Autor: Nintendo Life
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (31st August)
‘Vania mania. And just like that, we’re at the end of August! A big month of releases is on the horizon, so let’s see how everyone is preparing with another edition of What Are You Playing? It has been a cracking week in the world of Nintendo as we got a double bill of Direct…
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Zelda Timeline Featuring Breath Of The Wild And Tears Of The Kingdom Spotted
A history of Hyrule at Nintendo Live 2024. Over the life of the Zelda series, the timeline has been a massive talking point with all sorts of information and discoveries shared. With this in mind, it’s become the big talking point this weekend after a graphic was sighted at Nintendo Live 2024. Nintendo fansite Vooks…
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Guilty Gear Strive’s Switch Edition Won’t Support Crossplay
But rollback netcode has been confirmed. After a sign was spotted earlier this week at PAX West, Arc System Works has now confirmed the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive is on its way to the Nintendo Switch. While it’s set to offer up the entire package (including the 28 currently available fighters), one thing it…
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Review: Valfaris: Mecha Therion (Switch) – Steel Mantis Switches To Shmup For A Tight, Taut Sequel
Go big or go home. Valfaris: Mecha Therion wastes no time in getting going. During the briefest of cutscenes we’re re-introduced to series main man Therion on a gothic-styled spaceship hurtling through the stars. Hekate, his AI companion, says she’s picked up the signal of his father, Vroll, the man responsible for the destruction of…
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UK Charts: EA Sports FC 24 Stays On Top With Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Close Behind
Another familiar week. We’re on the cusp of the weekend, yet the UK Charts for last week are only just rolling in! The latest data, for the week ending 24th August, shows that EA Sports FC 24 once again stays on top, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remaining in second place. We might as well…
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Video: “Keep Your Peaks And Valleys!” – Sakurai Explains Fighter Balance In Smash Bros.
When everyone’s super, no one will be. The legendary Masahiro Sakurai is back with another look into the intricacies of game development on his YouTube channel and, of course, he’s drawing from his wealth of Smash Bros. Ultimate anecdotes to make things clear. Today’s lesson is all about character balance and the need to stress…
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Feature: The Return Of Lynels And Five Other Exciting Reveals In The Latest Zelda Trailer
Lynels and dungeons and tears, oh my! A new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is here and we are excited! So excited, in fact, that we have watched it another 20 times to narrow down our top reveals — the things that really got us beaming cheek to cheek. These aren’t…
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‘Assault Suits Valken Declassified’ Is Getting A Limited Switch Physical Release
Limited Run’s pre-orders run until Sept. 29. Limited Run has revealed a physical release of Assault Suits Valken Declassified, the Switch re-release of the 1992 SNES mecha classic (also known as Cybernator). Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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Feature: Civilization VII’s Creative Director Talks New Ages, Frenzied Drama & Being On Switch Day One
“Switch has been very, very important”. Out of the Seven Wonders of the World, we can add one more to the list in recent years, a triumph of human engineering achievement almost as jaw-dropping as the Great Pyramids of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Sid Meier’s classic 4X Civilization series now operates fine…
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Banjo-Kazooie Is The Latest N64 Game To Be Fully Decompiled
Tick tock PC. Fans and coders have been working on decompiling multiple classic Nintendo 64 games over the years, with Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Perfect Dark, and Majora’s Mask just being a handful of titles they’ve managed to revert to source code. Now, a Nintendo Life favourite is joining the roster of decompiled…