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!.05-Nintendo Life | Latest Updates

Mario Party's Developer NDcube Is Recruiting For A New Project

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 07:00 PM PST

What's on the way?

It's a new year and that means brand new Switch games are likely already being planned out by Nintendo's first-party devs.

With this in mind, NDcube - the developer of Super Mario Party and Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - has shared a recruitment brochure for 2021, and it appears to be hiring for a new game. Here's a look, courtesy of Twitter user NintendoMemo:

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Monster Hunter Rise Demo Is Out Now On Switch, And It Includes Online Co-Op Play

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:55 PM PST

Party up and get hunting!

The moment monster-hunting fans have been waiting for is here – a demo for Capcom's Monster Hunter Rise is now available on the Switch eShop. It's a 1.6 GB download.

This sample of the upcoming Switch exclusive also includes local and online co-op play - allowing you to team up with your friends. All up, there are four different quest types. A beginner quest, an intermediate quest, a basic training quest and a Wyvern riding training quest - with all 14 weapon types playable.

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Kingdom Two Crowns Update Coming To Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:45 PM PST

Enter the Dead Lands.

Remember last April, when Raw Fury announced it would be rolling out a free update for Kingdom Two Crowns featuring a Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night themed crossover event?

Now it's the other way around - with Bloodstained adding a Dead Lands' themed area to the game based on Kingdom Two Crowns. Below is a teaser clip, courtesy of Raw Fury.

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Ask Iwata Gets An English Release This April

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 04:30 PM PST

Pre-order now.

Update 2 (Fri 8th Jan, 2021 00:30 GMT): Publisher VIZ Media has confirmed the English translation of Ask Iwata will be released here in the west on 13th April 2021. Pre-orders are available now.

Update (Tue 28th Jul, 2020 05:45 BST): Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Nintendo's Legendary CEO is available to pre-order on Amazon for $22.99 / £18.43 (or your regional equivalent). It's a hardcover book and contains a total of 176 pages.

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Preview: Monster Hunter Rise Feels Like A Glorious Homecoming For The Series, Not A Side-Story

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 03:00 PM PST

Our impressions of the new demo.

Monster Hunter has gone mainstream. With 2018's Monster Hunter: World, Capcom finally managed to get the storied franchise to break through to become a smash-hit internationally, selling over 21 million cumulative sales (including Iceborne) as of the time of writing. But, the series has traditionally been positioned as a handheld title – and after spending some time with Monster Hunter Rise's incredibly impressive demo – we feel that this new entry is something of a homecoming for the series.

Unlike Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, which was released on Switch in the autumn of 2018, Monster Hunter Rise is built from the ground up with the Switch in mind. This doesn't mean you're getting a watered-down experience; the lessons the team learned from Monster Hunter: World still shine through in this demo, with more than a few new tricks of its own, to boot.

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Multiplayer Survival Game Project Winter Coming Soon To Switch

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 01:00 PM PST

Time to betray everyone. Again.

Project Winter, a brutal eight-person survival/betrayal game set in the unforgiving snowy wilderness, has been confirmed as a Switch release "coming soon". Other Ocean Interactive, also responsible for the 3DS Minecraft and the Wii U port of Costume Quest 2, released the game on PC in February of 2019, and have also just announced that the game will be coming to Xbox Game Pass at the end of January.

Like any survival game, Project Winter offers a lot of horrendous ways to die: mauled to death by a bear, crushed to death by an angry moose, poisoned by berries, eaten by wolves, and being killed by a fellow teammate... who was a saboteur the whole time. With proximity-based voice chat, you want to make sure you don't wander off alone, because your friends won't be able to hear you scream for help if the traitors find you.

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Random: Pokémon In Unreal Engine Looks Like Skyrim

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 12:30 PM PST

Meowth has wares, if you have coin.

Every now and again, a fan takes it upon themselves to rebuild a game in Unreal Engine. We've seen Mario and Peach's Castle, a very fancy Temple of Time, and the original starter Pokémon from Pokémon Red and Blue looking unnervingly realistic, too. "Made in Unreal" is almost synonymous with "super-HD and kinda uncomfortably detailed" now, and this latest remake is no exception - although at least there are no human characters this time.

Reddit user papabeard88 made the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl areas of Twinleaf Town and Route 201, the place where the player-character is born and raised, and begins their journey. Although it's not the most visually exciting town in Sinnoh, it exudes an air of peace and calm: a perfect place for any Pokémon trainer to start out.

