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As many will no doubt know already, prior to the release of Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation 1 in 1997, Square was initially planning to develop the game for the Nintendo 64, even going so far as to make various tests for the console. However, due to the overwhelming scope of the project and Nintendo's decision to stick with cartridge-based memory storage, Square eventually decided to ...read more
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A sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie and release date for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door weren’t the only announcements Nintendo had in store for MAR10 Day 2024. It also confirmed that Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is launching on June 27th for Nintendo Switch. Developed by Next Level Games of Luigi’s Mansion 3 fame and based on Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for the Nintendo 3DS, the ...read more
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After the massive success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which grossed $1.36 billion after releasing last year, Nintendo and Illumination have announced that a sequel is in the works. It’s out on April 3rd, 2026, in the United States and other regions before coming to other territories throughout the month. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto announced this during MAR10 Day 2024, with producer ...read more
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Homebrew developer LOO-E is porting the original NES Metroid to the Game Boy, it has been revealed. M2NES: Zebes Revisited is actually a ROM hack which is built on the framework of Metroid II: Return of Samus, a Game Boy exclusive sequel released in 1991, which was later remastered for the 3DS as Metroid: Samus Returns. It remains to be seen if this hack flies under the radar of Nintendo; ...read more
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Another popular Nintendo emulator has shut down, following the settlement of a high-profile lawsuit earlier this week. Pizza Emulators, apps which allowed users to play Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color games on Android, were pulled from the Google Play Store on Friday. In a Discord message republished by The Verge, developer Davide Berra claimed he was shutting down the emulators “to ...read more
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As Minecraft barrels toward the release date of Update 1.21, the developers at Mojang have slowly been adding new features to the test servers. Thus far, that's included a new skeleton type, the armadillo mob, and much more. Recently, the team announced that another 1.21 feature is available for testing, as the team announced that new wolf types are now in Minecraft. Not only that, but players ...read more
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Every so often, a game comes out of nowhere and takes everyone by surprise. To be fair, we’ve seen quite a few of those in 2024 already – from Palworld to Helldivers 2 – and Balatro is surely one among them. LocalThunk’s deckbuilding roguelite game launched for PC and consoles late last month and has raked in widespread plaudits since its launch, even currently sitting at a Metacritic ...read more
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Rocket League Season 14 is kicking off today, and it's bringing the action under the sea. Players can expect to see the arrival of new cars, a new arena variant, and several items that match this season's theme. The new arena variant is AquaDome (Salty Shallows), which is closer to the surface than the original version. Psyonix is going for a more relaxed vibe than the traditional version of the ...read more
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Atlus has announced that it's officially releasing a story expansion for Persona 3 Reload titled Episode Aigis -The Answer- later in 2024. In the month since P3R first launched, rumors have claimed that new DLC for the remade RPG would be coming about that would be related to Persona 3 FES. These rumors were furthered by the fact that the game's conclusion pointed to a new expansion. As a result, ...read more
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Recently, Square Enix’s 2018 RPG Octopath Traveler was suddenly and with no official communication delisted from the Nintendo Switch eShop, rendering it unavailable for purchase, even if previous owners can still redownload the game if they wish. Square Enix has now addressed the delisting, and confirmed that it’s only a temporary one, as many had speculated. Taking to Twitter, the company ...read more
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