Nintendo Wire’s January 2018 Game Preview

Author: Logan Plant
Categories: 3DS, News, Switch

Happy New Year, Nintendo fans! 2017 was a crazy-awesome year for our favorite gaming company — and now it’s time to turn the page to 2018, a year when Nintendo looks to follow up 2017 with another strong outing. We’ll eventually see some exciting first party offerings like Kirby Star…

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Platinum looking to self-publish two new lower-budget games

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News

With a wide range of critically acclaimed titles, from Bayonetta to NieR: Automata, Platinum Games is quite the popular Japanese developer with video game fans, and they’re showing no signs of slowing down. With both Bayonetta 3 and a GranBlue Fantasy RPG in the works, they have quite a full…

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Slime-san plush teased by game’s creator

Categories: Switch, Merchandise, News

He’s an ooey-gooey green cutie — and Slime-san might even be cuter with what Fabrazz is planning for his next adventure!   ? pic.twitter.com/Nxv80G6F8q — Fabraz (@Fabrazz) January 2, 2018   The game is getting some much needed merchandise love by having its main character turned into a cuddly plush….

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Fan mod “Newer Super Mario Bros. DS” released

Categories: News

The passionate fans behind Newer Team have a new — er, newer-new — release on their hands. After tackling Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, the much anticipated Newer Super Mario Bros. DS release is now live!     Downloadable for Windows, Mac and Linux users, the latest mod creation has…

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Rumor: Nintendo Direct slated for January 11th

Categories: News, Switch

Looking to the future, we’re one day closer to the highly anticipated and rumored Nintendo Direct. First “leaked” in November thanks to an EA email going public, another insider has thrown their hat into the hype train ring. On the 20th page of Resetera’s discussion about the mysterious 18 Nintendo…

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Ring in the New Year with the Octobrush Nouveau in Splatoon 2

Categories: News, Switch

Ready to paint the turf the “old-fashioned” way? In honor of the New Year, Splatoon 2 squid kids will be able to wield the Octobrush Nouveau!   明日1月2日午前11時、新しいブキ「ホクサイ・ヒュー」が追加される。サブの「ジャンプビーコン」で戦場を飛び回り、書き初めとしゃれこんでいただいてはいかがだろうか。スペシャルの「マルチミサイル」で相手プレイヤーの足元にたくさんの花マルもつけてやろう。 pic.twitter.com/qsstCHLtJp — Splatoon(スプラトゥーン) (@SplatoonJP) January 1, 2018   Rounding out the newest weapon release, the brush has been assigned Beakon as its…

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All three Mercenaries Saga games heading to Switch

Author: Tom Brown
Categories: News, Switch

Two of the most interesting and affordable indie games on the Nintendo 3DS eShop are Mercenaries Saga 2 & 3, tactical RPGs that share more than a few similarities with the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics. Now, both of those games are heading to the Nintendo Switch courtesy of Circle…

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