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Ah, nostalgia — it’s a tricksy thing. How many times have we gone back to revisit a treasured classic only to find that modern games have spoiled it for us? For all the brilliant aspects of retro games, the mod cons and performance we’re used to now are pretty fantastic, too, and sometimes going back

You might recall that there is a Minecraft movie in the works. In fact, it has been in the works for many years now. At one point, it was even slated to release in 2019, something that Mojang had even confirmed, before that ultimately didn’t happen. The movie isn’t cancelled though, and things are beginning

Image: Nintendo Life Welcome to the future. You, dear reader, are reading these words in the far-off, distant, sci-fi future year that is 2024. While the hoverboards, flying vehicles, and inside-out trousers have all apparently been delayed in this branch of the timeline due to some spacetime-related cock up, at least Skynet is coming along

It’s that time of the week again when Famitsu readers share the games that they are looking forward to the most. There’s absolutely no change at the top spot for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth which leads the pack by quite a mile with 790 votes. The most wanted Nintendo Switch game is Level-5’s cancelled horror

Image: Alan Lopez / Nintendo Life Have you ever seen an original Contra up close? What about an original Mario Kart? For Stephan Reese, organizer and showrunner for the non-profit Interactive Art Collection (and a Senior Producer at video game developer Bungie when he’s not busy doing that), it’s his life’s mission that you might

In a recent interview in Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, Super Mario Bros. Wonder director, Shiro Mouri, revealed a little more about the character choices. When it came to the loveable Yoshi they were originally going to include the egg throwing mechanic, which Yoshi has had in previous adventures. However, they felt that this wasn’t

Image: Kit Ellis I have an idea for a video game. Actually, I’ve been making it for about six months now. My video game is a rhythm-based game. It’s also an American football game. To play it, you choose between plays, just like any sports game … but your play only succeeds if you push

The 2023 holiday season may be coming to an end very soon, and the new year arrives in just a couple of days, but that hasn’t stopped the Switch 2 rumor mill from churning at a steady pace. In fact, a new Switch 2 rumor has recently appeared online that may be very interesting to

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Image: Epic Games Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim returns to Fortnite to celebrate

The latest UK charts have come through a little later than usual, due to Christmas, for the week ending 23rd December. The best-selling game was EA’s unstoppable EA Sports FC 24 which is closely followed by the delightful Super Mario Bros. Wonder which climbed this week to No. 2. There’s six Nintendo Switch games in

Image: Nintendo Life Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kevin remembers how Stardew Valley kept the spark alive and prepped him for living with his partner… Relationships can be hard. And when you add in long distance, that

It seems a lot of gamers received Super Mario Bros. Wonder for Christmas as the game very narrowly missed out on the No.1 spot in the UK boxed video game charts. Christopher Dring, who publishes the UK charts each week on Games Industry, says that in terms of physical releases in the United Kingdom, Super

Image: Nintendo Life The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been a critical and commercial success, garnering glowing reviews across the board (including from this here outlet) and making a lot of Switch owners very happy in the process. All that praise is thoroughly well-deserved, but with several AAA developers and publishers slowly

Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai isn’t going anywhere any time soon, as he has informed fans in his latest YouTube video on creating video games that he is “still creating games for the time being.” While this isn’t a guarantee regarding the next Smash Bros. game, it should ease some people’s minds. Sakurai has been

Image: Nintendo Basildon In the gaming industry, Nintendo sets itself apart not just with the quality of its games and its evergreen catalogue of classic characters, but also a focus on community. Whether through software that brings people of all ages together, hardware features like StreetPass, or the local multiplayer functionality baked into every single

The Famitsu Super Popular Game Awards 2023 recently took place and you will be wondering who this year’s winners are. The Famitsu Super Popular Game Awards 2023 were voted by 188 Japanese game creators and game fan celebrities. It was The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which took the crown with the majority

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Image: Nintendo Life In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer

The team at Forever Entertainment has announced a free expansion to Front Mission 1st: Remake which sounds fairly meaty. The expansion is titled Mercenaries, and it will be arriving next year. Gematsu reports that the expansion will feature brand new single-player scenarios, a local multiplayer hot-seat mode, new mercenaries, and a new commander character, which