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Right, time to bump this thread seeing as we have only around a week until the Nintendo Direct and even less until time until the events at the weekend. I've written up a new article which is basically the E3 schedule for Nintendo plus the other conferences as well. Everything is covered with times, banners etc and a little bit of a write-up plus all linked back to this thread and the E3 predictions thread as well. Who knows what we'll see this year but I thought it was about time to get prepared and a little bit hyped for it as well. We'll do our best to cover everything and hopefully this will be an E3 to remember.

Gato Roboto Review written by @Hero-of-Time Thank you on behalf of N-Europe. And thank you to @RedShell for the graphics.

Dead Dungeon is coming to the Switch eShop on 14 June 2019. Looks a lot like Super Meat Boy in its style of gameplay and it seems to have been released on PC a few months ago. Check out the trailer in the article if you're curious about it.

Oh absolutely! I completely agree, the game came out on the Xbox One on 4th August 2015 (according to my Rare Replay poster) so its exclusivity should be over by now. Heck, I was telling people about the game in conversations if ever I saw that someone owned an Xbox One, I'd make a point of telling them about Rare Replay... ...did they care though? Nope, not really... the sad reality is that even with 30 classic games, people like whatever games they like and that's fine but it meant that Rare Replay definitely missed out on some potential sales, or rather I would say the people who didn't buy it really missed out on several classics unless these kind of games really weren't the kind of games they were after, it's just that growing up with these games, I find it hard to fathom why anyone wouldn't at least enjoy three games out of the thirty at the very least and that's me being pessimistic about games which I would regard as classics for the most part. At this point though, you can pick up Rare Replay for £10 or less which is criminally good value in my books but I think on the Switch, with a few other certain games in the collection or possibly even more or minus some of the Xbox titles, however they want to do it, Rare Replay would definitely sell well on the Switch, plus the console would have a distinct advantage over the Xbox One version... if you wanted to play local multiplayer on some games, you had to be either signed in and/or online as well... for offline multiplayer. I would love for Rare Replay to come to Switch, if it doesn't then as you say it's easily money on the table for Microsoft, more than that though I guess Rare and Nintendo would get something out of it as well, which is nice and would be a dream come true to see Rare come back to Nintendo with their classics in at least some form, it's a situation with no down-sides for anyone... well except maybe for Sony I suppose but I don't think Rare Replay would be on the table for PS4/PS5 as they have hardly any history with Rare, if that happened too though, it would still sell so I'd never rule it out but for the Switch... definitely.

OK, Here we go... Banjo-Kazooie for Smash - With a trailer featuring Minecraft Steve getting pecked by Kazooie for digging up parts of Spiral Mountain (Steve will feature as a costume) F-Zero GX HD - Very simple really, give Nintendo fans what they've wanted for... quite a while now assuming we aren't getting a new F-Zero, just remaster F-Zero GX. Pikmin Collection - All three Pikmin titles (you could chuck Hey! Pikmin! in there as well but...) in HD with the option of either motion or conventional controls. SNES games for Nintendo Switch Online - We've established that the Virtual Console is dead (R.I.P.) you've trickled out NES games, now do the same with SNES. Mother 3 fully translated release/HD remake for Switch - This has gone on for long enough, at this point only a physical release or remake would be appropriate. Sure, there's other stuff but Collection of Mana we technically know about even though that doesn't make is any less monumental. I'd love to see Rare Replay come to Switch as well but it's one of those things I just can't see happening... until it happens, I'll believe it when I see it but would love it to happen.

Sorry about that, its fixed now, the quotation starts and ends at the right places. (or it will appear fixed in a few minutes once it updates) Damn, and I thought I'd gotten away with not editing the article after posting first time for once. (Edit - yep, it's definitely fixed now)

Here is the final article for our Top Ten Game Boy Color Games. Thanks to @RedShell for the glorious banner/side graphics. and @Glen-i plus @Dcubed once again for organising this, the write-ups in each article are spot-on. Also thanks to the N-E community for contributing as it's always nice to hear peoples stories from back in the day and varied opinions on all these classics. (my contribution was making the game banners in the article and getting it uploaded) I just hope that the top ten in-article game banners I made are still looking reasonable enough? I've tried to keep it simple, just changing the button layouts and the colour scheme but I might incorporate an actual GBA logo for the next edition. Enjoy! And here's to the next one.

