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Nintendo Just Made It Even Easier For You To Get A Switch

If you haven’t manage to get a Switch yet, don’t panic.

Monday, March 20, 2017 - 16:27

If you haven’t manage to get a Nintendo Switch yet, we have good news - Nintendo will be doubling the amount of Switches its making!

According to The Wall Street Journal, the company is increasing production due to its record-breaking sales all across the world, with reports from the Americas, Australia, and Europe confirming the new system had been the most successful hardware launch in Nintendo history.

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Although official figures have yet to be confirmed, it’s thought the Switch moved 1.5 million units in its opening week.

To keep up with demand, from 1 April, 2017 to 31 March, 2018, the company boosts plans to produce from 8 million units to 16 million. If Nintendo does manage to sell the full 16 million units, that’ll mean the Switch would’ve sold more in its first year than the Wii U - which has sold just 13.5 million units in it’s full four year lifecycle - ever has… Ouch!

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For those of you who’ve already picked up a Nintendo Switch, here’s 18 games out RIGHT NOW that you'll want to play immediately. While you're at it, have you managed to grab your preferred Nintendo Switch username yet?

Here's Every Game Out For The Nintendo Switch Right Now

1-2 Switch (£39.99)

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Super Bomberman R (£49.99)

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Just Dance 2017 (£49.99)

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I Am Setsuna (£29.99)

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Fast RMX (£16.99)

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Snipperclips (£17.99)

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Neo Geo Shock Troopers (£6.29)

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Neo Geo World Heroes Perfect (£6.29)

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Neo Geo King of Fighters '98 (£6.29)

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Neo Geo Waku Waku 7 (£6.29)

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Neo Geo Metal Slug 3 (£6.29)

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New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers (£8.99)

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Othello (£4.49)

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Shovel Knight: Spectre of Torment (£8.99)

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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove (£22.49)

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Voez (£18.99)

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Vroom in the Night Sky (£7.99)

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild (£59.99)

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- By Vikki Blake @_vixx

50 Windows Phone Games You Need To Play Right Now

Subway Surfers – Race around Italy and cruise the canals of Venice in pursuit of carnival masks, outfits and coins. Sadly does not contain deli-fresh footlong sandwiches.

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Wings on Fire – An endless arcade flyer with elements of RPG. 3D graphics and challenging boss levels. Free with in-app purchases - much like Ryanair!

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Minecraft Pocket Edition – Lovely port of this classic block-buster, with jungle temples to explore and zombie villages to shriek at. £5.39

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Fruit Ninja – Your swiping fingers are deadly weapons. Chop fruit but avoid the bombs. Counts as one of your five a day. 79p

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Lara Croft Go – Graphically rich adventure from Square Enix in which you puzzle your way to ancient relics and new outfits. £3.89

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Traffic Rider – Pick out a motorcycle and ride like the wind. You get a First person camera view and real bike sounds. Only thing missing is bugs in your teeth.

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Plague Inc – Sicko sim in which you get to infect the whole world with an apocalyptic plague. Was actually a promo for ‘Dawn of The Planet of the Apes’! 99p

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The Blacklist: Conspiracy – Crafty spin-off from the TV show in which you partner with the FBI to solve cases. Non-fans will be befuddled.

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Disney Magic Kingdoms – Rebuild the park after Maleficent robs it of its magic. Chock full of familiar Disney characters. But those queues are a pain.

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Mr Jumper – Great looking retro-themed platformer in which you leap, fly and generally avoid obstacles and pitfalls.

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Crazy Bartender Mix Genius – Create cocktails, offer them to barman Miguel and he’ll rate them. The more points you get, the more wine you unlock. Much like life.

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Whack your Boss Pro – Wholly irresponsible lark in which you can touch any object in your office to whack your boss. Not advisable for career promotion.

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Prison Break Plan – You’ve been thrown in the slammer, and must now break out by making your own tools and avoiding the prison Guard. Free (or rather, wish you were.)

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250K A.H.M.D. – Update to ‘Archer Hero Must Die’, with sharp graphics and fun game mechanics. Improve your archery skills to skewer enemies.

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Amazing Brick 2016 – As the action hots up, your only option is to leap left or right to avoid crashing into a wall. Friday night on the toon, basically.

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Traffic Racer – Fast paced racer with over 30 vehicles. Play Endless, Two-Way, Time Trial, Police Chase and free Ride modes. Neat 3D graphics.

