Image: Hello Games We did it, everyone. We made it through the working week with only 306 Pokémon Scarlet and Violet news drops to write of – perhaps this is a slight over-exaggeration, but you get the picture. This week we were lucky enough to head behind the scenes at Ubisoft to get a look ...
Image: Nintendo Life From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, my gaming experience was all about learning to become a gentleman. This was a central topic which ran throughout the Professor Layton series. If Professor Hershel Layton wore a trench coat, I wore a trench coat; if he drank fruity tea, I drank fruity tea; ...
Image: Nintendo After the release of both Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s new trailer and The Super Mario Bros. Movie teaser, our minds are all deep-dived out – but what a time to be a Nintendo fan, huh! This week, our fabulous writers have been hard at work providing you lovely readers with breakdowns on the ...
Image: Konami Note: this article contains minor spoilers for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. “What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.” These words, uttered by Dracula Vlad Impaler during the opening exchange with Richter Belmont in Castlevania: Symphony of the Nighthave become completely synonymous with the Castlevania franchise. Referenced and parodied by ...
Image: Nintendo Life Today marks the 15th anniversary of NBA Live 08 on the Wii. Quite why there wasn’t a national holiday and organised street parades for this excellent game is beyond us. Except, of course, it isn’t excellent at all. The game was, for all intents and purposes, objectively badand yet there is a ...
Image: Finji We did it folks! We made it through the barrage of game releases — more commonly known as ‘September’ — and we live to write another day! Though October is looking just as packed… *gulp* Here at Nintendo Life, we’ve played through the unofficial Super Mario Bros. 5 fan game made entirely in ...
Image: Nintendo Life The announcement of a solid release date for BOTW2 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom marked the beginning of a new, more intense phase of enthusiasm for one of the most anticipated sequels of the decade. Sure, a new Zelda game is always big news, but when it’s a follow-up ...
Image: Hiding Spot After last week’s Nintendo Direct extravaganza, this week has seemed a little more relaxed by comparison. As we have prepared ourselves for the weekend’s coming Splatfest (go Team Fun!) we have taken our time recuperating from what is already shaping up to be an amazing slate of upcoming games. In the Direct’s ...
Image: Living The year was 2002. Peter Jackson was about to release the second instalment in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, EA had bagged the rights to the video game adaptations of the films and Vivendi was just about to release its own console adaptation, not of the New Line Cinema property, but ...
Image: Nintendo Life If you take even a quick glance at a release schedule for the next six months, you’ll see that there are a heck of a lot of games coming out. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll spot that maybe 50 of them are from Square Enix. And that’s just on the ...
