Review Wrath: Aeon Of Ruin (Switch) - Impressive Quake-Like FPS Is A Bad Fit On Consoles
You will not survive
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Random 3DS & Wii U Players Beat 14-Year-Old Halo 2 Server Record
Online services were shut down last month
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News Acclaimed Horror VN Series 'Pixel Pulps' Is Getting A Special Edition On Switch
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News Details Emerge Of A Cancelled Donkey Kong Project From Vicarious Visions
Rope burn'd
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News New Limited-Time Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Distribution Now Available
Get it while you can
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Soapbox 'Revenge Of The Sith' On DS Is Still Top-Tier Star Wars Gaming
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Random 3DS & Wii U Players Beat 14-Year-Old Halo 2 Server Record
Online services were shut down last month
A group of Wii U and 3DS players have managed to stay online, despite servers being shut down, for over 25 days. And, in the process, they've managed to beat a 14-year-old record held by Halo 2 fans. GaffsNotLaffs (via GamesRadar) has been tracking users wh
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News Acclaimed Horror VN Series 'Pixel Pulps' Is Getting A Special Edition On Switch
Pulp fiction
LCB Game Studio's acclaimed visual novel is getting a bundled release this summer in The Pixel Pups Collection. Consisting of Mothmen 1966, Varney Lake, and Bahnsen Knights, the trio play homage to classic pulp horror using 8- and 16-bit visual styles. And today, LCB Games has revealed that it's partnering with Meridiem Games to...
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Review Wrath: Aeon Of Ruin (Switch) - Impressive Quake-Like FPS Is A Bad Fit On Consoles
You will not survive
Wrath: Aeon of Ruin has been a long time coming. Running on a heavily modified version of the Quake engine and developed by some of the Quake scene’s most skilled modders, Wrath looked set to take over the retro shooter world when it hit Early Access in 2019. Then it was hit with delay after delay, partially due to the...
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News Details Emerge Of A Cancelled Donkey Kong Project From Vicarious Visions
Rope burn'd
Of all the studios to potentially work on a Donkey Kong project, Vicarious Visions (now known simply as Blizzard Albany) admittedly wasn't particularly high up on our list. However, details have emerged of a now-cancelled DK project at the studio via a new video from Did You Know Gaming (with prior reporting from DK Vine). According to...
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News GameBook Color: The Unofficial CGB Companion Is Out Now
Time Extension The book was previously crowdfunded on Kickstarter
If you have a particular fondness for the Game Boy Color, then you'll be glad to hear that Ninty Media — the company behind Switch Player, Ninty Fresh, and GameBook: The Unofficial DMG Companion — has just released a new 300+ book celebrating the beloved handheld. The book was previously...
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YesterdaySun, 5th May 2024
Soapbox 'Revenge Of The Sith' On DS Is Still Top-Tier Star Wars Gaming
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Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Jim celebrates Revenge of the Fifth with a DS throwback... You felt it, didn't you? A disturbance in the Force. Over on Coruscant, Darth Sidious has called for the execution...
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News Incredibly Rare SNES Prototype Goes Up For Auction
Time Extension Has several key differences from the final version
A prototype Super Famicom / SNES console has gone up for auction in Japan. The system is largely the same as the design which would eventually appear in Japan and Europe, save for the fact that it has a red power switch, an expansion port on the front (rather than on the bottom, as was the case...
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News Nintendo Shares Luigi's Mansion 2 HD 'Rude Awakening' Video
A spooky introduction
Next month, Nintendo is reviving the 3DS title Luigi's Mansion 2 for the Switch. In the lead-up to the release of Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, it's now uploaded a new video in the form of the game's introduction. It's officially titled 'Rude Awakening'. In this "visually enhanced" adventure for the Switch, Professor E.Gadd calls on...
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News New Limited-Time Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Distribution Now Available
Get it while you can
The Pokémon Company is currently running a new limited-time distribution for the latest Switch titles Scarlet and Violet. This time it's a special Gift Distribution for a Flutter Mane based on a Pokémon used in last year's Korean Trainers Cup stream. It will be available until 7th May 2024. Here are the details courtesy of...
