Fresh blood is coming in… again. Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, the series where we throw two or more regional box art variants into a ring and watch them kick seven shades out of each other in a fight for your vote. Last time we watched Advance Wars: Dual Strike give itself fifteen birthday […]
Tag: Nintendo
The Switch Version Of The Outer Worlds Is Getting A Patch Next Week
Visual changes and more… Since the arrival of The Outer Worlds on the Switch this year, Virtuos and Private Division have been hard at work on a patch to improve the overall experience. It’s expected to lift the quality of the visuals and also the game’s performance. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Random: Sakurai’s Cat Is Also Curious About Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
The demon beast appears. Legendary game designer and director of the Super Smash Bros. series, Masahiro Sakurai, has been playing Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit this weekend, and like other cats, his own seems to be equally as intrigued by Nintendo’s latest release. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
GameStop Switch Allocation Has Reportedly Improved
Did Reggie play a part? Earlier this month, GameStop announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Microsoft – including enterprise and commercial elements. Microsoft will reportedly share digital revenues with GameStop on every Xbox it sells. There have been some concerns raised about how this partnership will potentially impact other console manufacturers’ presence within GameStop. Fortunately, […]
Review: Hardcore Mecha – Thrillingly Overblown Anime-Style Robot Action
Mechnificent. If you’re a fan of great big robots mercilessly smashing each other’s massive metal heads in – and let’s face it, who isn’t? – then RocketPunch Games’ superbly stylish 2D side-scroller Hardcore Mecha would like a very loud word. This is an absurdly overwrought anime adventure spread across a solid seven-hour campaign which sees […]
Video: This Might Just Be The Greatest Guardian Kill We’ve Ever Seen In Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
Seriously, it’s impressive! Guardian Stalkers in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are something you’re taught to fear from the beginning. Early on in Link’s adventure, the natural instinct is to turn around and run – or at least duck for cover – before one of these ancient machines shoots you down with […]
Feature: Playing The Name Game – Developers Discuss The Art Of Finding The Perfect Title
Game name: Origins. There was a time when naming your company’s latest video game was simple. Just programmed the first golf game for your 8-bit system? Great! Slap Golf on the cover and print 200,000. Likewise Tennis, Baseball and so on. They were simpler times, and the following 16-bit console generation wasn’t much more complicated. […]
Review: Ben 10: Power Trip! – An Underwhelming Adaptation Of A Cartoon Favourite
It’s hero time. The Ben 10 franchise is one of the most popular productions from Cartoon Network, with a fourteen-year run that’s spanned five iterations of the TV show, with the current one being a reboot of the first show. As one would expect of a multimedia franchise such as this, a litany of video […]
Video: The Best Nintendo Switch Games You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (Part 2)
Well, maybe… Have you played every single Switch game in existence? Of course not! Do you know who has, though? Our very lovely senior video producer Alex Olney. Oh, wait, no he hasn’t…but that’s not stopped him from putting together this list of games you’ve “probably” never heard of (part 2). If you’re wondering about […]
Feature: Best Nintendo 64 Games
The top 50 N64 games ever, as ranked by you. We asked Nintendo Life readers to rate their favourite N64 games, and it’s now time to reveal the results! The Nintendo 64 is a console which tends to divide gamers. Launching back in 1996 (or 1997 in PAL regions) as the gaming industry’s bread-and-butter switched […]