Category: Nintendo

A lovely bit of festive cheer.

With the holiday season well and truly upon us, game developers big and small have been sharing festive messages with their peers in the gaming community. We’ve gathered a handful of these for you to check out below, hopefully getting you into the festive spirit should you need a little boost, and also reminding us of what a brilliant year of gaming 2018 provided.

We’ll kick things off with a message from Nintendo, one of the main reasons why many of us are reading this very website right now.

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Gotta get ’em all.

What new Nintendo Switch games are releasing in 2019? We’ve got you covered with a full list of 2019 Switch and eShop release dates. We’ll be updating this guide all year long, refreshing and rotating in new titles so you always know which lovely new games are on the way.

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A bittersweet Christmas treat.

One of the most requested features for Fortnite on Switch, ever since it came to the console earlier this summer, has been to include the missing Career tab. This menu screen, which is present in other editions of the game, tracks your stats, playtime, account level, and crucially those tasty Victory Royales, but Switch owners have been missing out on the bragging rights fun thanks to the tab being frustratingly absent.

Today brings both fantastic, and utterly confusing news, as the Career tab has finally arrived in the Switch version of the game. That’s right, if you boot up your game right now (after downloading the most recent update), you’ll see the Career option towards the right-hand side of the tabs at the top of your screen.

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What a joke.

When any fighting game series is announced nowadays, a leak inevitably follows, often revealing information about the character roster or a surprise the developer intended to reveal later down the line. A lot of the time, these leaks can also turn out to be completely fake.

On the Mortal Kombat front, it’s no different. Series co-creator Ed Boon has been dealing with this sort of stuff for years now. According to GoNintendo, there’s a rumour the character roster for the recently revealed Mortal Kombat 11 has already been leaked. Sure, some of the characters on the list might show up in the game, but at this point in time there’s no substantial evidence. To combat this, Ed called out the rumour and told the individual who informed him about it to bring up the same tweet after the real roster was revealed:

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Show your support.

The last time a Nintendo platform hosted a Tekken game was at the beginning of the Wii U era when Tag Tournament 2 released on the system. The game was generally well-received and has left Nintendo fans wondering when they’ll eventually be blessed with another entry in Bandai Namco’s established fighting series.

Over the past few years, Tekken 7 director and producer Katsuhiro Harada – also responsible for Pokkén Tournament on the Wii U and Switch – has remained tight-lipped when asked if the seventh entry would make its way across to Nintendo’s newest system. So, what’s the latest update? During an end of year Tekken Twitch live stream, Harada was asked yet again about bringing Tekken 7 to the Switch. He said it’s all dependant on how much the fans would like it, and to let the development team know if they would like to see the game on Nintendo’s hybrid platform.

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Still targeting a Q1 2019 release.

To kill some time between now and the Q1 2019 release of WarGroove on the Switch, Chucklefish has released a new gameplay trailer for the long-awaited title. Based on the one-minute clip, the strategy game drawing comparisons to Intelligent Systems’ Advance Wars and Fire Emblem series looks incredibly promising.

The publisher, unfortunately, remains tight-lipped about when exactly the game will arrive in the first quarter of 2019. Originally it was scheduled for 2017 and has been repeatedly delayed. In October, we found out the title wouldn’t make 2018 as planned, as the development team wanted to ensure players would experience a “robust package” when the game was finally released.

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Fortnite tops the list.

Last weekend, YouTube revealed two Switch game trailers were part of the top viewed gaming video list in 2018. This weekend, Twitter has now shared its own list of the most-tweeted video games in the US this year. Interestingly, four Nintendo franchises featured. These included Pokémon, Super Mario, Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon.

Once again, Epic’s free-to-play battle royale Fortnite took out the top spot and there was also a mention of Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Overwatch and a few popular sports titles. Take a look at the full list below:

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The DMG-102 is the handheld of your dreams.

The humble Game Boy is probably older than many of the people reading these words right now, but it nonetheless remains an utterly iconic piece of consumer tech. Since the start of the Game Boy line way back in 1989, the range has undergone several revisions and has sold millions of units all over the globe. Despite the fact that handheld tech has progressed to the point where Nintendo’s monochrome marvel seems laughably primitive, there exists a modest demand for the original hardware, surrounded by a vibrant and growing community which seeks to improve the system with more modern features.

We’ve covered this kind of modding before on Nintendo Life, but we’ve recently become acquainted with a company which seeks to create the ultimate Game Boy system; a console which combines the comfy form factor of the original DMG-01 with the amazing AGS-101 screen from the Game Boy Advance and the ability to play every single Game Boy game – be it black and white, ‘Color’ or Advance.

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Weird and wonderful.

The No More Heroes spin-off Travis Strikes Again is one of the first titles arriving on the Switch in 2019. The Grasshopper and Suda 51 release is essentially a bunch of mini-games starring Travis and Badman, who find themselves trapped inside the Death Drive Mark II – a phantom console from the ’90s.

In the previous trailer, we got a look at the “Electric Thunder Tiger II” video game and the latest clip shows off the “Life Is Destroy” game, set in suburbia. It will include more high-tempo hack-and-slash gameplay and requires Travis Touchdown and Badman to take down Mr. Doppelganger.

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The power of cards.

For a game about digital card battles, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission looks rather dramatic based on the new six-minute trailer Bandai Namco released at Jump Festa 2019. This second official clip about the Dimps developed title runs through the basics of the game in Japanese while showcasing plenty of new footage.

If you missed the original announcement, the game described as a “super card battle adventure” includes more than 1,160 cards and 350 Dragon Ball characters from the long-running series. There’s also a glimpse of the new villain Cirrus, the game’s story mode, seven-verse-seven battles and the creation mode. The game appears to be filled with plenty of customisation options as well. As previously noted, this iteration is based on the existing arcade version.

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