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January2024

  • Editorial Happy New Year From Everyone Here At Nintendo Life

    Twenty-twenty-FOOOOOOOOUR!!!

    A round of applause for you and yours — you did it! You made it through the gauntlet of 2023's brilliant video games all the way to a brand new year. Happy 2024, everyone! With Switch entering its seventh year in 2023, our expectations — with the exception of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, of course — were...

December2023

  • Editorial Happy Holidays, Nintendo Lifers

    You mean you forgot cranberries, too?

    It's here! Season's Greetings to you and yours! The mood is right, the spirit's up, and with any luck you're taking it nice and easy today and, perhaps, settling down to devour not just some delicious festive treats but also some of the many excellent video games 2023 has gifted us. We've briefly surveyed the...

February2023

January2023

  • Editorial Happy New Year From All Of Us At Nintendo Life

    Here be 2023!

    Congratulations — you made it through 2022! Welcome, one and all, to an entirely brand-new year of sweet, sweet vidyagames. Yes, lovely people, meet 2023. 2023, lovely people. Now the introductions are out of the way, what's on the menu in the coming months? We've recapped last year enough already — we were all there, we've all...

December2022

  • Editorial Happy Holidays From Nintendo Life

    Later we'll have some pumpkin pie

    T'is here, the most wonderful time of the year! Yes, Season's Greetings to all you lovely people. Grab yourself a beverage, get comfy, and get ready — it's party time! If by 'party' you mean sweating profusely and wishing you hadn't said 'yes' to a fifth mince pie or similarly stodgy sweetmeat. 2022 has been a...

January2022

  • Editorial Happy New Year From Everyone At Nintendo Life

    The future has arrived, still waiting on hoverboards

    Welcome to the future! Yes, we've finally got through '2020: Part Deux' and we're now securely lodged in 2022 — the first year since the millennium that has three of the same number in it. *Waits for everyone to confirm that that is indeed correct*... The past year has been another tough one...

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  • Editorial Merry Christmas And Happy Holidays From Nintendo Life

    What a year it's been...

    When we wished you many happy returns this time last year, we had no idea we'd be typing the same message in 2020 during a global pandemic. Despite assurances that it would "all be over by Christmas," the world is still gripped by the COVID-19 outbreak, with little sign that 2021 is going to be much different. (Wow. This is...

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  • Editorial Rediscovering the Gems of the Wii U Library

    A legacy to appreciate

    A little while ago I wrote an editorial called 'Losing It All - When a Wii U's External Hard Drive Dies', in which I recounted the tale of just that very thing happening to me. I bemoaned the weird setup of Nintendo's data management on the home console and in particular its treatment of save data, which rather bizarrely is...

  • Editorial Losing It All - When a Wii U's External Hard Drive Dies

    The quirks and annoyances of Wii U data management

    There are lots of things that many people assume will never happen to them, just to 'others'. You don't think you'll be the victim of a crime, or get stranded overnight when a flight gets cancelled, or perhaps get addicted to amiibo collecting. These are all problems that other people have to deal...

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