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[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube796k A new Kickstarter campaign is now up and running for a proposed new adventure game serving as a spiritual successor to the LucasArts classic Maniac Mansion. Developed by Spanish team Straynus, Cronela’s Mansion is earmarked for NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and of course, the Nintendo

Players are invited to finish what they started, dig into their backlog or find something new during the “Play On” campaign. Starting now until March 23rd, multiple activities, sales and rewards all about continuing to play on Nintendo Switch are taking place.  Over the next six weeks, players can enjoy a wide range of discounted games as well as

Image: Level-5 After a handful of delays, we are slowly creeping up on the April 2025 release window for Level-5’s much-anticipated Fantasy Life follow-up, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. With the countdown officially on (assuming it isn’t pushed again, of course), Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has taken to Twitter to share a

By now, you’re more than likely aware of the Nintendo Music app. The app, which was randomly announced on social media around Halloween of last year, is a new method for fans to be able to listen to various soundtracks that Nintendo has released over the decades. Nintendo confirmed that more soundtracks would be added

Image: Nintendo Life / Bandai Namco Big, bold characters. Comfortable story beats that deal with multiple worlds, gods, and the power of friendship. Confusingly titled battle systems. And colourful anime openings featuring J-pop songs. The Tales series has made a name for itself over the last 30 years for many different reasons, and it’s why

Smash hit indie game Balatro was developed by just a single person who is known as LocalThunk. He chatted away with Bloomberg’s gaming journalist Jason Schreier about the game’s success and what’s next for him. He says he says that he “gets obsessed with something for a long time” and honestly doesn’t have any intention

Image: Nintendo Life One of the best reasons to play the Luigi’s Mansion series is the simple joy that comes with exploring new, spooky environments. Truly, the locations are the star of the show. The first entry in 2001 was arguably too short and a bit too easy and repetitive, but its titular mansion was

Tetris 99 has been available to play for almost 6 years now. Nevertheless, the game continues to receive a lot of support. When there isn’t any updates, the game is receiving themes that fans can get from Maximus Cups. Most of the new themes involve a first-party game that recently released on the Nintendo Switch.

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube795k Cape Cosmic, the developer behind the fabulous Phoenotopia: Awakening, has announced its next project — Star Iliad, a Metroidvania set inside a star whale. And, par the course, the pixel art looks gorgeous. Platforms have yet to be announced yet. In a blog post on the developer’s tumblr,

Nintendo has been very active with the retro libraries available on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack recently. Although it varies which retro library gets updated with some more games, Nintendo’s schedule with new additions has reached a point where it is now guaranteed to see at least one retro game added every month. Well,

Image: Nintendo Life Famitsu has provided the latest boxed charts data for Japan and, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, it’s another win for Nintendo as Donkey Kong Country Returns HD claims the top spot once again with an additional 22,093 units shifted. There are a few new additions this week, with Black Myth: Wukong getting

Whenever Nintendo releases a new video game, there’s usually a free demo that they’ll also launch on the Nintendo Switch eShop. It is completely random when the company actually does this. Sometimes they’ll release the demo before the full game launches, and other times they wait until after instead. They also love to make a

Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo has provided a smidge more information regarding its upcoming Nintendo Direct in April, focused entirely on the much-anticipated Switch 2 console. Scheduled to commence on 2nd April 2025, we now know that it will be broadcast at the following times: North America: 6am PDT / 7am MDT / 8am CDT /

It isn’t just Nintendo that has been sharing financial results and talking to investors today. Electronic Arts, or EA for short, has been doing the same. In fact, they had an earnings call earlier today. Of course, with the Switch 2 having been revealed a few weeks ago, third-party companies are starting to receive questions

Image: Nintendo Following reports that PlatinumGames — the studio behind the Bayonetta series, Astral Chain, and who helped Square Enix on NieR:Automata — had lost several key directors and creators back in December 2024, former vice president Hideki Kamiya appears to have confirmed that at least five directors have left the company. Earlier today, Kamiya,

By now, you’re more than likely aware of the Nintendo Music app. The app, which was randomly announced on social media around Halloween of last year, is a new method for fans to be able to listen to various soundtracks that Nintendo has released over the decades. Nintendo confirmed that more soundtracks would be added

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube795k 44 years after its release, you’d think that the speedrunning community would have pushed the Donkey Kong arcade game to its limit. But, as it turns out, there are a handful of extra levels hidden behind the game’s long-assumed unbeatable kill screen. All you’ve got to do is

The latest edition of premier UK-based video game magazine EDGE is now available and Issue 407 contains a special interview with Star Fox artist Takaya Imamura. One of the things mentioned in the interview is why they chose the different animals for each main character. Initially the characters weren’t going to be animals and the