Category: Nintendo

“Banjo’s been hibernating long enough, right?”.

Having helmed well-received entries in the Spyro/Skylanders and Crash Bandicoot lines, developer Toys for Bob has form with 3D platformers featuring beloved childhood characters. Perhaps unsurprisingly, according to a new interview, the team would be interested in reviving another fan-favourite series: Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie.

Speaking with Canadian Guy Eh (thanks, Windows Central), Toys for Bob’s co-studio head Paul Yan mentioned the bear-and-bird series as one he’d like to see brought back, highlighting Team Xbox as “a great partner”.

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He’s finally back…

Apart from Mario Kart World for Switch 2, Nintendo has also announced Donkey Kong Bananza is on the way to the new system.

This game will be released a month after the Switch 2 launch and although it’s still a while away, we’ve now got our first impressions. As you might have seen, we’ve already shared our ‘hands on’ here on Nintendo Life and thought it was shaping up to be great stress relief after a long day.

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Try them out today.

Nintendo has wrapped up this week by adding three more Sega Genesis / Mega Drive classics to the Switch Online Expansion Pack. These titles include the original Streets of Rage, Super Thunder Blade, and ESWAT: City Under Siege. You can check out the Switch Online trailer of these games above.

This follows the addition of four SNES titles being added to the base tier not long ago. Of course, to access the latest Sega additions to this library, you’ll need to have an active Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership.

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Our picks for the best eShop games from March on Switch 1.

Hello, hello, we’re here — nothing at all happened last week, right? We didn’t miss anything?

Okay, you might have noticed, but things got a lil’ hectic last week, hence why our regularly scheduled eShop Selects is a bit later than normal. This are changing in the world of Nintendo, and soon, we’ll have plenty more eShop exclusives come the Switch 2.

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It’s a whole SaGa.

Surprise! Vampire Survivors is getting a huge free update today, and it’s moving away from Konami and joining forces with Square Enix.

Announced during today’s Triple I showcase, it’s not a Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts DLC — both of those would be amazing, of course, but we really admire the choice that poncle settled on. The new Emerald Diorama Expansion focuses on Square most unusual series, SaGa.

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Grab your free items now.

Nintendo announced Splatoon 3‘s returning SpringFest a few weeks back, but the explosion of Switch 2 news means that the starting date has crept up on us.

As a new piece of SpringFest art from @NintendoUK so rightfully reminded us, the latest Splatfest is almost here, with the three-team competition kicking off on 12th April at 1am BST / 11th April 6pm PT (we’ve specified all the regional times below).

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Mario Kart: Single Dash!!

Sure, Mario Kart World‘s free-roaming and knockout races are something, but do you remember back when you used to be able to squeeze two racers onto one kart? Now that was a hook.

That’s exactly what Mario Kart: Double Dash!! brought to the table in 2003, the first and last time we would see the mechanic crop up in the series. However, the classic GameCube racer was almost a lot more singular, with Nintendo considering parking the dual-driver gameplay for something more in line with what players had seen before — the horror.

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Just so you know.

One of the many games Nintendo highlighted during the Switch 2 Direct last week was the new Zelda title Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. This is another Koei Tecmo Musou game where you’ll take control of multiple characters and unleash all sorts of attacks on seemingly endless hordes of enemies.

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“Exclusivity kind of mitigates the sticker shock”.

There has been all sorts of commentary about Nintendo’s $80 price tag on Mario Kart World and how this could potentially impact the industry and consumers going forward, and now the former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has shared his thoughts.

Appearing on the ‘PlayerDriven’ YouTube channel and podcast recently, Layden linked Nintendo’s game price increase back to the relevance of “exclusives” and how “the only place you can play Mario” and other Nintendo IP is on a Nintendo platform. He also thinks fans often “want that content so bad” it effectively “mitigates the sticker shock”.

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Nintendo: “All options are on the table”.

Last week, Nintendo confirmed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker would be sailing onto the Switch 2 as part of the GameCube library at launch.

If you’re worried this might rule out the Wii U HD version of the game making a return one day, it seems there’s still hope. Tim Gettys of Kinda Funny Games spoke to Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of product development Nate Bihldorff and was informed “all options are on the table”.

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