Image: Gemma Smith / Nintendo Life Monolith Soft, the studio behind it Xenoblade Chronicles series, is expanding its internal engine for use on future titles thanks to its newly founded R&D department (thanks, Automaton). This is what the company’s chief creative officer Tetsuya Takahashi and lead developer Michihiko Inaba say in a recent interview with ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube774kLook YouTube The Baten Kaitos games returned last September, and if you enjoy the music from Monolith Soft’s JRPG series, you might be interested in Bandai Namco’s latest announcement. The soundtracks for Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean as well as Baten Kaitos: Origins are now available on ...
Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube773k This week marks the second anniversary of Switch exclusive Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and while nothing has been planned for the occasion, it seems the game’s character designer Masatsugu Saito has shared some new artwork on his social media page. It’s an illustration of the character Eunia, with some English ...
SAO, Dragon Ball, One Piece and more. With Anime Expo 2024 this week, Bandai Namco hosted its ‘Summer Showcase’ for 2024. The main show and pre-show were packed with various anime-related announcements, with many of the featured games coming to the Switch. While most of the games and release dates have already been confirmed for ...
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 ...
Ganondorf, Zelda and other Nintendo characters were also teased. Last July, Good Smile Company took the wraps off a new Max Factory figure of Link based on his latest Switch outing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. We saw it earlier at the time, and now in a new update at the ‘Wonderful ...
Have you added them to your collection? Nintendo’s amiibo line still is thing 2024, and the first editions of this year arrive at the beginning of this week. In case you missed it, it’s a double pack featuring Xenoblade Chronicles 3 protagonists Noah and Mio. They are now available for $39.99 / £34.99 and will ...
2023 wasn’t just a successful year for quality video game releases — it was also a good year for video game music. At Nintendo Life, we usually give video game soundtracks a bit of praise in our overall lists, but this year we want to do things a little differently, because frankly, there’s too much ...
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 ...
There was a time, long ago, when games were finished by the time they hit retail shelves. But now we’re in the 21st century, and more often than not, post-launch add-ons are released months after development on the main game is complete, enriching the experience. Today, there are tons of games that get DLC, expansions, ...
