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Super Mario Bros. Wonder will have talking flowers in every course that make funny comments and enhance the experience. You may be able to silence them if you don’t like the idea. A screenshot (and rough translation) on Nintendo’s Japanese website suggests players can disable flower audio in a menu, as noted by Nintendo Everything. It appears you can change ...

Square Enix said that Final Fantasy had sold 180 million copies worldwide. Dragon Quest is another successful RPG. Final Fantasy has sold over 88 million units globally, according to the same press release. Yuji Horii and Akira Toriyama created Dragon Warrior on the NES in 1986. Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince and Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest will follow. Dai’s ...

Ubisoft released the console version of The Settlers: New Allies for all platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, after releasing it on PC earlier this year. As mentioned, this reboots the classic RTS series. 13 campaign missions, 13 multiplayer skirmish maps, and a hardcore mode await players. The standard edition costs $59.99 USD (or your regional equivalent) and the deluxe edition ...

The latest gameplay clip for Asylum Square Interactive’s retro-inspired platformer Tiny Thor shows off how gorgeous it still looks. The next 16-bit-style adventure, which was announced in February, may have a retro aesthetic and feature pixel-perfect platforming, but it also has its own unique twist. Mini-Mjölnir will be used by tiny Thor to navigate several Norse Realms, including Midgard, Svartalfheim, ...

The last time we heard about the free title updates for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak was in December of last year, when Capcom unveiled a brand-new roadmap. The fourth free title update was scheduled to arrive at some point in February according to that announcement, but it appears that next week will give us a much better idea of when ...

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, the main paid expansion for Monster Hunter Rise, has now sold more than 5 million copies on the Switch and PC, according to Capcom. The business acknowledged the achievement via a tweet (thanks, Nintendo Everything) and declared that a celebratory in-game item bundle would be issued soon to mark the occasion. We're thrilled to share that ...

Puzzle Bobble Everybubble!, the newest installment in the Puzzle Bobble series from Taito, will have a brand-new mode that honors Space Invaders when it comes this spring. (Appreciated, Gematsu!) You did not read that incorrectly, I assure you. For the legendary arcade game’s 45th anniversary, Bub, Bob, Peb, and Pab can shoot down invaders all with the magic of colour-matching ...

With Fire Emblem Engage’s marketing campaign coming to an end and the game dropping the next week, it appears Nintendo is already focusing on Kirby’s comeback. Nintendo has Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe scheduled for release in March of next year after the successful launch of his first-ever 3D platformer in March of last year. This game, which made ...

Developer GungHo Online Entertainment has revealed it will be shutting down the servers for the free-to-play game Deathverse: Let It Die less than four months after it was released. The game will have been available on the PS Store for less than a year when it is taken down on July 18, 2023. This won’t be the last you see ...

We first learned that the two Tomb Raider spin-offs, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light / the Temple of Osiris, will be arriving to Switch in 2022 back in the murky days of October 2021. It should not surprise anyone to learn that the two games have been delayed to 2023 with the year almost over (with no Tomb ...