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Random: Artist Draws Smash Bros. Characters In The Style Of Cuphead

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 12:00 PM PST

We're calling it "Smash Cups".

No, Cuphead still isn't in Smash Bros. - he's only a Mii costume for now - but artist Daniel Cortes has imagined a world where Smash Bros. is in Cuphead instead.

As part of a daily challenge to himself, Cortes is drawing every single Smash Bros. character in the signature art style of Cuphead, based on 1930s "rubberhose" cartoons. He's only on day 18 so far, which means he's covered some of the big hitters - Mario, Luigi, Peach and friends - and he's now making his way through some of the weirder Smash Bros. inclusions, like Simon Belmont from Castlevania and Ridley from Metroid.

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Random: Lovers Who Met Through Animal Crossing Get Engaged In Real Life

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 11:30 AM PST

I can hear the Bells.

It started the same as any romance: inside a magical fantasy world constructed by a villainous Tanooki landlord. But it ended with two people crossing borders and travelling thousands of miles to be with each other.

Steven Brown had a unique problem: he had too many Bells in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and wanted to get rid of a few. He found Shayla Johnson on an Animal Crossing Facebook group, and she was happy to take the extra dosh off his hands. They initially planned to meet up just the once, according to Fox 13 News, but the quick interaction turned into an island tour, which turned into a friendship, which turned into love. Aww!

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Looks Like Nintendo Accidentally Used A Fan-Made Mario Render On Its Website

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 11:00 AM PST

It's-not-quite-a-me, Mario!

According to Twitter user ujiidow, Nintendo did a big goof: seems like they accidentally used uJiidow's unofficial render of Mario instead of a real one on the Super Nintendo World website that went live yesterday. What is this, Among Us?

Here are the two images, for reference, with the unofficial one on the left, and the real one on the right:

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Nintendo Switch Sold More Than Every Other Console Combined Last Year In The UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 10:30 AM PST

We really WERE all playing Animal Crossing.

Perhaps it's not a huge surprise, given that apparently Switch owners are the most likely to own another console, but in 2020, the Nintendo Switch outsold Xbox and PlayStation in the UK by a lot. Like... a lot a lot.

It's tempting to see this as a huge success for Nintendo, and it is, but it's also a huge success for us - the people who play games. More than ever, consoles are moving away from the idea of "rival" consoles, and away from the idea that video games are for children and nerds, with accessible family games, fitness games, and even games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons that apparently drove some people to buy extra household Switches. Of course, a lot of Nintendo games are Switch-exclusive, and although Xbox and Sony have their fair share of exclusives, it pales in comparison to Nintendo's first-party, Switch-only offerings, which is probably why many people seem to own a Switch as well as another console.

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Feature: Ten Arcade Games We'd Love To See On Switch

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST

Potentially portable ports.

As we mentioned in our recent feature, the Switch's extensive and ever-growing list of retro arcade re-releases has given fans of this cozy niche plenty to celebrate — but there's always room for improvement, and there are plenty more arcade classics that haven't yet arrived on Switch (or any console, for that matter).

So we've made a list of ten arcade classics we'd love to see come home, and to keep it interesting we've given ourselves one golden rule to stick to: Our picks must have a realistic chance of actually appearing on the Switch. Well... if not realistic then at least not obviously completely impossible from the start. So however much fun Namco's fantasy exercise-'em-up Prop Cycle and Sega's Top Skater were in arcades, the massive novelty controllers integral to those experiences (an exercise bike and a skateboard-ish platform, respectively) make it clear those games just can't come home.

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Guide: Where To Pre-Order Monster Hunter Rise And The Three amiibo

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 09:05 AM PST

Rise and shine.

Update: 7th Jan 2021 - The Nintendo Official UK Store have opened up their Monster Hunter Rise pre-order which includes a free SteelBook and a Collectible Cards Set containing 4 cards.

Capcom has a host of brand new Monster Hunter goodness heading to Switch in March. Monster Hunter Rise looks to combine classic elements of the series with newer conveniences that enable you to traverse the environments quicker and with a touch more style. It's running on Capcom's RE Engine and we're eager to get our hands on it.

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Nintendo Dominates Amazon's Best-Selling Games List For 2020

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 08:00 AM PST

And you can probably guess which game is top.

