Grab it right away. A lot of people may not realise this, but HAL Laboratory isn’t actually owned by Nintendo. It may have been responsible for the likes of the Kirby, Smash Bros and Mother series and its main office may even be located in Nintendo’s Tokyo building, but the developer remains independent and could […]
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Immortals Fenyx Rising Switch eShop File Size Revealed
Make some space. Immortals Fenyx Rising – previously known as Gods & Monsters – arrives on the Nintendo Switch early next month. If you’re planning on downloading a digital copy of the game, you might be interested to know just how much space it will require. According to the eShop game page, the file size […]
Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects – October 2020
October’s best Switch eShop games! Another month has flown by with another bunch of quality games launching on Switch eShop in October, including an eccentric little game which managed to earn a coveted 10/10 score from this very website. These awards aim to celebrate the best of Nintendo’s digital store, giving some love and attention […]
Frame Rate And Resolution For Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Demo Revealed
How does it hold up? Earlier this week, Nintendo released a demo for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – allowing everyone to try before they buy. Some have gone much further, putting the game’s performance under the microscope. And if the demo is anything to go by, it looks like the frame rate will be […]
Switch Version Of Horrifying ’90s-Style Shooter Dusk Delayed
Dev unsure when it’ll be released. There’s been a lot of Nintendo Switch game delays this year, and another that won’t be released on time is the horrifying first-person shooter, DUSK. In short, it’s inspired by ’90s favourites like Doom, Quake, Hexen and even Half-Life. It was originally scheduled to arrive on Halloween, but according […]
Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For November And December 2020
The big Switch games still coming in 2020. The spooky season is almost over, the pumpkins will soon be smashed or cooked up into soups and pies (or absent-mindedly left to shrivel on the window sill before getting thrown in the trash in a couple of weeks) and November arrives with promises of longer nights, […]
Control’s eShop Page Reminds Us About Harsh Realities Of A Cloud-Based Future
Losing control. Here in the west, it seems cloud gaming is now a thing on Nintendo’s hybrid device. As you might have heard, a cloud version of Control got a surprise release on the Switch eShop this week and more games – like Hitman 3 – are on the way. Read the full article on […]
Review: Disc Room – A Meat Grinder Of A Game Which Packs A Real Challenge
My god, it’s full of discs. In 1977, the United States launched the Voyager program, in which NASA launched two probes into deep space as a sort of “bottle into the cosmic ocean”. Aboard these two probes, golden phonograph discs were included bearing images and sounds relevant to all cultures and forms of earthly life, […]
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story Gives LoL A Turn-Based RPG Twist In Early 2021
LoL for the Switch. The League of Legends IP is heading to consoles early next year in the form of Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, and thankfully ‘consoles’ includes everyone’s favourite hybrid system, too. Yep, the game — developed by Airship Syndicate and the first to be published by Riot Forge — is […]
Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel #66 – Resident Evil 0
From hero to zero. Welcome to Box Art Brawl, the battle between box art variants from around the globe scrapping to win your vote. Last time we lost our collective minds in the company of Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, although we regained our composure enough to see the metaphysical North American and European version win […]