Jack and beans. Welcome to Catch-up Crew, where USS Nintendo Life officers slingshot around the sun and go back to play something a crewmember missed back in the day. We went back to the first WarioWare game last time, but today our destination is the year 1999 when Pokémon Snap first appeared on a chunky…
Issue #20 – January 2025. Welcome back as we open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox once again. Here we are in 2025, ready to thrive, and Nintendo has kindly given us all some good news: ‘Switch 2’ is indeed Switch 2, it’s looking sexy… and watch this space. We’re paraphrasing, but that’s the gist. Read…
“Additional titles will support online play after release”. We’re now roughly a month out from the release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection on the Switch and Konami has this week released an “official trailer” showcasing what this new bundle has to offer. Once again, it will include 14 games – starting with the original Game…
Hi-yaaah! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl, everyone! In last week’s battle, we looked at the N64 classic, Mario Kart 64. And goodness folks, it really wasn’t a close one, huh? North America and Europe absolutely killed it with 88% of the vote; surely one of the most resounding victories we’ve ever seen!…
A “Walmart exclusive”. Last Mario Day, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed a new Mario Bros. animated movie was on the way and would be arriving in 2026. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
It’s Yamper! The Build-A-Bear plush Pokémon line continues to grow with the arrival of the Electric-type Yamper. This Pokémon was first sighted in the Galar Region during the Sword and Shield generation. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Optional escapades. If you’ve played a handful of video games, chances are you’ve lost yourself in the side content more often than the main game. Sidequests are a procrastinator’s dream. Don’t want to finish the main story? Worried about missing some fantastic rewards or lore dumps? Well, thank goodness there are tons of people across…
“Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something”. Stardew Valley is perhaps one of the best-supported indie games of all-time with Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone now working on the title for over 12 years. While there have been questions raised about the farming and lifestyle sim’s future now that the creator’s attention has (mostly)…
Getting better all the time. The Taito Milestones series has already witnessed two collections (the ‘3’ at the end of the Taito Milestones 3 is a bit of a giveaway), but the odd thing with this series is that the quality has arguably improved with each offering, rather than diminishing as the best games are…
Swing, king. This week might not have brought us the Switch 2 bonanza that dominated the last, but there was still plenty to talk about in the world of Nintendo. We got a teeny, tiny development update from the Silksong team (turns out, the game is still real) and chatted all things space with Citizen…