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Saturday12th Aug 2023
Random One Piece's Netflix Star Would "Love" To Play Zelda: Wind Waker
Luffy's actor says he's missed a lot of GameCube hits
Ahead of Netflix's One Piece premiere later this month, Mexican actor Iñaki Godoy - who plays Monkey D. Luffy in the live-action adaptation of the popular manga and anime series - has spoken about how Nintendo games have influenced his career. He "loves" series like Super Mario Bros. and The...
Thursday20th Oct 2022
Random Former Luigi's Mansion Dev Is Now Heading Up The Silent Hill Franchise
From one horror to the next
Last night, Konami finally lifted the lid on its plans for the Silent Hill franchise and, as expected, there's nothing of any real note for Switch owners; we're really quite sad. However, one interesting and fun little discovery made the rounds on Twitter shortly after the presentation. It turns out that the producer for...
Thursday6th Oct 2022
Random Luigi's Appearance In The Mario Movie Trailer Is Appropriately Spooky
Luigi's Mention
With The Super Mario Bros. Movie getting its first official trailer today, we finally got to see many of the characters in Illumination's animation style for the first time. And a highlight of the trailer was Luigi, who appeared very briefly at the end of the teaser. And it's more than appropriate for the panic-stricken brother In...
Tuesday30th Aug 2022
Random Fan's Mario Timeline Theory Puts Luigi's Mansion As Final Instalment
Who you gonna call?
If there's one thing that the Mario franchise really needs, it's a sense of continuity between the games. We are, of course, being slightly sarcastic here. With well over 50 games starring Nintendo's favourite plumber as well as spin-offs such as Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros., the thought of pinning all the events together...
Monday27th Jun 2022
Random Artist Envisions A Luigi's Mansion Game Starring Waluigi
What's the hold-up!?
Fans have been crying for the palatinate mischievous Mario character Waluigi to get his own game, or even just a shred more attention. The lanky rival to Luigi has only really appeared in side games to play sports or party with the rest of the Mario cast. So, for now, it's in the hands of fans to come up with something special...
Friday21st Jan 2022
Random 'Grunty's Mansion' Is The Banjo-Kazooie X Luigi's Mansion Hack We Didn't Know We Needed
Banjo-Luigee: The Bird, The Bear, And The Brother
It's a match made in hell: The surprisingly creepy Banjo-Kazooie, a game in which you have to fight a witch and all her minions in order to save your sister from... getting very ugly; and the very creepy Luigi's Mansion, a game in which you have to fight a horde of ghosts in order to save your...
Tuesday4th Jan 2022
Reminder The Luigi's Mansion LEGO Sets Are Now Available
"Grab your Poltergust and get ready"
Update [Tue 4th Jan, 2022 04:30 GMT]: The three Luigi's Mansion LEGO sets are now available. Here's your reminder: Original article [Sun 31st Oct, 2021 12:05 GMT]: Surprise! Nintendo and LEGO will be expanding their Super Mario series with the announcement of three brand new sets based on the Luigi's Mansion...
Friday29th Oct 2021
Random Turns Out Dune's Paul Atreides Is One Of Us After All
"I got hooked on Luigi's Mansion"
Denis Villeneuve's Dune movie might not be the first attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi novel, but it's certainly turned out to be one of the most successful, having earned $223.2 million in takings (at the time of writing) and garnering positive reviews – more than can be said for David Lynch's...
Monday5th Apr 2021
Back Page An Interview With Luigi, The Late Mario's Brother And Business Partner
Exclusive to Nintendo Life
It's raining hard in Brooklyn on the day we arranged to meet with Luigi Mario. Better known mononymously as "Luigi", he's the brother in green and partner in crime to Mario Mario, who tragically died this week at the age of 35. He's running a little late, but we can't blame him - the last time he was out in public was for...