Retail giant Amazon has shared a list of its best-selling products from the video game world throughout 2020, and it sure looks like Nintendo had one heck of a year.

When removing accessories and top-up cards from the full rankings in order to focus on just the games themselves, seven of the top ten titles were exclusive to Nintendo Switch. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on top, which is perhaps no surprise, but even games like the almost four-year-old Zelda: Breath of the Wild are still selling very strongly indeed.

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Ninjala Season 4 Has Arrived, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 07:30 AM PST

And a trailer, too!

Ninjala's fourth season is now well and truly underway, and developer GungHo Entertainment has shared a brand new trailer and patch notes to fill us in on all the changes we can expect to see.

The new season is boasting a wintery theme, with plenty of new appropriately-themed avatar items to discover and new Ninjala Pass content available as you'd expect. Season 4 is live now and will remain so up until 24th March at 17:59 PST (25th March 01:59 GMT).

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Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Ends 2020 In Spectacular Fashion

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 06:45 AM PST

Switch smashes the software and hardware tables.

Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the two weeks spanning 21st December 2020 to 3rd January 2021, revealing that Nintendo managed to round out the year in style.

The entire top ten software chart was made up of Switch titles over the course of the two weeks, with Momotaro Dentetsu continuing to shine brightest at the top. The game's followed by a list of games almost exclusively made up of Nintendo first-party hits, with the exception of Minecraft.

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S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters Is A Dungeon-Crawler That'll Test Your Maths Skills

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 05:15 AM PST

Launching on Switch next week.

Some heroes are super-strong, some have special powers or are brave and fearless, but some... Well, some are just pretty good at maths.

Launching on Switch next week is S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters, a dungeon-crawler from Doomster Entertainment. In the game, you'll play as various heroes who must fight their way through the titular uncool monsters, but instead of pulling off fancy combos or navigating daunting menus Final Fantasy-style, you'll be using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Nintendo Reveals The Top 15 Most-Downloaded Switch Games In December 2020 (Europe)

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 04:00 AM PST

The eShop's biggest games.

Nintendo has shared an updated list of Europe's most-downloaded Switch eShop games, revealing which titles were the most popular during December 2020.

Taking top spot is the online multiplayer sensation Among Us, which launched out of nowhere on the console last month. With its low price point and huge popularity, it's easy to see why Among Us has topped the list this time around.

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Brian Cooper Of Respected Website Japanese Nintendo Has Passed Away

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 03:00 AM PST

The community pays tribute.

It's fair to say that we're not the only Nintendo website out there, and over the years we've been in close contact with the webmasters of what many people would deem to be 'rival' sites (that's not really the case and we like to think we've always maintained a positive relationship with other Nintendo sites).

One such site was Japanese Nintendo, which provided translations and up-to-date news on events in the Far East and was often used as a source for news stories here on Nintendo Life. Sadly, we have to report that the site's owner, Brian Cooper, has passed away.

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Rumour: Datamine Apparently Reveals All About The New Nintendo Switch Revision

Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:55 PM PST

Grab some salt.

It's only the seventh day of the year and we've already got some wild Nintendo rumours circulating online, so grab some salt and read on.

According to an article over on Wccftech, well-known dataminer and console hacker SciresM has uncovered "new information" about the rumoured Switch 'Pro' model by sifting through firmware code - although the source says these details may not necessarily be accurate and there is a fair bit of speculation, too.

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SNK Delays Its King Of Fighters XV And Samurai Shodown Season Pass 3 Reveal

Posted: 06 Jan 2021 09:45 PM PST

The Future is Later.

SNK has pulled the plug on its big reveal of King of Fighters 15 and the Samurai Shodown Season Pass 3 at the last minute.

While the reason behind the decision is still unknown, what we do know is that SNK plans to reschedule a new time and date as soon as it can, and is appreciative of fans for understanding. Here's the official word from the company Twitter account:

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Super Mario 3D World Teaser Webpage Tells Fans To "Stay Tuned" For More Details About Bowser's Fury

Posted: 06 Jan 2021 07:45 PM PST

We're ready and waiting!

Nintendo's first major release of 2021 is Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. This Wii U port - with a little bit extra tacked on - will be arriving next month on 12th February.

To build up some excitement ahead of the game's launch, Nintendo has sent its teaser webpage live - with the "full site" coming soon. While there's not much to look at right now, further down the page is a brief line about the expansion Bowser's Fury, informing fans to keep an eye out for more information soon:

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