Issue #8 – January 2024. So, how’s 2024 treating you so far? Hopefully you’ve had a great start to the year and are ready for a fresh batch of letters from the Nintendo Life Mailbox. After a festive blowout on Christmas Day, we’re a little light on correspondence this month. Don’t worry, we understand —…
What’s the ultimate Super Smash Bros., bro? Sunday 21st January 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of Super Smash Bros. on N64 and the series at large. To celebrate a quarter century of Smash, we’re republishing this reader-ranked list of every game in the series. This list is governed by each game’s User Rating on the…
Mother-load. Get out your very best magnifying glass, folks – it’s time to analyse some artwork in the latest edition of Box Art Brawl! We’ve got a serious big-hitter for you this week, but before we get cracking, let’s take a look at how things panned out last time. We looked at Teenage Mutant Ninja…
Take a look. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has almost been out for a year and now that it’s out in the wild, some of the artists who worked on the movie (Travis Ruiz and Megan Rose Ruiz) have shared concept art on social media. Here’s a round up of some of the posts so…
Have you added them to your collection? Nintendo’s amiibo line is still a thing in 2024, with the first releases of the year arriving earlier this week. In case you did miss it, it’s a double pack featuring the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 protagonist Noah and Mio. They’re available now for $39.99 / £34.99 and will…
“I am happy that so many people have played our game”. While a lot of the focus last year was on the new Zelda and Mario games, there were plenty of other first-party releases. This includes the tactical RPG Fire Emblem Engage, which this week celebrates its first anniversary. Yes, it’s already a year old!…
Smash Ultimate… Ultimate? The Super Smash Bros. franchise has come a long way since the original launched 25 years ago in 1999. Yes, you read that right — the original Super Smash Bros. is 25 years old tomorrow, 21st January. If we look at the character roster for a start, we began with a humble…
Coming out in February. We honestly can’t believe 2003 was 21 years ago — the GameCube was proudly at the front of our shelves, and Super Smash Bros. Melee was the ultimate party game. But Open Roads, the next game to be published by Annapurna Interactive, looks back at the mid-2000s with a warm, nostalgic,…
What’s on the cards for you? Welcome to another edition of What Are You Playing? where we all get to chat about our gaming plans for the weekend! Before we get into that good stuff though, let’s take a look at what went down in Nintendo land this week. We were treated to the release…
Tread carefully, Link. Early last year, there was a rumour going around about LEGO working on a Legend of Zelda ‘Deku Tree’ set. Now, in an update, the well-known Lego leaker and Instagram user ‘1414falconfan’ is claiming the set will arrive this September and will contain 2,500 pieces. The rumour stems from a marketing survey…