Picture: Nintendo The Switch 2 is here! Just kidding. Nintendo’s newest gadget is actually the Alarmo, a clock that helps you get up in the morning. The device is the Mario maker’s latest whimsical yet bizarre attempt to meddle in the most unlikely aspects of its gaming fans’ lifestyles. The Week in Games: Return to ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube774kLook YouTube Last year, ahead of the release of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe ‘Wave 6’ DLC, Nintendo released a physical bundle in select parts of the world containing the Booster Course Pass (including Waves 1-5 and a free download of Wave 6). Now, in an update, a physical edition ...
Picture: Dreamworks / 2K / NFL / Marvel / Kotaku The most popular and best-selling games today often include expensive first-party exclusives, big multiplayer hits and outdated titles such as GTA-V that remain in circulation for years after their launch. However, that was not the case 20 years ago, as newly released sales figures show. ...
Picture: Nintendo/Kotaku Nintendo games and consoles are no longer being slashed in price, but occasionally you can find surprisingly good discounts. Whether you’re taking advantage of the time before Amazon Prime Day or just want to get rid of excess summer stock, the stars are aligning this week for some good Switch deals that probably ...
Picture: Microsoft / Kotaku The Xbox 360 is one of the best consoles of all time, which led the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads, among other things. This makes the closure of the Xbox 360 Marketplace End of July This is all the more bittersweet as the console’s storefront will be permanently offline, ...
There may never be a sequel Blood transfused or a PC connectionbut we have the next best thing: a PSX-style kart racing game inspired by it. Nightmare Kartwhich has had a long and rocky road to get to this point, is finally available and completely free of charge. Kotaku hopes for the (reported) comeback of ...
My best friends and I usually take turns playing games on game nights. These are often competitive shooters or co-op survival games that are particularly well suited to our needs. However, one night about two years ago, we hit an impasse until one of us jokingly interjected, “Let’s just play Mario Kart.” Within minutes, we ...
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life A group of Wii U and 3DS players managed to stay online, despite server shutdowns, for over 25 days. And, in the process, they managed to beat the 14-year-old record he held Hello 2 fans. GaffsNotLaffs (over it IgreRadar) follows users logged into the servers for a number of ...
In 2010 a group of Halo 2 Diehards called “Noble 14” remained logged in to the multiplayer shooter For weeks after Microsoft shut down online servers for the original Xbox on April 14th. The service’s final player was Apache N4SIR, which finally launched just after midnight on May 11th. Fourteen years later, a group of ...
Microsoft is still working hard to promote indie games. The company introduced a whole bunch of them, old and new, at its ID@Xbox 2024 showcase, but again Hollow Knight: Silksong was not among them. In addition to a little taste of what’s to come Palworld Creatures, we also got a first look at some newly ...
