Category: Nintendo

New Horizons on the block.

Nintendo’s latest collaboration with Lego has resulted in a handful of Animal Crossing sets, a crossover that fans have been begging for ever since the firms’ first collaboration, the LEGO Super Mario sets, were announced back in March 2020 — coincidentally Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ launch month.

In the years since, we’ve seen a bunch of Nintendo-themed Lego sets encompassing the more play-focused Super Mario series to the grander, more expensive sets like the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Mario 64 ‘?’ Block, and the mighty Bowser, which are aimed at older gamers.

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We’ve certainly Senna lot worse.

Every now and then you get an indie developer who you can rely on to deliver a banger pretty much every time. New Star Games is one such developer, having already scored healthy scores on Nintendo Life in the past for New Star Manager (which scored 8), Retro Bowl (9), and Retro Goal (8).

Alongside its Switch releases, it’s also been responsible for a bunch of fantastic mobile games, including the likes of the New Star Soccer series, New Star Cricket, and New Star Baseball. Essentially, everything New Star touches turns to gold, but it’s also fair to say it has a style of game it’s best known for: retro-style sports games.

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Based on the 2023 movie.

You wait for news of a new Turtles game and then two come along in the space of a week. Yes, after being revealed last year, Outright Games and Paramount Games Studios have now announced that its upcoming Mutant Mayhem-based game will be called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed and it is coming to Switch this year.

Developed by A Heartful of Games, Mutants Unleashed is set to be a 3D brawler/platformer which takes place shortly after the events of 2023’s hit animated film. A new band of mutants are descending on New York City and it is up to the heroes in a half shell to stop them — we won’t go into details about the movie’s plot here, but seriously, you should watch it.

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The first game released on the eShop in 2018.

Way back in 2019, developer Red Hook Studios announced a sequel to its brutal role-playing game Darkest Dungeon.

Now, following the release of Darkest Dungeon II on Steam last May, a rating for the game has popped up in Brazil and it lists multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch (thanks, Gematsu):

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It wants to move away from “one-and-done console game”.

After revealing in November last year how it wanted to focus on transforming its biggest franchises into live services, Warner Bros. has now reiterated this at the Morgan Stanley conference earlier this week.

According to WB Discovery gaming boss J.B. Perrette, it’s no longer about launching “a one-and-done console game” but focusing on a live service where players can live, work, build, play and return to regularly:

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Dual-screen dreams.

We are still receiving top-notch releases by the bucketload on Switch, but as the console enters the latter phase of its lifespan, we are well and truly in remake & remaster territory. The Wii U barrel has quickly run dry (though some remain that we’d like to see make the jump to the hybrid) and recent years have seen Nintendo turn to the DS and 3DS catalogue for inspiration — and gosh has it proved useful so far!

Last year brought us the likes of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection and 2024 has already served up Another Code: Recollection, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy and Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, with Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, The Legend of Legacy HD: Remastered and more (probably) still yet to come.

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Wahoo!

Mario Day is almost upon us (10th March – MAR10, get it??) and Nintendo is wasting no time with getting the celebrations underway. Those who want to make the most of the calendar event of the year can now pick up a 14-day Nintendo Switch Online trial for free.

This offer will be sticking around until 18th March at 6am GMT / 5am CET / 1am ET / 11:59pm (17th March) PT and grants you access to all of the features of a standard Nintendo Switch Online subscription. As well as getting involved in online play, you will also be able to hit up the entire NES, SNES and Game Boy NSO libraries.

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The next Legend of Heroes game arrives.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, the 11th entry in Falcom’s long-running Trails series, is launching in the West on Switch on 5th July 2024.

Publisher NIS America shared the announcement on Twitter, along with a brand new, if brief, trailer introducing us to Melchior of the Thorns, a member of the group Almata. We also get to see the main protagonist Van in action against another character. Van can transform into the Grendel, a very cool-looking armoured beast that looks to play a heavy role in the game’s story.

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Sharing is caring.

The Nintendo Switch has crossed the threshold and is now in its eighth year. All attention seems to be turning to what Nintendo has up its sleeve for the next generation of hardware, but for the time being, the Switch is still very much alive and kicking.

To mark the occasion, Switch Weekly has revealed its annual ‘State of Switch’ survey. Also celebrating seven years in the biz, the survey covers all things from your gaming habits, your history with the console and what you would like to see Nintendo do next.

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Details about new sets might have been leaked.

Following the arrival of the Animal Crossing sets last week, Nintendo and LEGO are now teasing “something” ahead of ‘MAR10 Day’ later this week.

Whatever is planned is apparently getting revealed on 9th March during an “exciting” Super Mario-themed broadcast. In the brief trailer above, you can hear some sounds at the end and then the clip is cut.

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