Image: Nintendo Life Last week, Microsoft put pen to paper, announcing its 10-year commitment to bring the Call of Duty franchise to Nintendo platforms is now legally binding. Microsoft president Brad Smith followed that up by mentioning how the tech giant would make sure the series works exactly as people expect on other platforms, and … Read more
Photo: Rodin Eckenroth (Getty Images) A newly translated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, the music Miyamoto was working on, and his hopes for Mario’s future. A little background on these two before we get into … Read more
Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg (Getty Images) In a new interview, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, said that “Xbox will be around” even if it is huge deal to buy Call of Duty publisher Activision is collapsing due to constant and intense regulatory scrutiny and public pushback. It’s been over a year since … Read more
Who did it? Level-5 — that’s right, the creators of Professor Layton, Ni no Kuni, and Yo-Kai — with the help of Nex Entertainment, which helped with games like Bayonetta, Children of Mana, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and Shin Megami Tensei: Nine. The lead designer, however, is none other than Yasumi Matsuno, the director of … Read more
Image: Nintendo Life There is no greater sensation in one Legend of Zelda game than when you first go out to Hyrule Field, is there? Of The moment when games shake off the training wheels and let you loose in the world of Hyrule, free to go in any direction you want. Where the hell … Read more
Who did it? Intelligent Systems, which nowadays is perhaps most famous for its development Emblem of FIRE series. The developer is a longtime partner with Nintendo, working on WarioWare series, Paper Mario series, n Advance Wars series… tons of stuff. Pushmo World was co-developed with Nintendo SPD (of Tomodachi Life and Rhythm Heaven fame). What … Read more
Image: Bandai Namco Tales of Symphonia is one of the best entries in the long term Tales JRPG series, and one of the most outstanding games in the Nintendo GameCube’s otherwise short-lived and patchy library. Of course, longtime fans and newcomers alike were excited to see the cult classic get a remaster for the Switch. … Read more
Image: Niantic Niantic has announced that this year’s St. Patrick’s Day event in Pikmin Bloom will be all about Clover Decor. Yes, that means you’ll be able to farm Pikmin with shamrocks on their heads (four-leaf clovers if you’re lucky) and start celebrating all things green from March 1, 2023. The event is split into … Read more
Image: Nintendo/Kotaku Nintendo’s new Metroid Prime Remastered—physical copies of the Switch game released on February 22nd, if you could catch one-has many material inside this. As you guide the steadfast bounty hunter Samus Aran around the winding planet of Tallon IV, you’ll pick up some of these, valuable upgrades and changes to her powerful space … Read more
Photo: Kotaku / Nintendo Earlier this month, Metroid Prime Remastered was announced and released digitally on Nintendo Switch. It’s really good and a perfect example of how to remaster an old game. However, it was not physically available until yesterday, February 22nd. And, well, it’s not physically available yet, as people are reporting that stores … Read more