Wes Ball is on directing duties. Nintendo has announced that it is working on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie with producer Avi Arad and director Wes Ball. Following the immense success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Illumination, the Zelda project will this time be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Read…
Every first-party game that has sold over one million copies. Updated with sales figures from Nintendo’s Q2 FY24 financial report – enjoy! At the time of writing, the Switch has the highest number of software sales of any Nintendo console, ever, with over one billion games sold on the platform since March 2017. What’s more,…
“We looked to take a page out of Nintendo’s book”. Revealed at Gamescom back in August and coming to Switch (and Steam) in 2024, Wild Country is described as “a cozy-competitive card game with city-building elements” by its developer, Lost Native. The game involves constructing buildings for the critters of Big Sky County while collecting…
Here we go again. Rumours of the Switch successor are hotting up by the day, though Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa seems keen to challenge the accuracy of the claims (thanks, Nintendo Everything). In a recent financial call, the contents of which were written up on the Japanese site Mainichi, Furukawa dug into some of the…
No, not THOSE ones. For decades now, Nintendo has fostered a family-friendly image that has made the brand a firm favourite with gamers both young and young at heart. It would be hard to argue that Switch isn’t the family console to own, given its colourful library of top-tier software and the convenient way the…
All grown up. Wow. Today marks eighteen years since the first post on Nintendo Life, and by any measurement, that is a long time. The site is officially all grown up and will likely celebrate down the pub with a beer tonight with its best friends Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension. Whether you’ve…
Another gem from First 4 Figures. Toy and model company First 4 Figures has launched pre-orders for a new product called ‘Banjo-Kazooie Duet’. Based on the 1998 N64 classic Banjo-Kazooie from developer Rare, the statue comes in three flavours, each accompanied by a rather eye-watering price tag. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
All-Star Bawl. Just two years after the release of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, the Nicktoons have been thrust together once again in the name of licensed platform fighting, of all things, in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. The original was a solid outing with deep mechanics, but was held back by a lack of polish outside of…
Meet Garotron OS. Publisher QuByte Interactive has released the launch trailer for its upcoming ‘horror life-sim’ Bem Feito, launching on the Switch this week on November 9th, 2023. The trailer evokes commercials from the ’80s and ’90s, featuring atmospheric clips, a soothing voiceover, and an appropriate CRT filter to make things look extra authentic. It’s…
Mario Movie and other projects lend a hand. Nintendo has today published its financial report for Q2 FY2024 and it looks like things have been going really rather well. On top of some meaty sales figures for the likes of Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4 and the Switch console itself, the report finds that…