
  • Tetris 99
  • Ring Fit Adventure
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  23

  Review Billion Road - Like Pokémon Meets Monopoly, But Not As Cool As It Sounds

  Does it deserve to Monopolise your time?

  In a world where Switch owners already have access to both a serviceable version of Monopoly and Pokémon Sword and Shield, do we really need a game that combines the two? For most people, the answer is "probably not". But that's got nothing to do with Billion Road's concept, and everything to do with its...

  • 2 days ago
  • Reviews
  • Switch eShop
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  24

  News Put The Pedal To The Metal When Lonely Mountains: Downhill Rides Onto Switch Next Month

  It's all downhill from here

  If you're in the mood for some mountain biking fun on the Switch, then you're going to want to check out Lonely Mountains: Downhill when it bunny hops onto Nintendo's portable powerhouse in May. It was the winner of ‘Best Indie Game’ at the German Developer Awards and was nominated for ‘Excellence in Design’ at...

  • 2 days ago
  • Switch eShop
  • Upcoming Releases