Celebrating Star Wars Day.
As part of this year’s May 4th celebrations, LEGO Fortnite will be doing a special Star Wars collaboration in its next update.
This update will bring the Rebellion and Galactic Empire into your LEGO Fortnite world, with your job to help the Rebels survive and build up their village:
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Dive in!
Endless Ocean: Luminous is out on the Nintendo Switch today and to build up some excitement Nintendo is running a few crossover events.
First up is a special Tetris 99 Maximus Cup which will run from 10th May until 13th May. During this time, players will be able to unlock a special theme inspired by the new game. Here’s a bit more about it from the official PR:
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Get me behind the wheel.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we’ll be running several features focused on how video games of all types have helped us through periods when we were struggling with our mental health.
Today, Richard shares how racing games helped restore him during a difficult period…
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Clanker’s Cavern of Dreams.
Cavern of Dreams leapt to the Switch eShop on 29th February 2024. We weren’t able to review the game at the time but managed to catch up with it recently. And it’s good! If you like that sort of thing…
Talk to any video game fan over 30 about 3D platformers and they’re liable to stare wistfully into the middle distance and start mumbling about the ‘golden age.’ Once Super Mario 64 arrived and codified the form, the decade straddling the millennium delivered a trove of colourful treasures that routinely have platforming fans gushing, nostalgia leaking from their trouser legs. Oh, they don’t make them like they used to!
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Update: Switch catches up with the other platforms.
Update : After being released on other platforms last week, Konami and WayForward have revealed that the latest update for Contra: Operation Galuga is now available on Switch too.
Notice of the Switch’s inclusion was shared by the official Contra Twitter account. You can find the full patch notes for this new update in our original coverage below.
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Dragonite and Marill join the line up.
Earlier this year, some retailers accidentally revealed some new Pokémon Squishmallows. Now, in an update, The Pokémon Company has confirmed the next pair joining the line up are Marill and Dragonite.
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“Fight for glory in the arena”.
Back in 2021, the online and mobile developer Zynga announced it would be bringing the “free-to-download” player-verse-player third-person competitive shooter Star Wars: Hunters to the Switch and mobile devices.
While it’s been playable on mobile devices for some time, it’s now finally launching on the Switch eShop on 4th June 2024. Preloads are also live, so you can jump straight in when the game unlocks on Switch.
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A look back at a glittering catalogue.
Takashi Tezuka seems like a good laugh, the kind of chap who knows how to have fun.
Despite all the Master-Sword-waving and PR-related hijinx from fellow Nintendo luminary Shigeru Miyamoto over the years, you still get the impression he’s merciless in the workplace — an exacting, intimidating, tea-table-upending taskmaster — whereas Tezuka has an air of merrymaking and mischief about him.
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Nothing fishy going on here.
We are mere days away from the release of Endless Ocean: Luminous on 2nd May and today, we can start to gauge whether it’s going to be choppy waters or smooth sailing as a wave of reviews have come flooding in.
We will be collecting together the critical consensus from around the internet but before we do so, let’s dive into what we at Nintendo Life made of the latest ocean explorer. In short, ehhh. While we found that there was some fun to be had with Endless Ocean: Luminous, the repetitive gameplay and bland objectives left us rather bored as we awarded the game a 5/10.
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Endless, unfortunately.
There are a whole bunch of, well, let’s say ‘Wii-centric’ video games from the history vaults that, in theory, seem like they might be a bit of fun to revisit on Nintendo Switch. You know the sort of thing, usually pairing some new-fangled/novelty control scheme with an activity you’d never tried in a game before; making cakes, driving a quad bike…eh…bobsleighing with the Jamaican Olympic team? The Endless Ocean series fits right into this mould and, as it turns out, revisiting its chillaxed dives — even with up to 30 other players in tow — wasn’t a very good idea.
Now, before we get into the negative stuff, let’s start by pointing out that if you’re looking for an incredibly low-energy, low-effort sort of gaming experience where all of the focus is on simply scanning marine life and then reading a tiny informational excerpt about each of them in order to expand your underwater knowledge, this is 100% the game for you. In fact, you’ll likely never find another game more suited to your very specific needs. Please enjoy. For the rest of us, as much as learning about all the amazing creatures that live under the sea is a captivating pursuit, we’re not sure we can justify the price tag given that there is precious little else to do here.
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