Between WarioWare, NES Remix, and Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition, Nintendo has a thing for chopping its games up. Small chunks, often. When it comes to Nintendo World Championships, the clunky name is by far the longest part. As for the rest of the game, it’s, what, 10 seconds, 50 seconds at a push? This … Read more
I just reviewed the Asus ROG Ally X , and I named it the best Windows gaming handheld – and I emphasize “Windows” heavily here. Because when you open the floor to PC gaming handhelds in general, the Steam Deck OLED is the Switch-equivalent combo-breaker of price and usability that remains atop the throne. Don’t … Read more
GameCentralPublished Jul 17, 2024, 3:25 PM|Updated Jul 17, 2024, 3:26 PM Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club – Nintendo Gets Mean (Nintendo) The mystery behind Nintendo’s new 18-rated game has been solved and the game is due out next month, but there’s no indication yet that Bloober Team is involved. It’s still surprising … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube772k Remember NES Remix on Wii U? We loved watching it back in the day, and now Nintendo has seen fit to revisit similar territory with Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, a game that aims to put you in the shoes of a Nintendo World Championships competitor! Okay, maybe we’re … Read more
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a carefully crafted nostalgia trip, in the style of the decade-old NES Remix games, that plays on the competitive spirit of the esports event that Nintendo launched over 30 years ago. Despite being another collection of worn-out NES titles repackaged as a minigame speedrunning challenge, I can’t Nintendo World … Read more
I really like Shadow of the Erdtree. I like the varied, spectacular environments. I like how the dungeons are more convincingly integrated into the world design, the map as a whole is a puzzle to solve. I like the visual style, how the emergence into each area is framed like a Renaissance painting of an … Read more
Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to buy games and accessories for your Nintendo Switch. There are dozens of great Nintendo Switch deals this year, with major Mario games and other titles on sale. Outside of Black Friday, Prime Day often offers some of the biggest Switch game deals of … Read more
Image: Nintendo Soapbox features allow our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random things they’ve been mulling over. Today, Nile ponders whether it’s time to hit the (rewind) button… Last month, Nintendo announced that it would be adding Metroid: Zero Mission to its Nintendo Switch Online service. For me, … Read more
Jim Norman, Editor Just like last weekend, I’ll be pouring my heart and soul into Hades for the next few days. I’ve yet to complete a full run (I had to take a break for my own sanity after reaching Hades’ second attack phase before dying), but I’m determined to do so soon. Pretty cool … Read more
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life Soapbox features allow our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random things they’ve been chewing over. Today, Gavin asks what “success” looks like for systems with impossibly popular predecessors… If we look back at Nintendo home console hardware sales over the past forty … Read more