News - 2016, Week 46

Sunday20th Nov 2016

  • Rumour Nintendo Switch Release Date and Key Games Outlined

    If you don't want to potentially know, don't look

    There's little getting around the fact that key Nintendo Switch details are being leaked. While there are plenty of bogus 'rumours' doing the rounds, a few key reports (some with sources we've verified in recent months, in various ways) have been sharing details around the system's line-up of games;...

  • Feature 25 Essential Wii U Retail Games

    Play them all

    With the Wii U turning four years old in North America just recently, and with the system soon to be supplanted by the Nintendo Switch, we've been reflecting on the console's qualities and failings. One thing we've consistently argued, however, is that there's a core of excellent games on the system, many of them exclusives, that are...

  • Video Get Comfy for this Hour-Long Pokémon Sun & Moon Discussion with GameXplain

    Alex gets to flex his talking muscles for once

    We at Nintendo Life are very typical gamers in the sense that we love to talk the hind legs off anyone who'll listen when it comes to video games, so naturally when the lovely chaps over at GameXplain invited this floppy-haired video diva over to their channel to natter about Pokémon Sun & Moon, we...

Saturday19th Nov 2016

  • Feature Reflecting on Four Years of the Wii U

    Four NL writers pitch in on the outgoing system

    The Wii U has now passed its 4th Birthday, in North America at least, though its generation is already nearing its end. A bad run, imminent discontinuation and the March 2017 arrival of the Nintendo Switch all mean that the system is on its way out, a sad fate for a system that has had some terrific...

  • Video Check Out Mario & Wario, The Japan-Only SNES Mouse Game

    Lemmings meets Mario vs. Donkey Kong

    There are always games that skip some regions, and sometimes large audiences miss out on some interesting concepts. The latest video from DidYouKnowGaming? shows another example of a neat retro game that, for various sensible reasons, was only released in Japan. It's Super Famicom title Mario & Wario -...

Friday18th Nov 2016

Thursday17th Nov 2016

Wednesday16th Nov 2016

Tuesday15th Nov 2016

  • Review Pokémon Sun and Moon (3DS)

    The difference is night and day

    The Pokémon series has been through a lot, and a casual observer would be forgiven for assuming that the developers must be out of fresh ideas after twenty long years. Thankfully people who spend far too much time playing video games, like us and many reading these pages, know better. Enter Pokémon Sun and Moon,...

  • News A Japanese Hacker Has Cracked The Famicom Mini Already

    Opens the door for NES Classic Mini homebrew, as well

    The NES Classic Mini and its Japanese sibling the Famicom Mini both run Linux, and because of that Nintendo is duty-bound to share the source files for the hardware. As you might imagine, this has led to industrious hackers - always on the lookout for something to crack

Monday14th Nov 2016

Tuesday15th Nov 2016

Monday14th Nov 2016