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Image: Nintendo Life You hear that? It’s coming. GOTY season is coming for us all… [Wakes up, startled, a little bit of dry dribble] Wha—!? Oh, it’s you. Hello! Welcome to Round 17 of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your

Rare Ltd., the developer of the Banjo-Kazooie series took to X to share their excitement for the upcoming rerelease of Banjo-Tooie on Nintendo Switch through the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. “Banjo-Tooie! On Nintendo Switch for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion members! NEXT WEEK!” “Exciting to see this one available in another modern way (alongside@XboxGamePassand Rare

Image: Tokyo Game Life The first generation of Pokémon games features some of the most iconic locations in the entire franchise. The eerie Lavender Town, the winding Viridian Forest, and the quaint Pallet Town where all players start their journey. Pallet Town isn’t just a fanciful creation, but draws real-life inspiration from Pokémon creator Satoshi

Speaking to VGC, Dave The Diver creator and newly-appointed CEO of Mintrocket Jaeho Hwang said that he’d like to take the IP into uncharted waters by creating games based around various characters from the first game and seeing what stories could be told about them. The statements come after Mintrocket’s recent split from parent company

Image: Hound Picked Back in 2018, Dutch indie studio HomeBear — a two-person team made up of partners Joshua van Kuilenburg and You Miichi — released NAIRI: Tower Of Shirin, a lovingly-made point-and-click adventure game which we awarded an 8/10 in our review. It’s been a fair old while, but the duo is now gearing

Pokémon Home recently added a Mystery Gift function, and its first distribution is now underway. A shiny Meloetta will be available for players who have completed the Paldea, Kitakami, and Blueberry Academy pokédexes in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet. The Level 50 Mythical Pokémon comes in a Cherish Ball, with the Serene Grace ability, and the

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Nightdive Studios’ quest to revive some of gaming’s most bizarre and long-forgotten treasures shows no signs of slowing down. With the release of PO’ed: Definitive Edition earlier this year, it was a clear-cut signal that the team is ready and willing to embrace titles that may not be the most

Nintendo Switch Online members will be treated to a selection of profile icons based on Super Mario Party Jamboree from now until November 13. Four waves of icons can be expected, with each wave having its own characters, backgrounds, and frames for members to redeem. Backgrounds and frames will cost 5 Platinum Points, while characters

Image: Nintendo Life Hello there, and welcome to the latest edition of our ‘Games We Missed’ series. As you might gather from the name, this is our bi-annual round-up of reader-recommended Switch games which we weren’t able to cover for one reason or another. We asked Nintendo Life readers to send in suggestions for Switch

It has been around a few months now since Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition officially released exclusively on the Nintendo Switch. Since then, there has been only one single update for the game, and that was around the time the game had launched. Otherwise, Nintendo‘s post-launch support for the game has been very quiet. Well,

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) A totally original pixel art fighting game in 2024 is certainly a welcome surprise. What’s more of a surprise, though, is discovering that Mark Minkyu Chung touts himself as a solo game developer. Known by his developer handle Rarebreed, we hopped to Blazing Strike’s credits roll to corroborate the seemingly

Believe it or not, it has now been 3 years since Nintendo added the Expansion Pack to Nintendo Switch Online‘s subscription service. The Expansion Pack comes with the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance and SEGA Genesis retro libraries. So, to celebrate, Nintendo acknowledged the occasion with a new newsletter email. What may make some of

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube780k The Stone of Madness, the upcoming RTS adventure from Teku Studios and The Game Kitchen, has already bagged a release date. The Spanish monastery-set stealth adventure was re-revealed at Gamescom 2024, four years after Teku Studios originally announced the title. But now the game is set to launch

Wario Land-inspired action-platformer Antonblast has been delayed a month due to its developer, Summitsphere, being based in the southeastern United States, where Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton have left hundreds dead and millions without electricity. Summitsphere head and Antonblast director Tony Grayson shared on X that everyone from the studio is safe, but that the

Image: Nintendo Life This time last year, the thought of having a new top-down Zelda in our hands felt like a pipe dream. But then Echoes of Wisdom came along and reaffirmed the idea that the future of the series might not be an exclusively open-world, 3D affair. But our minds are now drifting to

It has been over 7 years now since Fortnite released, and 6 years since it had been officially ported over to the Nintendo Switch. Since then, it has quickly become one of the very few live-service games to see massive success. The game is so big that it even has 3 games that were released

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Modern survival horror games looking to recapture the aesthetics and essence of classic titles from the ‘90s often make one fatal mistake. You see, when fans who were around to play Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark: A New Nightmare on the PS1 look back, they do so with

For many years now, video games have always been at risk of being leaked online, especially when the game is getting very close to releasing. Not only does this happen to Nintendo with their first-party games, but third-party video gaming companies have also had to deal with games leaking before they are slated to release.