At first I was afraid, I was petrified. A treasure map: a voyage. The ocean sploshing happily at your makeshift raft. Then a ferocious storm! Shipwrecked, alone, starving, surely doomed. Well, not exactly. The happy sploshing part, yes — and technically a shipwreck — but then you’re in for a calypso-tinged, cosy hangout with friends….
And other games, once they’ve got them working. Limited Run Games has been chatting to our sister site, Time Extension, regarding an annoying bug that’s currently causing issues with its Carbon Engine on Switch 2. Don’t worry, gang, they are on a fix! In the statement to TE, Josh Fairhurst from Limited Run also dropped…
This feels as niche as it gets. Xbox has officially entered the handheld space with the announcement of two new devices: the ROG Xbox Ally and the ROG Xbox Ally X. Launching toward the end of 2025, the new portable systems are the result of a collaboration between Xbox and Asus. They aim to take…
We’re not in Kanto any more… Game Freak has made games other than Pokémon before. It has also released games on non-Nintendo platforms before. Yet whenever it spices up a launch schedule with either of these curveballs, it never fails to catch us off guard. Yesterday, the Pokémon dev popped up at the Xbox Games…
Rogue code in road. It seems as though Limited Run Games has run into some teething issues with its Carbon Engine emulation solution on Switch 2. Over the past few days, there have been a few notices posted online regarding Limited Run games such as Tomba! Special Edition and Clock Tower: Rewind which aren’t currently…
Cel-da? Is…is that you? In honour of the game’s arrival on Switch 2 as part of the Nintendo Classics GameCube lineup, here’s our new retro review of one of Link’s most memorable adventures… If I were to put together a list of my favourite pre-Switch-era Zelda games, those that came before the franchise-transforming Breath of…
T-blocks keep fallin’ on my head. We’re making this a trend now, huh? It’s never long before Puyo Puyo Tetris makes its way onto the scene. Such was the case back in 2017 with the launch of the original Switch, when a worldwide release of 2014’s Puyo Puyo Tetris (which released on Wii U and…
Museum peace. Altogether now! “This should have been a pack-in.” Or, if that simply wasn’t on the table, free for the first year. Or free with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. It’s painfully obvious to everybody but Nintendo that paywalling this specific software further behind the already-pricey console is a mistake. Read the full article…
Miyamoto doesn’t even get a “special thanks”. Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most famous video game designers the world has ever seen and is responsible for giving us classic franchises such as Super Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and Star Fox. One of his most critically and commercially successful creations is Mario Kart, a series that…
It’s a wobbly life. Editor’s note: What’s this? A non-Switch 2 game?!? Variety, my friends, is the spice of Nintendo Life… A goofy life sim set in a physics-based sandbox, Wobbly Life by RubberBandGames is an entertaining amalgam of open-world adventure and indie party games. With its cartoonish tone and compulsive gameplay, it’s clearly targeting…