Games

Says more Dragon Quest announcements are coming “soon”. If you’re familiar with Dragon Quest, one other name you’ve likely heard before is Yuji Horri – the creator of the famous and long-running Japanese RPG series that’s been active for more than 35 years now. Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Here’s what the critics think. Kirby is not the only one with a major release this week, Switch fans in the west can finally get their hands on Rune Factory 5. Now that the game’s been out here for a few days, we’ve gathered up a handful of reviews. If you haven’t already checked out […]

HAL Laboratory talks about the Forgotten Land. Last July, Nintendo kicked off a new ‘Ask The Developer’ series – inspired by its famous series ‘Iwata Asks’. So far, it’s released an entry on Game Builder Garage, the Nintendo Switch OLED and Big Brain Academy, and now the latest one focuses on the upcoming first-party release, […]

Go on, tell ’em! Earlier this week, Nintendo dropped a major firmware update – bumping the software up to version 14.0.0. The talking point of this update is the ability to now group software together. While it’s not exactly the folder feature fans have been requesting, it should make your game library a little bit […]

Go on, tell ’em! Earlier this week, Nintendo dropped a major firmware update – bumping the software up to version 14.0.0. The talking point of this update is the ability to now group software together. While it’s not exactly the folder feature fans have been requesting, it should make your game library a little bit […]

“It’s been an honor”. Nintendo of America employee Samantha Robertson has revealed she’s left the company after 11 years. If you’ve ever tuned into a Treehouse stream, you’ve likely seen Robertson on camera showcasing an upcoming release. Samantha started out in 2011 as a localisation writer and editor (including product development & publishing) at Treehouse. […]

Those are some expensive dogs. Across the Nintendo Life staff, we’ve probably collectively been in and around the games industry for at least a couple hundred years… and yet, there are still things that surprise us every day. Today’s surprise was finding out that one of the holy grails for 3DS collectors is a game […]

If you have the gil, that is. No doubt about it, Yoshitaka Amano is one of the most famous video game artists in the world, and probably one of the most famous Japanese artists too. His distinctive, elegant character designs and illustrations brough together western comic book art, Japanese woodblock print, and Art Nouveau to […]

There’ll also be a Twitch Plays race. Pokémon is one of the most popular gaming franchises in the world, and as such can be utilised to bring players together. To that end St. Baldrick’s Foundation (the largest non-government funder of cancer research in the US) is planning a week-long Twitch marathon called ‘Catch a Million […]

2D scrumptious. Another excellent puzzle-platformer is making its way to the Switch: Toodee and Topdee, a game that plays with dimensional perspective to create a ton of brain-tingly levels to solve! Toodee and Topdee is all about the two titular characters, who can each see from a different perspective. Toodee sees everything as a 2D […]