Gavin Lane, editor Image: Nintendo Mario Bros. 3 was my first. Actually, I don’t remember if it was 3 or Super Mario Bros. which was actually mine First — my brother had both strollers — but 3 really captured my imagination. The dancing objects on the world map screen, Mario’s round, waddling spirit and the ...
Image: Dragon Ball Official In incredibly sad news coming out of Japan today, the official Dragon Ball social media account reveals that legendary manga creator and character artist Akira Toriyama has passed away at the age of 68. He died March 1, 2024 from acute subdural hematoma. Toriyama was an icon of the manga and ...
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 ...
