Category: Nintendo

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection! Shogun Showdown! Yars Rising!

The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – Highlights

NBA 2K25 (2K, $6th Sep, $59.99) – Stack wins, raise banners and make history in NBA 2K25. Experience enhanced gameplay and command the court with ultimate control over how you play. Compete your way in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyLEAGUE and Play Now with your favorite NBA and WNBA teams. Express your personality with an extensive array of customization options and explore an all-new Neighborhood, where opportunity awaits behind every door.

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“H-he’s standing!”.

It’s no secret that we love Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom‘s Addison here at Nintendo Life (at least, I do), so when we heard that Affordable Space Adventures dev Nifflas was solving the NPC’s sign-standing puzzles in creative ways, we had to take a look. Reader, we were not disappointed (thanks for the tip, d-slice).

Now, when most of us solve an Addison puzzle in TOTK, it’s a simple case of slapping a nearby boulder underneath the President Hudson sign or, at most, building a rudimentary frame for it. Not for Nifflas, it seems.

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It’s sounding very promising!

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is fast approaching and we’ve now got the first batch of preview impressions doing the rounds. This includes a “hands on” courtesy of our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney:

“We left wanting more. Wishing we could stay on and progress further than we were allowed, wishing we could take a copy home and start playing around with everything. We even wanted to replay a lot of what we’d already done because we knew there were other ways we could have done things, and because the game doesn’t really care how you solve something as long as you solve it.”

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But there’s no mention of a local release.

SNK has announced ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 1 and ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 2 for the Nintendo Switch. Both collections will be released in Japan on 12th December 2024. If we hear anything about a local release, we’ll let you know.

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Another rumour about previous-gen compatibility surfaces.

One question everyone wants to know is if Nintendo’s next-generation hardware will include backwards compatibility support. Previous hardware releases from the Japanese firm have supported this feature, so will this be the case with the Switch successor?

Following the latest round of industry whispers about this anticipated device, “industry insider” Nate the Hate is now claiming this new device “has backwards compatibility support”. This latest update (via VGC) follows similar backwards compatibility claims from peripheral maker Mobapad earlier this year.

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“That’s how I like to start a morning.”.

If you deem yourself the ultimate Zelda fan, no matter the quality of the product, then you should probably count The Legend of Zelda’s ’80s cartoon among your collection. Wait, you don’t own it? Well, fortunately, DIC Entertainment’s 13-episode run is getting a DVD rerelease later this year.

Pre-orders for The Legend of Zelda – The Complete Series went live on Amazon over the weekend (via @VideoArtGame) — we’re honestly not sure how we missed it — and the rerelease will be out on 22nd October 2024. Should give you plenty of time to finish Echoes of Wisdom then, right?

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Blocked.

After years of casting rumours and speculation, we finally have our first official look at the live-action Minecraft movie — or ‘A Minecraft Movie‘, to give it its official title — and it looks… well, about as horrifying as you’d think a live-action Minecraft movie would be.

Releasing in cinemas on 4th April 2025, the film sees a group of ordinary humans (played by Jason Mamoa, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, Emma Myres and Danielle Brooks) pulled into Mojang’s blocky world thanks to a mysterious portal. There, they meet “expert crafter” Jack Black sorry, Steve, who will have to help them make their way home.

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Wario would be proud.

Nintendo’s Wario Land series has always occupied a unique niche in the company’s extensive catalogue with its weird humour and unconventional approach to platforming tropes, which is why fans have been greatly let down by the fact that there hasn’t been a new entry in over 15 years. To fill the gap, an indie team called Tour De Pizza came out early last year with its own spiritual successor called Pizza Tower, offering a polished and thrilling adventure into a truly insane food-themed world. Since release, Pizza Tower has quickly built up a high reputation for its creativity and gameplay design, and now that it’s come to Switch, we’re pleased to report that it is indeed a fantastic platformer.

Pizza Tower places you in the role of Peppino Spaghetti, the chef and owner of a failing pizzeria who finds himself threatened by an evil sentient pizza named Pizzaface who lives nearby in the titular tower. Pizzaface has a laser on top of the tower which he’s going to use to destroy Peppino’s pizzeria, so our daring chef dashes off to climb the tower and destroy the evil pizza and his minions once and for all.

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Could the Birdman rise once again?

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series celebrates 25 years this month and although there’s not been much talk about this milestone, the social channels for this series have now generated some discussion online.

Activision’s official social media account for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater on ‘X’ has been updated with a new banner and logo acknowledging the 25th anniversary of the long-running skateboarding series. It seems the copyright is also marked with a ‘2024’ date, which has led to even more speculation.

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Stages altered, visual changes and more.

One of the major surprises during Nintendo’s Partner Showcase was the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, coming in 2025.

This new collection will contain eight games (covering series like Street Fighter and Capcom vs. SNK) and will also come with a bunch additional settings, training modes, rollback netcode and much more.

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