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Every morning over the past few weeks I've woken up to the soft wahoos of the Super Mario brothers, the chirping of Pikmin, or snippets from Zelda: Breath of the Wild's beautiful orchestral score. Nintendo's rich library of sounds - most of which are recognisable before you've even opened your eyes - has gently stirred me from slumber and commanded me to sit up and get out of bed. Because until you do, Alarmo doesn't want to stop.
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We probably won't flag up when every single game's soundtrack comes to Nintendo Music, but Wii Sports is a bit of a favourite round these parts.
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Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma 2 director Hideaki Itsuno is now the head of LightSpeed Japan Studio, a newly-established game developer with a focus on the creation of "original AAA action game titles".
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After a six month delay, Universal Studios Japan's Donkey Kong Country themed Super Nintendo World expansion finally has an opening date. It'll be barrel-blasting open its doors from 11th December, and if you're curious to see what's in store, you can now watch Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto take a tour of the area, with a brief pause to bonk on some bongo drums.
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Fornite is doing it, Apex Legends is doing it, and now Overwatch 2 is looking to tweak nostalgia nubbins by having a nostalgic throwback season of its own - specifically to celebrate the series' eighth anniversary this year - and it'll include the return of 6v6 games.
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Seven years after being announced, Project Borealis - a fan-developed game based on an unused story treatment for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 - has a playable ten-minute Prologue on Steam.
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The Rise of the Golden Idol - the standalone sequel to 2022's widely acclaimed deductive adventure The Case of the Golden Idol - launches tomorrow, 12th November (14th November on Switch, due to an "unexpected delay"), and ahead of its arrival, developer Color Gray Games has shared a post-launch roadmap promising four bits of paid DLC.
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After playing as an eighteenth-century detective to solve 12 terrible murders in Color Gray Games' sensational debut, The Case of the Golden Idol, the decision to suddenly jump the story forward 300 years for this near-contemporary sequel came as something of a surprise. Not only did there seem to be unfinished business ripe for further unravelling at the end of Case's conspiracy caper, but its detailed pixel art and gurning cast of grotesques also felt so of a piece with its historical set dressing that I wondered whether its freeze-frame tableaus would have quite the same effect at such a far remove from their stylistic beginnings.
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Following the passing of Sylens' original actor Lance Reddick last year, Lego Horizon Adventures has recast the role.
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Valve has announced the Steam Deck OLED: White Edition.
GOG has announced a new Preservation Program.
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