This should be up tonight with any luck, I intended to get it on the main page by the weekend, nearly there, just getting everything ready to format into the final article.

On the front page. Any excuse to post that lovely artwork really... I wouldn't mind if that was the cover for our version of the collection, assuming we're hopefully getting a boxed copy. Please don't let us down now Square Enix, it's money on the table afterall.

Paper Bugs anyone? In the absence of any Paper Mario sequel or remaster of the first two games, I'd probably go for Bug Fables as it certainly catches the essence of the series. It looks good anyway and well worth checking out the trailer in the article, it started out as an Indiegogo funded title and consoles versions were announced at Bit Summit. One to watch either way.

What I want to know is when I can get my hands on that Crypt of the Necrdancer & Cadence of Hyrule physical release double pack. Come on Nintendo, don't let me down!

And it's on the front page. I just went with a brief summary, grabbed a list of what was shown, and re-ordered it to what's relevant for over here on the releases. Then a link to the video and I also posted a handful of videos of titles we either haven't seen before or that are still anticipated. Good to know that Cadence of Hyrule is still set for a June release.

I was talking with Gadwin last night and it's genuinely the case that those are the only five GBA games which he's played, we even went through a few titles I thought he might have played at some point but it seems that's just how it is... the GBA was released at a time when lots of Phantasy Star Online was being played by myself, Gadwin and many others. That's where most of our gaming time went, though I was there for when the GBA came out on launch day and picked up quite a few games when I could, even my GBA collection isn't that big but I did pick up some gems when I saw them for a good price, that's how I ended up with titles such as Astro Boy and Gunstar Future Heroes as they were a reasonable price at the time. I'm certain that Gadwin will likely be voting when we cover the GameCube top ten though and probably all the other Top Tens going forward as I know he's played a fair few games on those platforms, although I'm not 100% on Wii U... I think that'll be quite a devisive one when it arrives but it will be interesting to see who played what.

You're right on all counts... (well not the drunken part) though I will admit, it was a bit of a blind purchase and it is indeed a Super Rare Games release. Both of them are releasing so many games at the moment that it's hard to keep track of them all.

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Joe Dever's Lone Wolf might be a good shout. I picked it up on Limited Run but I haven't had a chance to play it yet, looks good though and it's available on the eShop as well I believe. https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Joe-Dever-s-Lone-Wolf-1337082.html#Overview Actually, I might have misunderstood what kind of game you're looking for, as it's not exactly Skyrim-esque but there are similar elements.

Well, I definitely played more Game Boy Advance games during the life of the console than I did exclusive GBC games. Here are my picks... Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald The Legend of Zelda: the Minish Cap Metroid: Zero Mission Metroid Fusion Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising That... wasn't too bad, although I feel like I had to choose both Metroid games because I genuinely adore both titles... ...but one of those places could have gone to another game. Look out for the N-E Top Ten GBC Games coming soon to the main site.

Good shout on that one Hero posted on the main page. There's also an explanation in there from the developer on why the 3DS version was cancelled. (technical reasons) But still... it's really good to hear that this is coming to the Switch, obviously I feel bad for anyone who backed it and chose the 3DS version. It looks to be an impressive title for what it is though regardless of which platform you choose to play it on.

Dark, gritty, open-world, survival Pokémon reboot for release in 2020?

And here's the Press Release Edition of the Pokémon 2019 Press Conference Roundup... ...although I think I prefer the one we cobbled together last night. Oh well... this one has got the standard Press Release in it.

Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition available now on Switch (and other platforms) to celebrate the games fifth anniversary. Digital and Physical editions are available, trailer in the article.

And it's on the front page... what? Yes, I stayed up and watched the presentation and posted the article about it at silly O'clock. That's just how we roll here at N-Europe. Thanks to @Glen-i for the summary, I totally copy and pasted that because it's as honest and as straightforward a list as anyone could have hoped for. Was the presentation itself worth staying up for? Nope! Time to make like a Snorlax...

Only just seen this, but I can jump on for a bit if anyone's still playing?

Yep, another Randy Pitchford video, not really sure what to say about this... Well other than that Gearbox could probably do with a new CEO. Unless they like all of this publicity and that's all part of the "plan" I have no idea at this point.