Nintendo Life One industry leader that’s never released a video game on a Nintendo platform is the American developer and publisher Valve. Despite this, the company’s founder, Gabe Newell, is still a big fan of Mario’s creator. In a recent interview with outlet 1 News, Newell was asked if he still regularly played games himself ...
Tingle as seen in Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition (2018) (Image: Nintendo) Nintendo has created a lot of weird and wonderful characters over the years, but one of the standouts is Tingle. The recurring character, who first started out in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask on the Nintendo 64, was designed by Takaya Imamura. Today, ...
© Nintendo At the start of this month, Nintendo announced it was buying the Canadian developer Next Level Games. Now that the studio is becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nintendo, it appears to be on somewhat of a hiring spree – as over the past week it’s apparently relisted multiple jobs, originally posted last December. ...
We love a good oral history, and Bloomberg’s latest is all about the Xbox. Wait, come back! It’s still Nintendo Life, don’t worry, we haven’t changed teams. It turns out that Microsoft had big plans back when the Xbox was in development, and those plans involved trying to buy out a bunch of gaming companies. ...
Nintendo GamesIndustry.biz is back with its annual predictions for the year, and it seems like industry experts think it’s about to be a big year for Nintendo. Mat Piscatella of NPD, Dr Serkan Toto of Kantan Games, and Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis all predicted that the Switch family would be the best-selling console of ...
Tekken 7 (Image: Bandai Namco) During a New Year live stream, Bandai Namco Tekken 7 director Katsuhiro Harada mentioned how he was quite possibly working on the Japanese company’s “most costly development project” ever. Harada himself can’t even believe the higher-ups within the company gave it the green light. Here’s the translation, courtesy of Gematsu: ...
Update 2 [Sat 2nd Jan, 2021 04:45 GMT]: The anticipated issue of Edge spotlighting Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available. A post over on ResetEra has shared some of the highlights. Unfortunately, there’s still no release date, so keep an eye out for that in the future. There are some other interesting details in there, ...
Capcom director, Shinji Mikami, this year celebrates his 30th anniversary in the video game industry. To mark this special occasion, he’s done a lengthy interview with Variety discussing everything under the sun about his long-running career. During one section, he reflects on Resident Evil 4, which as you might recall, was originally exclusive to Nintendo’s ...
During the Nintendo 64 era, kart racing games were in their prime. Mario Kart 64 was followed by Diddy Kong Racing and Mickey’s Speedway USA, and over on other platforms, like the PlayStation, there was Crash Team Racing. One other lesser-known kart racer was Square’s 1999 release Chocobo Racing – a game based on the ...
Edge’s teaser…does it look like Hornet to you? The Edge Online Twitter account recently shared a tweet about its magazine’s next issue (out 31st December) and it has sent Hollow Knight fans into an absolute frenzy. As you can see in the reply tweet below – the image on display is believed to be a ...
