Works of cart. CTRL: Essays on Video Games is an anthology examining the cultural impact and effects of gaming through deeply personal reflections. Edited by Dean Fee, it’s a brilliantly varied collection filled with memories and illuminating accounts that run the emotional gamut. Lilliput Press kindly sent me an early copy and I finally managed…
Drumroll please… We are back with another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we matched up a pair of covers for the excellent Mario Superstar Baseball on the GameCube, and with two very different designs, it wasn’t even close. The Western design walked away with a comfortable 76% of the vote, leaving the more…
Launching next week. Last week, Square Enix confirmed its MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV Online would be launching for the Nintendo Switch 2 on 4th August 2026. Ahead of the release, the development team has now showcased gameplay footage of this version of the game. It starts at around the 13-minute mark, and the stream runs…
The Switch patch is “on the way”. Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game launched for the Switch last week and the developers have revealed some more plans for the title going forward. Firstly, the upcoming patches will add Ranked Mode, Lobbies, Spectator Mode, a Beginner’s Zone, more Casual Modes, new tutorials and combo trials. The team…
Silly season begins. As usual, the number of games coming out really picks up pace as we slide into the latter months of the year. September and October are looking packed, and there’s still a bunch labelled “TBA 2026” which need to slot in somewhere. Some will surely slip into next year, but be prepared…
Can I get a Booyah? It’s easy to forget that Splatoon isn’t Nintendo’s new kid on the block any more. The series started as a bold swing on Wii U in 2015 – a brand new IP in a genre that Nintendo historically hadn’t touched, released solely on its worst-selling console since the Virtual Boy….
Poké Preparations. The weekend is here, and all of us are hungry for a spot of gaming. It was a reasonably quiet week in the world of Nintendo this time. We finally got a release date for ‘Part 1’ of the Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass and our first look at ‘Part 2’, Nintendo announced Super…
Ahead of a service update next week. Following the news that two previously unreleased Virtual Boy titles would be joining the ‘Nintendo Classics’ service next week, Nintendo has now announced a limited-time discount on its cardboard headset in select locations. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Rebooting… Screamer, the arcade-style racing game set in an anime-inspired dystopian world, could be on its way to Switch 2 in the future. A rating has been spotted on the USK in Germany for a Nintendo version of the game. This “high-speed” game, which is filled with “merciless combat and a gripping storyline”, launched on…
Team Spirit. Fire Emblem is back! Fortune’s Weave is right around the corner, and in the run-up to its release on 17th September, Nintendo is rolling out the character introductions. Just like in previous series entries, we’d wager that team building will play a huge part in the next adventure, so we’ve assembled the following…