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Crossy Road – Don’t dawdle as you scoot across roads and rivers. Cool Graphics, addictive gameplay. Never ends well.

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Asphalt 8: Airborne – Arcade racer. Drive the world’s most expensive cars – choose from Ferraris, Lambos and Bugatti – around more than 40 tracks.

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Lara Croft Relic Run – If you’re tired of Temple Run, try this variation on a theme. Unlock costumes and weapons. Battle dinosaurs.

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Hill Climb Racing – Drive Segways, tanks and trucks across a scrolling landscape. Stages include the desert, the Arctic and the Moon. Think you may need a new Sat Nav…

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Threes – Tile puzzler which looks simple but actually requires a brain the size of Stephen Hawking to master.

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Dodo-Pop – Tropical-themed colour matching puzzler in which you need to clear gumballs. Features 140 levels and 7 game variations.

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FIFA 15: UT – A spin-off of the Ultimate Team card-swapping version of FIFA, rather than a straight kick-about. Graphically fine though.

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Angry Birds Space – Adds the challenge of space-gravity and sci-fi embellishments, but relies on the same endearing pull and flick gameplay.

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Jetpack Joyride - Jetpacks. Everyone should have them. Can you keep Barry Steakfries alive as you climb higher through a deluge of danger?

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Spider-Man Unlimited – Pass the time before ‘Homecoming’ with this endless web-runner. Lots of character cameos, including Nick Fury, Black Cat and Spider Gwen!

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Wordament – Increase your vocabulary with this splendiferous word tournie. Challenging gameplay makes a change from Scrabble.

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Two Dots – Deceptively complex puzzler which requires you to clear stages by linking dots, but avoiding bombs and extinguishing flames.

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Tetris Blitz – Frenzied version of the all-time classic which gives you just two minutes to score high. You get power-ups to help though.

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Doodle Jump: DC Super heroes – Batman-themed version of the original platform hopper, now with added Gotham villains and assorted bat-paraphernalia.

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Cut The Rope 2 – Feed ‘Om Nom’ with candy by popping balloons and slicing strings, then get additional help from Nommies along the way. Tasty graphics.

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Temple Run 2 – Oooh, ahhh. That's how it always starts. Then later there's running, jumping, turning, sliding and, um, screaming…

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Running Shadow - Yet another endless medieval city runner, only this time with RPG-style missions to keep things interesting. Running in armour? Daft idea.

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Dumb Ways To Die 2: the Game – 36 mini games in which you try not to perish too horribly. Features everything from shark attacks to electric hurdles. Nasty!

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The Last Door: Collector’s Edition - Unnerving low-res retro point and click horror set in Victorian England. Four spine tingling chapters. BOO! £2.29

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Collectik - Deliberately slow-paced colour-matching tile puzzler. Highly tactical, and not at all easy to get all your pieces in a row.

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Skypath - Can you jump your dots up an abstract spinning structure? Starts easy but quickly gets extremely frustrating!

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Blitz-Brigade – Surprisingly accomplished multiplayer shooter. Up to 12 can battle at the same time. Loads of weapons, vehicles and missions.

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Snake Rewind – Slick reworking of the original Nokia phone time waster, with much the same gameplay: Eat fruit, mind your tail.

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Twins Minigame – Lively top down scroller in which you jump a ball over obstacles and swap lanes. Fine until a second ball appears!

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Trivia crack – Copyright-dodging quiz without the plastic pizza slices. Don’t you wish you paid more attention in Geography?

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Star Wars Commander – Neat little RTS from the Star Wars universe. Guest appearances by Darth Vader and Luke, which is stellar.

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Despicable Me: Minion Rush – Loopy runner in which you race Minions and collect bananas. Yes, you will lol.

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Heroes of Order and Chaos – Ambitious MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) in which you battle and explore fantasy realms with other heroes.

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Pako – You’re being chased by the cops around town. Avoid crashing into other road users and try not to get caught.

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Candy Crush Saga – Massively popular match-three puzzler with hundreds of levels. Watch out for the sugar rush.

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Solitaire Mystery: Four Seasons – The classic card game gets a storyline mode, with puzzles to solve and mini-games to beat. £1.49

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LINE CubeHeroes - Colour matching puzzler that appears to borrow its game mechanics to the Rubik’s Cube. Play with friends using the LINE messaging app.

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CSI: Slots – Crime Scene gameplay meets casino slots in this weirdly fun TV spin-off. Spin the wheels, interrogate suspects, solve cases.

