Featuring Kuromi, Cinnamoroll, and more! Last week saw the arrival of Hello Kitty Island Adventure on the Nintendo Switch. Apart from featuring an all-star cast of Sanrio characters, the game takes a fair bit of inspiration from the Animal Crossing series while also freshening up the genre. As more reviews have been published, we’ve now…
Try before you buy. Well, here’s something we weren’t exactly expecting – Nintendo has today released a Switch eShop demo for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. This is the third time this game has been released, with the original version starting life on the Wii in 2010 before being ported across to the 3DS in…
“There will be an even bigger, more meaningful update to that”. EA’s focus this week has been the reveal of the new ‘Battlefield Labs’ in the leadup to the next major entry, but it’s not forgotten about its other FPS hit Apex Legends. Unfortunately for EA, Respawn Entertainment’s free-to-play shooter has experienced a bit of…
Releasing on the eShop in Japan. It might be late in the Switch’s life, but it seems there are still new applications coming to the system’s eShop. With this in mind, Shogakugan will be launching a “manga reader” for the hybrid device on 13th March 2025. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Part of ensuring “long-term stability and success”. Sumo Group, the UK-based games studio behind Snake Pass dev Sumo Digital and publisher Secret Mode, has announced that its development team will transition to work “exclusively on development services for partners” and has warned of “an impact on our studios and people” as a result (thanks to…
A fitting farewell. We love it when a studio demonstrates significant growth and improvement with each of its subsequent projects. With Bombservice specifically, the team has always boasted a strong understanding of what makes Metroidvanias ‘click’, and with Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, it’s delivered what may well be its finest game yet. The latest chronological entry…
It’s time for Switch 2. Our first confirmed Nintendo Direct of 2025 is coming, and it’s a big one. On the day of the Nintendo Switch 2’s reveal, Nintendo also confirmed that there will be a Nintendo Direct focused entirely on the brand new console in April 2025. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Set your alarms. Nintendo has provided a smidge more information regarding its upcoming Nintendo Direct in April, focused entirely on the much-anticipated Switch 2 console. Scheduled to commence on 2nd April 2025, we now know that it will be broadcast at the following times: Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Though no official price will be revealed for now. Nintendo has today shared a Japanese transcript of the recent Q&A investors meeting with company president Shuntaro Furukawa and, as you might expect, a lot of the talk gravitated to Switch 2. One question in particular broached the topic of product pricing, specifically whether Nintendo is…
Our-PG. When the girl joined the party in Secret of Mana, a whole new world opened up to me. Bright-eyed, huddled close to our TV, a second SNES controller plugged into the little grey box, I didn’t just have to sit and wait my turn to play an RPG for once. I could play at…