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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is adding the Pirahna Plant as its first post-launch content. During a Nintendo Direct earlier today, Nintendo announced that they would be adding several new fighters to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as paid DLC content. However, players who purchase the game at launch will get a free new fighter that will only be available after the game starts. That new fighter is ...read more
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate looks to be an utterly and absolutely massive game, bringing together six dozen characters, three hundred stages, nearly a thousand songs, and over a dozen game modes (including a great adventure mode). You would expect this game to be massive, and take up a healthy chunk of storage space. And you know what, for a Switch game it will. The updated eShop page for Super ...read more
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is, much like previous games in the franchise, a freak of nature. The game, an enhanced port of the fantastic Wii U entry, has been one of the highest selling Switch games around the world since it launched last year—and, Nintendo noted in its briefing to investors in the wake of its earnings report, the pace of the game has not slowed down at all in this period. In fact, ...read more
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Ever since Nintendo announced and released the Switch, people have been awaiting the long sought after unified Nintendo system—one system that consolidates the company’s handheld and console output into one, enviable portfolio. However, for that to happen, the Switch needs to replace both, Nintendo’s consoles and handhelds. On the console side, the Switch has done that, completely ...read more
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You might not have been paying much attention to it, owing to its more casual bent, but Super Mario Party appears to have been a pretty big and successful launch for Nintendo. Launching in early October, the game has already managed to cross 1.5 million units worldwide, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa announced in Nintendo’s briefing to investors. You can see the slide with the ...read more
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Nintendo shared its financial report for the last quarter earlier this morning, and there was a lot of interesting information to parse through there. For starters, we got an update on their software sales, including the news that the Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild alone has sold 10 million units worldwide since launch. However, we also got an update on Switch sales. ...read more
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Nintendo’s biggest game release for this year—and really, one of the biggest game releases of the year, period—will be Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the latest entry in their flagship fighting game franchise that is due to release in December. While we already have a lot of information on the game, thanks to periodic updates on it, as well as Nintendo having spent the bulk of their E3 show on ...read more
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Nintendo has silently launched a brand new update for the Nintendo Switch, a bit over a month after the previous update came out. Unlike Update 6.0.0, however, which was a relatively major one as Switch updates go, Update 6.1.0 is far more incremental and minor—which the version number should have tipped you off about. It doesn’t do much—it just addresses a glitch where certain games ...read more
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Wolfenstein: Youngblood has been confirmed for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. However, there has not been any word so far about it coming to the Nintendo Switch. Well, possibly until now. As noted by GameSpot, Bethesda marketing executive Pete Hines stated at PAX Aus that “the next Wolfenstein game” is also coming to the Switch. There is a little bit of a caveat though. On top of Wolfenstein: ...read more
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After having been delayed just a few months back, Spyro Reignited Trilogy is once again gearing up to launch mere weeks from now. To help ease the time until that date, Activision has today released a new series of images from Spyro Reignited Trilogy which feature Spyro doing battle with a variety of different foes. In addition, some new concept art stills have also been unveiled, all of which ...read more
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