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The legendary Nintendo 64 3D platformer from Rare, Banjo Kazooie, which was released to acclaim in 1998 is currently available for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members. Now the Microsoft owned studio, which is part of Xbox Game Studios, have published a new article on their official blog by Rare designer Leigh Loveday who

Updated with Cotton Rock ‘n’ Roll (or Cotton Fantasy as it’ll be known once it launches in the West). Enjoy! The humble shoot ‘em up has been a staple genre ever since the very beginning of video games when Spacewar! laid down the basic groundwork in 1962. No, that is not a typo; in the

SEGA and the Sonic Team have a huge year planned for the company’s iconic mascot Sonic the Hedgehog. The company have just coined a new marketing slogan to kickstart the 2022 celebrations of the Sonic franchise and it is titled Project Sonic 22. The biggest draw for Sonic fans this year is undoubtedly the next

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If you cast your minds back to the launch of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, it was a time of great joy as Nintendo fans around the world linked arms and sang the Mario theme. Well, actually, the conversation was about emulation standards, wonky button mapping and

 Launching today, experience a magical adventure with an unlikely duo when the Nintendo 64™ game Banjo-Kazooie Beak Bombs its way onto Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library – available to everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Packmembership. Join a honey bear named Banjo and a breegull named Kazooie as they fly, swim and fire

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Whether you love or hate roguelike deckbuilders, you’re going to have to get used to them being around. Between games like Slay The Spire, Hand of Fate, Inscryption and Dicey Dungeons, games that combine strategy card games and dungeon-crawling are the hottest place to be right now. This

The Microsoft Store database has revealed that the eagerly anticipated LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga could well be arriving on gaming platforms on the 5th April. This date ties in with the Nvidia leak from last year. The LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will allow gamers to play through all nine Star Wars saga

Waiting for the Nintendo Switch OLED to get a little cheaper before you spend your hard-earned coins on it? Now might be your chance, as it’s dropped to just under £300 at UK online game store The Game Collection. This deal is not without its caveats — it’s only available “while stocks last”, and only

The latest edition of Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu is now with subscribers in the land of the rising sun and there’s a smattering of reviews this week. The highest scoring game in Issue 1729 is Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2, which is the latest Gunvolt game from the talented team at Inti Creates. The

In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on the internet, but we

Nintendo UK will undoubtedly be popping the champagne today as it has emerged via Games Industry that the Nintendo Switch family of consoles were the best-selling gaming console of 2021 in the United Kingdom. Nintendo’s console, which launched in March 2017, overtook Sony’s newer PlayStation 5 console right at the last moment during the last

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We love it when people show off their creativity in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, especially when it involves the ingenious use of underappreciated things like the polish effects and emotes. This latest ACNH creation comes courtesy of Th3Meow, who has recreated a few iconic scenes from Disney’s newest

NIS America has informed fans that pre-orders are now live for the Limited Editions of the upcoming The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The Limited Edition version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero contains the following: copy of the game, “SSS Classified Files” hardcover art book,

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Merriam-Webster defines ‘Swag’, in urban slang terms, as referring to “stylish confidence”, although the origin of the word actually comes from the Scandinavian ‘svagga’, meaning to “rock unsteadily or to lurch”. Radirgy Swag, with its unusual direction and somewhat confusing properties, probably has more in common with the latter —

One game which is sure to be a hit this year on the Nintendo Switch is the new 3D Kirby game, Kirby and The Forgotten Land, which looks set to sate the appetites of 3D platforming fans. We found out recently that the game will launch on 25th March and there will be a number

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Next week marks the return of the cult classic Shadow Man, and ahead of its release, the tech experts at Digital Foundry have gone hands-on with the game. This port, as you might already know, has been done by the talented team at Nightdive – the same studio

It wasn’t too long ago that we reported on the YouTube series Nintendo Minute coming to an end, and now the show’s co-creator Krysta Yang has announced her departure from Nintendo of America. Krysta worked with the company for over 14 years, starting off as a corporate affairs assistant and working her way up to