Image: Nintendo Life / Nintendo Nintendo has just made new themed icons available for Switch Online members. This includes an icon set based on the Super Nintendo hit Super Mario World as well as the popular Switch release Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The use of these icons is a little different this time. Not only ...
In the magazine business, the back page is where you’ll find all the weird nonsense we can’t fit anywhere else. Some might call it “filler”; we prefer “an entire page for making terrible jokes tangentially related to the magazine’s content.” We don’t have pages online, but we still love terrible jokes — so welcome to ...
When he’s not paying off his loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to cover the latest Nintendo news and admire his video game collection. His favorite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but now he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.
Image: Nintendo We love a good cosplay, and there are a lot of good ones out there. From the uber-realistic to the hyper-stylized, we’ve seen some certified bangers over the years. However, very few of them were as stunning as the little Super Metroid issue we saw over the weekend (thanks @MetroidDatabase). Featured at this ...
Now let’s see what we’re up to this weekend, shall we? Jim Norman, staff writer Before Christmas 2023, I had never played Stardew Valley. Just two weeks into 2024, it seems like that’s all I’m playing for. Yes, I may be a little late to the party for this party, but it’s just brilliant! I ...
Jim Norman, staff writer I was a very happy boy this Christmas and picked up some new games that were on my to play list cubs. In the following days I played (and prepare fairies) Stardew Valley and Celeste for the first time. Yes, I should have played years ago, but I didn’t. I’m sorry. ...
Picture: Nintendo This year marks the 30th anniversary of EarthBound (known in Japan as mother 2) and, according to the official x (formerly Twitter) page, there are plans to celebrate this big milestone (thanks, iGamesNews). What your plans are, exactly, is up in the air right now, but we don’t expect anything terrible. After all, ...
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 ...
Image: Capcom Soapbox features allow our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random things they’ve been chewing on. Today, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Mega Man X’s launch in Japan, Ollie dives into what makes its opening stage so damn good… Original Mega man The series is well ...
Image: Nintendo Life We’re republishing this list to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the SNES classic, Mega Man X. Enjoy! The little blue guy known as Mega Man (along with his various sidekicks and related robots) has had a very long and storied career in video games. Since the days of the NES, it’s starred ...
