Sometimes you just want to take it easy. Maybe you want to dive into a new genre with unfamiliar mechanics, or you’re just not ready to face the unforgiving, inscrutable games like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight and the like. If you are looking for simple games for Nintendo Switch — games that stay engaging and ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Before there was Nintendo, there was Atari. Once a dominant player in the gaming industry, his story is one of dramatic rise and fall. For years, Atari did little more than sell licensed T-shirts and shoddy plug-and-play consoles. But since coming under new management in 2021, Atari appears to ...
platinum games Apple Arcade Exclusive Games Demon world Its service has ended and it was completely removed from the market on January 18th. Earlier this week, PlatinumGames shared a brief blog post announcing that Demon World would soon no longer be playable. “World of Demons will no longer be available for download on Apple Arcade ...
Image: via Famitsu / Hamster Corporation To kick off the new year, Hamster Corporation has announced that it will add A powerful guy to the Arcade Archives collection this week. The game is out today and should be on the Switch eShop soon. This action game made its debut in 1986 and requires players to ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube It’s been another action-packed year of retro releases from Hamster Corporation, and to go out with a bang, the Japanese video game company will be releasing the 1991 fighting game Taito. A lone fighter on December 28. This should be the last Arcade Archives release for 2023! Solitary Fighter ...
Nintendo Life: It’s been over 16 years since WayForward’s last foray into the Contra franchise with Contra 4 on the Nintendo DS. Can you explain to us how this latest project came to fruition? Tomm Hulett (Director, WayForward): Konami Digital Entertainment (KONAMI) and WayForward had a good relationship working on Contra 4, and over the ...
Image: Nintendo Life Looking back over the past 12 months, it’s been an incredibly fruitful year for gamers, with the Switch enjoying an excellent seventh year on store shelves. Industry-wide layoffs in the second half of the year created a sobering counterpoint to the glut of great games, and occasionally the backlog of pandemic-related projects ...
Felix Sanchez, video producer What’s on the menu this weekend? Well, aside from my grandma’s wonderful cooking, we have Pikmin 4 and Outer Wilds! Both are space-based, but very different games. Pikmin 4 really surprised me with how good the gameplay loop is, and all the music tracks are just sublime. And Outer Wilds surprised ...
Hello, survivors! I’m Evan Wolbach, co-founder of Dead Drop Studios. We look forward to telling you all about it Broken rail, our aggressively entertaining on-rails arcade shooter, launching today on Xbox Series X|S! Since we last shared details with you, our first Unreal Engine 5 game has expanded in every way! A “cry” that you ...
Recorded on Nintendo Switch (plugged in) Cave, the shooter developer formed from the ashes of Toaplan, was about to fold in 2001. The arcade scene was moving in new directions, relying on increasingly ostentatious Taikan cabinets to compete with the emerging home console technology. For Cave, the 2D shoot ’em up, no matter how unfailingly ...
