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Image: Nintendo Life Hi folks, and welcome back to Box Art Brawl! Looking back on last week, Tetris Attack on the Game Boy entered the ring for a classic duel, with North America and Europe going head-to-head against Japan. Rather expectedly, including Nintendo’s characters gave Japan a significant advantage, and the region won comfortably with

The super-cute Princess Peach: Showtime for the Nintendo Switch family of systems has now been rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Peach’s latest platforming adventure was given an everyone 10 plus rating due to “fantasy violence” so it’s suitable for everyone of ages ten and upwards. A firm release date has already been announced

Image: Chucklefish And just like that, we’re one week into 2024 — well, near enough — and it’s time for the first What Are You Playing of the year! Before we dive into a weekend of gaming plans, remaining Quality Street and questionable leftover Christmas cheese, however, let’s take a look at what happened in

Terraria is over a decade old now, but the game is still receiving content updates from Re-Logic every now and then. In fact, the game is supposed to get a new update, version 1.4.5., sometime later this year. Now that 2024 has arrived, Terraria fans are heavily interested in what the update will bring. However,

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Capcom has been gearing up for the 20th anniversary of Monster Hunter for a while now and today’s New Year’s video message from series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto gives some indication of what’s in store for 2024. To be clear, the message is not packed with information on anniversary

A delightful fan-made trailer is stirring excitement among Zelda enthusiasts, envisioning what a Studio Ghibli-animated Ocarina of Time movie could look like. Uploaded by RwanLink on YouTube, the short video, created in Unreal Engine 5, captures the essence of the beloved N64 classic with a Ghibli-inspired touch. Following the success of Illumination’s Super Mario Bros.

Image: Nintendo A new flash cart marketed as “the only back-up and development device” for all Switch consoles was recently teased and in a surprise plot twist, it’s now led to the infamous Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser denying his involvement with the project. The former Team-Xecuter member, who was previously jailed and fined $10 million

In a stunning achievement that has the gaming community buzzing, 13-year-old Willis Gibson, known as Blue Scuti on YouTube, has become the first human player to conquer Nintendo’s iconic video game, Tetris. Gibson’s remarkable feat, captured on his YouTube channel, showcases the moment he reached an unprecedented level 157, causing the game to crash after

Image: Mojang Last year, Warner Bros. announced the live-action Minecraft movie would be released in cinemas in April 2025. Now, in a new update, Deadline is reporting the actor and musician Jack Black will be joining the cast. The Kung Fu Panda and Tenacious D star will supposedly be playing the role of the player

You might recall that there is a Minecraft movie in the works. In fact, it has been in the works for many years now. At one point, it was even slated to release in 2019, something that Mojang had even confirmed, before that ultimately didn’t happen. The movie isn’t cancelled though, and things are beginning

Image: The Pokémon Company Everyone has a favourite Pokémon and recently in Japan, the strategy guide website ‘GameWith’ ran a poll asking trainers to vote for their top Pokémon from Scarlet and Violet‘s Paldea region. “Close to 152,700 people” apparently put their vote in and in the end, the new-generation grass/dark-type evolution Meowscarada won! In

It’s that time of the week again when Famitsu readers share the games that they are looking forward to the most. There’s absolutely no change at the top spot for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth which leads the pack by quite a mile with 790 votes. The most wanted Nintendo Switch game is Level-5’s cancelled horror

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! [embedded content]When Ryan met Charles. Good times! Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Gavin reflects

In a recent interview in Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, Super Mario Bros. Wonder director, Shiro Mouri, revealed a little more about the character choices. When it came to the loveable Yoshi they were originally going to include the egg throwing mechanic, which Yoshi has had in previous adventures. However, they felt that this wasn’t

Image: Nintendo, LEGO LEGO will be releasing Bowser’s Muscle Car Expansion Set on 1st January 2024 for the price of $29.99. It’s the latest addition to the successful Super Mario line and appears to be based on the same car featured in Super Mario 3D World. Here’s a bit about it, courtesy of the LEGO

The Guardian has had the opportunity to chat with the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, and the conversation eventually got round to asking him if he has any plans at all to enter retirement. Mr. Miyamoto said that he has absolutely no plans to enter retirement, but he did say that he “thinks about things in a

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update #3 [Sat 30th Dec, 2023 08:30 GMT]: Earlier this year in July, it was announced the release date of “Summer 2023” for R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos had been pushed back to 2024, with the aim to launch the game at the “earliest possible date”. Now

The latest UK charts have come through a little later than usual, due to Christmas, for the week ending 23rd December. The best-selling game was EA’s unstoppable EA Sports FC 24 which is closely followed by the delightful Super Mario Bros. Wonder which climbed this week to No. 2. There’s six Nintendo Switch games in