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News Paper Mario: TTYD And Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Estimated Switch File Sizes Revealed
Make some space
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door returns later this month and if you're planning on downloading a digital copy, you might be curious to know how much space this new "revamped" version takes up on your system. According to Nintendo's official game page listing, you'll need to have 5.0GB of free space on your device to install it...
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Feature Unpacking The 64DD, Nintendo's Most Infamous Flop
Time Extension We take a closer look at one of Nintendo's biggest failures
The N64 Disk Drive is one of Nintendo's most fascinating failures. Initially teased at the company's Shoshinkai event in November 1995, the peripheral took advantage of proprietary 64MB magnetic disks to expand the console's available storage with rewritable data as well as introducing...
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Feature Nintendo Life eShop Selects & Readers' Choice (April 2024)
Our picks for the best eShop games in April
It's that time — welcome back to our monthly eShop Selects feature! This time, we're covering April — somehow, we're already in May. As mentioned last month, we've made another change to the piece. Now you'll be voting for your favourite hidden gem for the current month within this piece, rather than...
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News Animal Crossing: New Horizons 'Isabelle' First 4 Figures Statue Now Available To Pre-Order
Two other Animal Crossing figures teased
Update [Sun 5th May, 2024 08:00 BST]: First 4 Figures has now shared another teaser of the other two Animal Crossing: New Horizons figures (Tom Nook and K.K. Slider) on social media. Early bird pre-orders are now available for the Isabelle figure until June. Original article [Fri 3rd May, 2024 02:30...
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Poll Box Art Brawl - Duel: Mario Paint (SNES)
Vincent van Goomba
Hey folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl! We had a veritable doozy last week when we checked out Pokémon Yellow Version for the humble Game Boy; truly one of the standout titles in the gargantuan franchise. It was a good ol' duel in which North America and Europe teamed up against Japan, and we must admit...
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Saturday4th May 2024
Guide Best Star Wars Video Games, Ranked - Switch And Nintendo Systems
You sort the padawans from the poodoo
In honour of 'Star Wars Day', as May 4th has come to be known, we're republishing this reader-ranked list of all the Star Wars games on Switch and other Nintendo consoles. As they say in Britain, Fourth of May be wi—hang on... The release of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker back in 2019 may have...
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News Nintendo Has Filed Two New Trademarks
Could Kirby and Mallo be returning?
It's already been quite an interesting week on the Nintendo front, and now to add to this, it's been discovered some new trademarks were recently registered by the video game giant in Australia. As highlighted by Vooks, trademarks have been registered for the 2015 Wii U title Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush...
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News Star Wars Day Switch eShop Sale, Up To 75% Off Multiple Games
"A galaxy of savings"
As part of this year's Star Wars Day celebrations, there's currently a sale taking place on the Switch eShop in select regions. So if you're looking for a Star Wars game to play this weekend, here's a list of games you can currently grab on sale: "You can score a discount on several Star Wars games right now! We hope you...
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News Zelda Live-Action Movie Director Confident "Fans Are Gonna Be Happy"
It's a franchise close to his heart, like Star Wars
Movie director Wes Ball has recently been doing press rounds to promote his new Planet of the Apes movie and he's once again been asked about his upcoming live-action Zelda movie. Although he can't say much, during a chat with The Direct, The Legend of Zelda movie director reassured fans about his...
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Guide Best SaGa Games Of All Time - Switch And Nintendo Systems
Every SaGa game, ranked by you
Square Enix has a plethora of RPG series under its belt, but of all of them, SaGa is certainly its most experimental, unique, and the hardest to crack into. Starting life on the Game Boy, and initially marketed as a Final Fantasy spin-off in the West, the SaGa series is known for ditching traditional levelling...
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Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th May)
May the Fourth be with you
Hello there. Happy Star Wars Day, folks! With a glass of blue milk in hand, let's kick off the weekend's celebrations with another edition of What Are You Playing. This week in the world of Nintendo, we heard yet more 'Switch 2' rumours and asked whether you'd like to see your Joy-Con carry over to the next model. We also...
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Round Up Celebrate Star Wars Day 2024 On The Nintendo Switch
"May the 4th be with you"
Today is May 4th and that means it's Star Wars Day! If you're looking for something to play in a galaxy far, far away, there's plenty to jump into on the Nintendo Switch. There's even a sale to go with it in select locations (including the US and UK). So without further ado here's a look at all the Star Wars events and...
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