Please wrap it up.
Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in September. Enjoy!
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’s reliving Splatoon 3’s epic climax…
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Firing on all cylinders.
Things really weren’t looking good for Atari for a while. Before current CEO Wade Rosen shifted the company’s focus back to retro gaming, Atari had its eyes firmly on cryptocurreny and… hotels? Yeesh. It wasn’t great. Now, however, the future looks bright for the once-mighty Atari, with the firm’s acquisitions of Digital Eclipse and Nightdive Studios seemingly paying off.
To demonstrate this, Atari has released a 2024 recap video in which it showcases every major release from the previous 12 months. While Atari itself has a few noteworthy launches here such as qomp2, Yars Rising, and RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, it’s the addition of games from Digital Eclipse and Nightdive Studios that make 2024 such a stellar year for Atari.
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Here comes the boom.
Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in September. Enjoy!
Lena Raine has so much to say, and she’s figured out a lot of different ways to say it all.
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Wondership..?
Just recently, it was revealed that developer Acquire worked with Nintendo to brainstorm “over 100 options” for the title of its new RPG that would go on to be called Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
Now, in a fresh interview with Nintendo Dream (thanks, Nintendo Everything), producer Akira Otani states that one of the potential titles in consideration was actually ‘Mario & Luigi Wonder’, but the team was forced to abandon this idea when Super Mario Bros. Wonder released on 20th October 2023.
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“The technology is not going away, and people know what it can do”.
Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in August. Enjoy!
The entirety of the trading card community — that is, people who collect, buy, and sell the Pokémon Trading Card game, sports cards, Magic: The Gathering, Disney, or literally any trading card game you can think of — has gradually become aware of what might be an existential threat to the entire concept of opening up a blind pack of trading cards.
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Hello, my pretties.
Another year, another set of beautiful-looking Switch games to savour. Even as the Switch is approaching its eighth birthday, we’ve seen a stunning variety of art styles grace our OLED (or NoLED) screens.
We know the Switch 2 is on the horizon, and we can’t wait to see what our favourite games look like on the successor, but developers have been working their magic with the ageing Nintendo console. Even in the year of the PS5 Pro, we’ve seen some of the best art styles on show on the Switch.
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Worth a thousand words.
Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in July. Enjoy!
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Nathan goes mapping the pixels…
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“We didn’t have any intention of ever making a sequel”.
Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in July. Enjoy!
The original Volgarr The Viking might have flown under a lot of folks’ radar when it launched back in 2013, but it’s one of those games where if you know, you know. It garnered a solid 8/10 from us when it landed on Switch and it’s cultivated a hardcore, dedicated fanbase whose members are constantly speedrunning the game. Its precise level design and enemy placement met with widespread critical acclaim, but developer Crazy Viking Studios had no intention of ever making a sequel.
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If you know, you know.
First 4 Figures has released all sorts of stunning figures over the years and the latest one it’s now teased is a statue of Metal Sonic.
Metal Sonic debuted in Sonic CD (playable in Sonic Origins on Switch) and will be “coming soon” to the First 4 Figures line, with pre-orders for this statue set to open on 7th January 2025. It’s noted how the final product may be slightly different when it is released.
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The 15th anniversary takes place next year.
Square Enix and PlatinumGames’ excellent action-adventure RPG NieR:Automata has reached another lifetime sales milestone – surpassing the nine million mark in total shipments and digital sales.
This title originally launched on the PlayStation 4 in 2017 with the Switch ‘The End of YoRHa Edition‘ following in 2022. This follows an update in February of this year, revealing the game had shifted eight million units.
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