No need for salt. Just over a month after it disappeared from the Switch eShop, Triangle Strategy is available to buy once again on the storefront. Square Enix announced earlier today that the HD-2D strategy RPG is back and ready for you to spend your hard-earned pennies (or gold points) on if you haven’t already….
Sunshine, lollipops and chainsaws everywhere. Cutting a bloody swathe through an army of the undead, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP joins Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered on Switch. Both games complement each other as flawed but enjoyable examples of Grasshopper Studios’ beloved catalogue. An idiosyncratic collaboration between Suda 51 and filmmaker James Gunn, Lollipop Chainsaw highlights…
Imagine the possibilities. This past weekend brought us one of the most convincing leaks yet with a pair of photos depicting what appears to be the left Joy-Con from the upcoming ‘Switch 2’. At first glance, it looks pretty much how we’d expected: larger yet with a familiar design, and a new magnetic rail that…
And the LocalThunk Award goes to… Balatro was one of our games of 2024 and the vast majority of us at Nintendo Life Towers have poured more hours into its poker roguelike gameplay loop than we care to admit. But what were the games that caught the attention of its developer, LocalThunk? With 2025 finally…
Umbra-lievable. PlatinumGames has announced that it is conducting a year-long event focusing on the original Bayonetta after the game recently celebrated its 15th anniversary. Originally launched in Japan on 29th October 2009 with a worldwide release following in January 2010, it spawned two mainline sequels, one spin-off entry, and a whole bunch of supplemental material,…
Back with a vengeance. Those after a bit more Batman on the go might be in luck since it seems that Gotham Knights is still set for a couple of console releases, and speculation is already leaning in Switch 2’s favour (thanks, UniversoNintendo). That is according to the LinkedIn resume of former QLOC Senior Programmer…
“I’m loving working on games again”. Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has “basically announced” a spiritual successor to the exceptionally popular sandbox game after issuing a poll on social media. The developer asked his audience what they would like him to focus on in 2025, with the options being a traditional roguelike mixed with a…
Title deals with dark, mature themes. One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was undoubtedly the release (and accompanying marketing campaign) of Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club. It marked the first proper new entry in the Famicom Detective Club franchise since 1989, bringing with it a whole bunch of dark, mature themes…
Black and blue, not white and gold. Fresh images of what looks to be the left Joy-Con controller from the upcoming ‘Switch 2’ hardware have been posted online, supposedly originating from China. Hosted over on Reddit by ‘thisSubIsAtrocious‘ and subsequently shared all over social media, the Joy-Con sports the new magnetic rail with which to…
Battle of the Bandicoots. Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl — the first of 2025, no less! Last week, we matched up a pair of beauties from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (yep, we were shocked that we hadn’t covered it already too), and after a week of voting, the results came…