Author: Samuel Brooks

Nintendo’s mysterious horror game – glimpsed last week via a brief and bizarre teaser trailer – is in fact a new entry in the Famicom Detective Club series.

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club will launch on 29th August, Nintendo confirmed today, showing off a first look at the game’s artwork, featuring its creepy paper bag-headed villain.

If you’re unfamiliar with the retro adventure series, this is a Nintendo-developed franchise originally released in the late 1980s. Two games were released, but only in Japan. And there they remained for more than 30 years, until a Nintendo Switch remake of the pair launched worldwide in 2021.

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club – A chat with producer Yoshio Sakamoto

…

In a moment of enigmatic revery, Nintendo has announced it’ll be playtesting a mysterious new Switch Online feature later this month, and it’s inviting up to 10,000 people to get involved.

Nintendo, never one to prioritise form over function, is calling this newly announced venture the Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program, and the only clue it’s currently willing to share is that it’s explicitly “related to a new feature for the Nintendo Switch Online service.”

To that end, participants must have an active Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership, and the playtest will require them to download “exclusive software” to their Switch console in order to take part.

Eurogamer Newscast: When it costs £700, who exactly is the PS5 Pro for?

…