This week during the Switch 2 reveal, Nintendo reconfirmed backwards compatibility with the original system. If you're curious as to the reasoning behind this feature, Game File's Stephen Totilo got a response from a Nintendo representative – explaining that it was simply “the best direction” when “many consumers” were already playing the Switch. Here's the ...
Image: Nintendo Well folks, in what is probably the last Christmas period before Nintendo unveils its next big piece of hardware, the Switch games have done well as people want to fill those stockings on Wednesday morning. In fact, let's look at the numbers here: 8 games in the top 10 are either exclusive to ...
Image: Nintendo Life After yesterday’s surprise launch of Nintendo Music on smartphones, Nintendo has now updated the app with music from Super Mario Bros. Wonder. This includes the game’s title screen music, the Grassland opening theme and of course the song ‘Piranha Plants on Parade’. Some of these trails can even be extended! They are ...
Image: Nintendo This week should be all about Echoes of Wisdom, but there are also some celebrations going on right now for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A year after its release, Link’s massive open-world sequel has now won the “grand prize” at Japan’s Game Awards 2024. The award was accepted by ...
Image: Nintendo Life Remember the annoying Talking Flowers from Super Mario Bros Wonder? The ones that would shower you with useful advice like “onwards and upwards”, “Hey!” and “WoOoAAhh” as you ran past? Well, you’ll soon be able to have one of your very own as a toy maker San-ei Boeki has revealed that brand ...
Jim Norman, staff writer I have a little bit of everything for this weekend. I love getting involved in the Grand Festival Big Run in Splatoon 3 before the ultimate Splatfest next week. I also have NBA 2K25 ready and ready for hopefully not another disappointing year of gaming (look out for my thoughts soon). ...
Now, let’s see what we get up to this weekend, shall we…? Ollie Reynolds, staff writer I’m back in the world Silent Hill after watching the wonderful new trailer for Silent Hill 2 remake. I play OG Silent Hill on PS Vita right now, and you know what, it’s aged surprisingly gracefully; undoubtedly more than ...
Image: Nintendo Games just keep getting bigger, and if you’re wondering how Nintendo feels about longer development cycles, the company’s president thinks it’s “inevitable.” In a recent shareholder Q&A, Shuntaro Furukawa mentioned that game development today is “more time-consuming, complex and advanced” and to cope with this, Nintendo must constantly expand its “development resources” and ...
Image: Nintendo Nintendo has released another series of “play and redeem” icons for Switch Online members and this time the focus is on the company’s mascot Super Mario. There are icons based on Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey. You will be able to buy ...
Image: Nintendo Life It’s almost six months (!!) since Super Mario Bros. Wonder has jumped on the Switch, and while the launch chatter has been dominated by the vocal talents of Kevin Afghani — Mario’s new voice — it turns out that the voice acting we you should the one we were talking about was ...
