EarthBound turns “adults into kids, and kids into adults”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in August. Enjoy! Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. Alan Wake 2 appeared so late last year that you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was a 2024 launch. You’d also be forgiven for believing that its outstanding visual design and…
Biggest surprise! Most long-winded title! Crappiest Switch publisher! The end of 2024 is nigh, but before we get there it’s time to look back on what has been a surprisingly chonky year for Switch, software-wise, in the eighth year since we first got our hands on the thing. We’ve listed our personal Switch GOTYs, you’ve…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I, like many of you, have used the bog-standard Xbox Wireless Controller for many moons. And I, like many of you, have realised that it’s practically perfect as far as $50 worth…
It’s a quiet one! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived (a day later, as many of us at NL were enjoying our Boxing Day leftovers) and it’s bringing a handful of new games to the eShop in your region. And, uhhh… it really is a handful. But hey! There’s plenty of…
It can be easy to get a bit down about the state of the MMO genre these days. I’ve been guilty of it myself, and for good reason—big swings and big successes have been increasingly rare. But while the golden age of MMOs, when countless developers were experimenting in what was still a novel space,…
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35 years and stronger than ever. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. Enjoy! The Game Boy turned 35 years old on 21st April 2024. Today, George speaks with four talented individuals keeping the candle burning for…
At this point in my internet life, I’ve been conditioned to just assume that everything I see is fundamentally “fake” in some way, either made up by some guy or computer generated in any number of ethically or practically dubious ways. But Windows 10’s desktop background, with the blue light bursting out of a Windows…
In looking back over 2024 I am compelled to note that in May of this year John Romero, he of making Doom and helping cement the very genre of the first person shooter fame, said that “gib” is pronounced with a “soft ‘g’” like in “giblets.” Giblets, of course, being the little chunks of people…