Tag: nintendo switch
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The Nintendo Switch Online Service Is Ready to Exploit You Now
The Nintendo Switch Online service is now available to lock you out of the multiplayer functionality in video games you’ve already bought or might buy in the future. Nintendo Switch Online $20 for a year which seems fine until they raise the price, or when you think about how well Nintendo has handled any kind…
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NIntendo’s Nintendo Direct: E3 2018 Notes
Nintendo’s skipped out on any kind of fancy stage show for a minute, so they’re back with this pre-recorded Nintendo Direct. It’s a hair under 43 minutes long, which is a wonderful thing.
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Nintendo’s Cardboard Toy Builder: Labo
Nintendo announced a collection of do-it-yourself cardboard construction kits and games for the Switch today, they’re called Labo. They’ll be available in two different kits, each one holds the Switch and Joy-Cons to make something new. Toy-Con 01 is the Variety Kit for $70 and includes 5 different cardboard projects for building a house, RC…
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Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch) Review
1996’s Super Mario 64 was the first, and the last, 3D Mario game I completed before playing Super Mario Odyssey. 21 years separate these games but they are inexorably linked. I will never forget the first time I saw Mario 64 in motion on a Nintendo 64 kiosk at a major league baseball fan appreciation day. It was…
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Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017 Notes
Nintendo is here to finally tell us the backstory about Walugi and Wario. Are they really just old versions of Mario and Luigi that got really shitty? Nevermind, Reggie has been hiding in our apartment to jump out and tell us about games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2mZS_p4A7Y Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Xenoblade Chronicles is getting a sequel and it’ll…