Category: Nintendo

If you build it, they will run.

Following a hugely successful launch on Steam back in 2020, indie developer Spiderling Studios has brought the physics-based medieval vehicle-builder Besiege to Switch. What’s more, it’s available right now.

This is a game that will see you building deadly devices to take on whichever army is unlucky enough to stand in your way. What you build is entirely your call, with over 70 different blocks at your disposal and enough inspiration out there to keep you going for a while (just take a look at the above trailer).

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$699 is the new $599.

Recently, we asked you if $499 would be too much to pay for a ‘Switch 2’. 20% of respondees said ‘nope’, nearly 30% thought it would be too much, and the majority (rather sensibly) said that it would depend on how big of an upgrade Nintendo’s next generation of hardware represented.

Yesterday Sony pulled back the curtain on the long-rumoured PS5 Pro, an iterative update to its existing console which offers a spec-bump that, as Mark Cerny said in his presentation, looks to close the gap between performance and fidelity modes. Showcasing a modest but noticeable boost (at least when zooming in on the pixels as the presentation did) to several games in Sony’s back catalogue — including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (2023), Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021), and The Last of Us II Remastered (2024) — the price was then revealed: $699 / £699 / €799.

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Pokéman(hole cover).

It’s easy to dazzle us Nintendo fans with a giant Wiimote, a Toad barbershop quartet and a wall of pristine NES games, but to make a manhole cover exciting? That feels like a bit of a stretc- oh my GOD is that Pikachu?!

Nintendo has revealed a special manhole cover which will be housed in Kyoto’s Nintendo Museum and it’s quite the looker (thanks, GoNintendo). Nope, we never thought we’d be saying that about a manhole cover either, but here we are.

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“We just have to ask for everyone to give us time”.

Konami has reiterated its plans for a second volume of the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection but admits it doesn’t want to rush development after “all the issues” it had with the first collection.

This update was shared during the ‘Q&A’ segment of the latest ‘Metal Gear Production Hotline’ broadcast, featuring the series’ production producer Noriaki Okamura.

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One is the Mario Wonder OLED bundle.

Last week, a rumour about Nintendo launching a new Switch OLED bundle with a copy of Mario Wonder surfaced online.

This was shared by reputable leaker billbil-kun of Deal Labs, and now the same source has expanded on this – with claims multiple new Switch bundles (including the Mario Wonder one) are on the way to Europe very soon. In total, there are five deals listed. Here’s a translation via ResetEra:

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Slam dump.

There was a time when the yearly NBA 2K Switch entry was something to look forward to. Each year was a step back from the next-gen counterpart, of course, but the Nintendo port offered a near-full-fat experience with the added bonus of portability. Those were the days, eh?

Anyone who picked up NBA 2K24 will have realised this is no longer the case and, unfortunately, the same can be said this time around. NBA 2K25 is the same game we saw 12 months ago, but, somehow, with even fewer features than its predecessor. The gap between the Switch port and next-gen has become a gaping chasm and, with a £50 price tag attached, 2K25 might be the most egregious example of a Switch ‘Legacy Edition’ to date.

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Here comes the boom.

Lena Raine has so much to say, and she’s figured out a lot of different ways to say it all.

Of course, avid game players have been listening to her musical scores for over a decade now, which includes music for Minecraft, as well as the soundtracks for Chicory: A Colorful Tale and the BAFTA-nominated Celeste score. She’s currently scoring the respective follow-ups to those games: Wishes Unlimited’s Beastieball and Extremely OK Games’ Earthblade.

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“Word for word, bar for bar”.

Following the embarrassment of Concord‘s recent launch and almost immediate removal from sale, Sony has scored a win when it really needed one. Astro Bot launched last week to critical acclaim, sitting with a 94 Metascore and being described as a serious contender for — if not the new owner of — Mario’s 3D platforming crown.

If you’re out of the PS5 loop and want a little overview, our friends over on Push Square have all the Astro Bot coverage you could want, so definitely check out their glowing 10/10 review:

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Zelda’s adventure is out later this month.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is just weeks out from release, but we already know a little bit about it thanks to hands-on impressions and gameplay reveals.

The map of the Hyrule in this particular entry has also surfaced online, and now we’ve got another look courtesy of Game File’s Stephen Totilo. As you can see in the brief video footage below, there are all sorts of points of interest. This isn’t a complete version of the map (with many points of interest still unidentified) and other sections like the ‘Still World’ are not on display.

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“A must-own for fighting game fans”.

The big week has arrived for the fighting game community, with the launch of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.

Many fighting game fans already suspected this was going to be an all-star package, and it seems like it’s living up to expectations. In our own review here on Nintendo Life, we’ve awarded this collection a “excellent” nine out of ten stars – calling it a stunning showcase of ’90s fighter evolution.

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