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Link West? Kanye Link? The Hero of Rap? If you keep up with your popular music news, you might well be aware that rapper and producer Kanye West dropped his new album over the weekend, ‘Jesus Is King’. Usually, this wouldn’t grant any coverage on our humble Nintendo website, but you might notice something a

A new trailer has been released for Freedom Planet 2. This trailer showcases the game’s Adventure Mode. According to the video description, you will be able to “journey across the three kingdoms of Avalice and beyond! Explore hub areas, chat with dozens of unique animal citizens, and purchase items and bonus collectibles with the crystals

Here’s a reminder of the original Back in May this year, the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie’s director promised that the titular character would be redesigned after what can only be described as very passionate feedback from fans. Now, images have surfaced online which allegedly show how Sonic will look in his new form. You

The 2019 Golden Joystick Awards don’t take place until November 15th, but voting for the Ultimate Game of the Year 2019 category is now open. 12 games have been nominated, including Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Untitled Goose Game. If you plan to vote, you may want to do so quickly. The voting will be

Here we are once again, seven days later, as if by magic. It’s been a week game-packed with video games of all shapes and sizes. This week we’ve seen Black Friday ‘leaks’ which were too good to be true, news of a Nintendo Store opening in Tokyo (no, amazingly there wasn’t one already) and Nintendo

Nintendo of America has been promoting the former Xbox One exclusive Super Luckys Tale for the Nintendo Switch. The game is due to arrive 8th November and if you pre-order the adorable title on the Nintendo Switch eShop you are entitled to a snazzy free Space Suit costume for Lucky to wear in his adventure.

Nintendo has come up with an ingenious way to fly your fandom flag for both the Pokémon and Super Mario franchises in one piece (or various pieces) of quality swag. Next month the Nintendo Tokyo store will be opening with a host of exclusive merchandise for lucky shoppers in the Japanese capital to fritter away

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Resident Evil 5 – One of the most popular Resident Evil games can now be played on the go. Resident Evil 5features Chris Redfield and his partner Sheva Alomar, as they venture to the heart of Africa to investigate an outbreak.

It’s no secret that Japan gets all the neatest stuff, whether it’s Kirby cafes, Pokémon phone cable clips or, you know, all the cool video games and hardware. The Japanese My Nintendo Store is chock-full of lovely physical merch to spend your platinum points on. There’s nothing life-changing – it’s mostly stickers, notebooks and tote

This week’s Japanese video game software and hardware charts are now in via Famitsu and two new Nintendo Switch titles have taken the top spots. Those games are Ring Fit Adventures which is at No.1 and Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town at No.2. The Nintendo Switch continues to remain the best-selling system in

Yet another Pokémon has joined the Build-A-Bear ranks, and this time it’s the turn of Pikachu’s adorable little baby and feisty Smash Bros. terror, Pichu. You can go ahead and pick up a Pichu of your own from the Build-A-Bear store as we speak (UK / US). To get Pichu and its full set of

We are very likely to see what Goichi “Suda 51” Suda and Hidetaka “Swery 65” Suehiro have recently been working on. A livestream has been announced by IGN Japan who will feature both game developers to talk about a “secret project”. You can watch it here on YouTube when it goes live on 23rd October

The legendary Super Saiyan Broly will soon join Dragon Ball FighterZ as a DLC character. He follows on from the recent release of Gogeta and is featured in the second season pass. To help build the excitement for the release of this character, Bandai Namco has shared a first-look over on Twitter. Power up for

We finally have Luigi in Mario Kart Tour so he can join in the fun and games with his much-loved brother Mario and the rest of the gang, but what about Waluigi? Well, Nintendo has announced he will make his debut in the kart racer for iOS and Android on the game’s next tour. At

When Nintendo launched Mario Kart Tour on mobile devices in September, one character missing from the initial roster was Luigi. After making headlines a number of years ago for his “death stare” in Mario Kart 8, the famous brother is now being added to the newest entry as a part of the month of Luigi

There’s a new game based on the much loved Fairy Tail series heading to the Nintendo Switch and footage of the game debuted at this year’s EGX 2019. The RPG is developed by Gust and it seems from the promotional content that it will feature a total of fifteen recruitable party members. Take a look at

Bringing a game like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition to the Switch was previously palmed off as impossible, yet here we are now playing it on this exact system. While there are plenty of people out there who still can’t believe such a large and visually stunning title has been released on

Draw Distance, the team behind Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York, have now confirmed that the adventure title will be heading to the Nintendo Switch some time in the first quarter of next year, which isn’t too far away. The PC version of Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York will be

If you’ve got some sweet high-quality headphones on-hand and happen to play the online battle royale game Fortnite on a regular basis, you might be interested to hear Epic Games has added in a new option that makes it easier to detect which direction you’re about to be attacked from. Alongside the launch of Chapter

Nintendo has come under fire from Japanese gamers with the upcoming release of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore on Nintendo Switch which is due out on the 17th January. A number of people who had pre-purchased the title digitally had not been made aware that there was censorship in the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

In June, there was a rumour the new Nvidia Shield device – now known as the Nvidia Shield TV Pro – could share the same chipset as the upgraded Switch. With less than a few weeks to go until Nvidia’s new product is released, a now-removed Amazon listing has revealed much more about this device.

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Return of the Obra Dinn – In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn set out for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. It never arrived. After five long years lost at sea, the missing ship has drifted back

Pay your respects by Liam Doolan 1 hour ago The popular video streaming app Hulu will be removed from the Japanese Wii U eShop on 24th July 2020, officially marking the end of the service on Nintendo’s troubled system. This follows on from its termination in North America earlier this year. After the app has

The Pokemon GO team has informed fans which Pokemon to be on the look out for during the next Community Day which takes place on Saturday, 16th November. This time it will centre around Chimchar and proceedings will begin at 11am until 2pm. Have fun out their next month trainers! For just a few hours

League of Legends developer and publisher Riot Games has announced a new game exclusive to mobile and consoles. It’s called League of Legends: Wild Rift and the plan is to have the mobile version “fully live everywhere in the world” by the end of next year – with the console versions to follow at some

SEGA has confirmed this afternoon that Sonic the Hedgehog will be a playable character in the forthcoming Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD. The speedy blue hedgehog will be available as an unlockable character. From the sounds of it there will be plenty of unlockable items and costumes throughout the game as players progress further

Chucklefish has finally lifted the lid on its upcoming DLC. It’s officially titled Wargroove: Double Trouble and is entirely free. This new content is designed with “co-op play in mind” and adds a new story and three new Outlaw Commanders. They include the mighty Wulfar, the trouble-making twins Errol and Orla and the maleficent Vesper.

Halloween is fast approaching at the end of the month and the Pokemon GO team has detailed what to expect during the spooky season in the popular smartphone game. You’ll get Double Candy rewards, Pokemon such as Duskull and Yamask, new avatar items, spooky Special Research, and Raids featuring Darkrai, and also Pokemon wearing cute costumes.

Fortnite has gone, and this is the only thing left For the last couple of years, Fortnite has been the biggest game in the world. Now, it’s gone. Today saw the end of Fortnite’s tenth in-game season, with a spectacular live event taking place which was expected to tease the start of Season 11 and

Digital Foundry is always hard at work checking out the latest video games and how they hold up from a technical point of view. Their latest project is Sniper Elite 3 for the Nintendo Switch platform and they have come away impressed with their time spent with the game. Sniper Elite 3 runs at a