Image: Nintendo It’s crazy to think that DK is called anything other than Donkey Kong, but there was a time when Nintendo considered other possibilities, including some wild swings. In the 80s, Nintendo and Universal were on opposite sides of a lawsuit, with Nintendo accused of basing DK on the iconic movie star King Kong. … Read more
Know Fortnite is the experience of the absolute fever dream and a mixture of various media that compose it. The current season, Chapter 5 Season 3, takes war vehicles that look straight out of a Mad Max movie, combines them with items from the Fallout games, and then adds a heavy dose of inspiration from … Read more
The candidates – Light fantasy While not necessarily part of the traditional Zelda formula, a light fantasy setting is a hallmark of all Zelda titles. It is also common in Zelda clones. Here are a few franchises Nintendo could use if they stuck to the fantasy trope: Child Ikarus Let’s start this list with perhaps … Read more
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, Francisco considers a small Joy-Con addition that could set the upcoming ‘Switch successor’ apart… Nintendo can’t resist a tempting hardware innovation. Think of the D-pad of the Game & Watch, the … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life at YouTube769k 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 Jim shines a light on an already dazzling Direct drop… It took me a few hours to get down after the June Nintendo Direct. The … Read more
Image: Nintendo Life The arrival of Rareware’s classic Perfect Dark and Acclaim’s Turok: Dinosaur Hunter via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack was a very welcome announcement in the June 2024 Nintendo Direct. Both titles are the first entries in Nintendo’s new, separate N64 app with a ‘ MATURE 17+’ label. Following on from the … Read more
Tuesday’s biggest shock The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom The reveal, of course, was that Princess Zelda will be the playable protagonist. The second biggest shock was that the game even exists and is coming out in three months. The third biggest shock took a little longer to register, but it’s potentially an even … Read more
All products are independently selected by our experts. To help us provide free, unbiased advice, we earn an affiliate commission when you purchase something. Click here to learn more Nintendo has put the finishing touches on a brand new Nintendo Switch that will hit store shelves on September 26, 2024. Unfortunately it is not the … Read more
Image: Nintendo Life When Nintendo closed its latest Direct presentation with the full reveal of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, the world got a little louder for a moment as fans celebrated the glorious return of one of the company’s most revered franchises. FinallyAfter its initial announcement in 2017, Prime 4 is scheduled to launch in … Read more
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – One of the Biggest Reveals of the Season (Nintendo) GameCentral looks back at the non-E3 season of video game preview events and provides a scored review for each season. If this had been pre-Covid, it would have been E3 last week, the largest video game trade show in the world, … Read more