Turnips! They're the greatest currency in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the quickest route towards becoming a Bellionaire!

You look at Nintendo, and you see a gaming company. A brand that has existed for eons, a name synonymous with video game icons and some of the best-selling hardware of all time. Nintendo is video games, and the entire industry would have been wildly different if the Japanese company had stuck to making card games and toys. Could Nintendo be more than just a video game company though? One of its new investors certainly thinks so.

The island living simulator has beaten the US sales for every Mario and Zelda title, and only just trails behind Smash Brothers in lifetime copies shipped.

You know what, this isn’t a feature I’m going to enjoy writing. Honestly, it makes a little sad. The world is currently on fire and seemingly the only thing keeping humanity together is Animal Crossing: New Horizons according to Twitter and any part of the internet where the sun still shines. The journey to your own tropical island populated by …

With millions of units sold, the Nintendo Switch is a device with no equal in its field. It’s also bloody hard to get your hands on lately, thanks to a combination of national lockdowns, production on new units grinding to a halt and absolute bastards buying all remaining stock so that they can resell them at an inflated price. What do you do, if you can’t find a Switch in the wild? You build your own one.

A new Nintendo handheld console that has not one but two displays? Sounds sort of familiar...

For as long as people have realised that Quake 3 Arena is more fun to play with a steering wheel and pedal setup, modders have been looking for unusual peripherals with which to play the most challenging games. Dark Souls is usually the flavour of choice for these experiments, with savvy technicians rejiggering everything from Guitar Hero instruments to Dance Dance Revolution mats to add an extra layer of challenge to From Software’s final Dark Souls masterpiece.

We waxed lyrical last year about just how dang good Disco Elysium was to play. An RPG where you stepped into the gumshoes of a washed out detective and then bolstered their skillset with strangely-specific mental conditions, Disco Elysium wasn’t just good to play but a bit of a looker as well. Right now, you can grab it on PC, PS4 or Xbox One. Not Nintendo Switch, no sir the best platform under the sun hasn’t been graced by developer ZA/UM’s masterpiece…yet.