Category: Nintendo

Step up to the podium.

Atari has announced that NeoSprint, the first ‘Sprint’ entry since 1987’s Championship Sprint (well, technically 1989’s Badlands), will be racing onto the Switch eShop next month on 27th June, 2024.

As detailed in the newly released trailer, the game will feature modernised visuals with an updated isometric view of the action. You’ll also be able to build and completely customise your own tracks, adding in ramps, jumps, and decorative items across four biomes: forest, desert, winter, and city.

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Win Splatfest – Check.

Update #2 : Well, the world itself might not have ended (phew), but Splatoon 3’s apocalypse-themed Splatfest certainly has, as we have a new winner.

It was Frye’s Team Bucket List that walked away with the win this time, pulling in an impressive 415p. Team Same Ol’ narrowly missed out on the gold with 395p, while Save the Day brought up the rear with 60p.

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For a slightly more cerebral platforming experience.

Updated with Planet of Lana and the excellent Braid: Anniversary Edition. Enjoy!

The Switch has a lot of platformers, and a lot of puzzle games, and that extends to puzzle platformers. If you’re raising your eyebrows and saying, “What are you on about, you can’t just combine them like they’re ice cream flavours,” then stick with us. It’s a thing, we promise.

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Issue #12 – May 2024.

Welcome back once again to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. My word, it’s been a full year since we first opened up our inbox to your missives! Time flies when you’re anxiously awaiting word on Nintendo’s next console.

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Ballin’.

Let’s get the ball rolling on another edition of Box Art Brawl, shall we?

Last week, we matched up two covers for Capcom’s Demon’s Crest on the SNES. The regional designs shared few similarities and the same can be said for the spread of votes, with 84% of picks falling in Japan’s favour. Talk about a washout!

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“Get hype for over 7 classic TAITO games”.

Last year, it was revealed Taito Milestones 3 was on the way to the Switch and it’s now been confirmed it will be arriving locally on the eShop in Winter 2024.

The third retro collection will feature “over seven classic Taito games” between the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hamster Corporation, known for its work on the Arcade Arcade series, has also helped Taito with this upcoming release.

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Well, well well.

Oh, weekend! How we have missed thee!

The past seven days might not have been the Switch successor-confirming news fest that we saw last week, but there has still been plenty of good stuff happening in Nintendo land. The NSO Game Boy library got a tasty boost with the addition of three new games, we got a first peek at Splatoon 3‘s Sizzle Season 2024 and Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe shared yet another update on those much-anticipated ver. 1.6 console ports.

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And a “free cape” for Minecraft players.

It’s a big week for Minecraft with the game currently celebrating its 15th anniversary, and as part of this, all sorts of celebrations are currently taking place.

In the leadup to the Minecraft Movie, due out in cinemas on 4th April 2025, two of the film’s stars – Jack Black and Jason Momoa – have featured in a short but incredibly high-energy skit. It will be interesting to see how this translates when the movie arrives next year.

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“He’s a true genius in that world”.

The Legend of Zelda live-action movie has been in the headlines quite a bit over the past few weeks, and now Sony has chimed in, reiterating just how “massive” it’s going to be thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto’s “strong vision” of this particular world.

Here’s exactly what Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman had to say during an interview with Deadline – noting how The Super Mario Bros. Movie also benefited from its collaboration with Miyamoto and labelling him a “true genius” when it comes to Zelda, as he knows the world and “understands it thoroughly”:

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Out on Switch next week.

Nintendo of Canada has announced it will be celebrating the upcoming launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch by partnering with a bunch of streamers for the launch of the game.

According to an official post on the Nintendo website, the lineup of streamers includes TeaWithMandy, Le Jeu C’est Sérieux, and Thedragonfeeney. Here’s the full rundown, with the streams going live next weekend:

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