Image: Nintendo The highlight is getting the master sword in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. No matter how you come across it — whether you’re following the Geoglyph sidequest or just accidentally bumping into it — it’s a magical moment and gives you one of the best swords in the game. But ...
Image: Masahiro Sakurai When he’s not making games or making videos about game design, Masahiro Sakurai likes to entertain himself in a variety of ways. In his latest post on social media, the director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate revealed the LEGO set he received for his 54th birthday earlier this week (via rough translation). ...
Image: Nintendo Life Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube773k Masahiro Sakurai dives back into his video game knowledge with video all about the intricacies of NES and Famicom audio. What begins as an introduction to the various console audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise, and DPCM) soon turns into a history lesson on how audio ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube773k Well, here’s something you don’t see every day! Arena shooter Xeno Crisis, which launched on the Switch eShop in in 2019 (and has already been released on more retro platforms), is getting a “physical and digital” release for the Game Boy Advance in the Fourth quarter 2024. Pre-orders are ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube772k If you’re anything like us, then chances are you already have a pretty good idea of what the different roles in game development entail. Sometimes, however, it can be good to freshen up a bit. Let’s take directors and producers for example. It is not entirely uncommon for the ...
Image: Nintendo In addition to this weekend’s Splatoon 3 Splatoon 3 ‘Summer Nights’ Splatfest, Nintendo has released a special new interview featuring all the past and present groups and idols appearing in the series. These include ‘Deep Cut’, the ‘Off the Hook’ crew from Splatoon 2 and the ‘Squid Sisters’ from the first Splatoon game. ...
Image: Joshua Barretto via YouTube Last month here on Nintendo Life we covered the story of a coder named Joshua Barretto who decided to remake Super Mario 64 for Nintendo’s 32-bit handheld, the Game Boy Advance. If you weren’t already impressed by this technical feat, this palm-sized project now has a new update. In a ...
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life Last year in May, Nintendo’s Japanese support team revealed that it would end repairs for the Wii U when the current supply of parts runs out. Now, in an update a little over a year later on its website, it has announced that service for this system (originally released ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube769k Masahiro Sakurai talks about Super Smash Bros. again. Ultimate on his YouTube channel (what do you know!). This time, the focus is on the crash animations and how it’s more of a collaborative effort than you might expect. Those who’ve been paying attention to the legendary game designer’s videos ...
Picture: Masahiro Sakurai on game creation Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai previously mentioned that he planned to shut down his YouTube channel, and now he’s shared another update about it on social media. According to a rough translation, he has now finished filming the last episode. Just don’t expect to see it anytime soon, ...
