The latest issue of Japanese Nintendo magazine Nintendo Dream is now in subscribers hands. Each and every month they quiz their vast reader base to find out which upcoming titles they are looking forward to the most. This month’s most wanted Nintendo game, now that Pokemon Sword & Shield is out, is Animal Crossing: New…
“I didn’t make this game as a joke”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! The year is 1991. ‘Video games’ — plastic, square-shaped cartridges that millions of people blow into every day — grip early-adopting proselytizers. Yet they…
Everybody loves a project, and that is exactly what social simulator Mineko’s Night Market taps into as soon as you press start. Out today on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC with Game Pass, the game introduces titular character Mineko and their father, who are the newest residents on a struggling, Japanese-inspired island and…
Give it a shot! We were all hoping to see Denshattack! on the Switch 2, and now our prayers have been answered. The title has been confirmed for Nintendo’s console and will launch on 17th June 2026. Hooray! That’s not all though! If you want to see what’s in store early, then a free demo…
Game prices may increase, too. An analyst has predicted that Nintendo’s next console will be an iterative evolution on the current Switch and will cost $400 at launch. Oh, and it’s apparently also coming this year. Speaking via a predictions round-up over on GamesIndustry.biz, Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games,…
O.Gat reportedly fuming right now. Somebody find a way to distract Akira Nishitani, and fast. The former Capcom developer is apparently getting itchy coding fingers, tweeting out some craziness about rebalancing 1994’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo – globally recognised as the fairest and least broken fighter in history. Nishitani – whose previous design work…
A whopping six years ago, former features producer Andy Kelly and I had a big ol’ fight. It was a respectful one, though, taking place exclusively in our respective articles regarding the news that Baldur’s Gate 3 would feature turn-based battles. Andy thought this sucked, wishing Larian had stuck with real-time-with-pause. I, meanwhile, was over…
Though FutureLab’s denying the rumours. After years of content updates and DLC, developer FuturLab has today revealed PowerWash Simulator 2. If that wasn’t news to scrub up for, it seems like it’ll be cleaning its way onto Switch 2. As the name suggests, this is a full-blown sequel to the 2022 clean ’em up (is…
Recently I’ve been considering buying a GeForce Now subscription to offset my ageing gaming PC, but now I’m thinking it might be worth hitting the local auctions. Apparently you can get fully-fledged RTX 3080 Ti PCs for just $32 from them. No, really, that’s what one lucky (he says, through gritted teeth) Redditor got from…
Atari® is excited to announce a collection of Atari Club Jackets created in collaboration with the apparel brand Members Only®. The collection, which includes black, red, and white racing-style jackets with Atari branding, are meticulous remakes of an original jacket offered exclusively to Club members in the early 1980s. This collaboration marries the nostalgic essence of…