[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube796k If you cast your mind back to the wonderful world of ’90s cartoons, you might recall Saban’s Samurai Pizza Cats, an action-comedy that saw three sword-wielding kitties keeping the peace in the futuristic world of Little Tokyo. It’s the type of show that had almost disappeared from our
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Nintendo’s latest entry in the Mario & Luigi franchise, the divisive Mario & Luigi: Brothership, has recently received a new update. The latest update brings the colourful game to Version 1.0.1 and includes a wealth of bug fixes. You can read the full patch notes for Mario & Luigi: Brothership Version 1.0.1 down below. Bug
Image: Nintendo Life Next week, on 27th February 2025, Pokémon will be celebrating its 29th birthday. And you know what that means? It’s time for some Pokémon Presents. After a relatively ‘muted’ 2024, there’s a lot on people’s minds. Inverted commas there because, come on, if muted means releasing a brand new mobile game which
Over a decade ago, Nintendo had a subsidiary in Taiwan. The subsidary, which was called Nintendo Phuten, didn’t last. In 2014, Nintendo decided to close its doors. Nevertheless, the company didn’t abandon Taiwan completely. Despite there no longer being a subsidiary and Nintendo Hong Kong handling the reigns in the region ever since, they continued
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life When Sony launched the PS1 in 1994, Nintendo suffered one of its biggest losses when Squaresoft, a company that previously became almost synonymous with Nintendo consoles, chose to release its games on the PS1 instead of the N64. In fact, according to a new interview from Sony veteran Shuhei
One infamous part of the Nintendo 64 era was that Nintendo decided to stick with cartridges, even though both the SEGA Saturn and the PlayStation 1 were using CDs. Some third-party companies were not happy about this, with the most notable one being Squaresoft. Squaresoft would eventually merge with Enix to form Square Enix in
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life The Switch itself often comes across as a fragile little device. The Joy-Con will drift, the stand will break, the rails will wobble. But never again will we say a bad word about the console’s game cases; those resilient little guys can fend off the elements. At least, that’s
The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, has confirmed in a new interview that the Redmond Washington-based company will start to show Nintendo and PlayStation logos going forward in all their video game showcases. Spencer says he wants to be transparent with consumers about where people can purchase games developed by Xbox Game Studios which now
Image: Nintendo Life Ahh, Wario, everyone’s favourite garlic-loving, chaos-breeding antihero. A mirror to Mario — whom he frequently competes against — Wario has been gracing the Mario franchise since 1992 when he was the main villain in the game Boy classic Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Since then, Wario has gone from strength
The road to the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 has been quite an up and down roller-coaster. Nintendo hasn’t opened up about the pricing of the console yet, but there may be a good reason why. The United States has been constantly threatening other countries with tariffs, and it could very well impact the
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube796k There’s no question that Nintendo makes some of the best video games in the world thanks to its incredibly skilled and passionate in-house and partner developers. But how often does the company let those developers speak freely about the games they make? Last year we got the opportunity
The Game Awards are the biggest video gaming awards that exist, but they aren’t the only ones. Many other places have been holding awards shows of their own. In fact, a lot them have been doing it for much longer than The Game Awards have. One example of this is the awards that The Academy
Image: Nintendo Life Before Nintendo Switch Online, there was Virtual Console. Available on the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U, the Virtual Console was effectively a line of purchasable retro games available via the Wii Shop Channel and eShop. Unlike Nintendo Switch Online, which offers up a range of playable games for an annual or monthly
You may recall that, a week ago, Nintendo had announced that Wario Land 4 would be arriving on Nintendo Switch Online on February 14th. As usual, the date was actually referring to Japan’s time zone, so February 14th in Japan would be late on February 13th or in the middle of the night for western
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube796k Update [Thu 13th Feb 2025, 4:50pm]: IGN has an exclusive first preview of the game live which shows off many of the mechanics and abilities featured in Sega’s announcement in more detail. IGN’s Jada Griffin got to take the new Sonic for a spin and notes that this
The new Shinobi game wasn’t the only thing that SEGA had to share in Sony’s PlayStation State of Play presentation that premiered today. Another game that had been heavily leaked in the past few days is Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, which has resulted in people expecting that the latest Sonic console game would be showing up
Image: Nintendo Life A new patent from Nintendo suggests that the Joy-Con controllers for the Switch 2 can be inserted into either side of the main console, effectively letting you flip it 180 degrees according to your preference. As spotted by VGC, the patent includes detailed images showcasing the idea, with the two Joy-Con controllers
A week ago, you may recall that Nintendo announced another Maximus Cup that would taking place in Tetris 99. This one is based on Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, which officially released on the Nintendo Switch around a month ago. The Maximus Cup is scheduled to occur this weekend. In fact, it will be starting