Category: Nintendo

“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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Suika Game takes out the top spot.

As we approach the end of 2024, Nintendo has revealed the most downloaded Switch eShop games of the year in Japan.

As you might expect, the usual titles and series are on there like Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter. There are also a few surprises, indie representatives and viral sensations like Suika Game (which took out first place).

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HAL be there.

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!

Unless you’re a dedicated Famicom collector, it’s unlikely that you’ve heard of Metal Slader Glory. Released right at the tail end of the Famicom’s life in 1991, the year after the release of the Super Famicom, Metal Slader Glory never made it out of Japan, and it proved to be a massive flop for HAL Laboratory. But the very magnitude of its failure helps to explain the close relationship that exists between Nintendo and HAL today, with the latter producing games like the first two Super Smash Bros. entries and the Kirby series exclusively for Nintendo consoles.

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“When you play it, you feel connected, not judged”.

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 June. Enjoy!

Developer Witch Beam isn’t ready to rest on its laurels. After creating two wildly different games — the twin-stick shooter Assault Android Cactus and the BAFTA award-winning, heartfelt puzzler Unpacking — it’s ready to move back to the outside and go with something even more relaxing.

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“I feel like I made the book almost for him”.

Sitting down to speak with Jonathan Traynor, a Glasgow-based artist and writer, about his newly-released book, POCA!, we were expecting a few things. Y’know the sort of stuff: how the Kickstarter went; where the idea for the book came from; hopes for the future; picks for the Top of the Pops Xmas #1; and so on.

However, in spending an hour with this huge fan of all things Game Boy Camera, we find ourselves enthralled and engaged in ways we just didn’t see coming. Why? Well, because at the time we’d been drinking eggnog all morning. But also, because Jonathan’s passion for one of the Game Boy’s coolest peripherals is infectious. You can’t not find out something you didn’t know about this technological marvel whilst spending an hour in this man’s company.

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