Nintendo News Report

Donald is joined by Justin, Bryan, and Xander part-way through as they break down everything that happened in what might be the strongest Direct ever for third parties, but the big deal is Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE coming back from the Wii U. Recorded Sept 4.

It's the first Nintendo Direct-related show of the new era. Donald and Justin bat around some predictions and look ahead to the Nintendo Direct.

Apologies for mic trouble and the break, but Donald and Xander are here to talk Shovel Knight, Overwatch Switch?, a Direct next week?, the Aladdin/Loin King (sic) collection, and the Mega Man Zero and ZX Compilation.

Donald is joined by Brett Posner in his NWR podcast debut to talk about today's Pokemon announcements, see off Ducktales Remastered, and tell off Activision for adding gratuitous microtransactions to Crash Team Racing.

Donald is joined by anime/fighting/anime fighting expert Matt Zawodniak to talk about everything that went down at EVO 2019, give a quick shoutout to the Mario Tennis trial, and look ahead to the week's releases. Sadly, one of them is Sword Art Online.

Donald and Neal have a quick chat about: The Hero is here, Nintendo's Q1 earnings, Captain Toad VR, and the arrival of The Outer Worlds on Switch down the road a bit.

Welcome to the first episode of NNR20, the new, thrice-weekly version of Nintendo News Report that aims to wrap up the news in 20 minutes. Today, Donald and Neal talk Doom, give a Fire Emblem voice actor update, and run down the week's releases. Don't forget to subscribe on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/nwr

In the final episode of NNR recorded on Google Hangouts, Donald, Neal, and Zach talk Omega Labyrinth, Joy-Con drift settlements, the Switch Mini and upcoming revision, everybody wanting a Three Houses VA gone for wildly different reasons (UPDATE: He gone!), the Mario Maker 2 upgrade, and just how we're doing the show in a post-Hangouts world. (Recorded July 25.)

This week Donald and Justin discuss: Cadence of Hyrule, how rolling credits on FFX means you're 20% done, the lows and lows of E3 from a press perspective, Mario Maker 2 hype and lack of styluses and Mystery Mushrooms, the Bloodstained kerfuffle, SolSeraph aka an actual ActRaiser tribute in 2019, and of course, fantasy book Smash Bros DLC. (Recorded June 27.)

With regular host Donald Theriault out in Los Angeles covering E3, the inmates run the asylum as Neal Ronaghan, Alex Culafi, Justin Berube, and Zach Miller take you through E3 2019 from their perspective at home. (Recorded June 12.)

Donald, Alex, and Justin break down the Pokemon Direct, hit a couple of quick news stories, then roll through a mess of E3 predictions - both their own and from the NWR Patrons - ahead of the final non-PAX E3 show next week. (Recorded June 5.)

Following last week's technical unpleasantness, Donald, Neal, Justin, and returning guest Alex talk Mario Maker 2 from the New York event, all of the night's announcements about Pokemon selling your information to insurance companies, the Belgian ban on lootboxes, Mario Kart Tour, and Nippon Ichi not being able to survive on busted gacha and 1500 sales of launch week games. (Recorded May 29.)

After an extended Golden Week, Donald, Justin, and Neal talk Tetris 99 Big Blocks, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Mahvel, psyching a rookie up for his first in-person E3... oh, who are we kidding, it's 30+ minutes of Super Mario Maker 2 chat related to the day's Nintendo Direct. (Recorded May 15.)

Anime is happening this week as Donald and Zach are joined by Bryan and Matt Z. to discuss: Nintendo's four-comma revenue and other things from the annual earnings, the stuffing of Switch sales, just how well is Mario U Deluxe selling anyway, the China move, the packed July release schedule, the NPDs, Persona 5 Scramble, and a giant enemy crab attacking Hungrybox's weak point for massive damage. (Recorded April 26)

This week Donald, Justin, Neal, and Xander talk Labo VR, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Cuphead, Final Fantasy VII, Smash 3.0 including why we can't have nice things, what the hell is up with July, Switch 8.0 and the continuing missing folders, and the PlayStation 5's return to five hundred and ninety nine US dollars. (Recorded April 18)

This week Donald corrals Neal, Zach, and Justin to talk: PAX East games, Yoshi's Crafted World, Donkey Kong 3 to Switch, Fate/Extella LINK, Downwell, Baba Is You (And GOTY?), Hellblade's release date, the NES lineup for April while trying to wound scalpers, Atlus is on their BS again, Best Buy's leaking again (with a reason for LttP) and the hottest Shan-takes. (Recorded April 3)

In a rare Sunday recording, a cold-addled Donald is joined by Daan to discuss: Baseball Stars 2, Xenon Racer, Lyrica, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Gearbox's "panel" with Bulletstorm, Yacht Club's first publishing project, Nintendo's E3 plans, the possibility of two new Switches, almost all of the Sega FES announcements, and OH HAY LOOK SHANTAY with a side of Apple Arcade. (Recorded March 31)

Full service finally resumes with Donald, Justin and Zach talking the Nindies Showcase, what Xbox Live will be on Switch - spoilers, not much - the upcoming Konami collections, the NPDs, request a F in the chat for Crackdown 3, reluctantly chat about Google's revival of OnLive, and... HOLY CRAP NECRODANCER ZELDA CROSSOVER. Plus, the Battleblock Theater trailer and a special eff you to Badland Games. (Recorded March 20)

As the ides of March pass, Donald runs down the news of the week with the following topics: Zelda II is playable in a sane fashion after 31 years, NISA has more RPGs coming, Sega threatened the world at SxSW, and we look ahead to big events with the potential for Nintendo news in the form of GDC and PAX East. (Recorded March 17)

On this Mar10 day, a still-not-100% Donald talks Pokemon Sword and Shield, Labo VR, the Switch Online update, EVO, THQ Nordic's extremely public PR fiasco, and previews the week ahead. (Recorded March 10)