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Nintendo teased Splatoon 3’s ‘Tournament Manager’ in July. Following an early release in November, it’s now officially launched. Inklings and Octolings can create private tournaments, brackets, and match reports with this service. Splatoon dataminer ‘OatmealDome’ explains how license numbers are now required: Nintendo’s website has guides for creating tournaments. Create, manage, and join a tournament with this guide. This requires ...

If you played the Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and wanted something more authentic, this unofficial PC port may be for you. Link’s Awakening DX HD, created by ‘linksawakeningdxhd’ for itch.io, adds widescreen support, HD graphics, and 120fps scrolling to the Game Boy Color version. According to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman, you can also zoom out ...

Trombone Champ arrived on Switch earlier this year, and Holy Wow Studios has released a new update to keep the party going over the holidays. Switch version 1.25A has many new features. The addition of two new songs, ‘O Christmas Tree’ and ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen’, will definitely liven up any holiday party. Achievements have been added to the ...

In a recent Digital Foundry Q&A video about Grand Theft Auto 6, the team agreed that Nintendo’s next major hardware won’t get the game. Although the ‘Switch 2”s official specs haven’t been confirmed, Digital Foundry has previously provided a comprehensive look at how the console may perform based on Nvidia chip rumors. Richard Leadbetter said it would be “very, very ...

Mickey Mouse returned this year in Disney Illusion Island, a stunning 2D platformer. In a recent update, Disney Games and Dlala Studios announced that Switch exclusive owners will receive free new content. The “fast-paced new experience” ‘Keeper Up’ launches this week on December 13, challenging players to beat the clock and show off their parkour skills with new challenges from ...

If, by some freak accident, you haven’t bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe yet (and its continued presence in the weekly UK charts shows that there are still some), Nintendo’s latest trailer may persuade you. This is circuit-focused. All of them. With the full six waves of DLC tracks, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has 96 courses to race around, and Nintendo ...

Terra Nil, an environmental strategy game-meets-city builder, will launch on Switch on December 18 from Devolver Digital and Free Lives. Terra Nil, a “chill, meditative twist on the city-builder genre,” requires you to turn procedurally-generated wastelands into lush ecological biomes. You can plant trees, create rivers, and purify soil before leaving without a trace. The game launched on PC earlier ...

The ESA has declared E3 dead after multiple attempts to revive it. The Washington Post cites new competitors (hi, Summer Game Fest), partner withdrawals, changing consumer habits, and pandemic-era disruptions as causes of the event’s collapse. Nintendo’s Direct presentations, which inspired Sony’s State of Play and Ubisoft’s Forward events, also helped E3 decline. The 2023 in-person E3 event was canceled ...

Tiger Blade will release on PSVR2 on December 20, just in time for the holidays. The rhythm slasher, set in an alternate Korea, requires you to steal a cat from a rival clan. Our interview explains the developer’s influences. The “sensory thrill ride” game uses PSVR2’s headset rumble and adaptive triggers. It also has a K-hip-hop soundtrack by SINCE, Bryn, ...

The streaming rights war continues, and Disney+ appears to have won exclusivity on Hideo Kojima’s highly anticipated documentary. Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this summer, will be released worldwide in spring 2024. The film follows the ex-Konami director as he starts a new company after his public departure from Metal Gear Solid. After signing ...