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Nintendo has temporarily suspended shipments of Nintendo Switch consoles in Japan, it’s announced. On Tuesday the company said that all Switch systems, including the Lite and Animal Crossing consoles, will not be shipped this week except for reservations. No date was given for the shipments to resume. Shipments in the US and Europe will continue as normal. Nintendo is “unable to keep ...read more
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Super Mario 64 is easily one of the most famous games of all-time. While the title was not the first 3D platformer, the game did set a new standard for the genre, recreating the Mario formula in a way that truly revolutionized the franchise for decades to come. Nintendo is reportedly working on a Nintendo Switch version of that particular game, but Super Mario 64 has already been patched to fix a ...read more
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Disco Elysium is coming to Switch soon, according to developer ZA/UM. ZA/UM announced its detective RPG Disco Elysium was coming soon to Nintendo Switch during BBC’s Game On podcast. A release date was not provided by the studio, only the news that it’s in development and coming “soon.” The game recently won three BAFTA Game Awards for Debut Game, Music and Narrative. It also won ...read more
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Nintendo is no stranger to patent infringement cases. It seems like every console generation, some company pops-up, claiming that a creation of Nintendo's infringes on their own design. This generation, the company is Gamevice, a peripheral developer that has filed a patent infringement claim alleging that the Nintendo Switch design infringes on their patent for "attachable handheld controllers." ...read more
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If you’ve ever spoken to a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive fan, you’ll know how seriously they take the game. From competitive matchmaking to Wingman and Danger Zone, CS:GO players are in it to win it. Their undying love for the game is something that Fortnite pro player, Bumpaah, feels is missing from Epic Games’ battle royale. Bumpaah is a long-term competitive Fortnite player, but ...read more
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While its overall importance has waned over the last few years, E3 is still seen as the center piece of the gaming industry’s marketing cycle. It’s still the place where almost every major company comes to promote their products to the biggest audience possible. This years show was canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, leaving a huge hole. Well, it seems a rather unlikely entity has came ...read more
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After warning fans that the release of Minecraft Dungeons might be delayed from its original April launch window due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft and Mojang have now confirmed that that is indeed going to be the case, with the dungeon crawling RPG now primed to release in late May. While making that announcement, Microsoft also dropped some other details on the game and ...read more
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Combo Breaker 2020 will be the first event to be canceled since the series started in 2015. Refunds will be issued to registrants in April. The fighting games community has suffered another loss. Combo Breaker 2020, the largest competitive fighting games convention and tournament in Illinois, is canceled due to the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic Announced in a status update on the event’s ...read more
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More details have emerged following VGC’s exclusive report revealing that Nintendo will remaster most of Super Mario’s 35-year back catalogue for Nintendo Switch. VGC has now confirmed that among the Mario titles set to appear on Switch are 1997’s Super Mario 64, 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine and 2007’s Super Mario Galaxy. One person with knowledge of Nintendo’s plans said that ...read more
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Minecraft Dungeons has technically been delayed out of its original April release window, but the game's new release date isn't too much further away. Developer Mojang announced just a few weeks back that its upcoming dungeon crawler, Minecraft Dungeons, would potentially be delayed out of its planned April launch window as a result of new development pipelines that had come about in the wake ...read more
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