Category: Nintendo

And which outstayed their welcome?

We’ve all watched films that could have stood to lose 30 minutes from their runtime. That whole last act of Bad Boys II? Should’ve been left on the cutting room floor, mate. It’s the same with many a game. Alien: Isolation is fantastic, but how much better might it have been with a little tightening, to remove some flab in the middle?

Our video producer Felix-from-Nintendo-Life — yes, that’s his legal name now, for sure — has explored a good handful of the games that, for him, had the absolute perfect runtime. Not too short and, crucially, not too long, the games he looks at in the video above struck the perfect Goldilocks balance.

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Cabinet envy.

Masahiro Sakurai’s latest YouTube video has us looking at our measly game collections in shame as the legendary designer has given a full rundown of his storage solutions for just about every cartridge/disk size that you can think of.

It should come as no surprise that this is a man with a beefy games collection (even if he has said that he prefers to buy digitally these days) and the latest video gives a full tour of how all of those purchases can fit into one house. The answer: with careful planning.

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Coming this year (hopefully).

Ron Gilbert, the mind behind the Monkey Island series, has started sharing some information about his upcoming RPG adventure game and it is looking like a retro delight (thanks, Time Extension).

The as-yet-untitled project is “Best described as Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park” according to the Terrible Toybox website — a trio that we had never imagined together, but a rather tasty-sounding combination all the same.

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Just in time for the first anniversary.

To celebrate the first year anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo’s Switch Online service has re-released various themed icons.

If you missed this run the first time around, you now have from 20th May 2024 until 27th May 2024 to grab the first wave featuring plenty of familiar faces. The icons as usual are priced at 10 Platinum Points and the borders and backgrounds will set you back 5 Platinum Points.

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“It gets me very excited”.

In case you somehow missed it, a second Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming to cinemas in April 2026 and it likely won’t be the only big screen outing to follow the original film’s release.

Speaking to GamesRadar+, the movie voice of Mario Chris Pratt mentioned how he could see Nintendo and its partners releasing “lots” of films based on the company’s IP over the next decade:

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THIEF.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kate discusses one of Mario’s criminal — and criminally underrated — pals…

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Sometimes I suspect that, in another life before this one, I was a thief. In this life, I’m a relatively boring, mostly law-abiding person – albeit one who’s occasionally tempted to ‘accidentally’ put in expensive produce as something cheaper when I’m at the self-checkout, AKA God’s little test – but when a game gives me the chance to be light-fingered, I go all in.

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Fable-ous.

Dear Villagers has announced that the cosy, accessible city builder Fabledom — which launched on Steam today — is also coming to Nintendo Switch later this year. Grenaa Games’ debut title will also be getting a physical version alongside the eShop release.

Taking the popular city builder genre and giving it a fairy tale twist, Fabledom sees you creating the perfect kingdom for you and your subjects. Inspired by The Settlers, Foundation, and Kingdoms and Castles, Fabledom aims to deliver a laid-back take on managing, building, and expanding your town.

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Biomutant X.

It’s been a long road for Biomutant‘s Switch release. The action RPG originally came out almost three years ago, back in May 2021, with the Switch version slowly getting pushed back time and time again. However, Experiment 101’s debut title is finally here, but it maybe should have been held back for the Switch’s successor.

Biomutant takes place in a post-apocalyptic open world, where the Tree-of-Life, a gigantic natural wonder that brings life to the whole world, is slowly being destroyed by five creatures gnawing away at its roots. You begin the game by creating your mutant character who, during the adventure, can choose to save the Tree-of-Life from these creatures and let the tree heal or let the world fall to ruin. After the intro tutorial, you can visit a variety of tribes scattered throughout the corners of the world, side with them, and complete quests that meet their wishes for the world. Some want it to fall to the plague and others are united in trying to save the Tree-of-Life.

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Become the Hero of Time.

Alongside the first anniversary of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it’s been announced the Bandai Spirits Tamashii Nations ‘Proplica’ Master Sword will launch in Japan later this year. Pre-orders have also gone live.

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A closed beta will take place next month.

Update :

In a new “release date trailer” earlier this week, Bandai Namco revealed Gundam Breaker 4 will be launching locally on 29th August 2024. In the latest trailer, you can get the rundown on how to break, build and battle “like never before”.

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