Saturday26th Oct 2019
Video The Original Luigi's Mansion Might Have Been Spookier On The NES
Just in time for Halloween
Unless you've been living under a rock, you have probably heard by now a new entry in the Luigi's Mansion series is on the way to the Switch later this month. Nintendo's even gone as far as making October 2019 the month of Luigi. Also lining up with the arrival of Luigi's Mansion 3 is the release of the above video by the...
Thursday18th Oct 2018
Video Digital Foundry Praises Luigi's Mansion's "Completely Revamped" Visuals On 3DS
But there are pros and cons
Originally releasing as a launch title for the GameCube back in 2001, Luigi's Mansion has just been reworked for a release on Nintendo 3DS, launching in North America last week and in Europe tomorrow. It's an interesting little project - what was a launch title for one console is arriving at the very latter stages of...
Wednesday5th Sep 2018
News Pre-Order Luigi's Mansion From The Nintendo UK Store To Get A Boo Lamp Or Luigi Hat
"Who ya gonna call? Lu-igi!"
If you've ever found yourself sitting around at home, thinking about how much better life would be if you were, in fact, Luigi, then today is your lucky day. Yes, by pre-ordering Luigi's Mansion on Nintendo 3DS from the Nintendo Official UK Store, you can get your hands on either a Boo lamp or a Luigi hat, both of...
Thursday8th Mar 2018
News GameCube Classic Luigi's Mansion Rises From The Grave On 3DS This Year
With a new boss rush mode, to boot
GameCube launch title Luigi's Mansion is coming to the 3DS this year, it has been announced. The ghost-busting classic already has a 3DS-exclusive sequel, so it's nice to know we'll get to re-experience the first title on the go as well. The visuals will naturally benefit from 3D effects, but there will also be a...
Monday30th Oct 2017
Video It's Time To Celebrate Some Of Video Gaming's Most Haunted Houses
Just in time for Halloween
It's almost Halloween, a time of year where lots of candy is consumed and people dress up terribly in the hope of scaring / amusing others. ] If you're wisely choosing to stay indoors this year then you may wish to indulge in a spooky game, and our friends over at iRetrogamer have put together a video which highlights...
Tuesday19th Jan 2016
News Did You Know Gaming Explores Mario & Religion
As you might expect, it gets a bit out there
Did You Know Gaming has provided us with insight into a wide variety of topics throughout the Nintendo universe. Did we ever expect them to be juxtaposing Super Paper Mario with artistic depictions of ancient demons? No, but we suppose there's a first time for everything. This latest installment of the...
Monday2nd Feb 2015
News Sega Formally Announces the Capcom Arcade of Nintendo's Luigi's Mansion 2
Many fingers in this pie
Nintendo may have question marks around current third-party support on its systems, but few can doubt that it has some strong relationships with other companies in Japan - Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco, Sega and Capcom are all examples. The latter two both appear to have some involvement in the arcade for Luigi's Mansion: Dark...
Thursday30th Sep 2010
News October is Spook Month on Nintendo Life
Frightful Fridays and Scary Saturdays ahead
As we all know, October 31st is All Hallows Eve, popularly known as Halloween. It's a night when some of you will dress up in your favourite fear-inducing garb and haunt the town, others will dress up as well but instead go to screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and others still will stay home and...
Wednesday20th Jan 2010
News Luigi's Mansion to Get Sequel?
Nintendo files new trademark
The Internet rumour mill is whirring up a notch today following the news that Nintendo has filed a new trademark for Luigi’s Mansion. Currently the two most popular theories are that either a sequel of the Gamecube launch title is being made for the Wii or that the game is being re-released as part of the New Play...
Wednesday20th Feb 2008
News Five GameCube Games That Should Come To Wii
Wiivival
Given the GameCube's wonderful back-catalogue, here are five games we'd love to see come to the Wii. The PlayStation 2 had already run away with the “console war crown" a good year or so before the GameCube's launch and Nintendo's box never really packed any kind of punch worthy enough of denting Sony's dominance. With Microsoft...
