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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 11h

🦔🏁 The best of the close finishes from Saturday's NSW #SonicRacingCrossWorlds local event in #Cardiff

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 13h

⚫️🟢 2 days to go! Here's a look at the critical reception for #PokemonLegendsZA

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 21h

🔵🟣 #PokemonTCGPocket: New and updated features planned

- Trade from most recent booster packs
- Trade ⭐︎2, Shiny 1 & 2 rarity cards
- Gift friends ♢–♢♢♢♢ rarity cards
- Cards not in dex appear more often in Wonder Pick
- No. owned displays on each card in Wonder Pick

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 1d

🦔🏁 Collage of the best snaps from Saturday's NSW #Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Showdown local event at @cardiff-hub.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended in support of #Nintendo South #Wales. It takes all of us to make these events a success

Next event: 8th Nov in #Swansea. More info soon

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 1d

🎮⚠️ If you're looking to start your adventure in Lumiose City spoiler-free later this week, please be aware that #PokemonLegendsZA streams and datamined info are out in the wild

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 1d

🎮🎁 Win 1-of-5 copies of #BallxPit, a fast-paced fantasy roguelite where heroes must find the balls to plunge deeper into a seemingly bottomless pit of monsters

Enter the #giveaway: x.com/BALLxPIT/sta...

Full game launches on #NintendoSwitch 15/10

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 2d

⚫️🟢 The penultimate #Nintendo South #Wales local event of the year is NSW #PokemonLegendsZA: Battle Club at Founders & Co. #Swansea on Saturday 8th November

Please stay tuned for info on competitions and free play options when the event page goes live in the coming days

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 2d

👕❌ Looks like a trip to Repair Cafe Wales might be on the cards as I tore a big hole in the arm of my custom NSW shirt last night :(

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 3d

🔵🟡 Results from today's #SonicRacingCrossWorlds and #GameandWario Islands tournaments at our local event at @cardiff-hub.bsky.social

Congratulations to our champions Michael Evans and @jazzem.bsky.social, and a big thanks to the 25 Nintendo fans who came along

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 4d

🦔🏁 Our free local event at #Cardiff Central Library is this Saturday, 11th Oct. 11am to 5pm. Open to all

🎮 #SonicRacingCrossWorlds Tourney
🎮 #LittleNightmaresIII Showcase
🎮 Game & Wario Tourney
🎮 Switch 2 & Retro Free Play
🎁 Prizes to win
☕️ Free tea and coffee

www.facebook.com/events/13382...

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 4d

🔵🟣 #PokémonHorizons: Season 3 comes to #BBCiPlayer 27th October

A year after events in Laqua, Liko, Roy, and Dot discover a curious pink mist affecting Pokémon. Can they unravel this mystery and rebuild the Rising Volt Tacklers?

youtube.com/watch?v=JE46...

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 5d

🛍️❓ NSW Poll - If you could only have one permanent physical UK store, #Nintendo Store or a #Pokemon Center, what would you choose?

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 5d

⚫️🟢 1 week until we return to Lumiose City in #PokemonLegendsZA

Pre-load is rolling out for those who pre-ordered a digital copy. Still considering the physical version?

Get the Switch 2 ver. for £49.49 or the Switch ver. for £42.29 with #Currys ⬇️

www.currys.co.uk/search?q=Pok...

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 5d

🎮🌐 Nintendo adds a trio of classic titles to #SNES #NintendoSwitchOnline

🔴 Mario & Wario
🔴 Fatal Fury Special
🔴 Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind

Joy-Con 2 Mouse (Nintendo Switch 2) or a compatible USB Mouse (Nintendo Switch) is required to play

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 6d

🍰🥳 You said it Jimmy! Taking a day off for birthday

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 7d

🔴🔵🟡 Nintendo's mysterious 'Close to You' animated short may be #Pikmin related

- Pikmin squeak heard when Mum exits
- Pikmin leitmotifs
- 2 Pikmin pull dummy to and fro at 1 min
- Pikmin Bloom says "Pikmin invisible to humans"
- Red Pikmin in background at 1:38

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoI1...

Close to You – Nintendo

YouTube video by Nintendo UK

www.youtube.com

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a long article about Rieko Kodama, her career at Sega, the evolution of her company, the games she worked on (including some canceled games and/or games for which she is not credited), the status of women and working conditions in the video game industry, etc.
vgdensetsu.net/riekokodama/

Illustration: a portrait of Rieko Kodama with some of the games she has worked on. The dominant colors are yellow, purple and red. Counterclockwise from top left: Rieko Kodama, Alis and Lutz from Phantasy Star, Sonic in a maze, Alex Kidd and his motorbike next to Flicky on a waterfront pier, Joe Musashi and his dog near the Statue of Liberty facing a skyline, the three playable characters from Golden Axe seen from behind on the edge of a cliff, and one of the flying ships from Skies of Arcadia.

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 7d

🦔🌎 #SonicRacingCrossWorlds #Minecraft DLC launches 8th October

DLC adds 3 new playable racers in Steve, Alex, and Creeper, plus a new Minecraft track and vehicle

Also, a “Minecraft Festival” event runs from 9th to 11th October. Players do not need the DLC to participate

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 7d

⭐️🎵 #NintendoMusic Update: The doors of the #PaperMarioTheThousandYear Door music vault have been well and truly blown off!

275 tracks from the Nintendo Switch version and 111 songs from the classic GameCube release original have been added to the app

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 8d

🇬🇧📊 #SuperMarioGalaxy 1 + 2 launches inside the top 3 of the latest UK weekly video game retail chart

▪️ 7 of the top 10 are on Switch 2 and Switch
▪️ 55% of FF Tactics: TIC boxed sales were on Switch
▪️ 35% of Sonic Racing's boxed sales were on Switch

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 9d

🎮❓ What are you playing this #weekend?

Taking an enhanced nostalgia trip through a pair of intergalactic Super Mario classics, battling your way through the world of Ivalice, or something else?

#SuperMarioGalaxy #FinalFantasyTactics #SonicRacingCrossWorlds #Splatoon3

Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 10d

🏁🌐 If you're up at an unholy hour on Sunday morning, you can watch the #NintendoLive: #MarioKartWorld: Invitational 2025 stream from Japan

📺 General Tournament - 8:00am UK
youtu.be/h92Htze5trQ

📺 Parents & Kids Tournament - 5:30am UK
youtu.be/PFDktkZs7WM

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 10d

🦔🏁 1 week until our free local event @cardiff-hub.bsky.social on 11 Oct. 11am-5pm

Sign-up on day or pre-reg for tourneys via
www.facebook.com/groups/Ninte...

🎮 Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Tourney
🎮 Little Nightmares III
🎮 Game & Wario: Islands Tourney
🎮 Switch 2 & Retro
🎁 Prizes
☕️ Free tea & coffee

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 10d

🎮❓ The revamped Nintendo Classics section on #NintendoSwitchOnline makes us yearn for a unified #NintendoClassics app housing tabulated libraries for all 7 of the individual retro apps currently available

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Nintendo South Wales @nintendosouthwales.bsky.social · 11d

🌪️🌧️ #StormAmy hammering #Wales this weekend

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