Category: Nintendo

“They didn’t like us very much”.

Remember the original Pokémon Pokédex toy released by Tiger Electronics and Hasbro Toys back in the day? Well, apparently Nintendo’s Japanese team made it an absolute nightmare to bring to market.

Speaking to Johto Times recently, former Tiger & Hasbro senior game producer Chris Nicolella (between 1997 – 2001) revealed the entire story behind the development cycle – explaining how Nintendo’s Japanese headquarters wasn’t a big fan of the US toy company and made the entire process “very difficult” due to concerns about the device taking sales from the Game Boy releases.

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Don’t panic, there are no real money transactions.

Nintendo has finally started sharing more details about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the latest screenshot uploaded by the Japanese Zelda Twitter account has shown off the mysterious… spoiler alert… gacha machines in the game.

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“Happy May the 4th!”.

If you’re looking to celebrate Star Wars with some gaming this week, you can’t go past LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

As part of the Star Wars Day celebrations for 2023, the development team at TT Games has added ‘Luke Starkiller’ as a new Minifigure to this collection. Apparently, this was an “early version” of Luke Skywalker and is based on a concept designed by Ralph McQuarrie. Here’s a look at this Minifigure in action:

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Introducing the Nintendo Life Mailbox.

Gaming is pretty great these days, but there are a handful of things we miss from the olden times before everything went online. Game stores are a big one — there’s nothing like wandering down to your local emporium and seeing row upon row of actual genuine video games, consoles and accessories old and new. You know, as opposed to a wall of Funko Pops, a chair with blinking lights, and a cabinet of secondhand Samsung Galaxies.

Game magazines are another thing we miss. There are still some stalwart publications hanging in there, thankfully, and there’s something intimate and special about holding print in your hands and poring over physical pages for your gaming news and reviews. It’s a feeling we do our best to replicate on the site, which leads us to our newest regular feature. Introducing the Nintendo Life Mailbox.

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You sort the padawans from the poodoo.

It’s May 4th! Yes, May the fourth is with us (hmm, that doesn’t really work) and we’re republishing our ranked list of every Star Wars game on Nintendo consoles, but now with a twist! We’ve rejigged the ranked list below to be governed by each game’s User Rating in our database, meaning that the order is now dynamic and entirely reader-ranked — and subject to real-time change, even after publication.

In order to rate any of the games on the list below out of 10, logged-in Nintendo Life users can simply tap the ‘star’, assign it a personal rating, and refresh the page to see any changes reflected. With various of the games in the lower half of the list only having a handful of ratings at the time of writing, there’s plenty of potential for change in the coming days. It will be fascinating to see how the ranking shakes down as we move onto May 5th, May 6th, and other similarly un-Star Wars-y dates. Enjoy!

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Rapid retro.

Industry legend Takahashi Meijin, best known for his work with Hudson Soft and his ’16 shots per second’ trigger finger, is (suitably) one of the supervisors on Star Gagnant, an upcoming rapid-fire shmup that flies onto Switch on 25th May.

Published by Regista, the game employs a unique rapid-fire system which will have you selecting a fire rate for various different situations and keeping an eye on your special gauge to ensure that it works as well as it can. There are four different modes available (arcade, caravan, challenge and rapid fire), each of which provides a twist on the standard shmup format so that the game can be played however you’d like.

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Win 1 of just 10!

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new Zelda game, the My Nintendo store in the UK is running a special competition where locals in this region can win a Tears of the Kingdom Shikishi.

To be in the running, you’ll need to follow the Nintendo Store Twitter account and then leave a comment revealing your first Zelda experience. There are 10 of these items up for grabs, and the competition closes on 12th May (the same day as the launch of the new game).

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The movie has been a huge success in Mexico.

Almost a month after its worldwide debut, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still breaking all sorts of records around the globe.

The latest success story comes from Mexico – with the Nintendo and Illumination production becoming the “third highest grossing film” in the history of the country and surpassing Toy Story 4. It puts it just behind Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home (at $1,391 million pesos), and currently it’s on track to overtake Avengers.

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“Thank you for playing”.

We’re in the final stages of the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online sunset, with The Pokémon Company announcing this old game will be removed from the App Store, Google Play and the Pokémon website on 5th June 2023.

This shutdown will take place just before the “full global launch” of the new Pokémon Trading Card Game Live next month on 8th June 2023. The beta for this new game is now available in beta around the world on iOS, Android and computers.

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Infinite Master Balls. Maxed out stats. Walking through walls.

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Ethan remembers a time when he flew too close to the sun…

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