This article is part of our new experimental series, Backlog Club, where we (Nintendo Life!) pick a game that’s likely to be on our list of “games we should get around to playing”, and then we (NL + you!) spend the next month playing that game. This is the halfway point, the Part One of
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Balan Wonderworld creator Yuji Naka recently confirmed that the reason he couldn’t talk about the 3D platforming mess that is Balan Wonderworld is because he had taken Square Enix to court for unfair dismissal after they removed him as the game’s director resulting in a unfinished product being shipped to consumers. Square Enix has now
Following on from the news that the Octo Expansion DLC for Splatoon 2 is now available for free as part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, Nintendo has issued a “vibe check” to fill players in on the relationships, grudges, crushes, and, er, edibility (?) of all of the game’s characters. Look, it’s
Nintendo has been on a roll lately with additions to the Nintendo Switch Online retro libraries. It seems that the company is no longer doing a sporadic drip-feed of content, with at least one retro game being added to a retro library every couple of weeks or so. And Nintendo has decided to continue that
Image: Netflix Netflix has unveiled two teaser trailers for its upcoming Resident Evil series, due to release on July 14th. You check out the trailers themselves in our original post, but in the meantime, there’s an awful lot to unpack here, so we thought we’d share some of the most intriguing images from the two
With such an extensive variety of indie games arriving to Nintendo Switch, there’s something for everyone to look forward to! In a new Indie World Showcase presentation, Nintendo and its publishing and development partners from around the world revealed new details about 20 indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch family of systems, including four titles
Image: Bandai Namco Bandai Namco has released its financial results for FY2022 and its looking mighty promising for the publisher. With a total of ¥125 billion ($963 million) in profits, this marks a staggering 48.2% rise from the previous year. Net sales rose 20% to a total of ¥889 billion ($6.8 billion), due largely in
EA has announced this evening that they have ended their lengthy deal with FIFA and that their next game in the series will be called, EA SPORTS FC. The company posted the following message on their website confirming the name change and their commitment to hugely popular football game going forward. In the message the
Image: Nintendo Life via YouTube In-person events have been slowly returning around the world, and MomoCon is the latest annual convention to come back after a two-year hiatus. And they’ve got an extra-special guest to celebrate. The gaming, comic, and pop culture show will take place in Atlanta at Georgia World Congress Center from 26th
Nintendo Switch Sports has been available for nearly 2 weeks now. Since then, dataminers have been gradually looking into the game’s code to see if there’s anything interesting that Nintendo is planning in the near future. Sure enough, they found something. Twitter user Wipeoutjack7 has revealed that “there will be 28 total collections, meaning possibly
Image: Nintendo Nintendo Switch Sports is a bit of a bare bones experience, to say the least. We said just as much in our review, and our lovely video team previously discussed the reasoning behind our 6/10 score in more detail. To clarify, it’s not a “bad” game by any means, but the lack of
Former Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aimé, has spoken on the Kinda Funny Games Gamescast about the Nintendo games which didn’t hit the mass market as he expected. Reggie singled out singled out Metroid: Other M as the game which he thought would be a “defining” moment for the long-running series. He said he was
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s the second Sunday in May, which means it’s Mother’s Day in a great many countries around the world (although not in the UK, where Mothering Sunday falls in March). We’re celebrating Mother’s Day this year in a very special way and looking back fondly on one particular
Reggie Fils-Aimé, formerly Nintendo of America’s President and Chief Operating Officer, has been busy promoting Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo, his new book. Reggie has also been taking part in interviews. For example, G4’s Xplay Live interviewed him. At one point, Reggie is asked what his favorite non-Nintendo game.
Every May you’ll see various organisations, groups and individuals taking the opportunity to raise mental health awareness. It’s a topic that now has far more research, understanding and knowledge attached to it, in the process helping people recognise and get help for related issues. The stigma around mental health issues is thankfully being reduced each
Despite being five years old, the Nintendo Switch family of systems continue to sell well each week in the land of rising sun with Nintendo’s competitors Sony and Microsoft struggling to gain a substantial foothold in the ever changing Japanese gaming market which is dominated by mobile gaming. David Gibson has revealed (via Famitsu) that
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Indie publisher Ratalaika Games has today announced that it is bringing Next Game Level’s hit Steam shoot ’em up Remote Life to Switch later this month. Launching on PC back in 2019, and sitting at a ‘Very Positive’ rating on Steam, Remote Life was created by one person
The classic Nintendo 64 game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which was produced by the legendary video game developer, Shigeru Miyamoto, has recently been inducted in the Video Games Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, USA. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time joins other classic