Category: Nintendo

Launching 2025.

Publisher Apogee Entertainment and solo developer Eric Manahan have announced that the upcoming Metroidvania (or ‘Celestoidvania’ – bleeugh!) LUCID has 207% of its funding goal prior to its 2025 release on Nintendo Switch.

In addition, it’s been confirmed that veteran composer David Wise has been hired to provide the score for the upcoming title. Wise has worked on a number of key Nintendo published titles in the past, including the likes of Donkey Kong Country, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Star Fox Adventures.

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And it’s out now.

Publisher Dotemu has announced a substantial free update for Windjammers 2, and it’s out now for all owners.

The update contains a number of welcome additions, the first of which is a pair of brand-new characters: the android Jamma GX03 and Polish powerhouse Anna Szalinski. In addition, How to Play and Practice modes have been added, and online functionality has been given a nice boost with a Lobbies function and full Crossplay.

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He’s got manners, at least.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is just around the corner, launching on the Switch on October 20th, 2023. As such, Nintendo is ramping up its marketing campaign with adverts left, right, and centre, making sure that everybody and their Nan are aware of the upcoming title.

The latest ad is a rather amusing video showcasing Peach and her persistent stalker, Bowser, who forgoes the usual kidnapping plot in favour of a simple flower. However, a piece of Elephant Fruit tumbles by and is quickly absorbed by Peach, transforming her into Elephant Peach.

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“Stay tuned for more information!”.

This month marks the seventh anniversary of the action role playing game Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and it seems Bandai Namco might have something special planned.

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Tickets go on sale later this week.

Stardew Valley creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone is currently hard at work on the next major update for the farming and lifestyle sim, but if that wasn’t already enough, he’s now announced a whole concert tour taking place in 2024.

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A modest sum, hm?

After the initial tease last week, it thankfully hasn’t taken Lego and Nintendo too long to lift the lid on its latest collaborative line-up, revealing five sets based on the Animal Crossing franchise launching in March 2024.

With prices ranging from $14.99 all the way up to $74.99, the first batch in what we assume will be an extensive product line represents some of the franchise’s most beloved characters, including Tom Nook, Isabelle, and Kapp’n.

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So. Many. Games.

As we hurtle towards Holiday season, we can all agree that 2023 has been an incredibly strong year in terms of the number of quality games hitting the Switch eShop on a weekly basis. Last month alone, we published 34 reviews in 30 days, and we could have easily doubled that number based on the sheer amount of interesting-looking Switch software.

But, alas, resources are finite and inevitably we aren’t able to play and review everything we’d like to here at Nintendo Life. So, every six months or so we put out a call to our lovely community of readers to highlight gems that passed us by. Back in April, in Part 6 of our Reader Recommendations series, you highlighted 22 eShop gems, including Xiaomei and the Flame Dragon’s Fist, Floppy Knights, and Terror of Hemasaurus.

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Brick by brick.

After last week’s reveal, LEGO and Nintendo have unveiled all five sets coming in the Animal Cross X LEGO collaboration, which we now know launches in March 2024. At least that saves the bank balance during the holidays!

All five sets are available to wishlist now on LEGO’s website, and we’ve even got a cute little trailer showcasing all of them. The pages list each set as launching specifically on 1st March next year, so we’ll have to wait and see if that’s just a placeholder date.

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Firm seeking new permanent replacement.

In the wake of Unity’s highly controversial policy regarding runtime fees, which it has now altered based on community backlash, its CEO and President John Riccitiello has now stepped down. In addition, he has also stepped down from his position on the board of directors as chairman.

As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, the change is effective immediately with James M. Whitehurst stepping up as the interim CEO and President while the firm seeks out a permanent replacement. Roelof Botha, the lead independent Unity board director, has also been appointed chairman.

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Here’s what the critics think.

Ahead of the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder next week, the final round of previews have now gone live.

This new entry in Nintendo’s 2D series has already been widely praised by critics during hands on sessions, so what are the final impressions before the reviews drop? We’ve put together another round up.

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