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Where’s My Water 2 – Gator themed puzzler in which you dig through sewers and collect Duckies. Cute cartoony caper.

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25 Crazy Facts About Mario That CHANGE EVERYTHING

Princess Peach has appeared in more games than any other female character in videogame history, with Mario’s longtime love interest appearing in over 60 titles.

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In 2007, Princess Peach landed on Forbes magazine's Wealthiest Fictional People list with a fortune of approximately $1.3 billion.

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Super Mario 64 2, the follow-up sequel that was intended for release in 1999, was going to be for the Nintendo 64DD but was cancelled early in production due to the 64DD add-on failing to shift enough units.

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Whilst Super Mario 64 was initially going to offer a split-screen multiplayer option with two players playing as Mario and Luigi, the makers found navigating one brother in 3D enough of a challenge so decided to can Luigi! Mama Mia!

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Nintendo actually owns the rights to two porn parodies of the Mario Bros. games, ‘Super Hornio Brothers’ and ‘Super Hornio Brothers 2’. Both star porn legend Ron Jeremy.

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Although currently voiced by Charles Martinet, who also voices Luigi and Wario, Mario was once voiced by Peter Cullen who is also the voice behind Autobots leader Optimus Prime.

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Video game designer Yuji Naka has said in interviews that he was inspired to create Sonic the Hedgehog after countless attempts at completing the first level of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ as quickly as possible.

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The manual for 'Super Mario Bros. 2' clearly states that Birdo is a guy who thinks he is a girl. Which makes Yoshi’s brightly-coloured bae transgender, right? How progressive of you Nintendo!

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As of 13th August this year, Super Mario 64 has shifted over 11.89 million units worldwide, making it the 10th most successful Mario title.

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With worldwide sales of over 40 million, 1985’s release of ‘Super Mario Bros’ remains Mario’s most popular release to date. With the game selling over 29 million copies in the U.S. alone!

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In ‘Super Mario 64’, Boo's high-pitched laugh is actually Bowser's laugh sped up.

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Forget the crappy movie! The most WTF live-action Mario production of all time has to be the Ice Capades show which aired in 1989 and was hosted by Alyssa Milano and Jason Bateman. And yes, you can watch it in full on YouTube NOW!

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The utterly bonkers premise: A Nintendo system they are playing backstage catches a virus, allowing for all of the characters to be released from the game and skate on ice.

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Speaking of the 1993 film and what could have been; Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down the role of King Koopa whilst Nintendo passed on Tom Hanks playing Mario as they weren’t confident he could headline a franchise.

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Did you know that the ‘whomp’ characters from Super Mario 64 were inspired by a mythological Japanese being known as ‘the nurikabe’ which manifests as a wall that impedes or misdirects walking travellers at night? Creepy much?

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Remember those hockey mask-wearing Goombas in the Pumpkin Zone in ‘Super Mario Land 2’? As it turns out, they were in fact a direct reference to Jason Voorhees in ‘Friday the 13th’ and even went by the name of “J Son” in Japan.

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So this is awkward, but according to the instruction guide included with ‘Super Mario Bros.’, the koopas turned the inhabitants of the mushroom kingdom into blocks when they invaded, which means Mario is killing someone every time he hits a block.

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One scientific study found that playing Super Mario 64 for half an hour a day over the course of two months caused a significant increase in areas of the brain that helped with spatial orientation, memory formation, and strategic planning.

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According to a survey carried out in the ‘90s, Mario was more recognisable to American children than Mickey Mouse!

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“Ground Theme” (the song played on the first level of the ‘Super Mario Bros.’ game) is one of the most recognised pieces of music in the world and spent a to-tal of 125 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts for ringtones.

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Mario was originally meant to ride a horse in ‘Super Mario 64’ but when that didn’t happen for unknown reasons Mario’s horse became Epona, Link’s horse in ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’.

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Because the hardware and controllers for the Nintendo 64 hadn't been finalised yet at the time of developing Super Mario 64 two years before its release, developers actually used modified Sega controllers to control the game!

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The chain chomp is based on a large neighbourhood dog creator Miyamoto was afraid of as a child. When the dog tried to chase him one day it was, fortunately for him, yanked back by his chain.

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‘Super Mario Kart’ was censored in the U.S. because of Princess Peach’s champagne swigging on the podium like a boss when she won. In the non-Japanese version she simply pops the cork and tosses the bottle up in the air.

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With global sales of over 300 million, it’s no wonder that the Super Mario Bros. series is in the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful gaming franchise of all time!

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