Category: Nintendo

Stunning Sandbox Survival ‘Core Keeper’ Is Digging Up A Switch 2 Edition Next Year

Core, blimey!

Publisher Fireshine Games and developer Pugstorm dazzled us with the gorgeous survival sandbox game Core Keeper back in September last year, and today they have announced that more is on the way in the shape of a swanky new Switch 2 Edition.

Arriving on 28th January, you can expect this one to feature beefed-up graphical fidelity and frame rate (targeting 60fps), as well as a bunch of visual tweaks in the lighting, shadow, water quality and particle effect departments to keep things looking super sleek.

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Reminder: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Is Available With A Switch Game Voucher

You can also pay to upgrade to the Switch 2 version.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is just days out from launch, and in case you missed it, you can redeem the eShop version of this title with a Nintendo Switch Game Voucher. You could also grab this version with a voucher and then pay to upgrade to the Switch 2 Edition of the game.

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Random: Takaya Imamura’s Animal Crossing Design Skills Put Our Best Efforts To Shame

Posterizer.

We’re no strangers to a good old Takaya Imamura social media post here at Nintendo Life. Whether it’s his wishes for a Star Fox revitalisation or his dreams of future movie adaptations, the former Nintendo dev is always on hand to give us something to think about. But today, all that’s on our minds is how inadequate our Animal Crossing: New Horizons design capabilities are.

You see, in the past 24 hours, Imamura-san has shared a couple of pictures from his New Horizons pad, flexing the iconic movie posters that he has recreated in staggering detail via the in-game Custom Designs app. To start, there were just three. Now, there are seven. And, simply put, they put our best efforts to shame.

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No More Robots Is Putting Out Switch 2’s Next 120fps Game

Build a rocket, boy.

Little Rocket Lab is a sweet pixel art automation game from No More Robots and Teenage Astronauts. It arrived on Steam and Xbox last month, and we have been wondering when a Switch release would follow ever since. Well, it’s coming real soon. What’s more, there’s a Switch 2 Edition in tow.

Little Rocket Lab – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, and its Switch 1 counterpart, will be available on the eShop from 10th December for £15.99 / $19.99 (or as a free upgrade for those who make the jump between systems down the road), and it boasts some pretty slick performance on the new hardware. Alongside the promise of boosted resolution, Teenage Astronauts have also got things running at a sweet 120fps — so you know those conveyor belts are going to be looking smooth as anything.

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Feature: The Tightest, Briskest Mario & Luigi Game Turns 20 Today And Deserves More Love

Silent partner.

For many years, it felt like Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time was the redheaded stepchild of the Mario & Luigi series. People criticised it for its more linear structure, overly long boss battles (at least in the US version), having to purchase items to use Bros. Attacks, and slightly cumbersome gameplay, among other areas.

Being released between the two most critically acclaimed games in the series certainly didn’t help. It even got skipped over for the remake treatment, unlike Superstar Saga (+ Bowser’s Minions) and Bowser’s Inside Story (+ Bowser Jr.’s Journey). Even if it may not reach the lofty heights of those two, I’d argue Partners in Time is still a fine game in its own right—and even more so two decades later, in light of subsequent entries.

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“A Very Polished Experience” – Digital Foundry Checks Out Kirby Air Riders

Waddledee-licious.

Kirby Air Riders has been out for a little over a week now, and our good friends over at Digital Foundry have been busy diving into the nitty-gritty to deliver a technical analysis of the pink puffball’s latest adventure.

Right from the jump, DF states that Air Riders “nails” the fundamentals, with super fun racing, Smash Bros. vibes, and super detailed new tracks.

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Call Of Duty Dev Sledgehammer Games Seeking Talent With “Switch Experience”

Signs of life.

It’s been a while since we heard anything about the Call of Duty series returning to Nintendo platforms, and now following the recent release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on other platforms earlier this month, there has reportedly been some signs of life.

According to Insider Gaming, a new job listing from Sledgehammer Games – seeking a “Senior Technical Artist” – has surfaced on LinkedIn, and in the ‘Bonus XP’ section of the application, the team notes how it would appreciate someone with “AAA mobile or Switch experience”.

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