Also served as director on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. We have just learned that Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden franchise and director/scenario writer on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, has sadly passed away due to complications with an ongoing illness. The news comes via Rabbit & Bear Studios, the development team responsible for Hundred Heroes…
Any advance on the original? We are mere days away from the release of Mario vs. Donkey Kong on Switch (which arrives on 16th February, if you were wondering). After having a perfectly fun time with the puzzle platformer when we went hands-on with it earlier this month, we are excited to see what the…
“What’s here is generally very well done”. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered arrives on the Switch this week and the tech experts at Digital Foundry have already got a video up about the performance and frame rate across each system. In case you missed it, the Switch version of this remaster runs at a native 1080p…
A few other titles have also made use of it. During the Switch generation, Nintendo has sometimes developed the odd title on a different engine. We’ve seen Yoshi’s Crafted World and more recently Pikmin 4 utilise the Unreal Engine and now it appears the upcoming release Princess Peach: Showtime! might have also been created in…
What did the critics think? The legendary video game character Lara Croft returns today in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. And if the title isn’t already enough of a hint, it’s a revamp of the first three games for modern audiences. You may have already seen our review here on Nintendo Life, but if you did…
Goodbye, old friend. The 3DS has had a good run over the years, but it’s at the end of its life now that Nintendo has concluded eShop sales and announced the shutdown of online play. Ahead of the shutdown of online play in April, Nintendo’s customer support service has also revealed repairs for the system…
Let’s kick shell. If you’re a gamer over the age of 30 with a decent amount of disposable income, then you’ve almost certainly heard of the Quarter Arcades range. As the name suggests, these are 1/4-scale reproductions of famous coin-ops, and the company has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the business to…
When old becomes new. Not many game franchises manage to ascend to the status of ‘iconic’, but Tomb Raider is undoubtedly one of them. Despite the original trilogy being released for multiple platforms, Lara Croft quickly became synonymous with the PS1, standing toe-to-toe with Crash Bandicoot as one of the console’s mascots. Since then, of…
It is possible… just about. When Super Mario Bros. Wonder first launched at the end of last year, we asked you lovely lot what your controller of choice was to take on the latest 2D platformer. We listed the likes of the Joy-Con, Pro Controller and the SNES pad — heck, we even pushed the…
18 years after its original arcade release. The vertically-scrolling shmup Triggerheart Exelica is heading to the Nintendo Switch, and Red Art Games is going all out with three physical editions to accompany the eShop launch. Originally released for the Dreamcast in 2007 after an arcade launch in 2006 (becoming one of the short-lived console’s final…