Nintendo's Slice of Life Spring

About this episode

The hosts discuss Nintendo's recent game releases and various industry news, including layoffs at Epic and upcoming game developments.

Support us by joining The Hive! This week, Lotus , Niki , and John contemplate Nintendo's strange (but maybe deliberate) choice to launch Animal Crossing 's Switch 2 edition, Pokemon Pokopia , and Tomodachi Life in one tidy two month stretch. Also: Epic lays off 1,000 due to Fortnite "underperforming" OpenAI cans Sora and Disney exits investment Alex from Street Fighter 6 married his adopted sister! Nintendo to price digital and physical differently PlayStation raising all hardware prices Nintendo planning new Star Fox, Ocarina of Time remake, no 3D Mario in 2026 Wanderstop dev Ivy Road is shutting down Funi Raccoon Game is Irish in surprising and delightful ways Tomodachi Life 's demo reminds us why the Wii era was so successful Marathon might make it???? BLΛƆKPIИK has a new EP out! We answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our lovely Discord Thanks so much for listening! Leave us a review and we'll read it on the show!

People in this episode

Hosts: Lotus, Niki, John

Topics covered

• Nintendo releases
• video game industry news
• game development
• gaming culture
• Fortnite performance
• game remakes

Keywords

• Nintendo
• Animal Crossing
• Fortnite
• Epic layoffs
• Tomodachi Life
• game remakes
• video games
• gaming news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nintendo, Epic, OpenAI, BLΛƆKPIИK

Products: Animal Crossing, Switch 2, Pokemon Pokopia, Tomodachi Life, Fortnite, Street Fighter 6, Star Fox, Ocarina of Time, Marathon

Places: Ireland

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