Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life The Soapbox features allow our individual writers and contributors to share their opinions on current topics and random things they’ve been chewing over. Today, Tim reflects on 35 years of Tetris on the Game Boy and how it taught a generation – several generations, in fact – how to … Read more
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble (June 25) Subscribe to Nintendo Life at YouTube769k We’re just a few weeks away from the first brand new (non-mobile) Super monkey ball game over a decade, and Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble looks… pretty good. With plenty of cutscenes featuring the cute new monkey, tons of new stages and … Read more
Image: SIE / The LEGO Group While rumors about LEGO Horizon Adventures were swirling the week leading up to Summer Game Fest, we never could have imagined that we’d see the Nintendo Switch logo appear at the end of the hilarious reveal during the live show. PC for sure, but Aloy on Nintendo? This made … Read more
Image: Nintendo Life In a rather unusual move for Nintendo, company chairman Shuntaro Furukawa himself took to Twitter when the company’s year-end earnings went live in May to confirm two things: a new hardware announcement would be made before the end of the current fiscal year (so no later than in April 2025), And that … Read more
The problem with Summer Game Party, like all Keighley’s shows, is that they live and die by the content shown – and this was a particularly weak one. While we fully expect Microsoft to pick up the slack later this weekend, now that the trio of publishers have all been squeezed into one showcase, it’s … Read more
Image: Push Square We are only a few days away Summer Game Party – an event that now aims to fill the rather large gap left by E3. Geoff Keighley’s big summer party may not have the grandeur of those legendary shows, but it’s still prominent enough to attract announcements and updates from publishers around … Read more
That’s why we’ve rounded up some of our best predictions for the big Xbox event in 2024. This is by no means a lock-in… we’ve just put together a few ideas that we hope will become a reality. The last three of these are ‘wildcard’ picks, so expect them to be a little less realistic … Read more
Image: Nintendo Life Brace yourself: May is over, the big summer of gaming is here, and it’s time for eShop Selects again. Time flies! To say May was crazy is a bit of an understatement. Nintendo may have had two big(ish) releases with Endless Ocean Luminous and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but have you … Read more
Jim Norman, staff writer I rolled credits on Animal Well this week, which means I only have about 97% of the game left to complete. I plan to do some serious exploring this weekend and see how many times I can mutter to myself, “Wait, how long have I been able to do this?” That?” … Read more
Well, the original is my favorite game of all time, which is easily a 10/10 for me. For the remake, I would give it a 9 or a 10, but it’s hard to say. In many ways the game is an improvement over the original, but there are other elements that I don’t think I … Read more