Nintendo Announces Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom In-Store Switch Demo

Nintendo Announces Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom In-Store Switch Demo

  
Playable at Game Stop locations in Canada.

To celebrate the arrival of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom on the Switch next week, Nintendo of Canada has announced the game will be playable at select Game Stop stores around the country.

You'll be able to try out this brand-new entry starring Princess Zelda from 28th September 2024 onwards. Here are the locations where you'll be able to check it out:

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8BitDo Is Now Selling NES-Style Keycaps

8BitDo Is Now Selling NES-Style Keycaps

  
Now you're playing with power!



Gaming peripheral company '8BitDo' has launched a new line of NES-inspired keycaps, which can be used on mechanical keyboards. These are apparently the same designs from its retro keyboard, which was released in 2023 (thanks, The Verge).

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (21st September)

Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (21st September)

  
Cap it off.

Well folks, the weekend is here and it's capping off (heh) a pretty interesting week in the world of Nintendo.

For starters, it's been a big one for the upcoming Switch successor. Many folks online thought that this would be 'the' week that Nintendo would finally reveal the new console, but alas, it wasn't to be. Instead, we got a glimpse at what might be with a series of renders and photos of unknown origin. Are they real? Are they fake? We still don't know for sure, but we're certainly intrigued.

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All Three Atelier Ryza Games Land Optimisation Updates, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

All Three Atelier Ryza Games Land Optimisation Updates, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

  
A trio of patches.

In celebration of Atelier Ryza's fifth anniversary, Koei Tecmo has today released an optimisation update for all three games in the series. Yep, that means Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy and Alchemist of the End & the Secret Key — catchy little titles, aren't they? — all have some improvements in store.

The updates are generally a batch of small tweaks to each game, though there are a couple of standouts dotted in there too: the first game's patch finally adds an auto-save feature, while the second and third have each gained a 'Very Easy' mode in the update. Each title has also landed various fast-forward options and other small adjustments.

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Random: Sora's Addition To Smash Bros. Required An Insane Amount Of Tweaks

Random: Sora's Addition To Smash Bros. Required An Insane Amount Of Tweaks

  
Fixing those Sora spots.

Masahiro Sakurai is back with yet another video (though not for much longer, of course), this time taking a look at the kind of feedback he provided on the development of Sora for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Spoiler alert, the video contains a lot of interesting pre-development images and footage of Sora, with Sakurai demonstrating his perfectionism by combing over almost every tweak applied to the character's design and implementation into the game.

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Late 3DS Tactical RPG 'Fragrant Story' Lands On Switch With 'Papaya's Path' DLC

Late 3DS Tactical RPG 'Fragrant Story' Lands On Switch With 'Papaya's Path' DLC

  
Out now!

One of the last games to launch on 3DS, Fragrant Story, has finally made it over to Nintendo Switch. Fragrant Story and Papaya's Path is now available on the Switch eShop and (as you might expect from that name) it packs in the base game and its 2023 DLC expansion too.

For those who missed this one when it launched on the 3DS in *checks notes* 2022, Fragrant Story is a tactical RPG inspired by the classics. Created by indie developer William Kage, this short-but-sweet Final Fantasy Tactics-style experience was a little too slight for our tastes at launch, but this Switch release extends the campaigns of both the base game and the DLC, beefing things up to a 10-hour story and a 30-hour 100% completion — not bad when you consider the original lasted us maybe five hours.

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