Tag: Nintendo Life
Video It's Time To Say Goodbye To The Lovely Felix-From-Nintendo-Life
Hej hej Felix!
As the new year approaches, it's the season of goodwill and change, new things and new horizons (and not just NS2 Editions), which means it's time for some news we've been sitting on for a little while. Yes, as you probably guessed from the headline, our lovely video producer Felix Sanchez is disembarking the good ship Nintendo Life...
Issue #31 - December 2025
Welcome, one and all. We're back for another festive rifle through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Yes, it's time for our monthly letters page feature. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter, the writer of...
Mailbox 3D Mario Predictions, Gaming Redemptions, Grammar Talk - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #30 - November 2025
Good day, Nintendo Lifers. We're here once more to carefully open your digital missives as we open the door and put the little flag down on the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter,...
Site News Nintendo Life Turns 20 Today!
Mamma mia!
Wow, where to start? It’s official, though. It’s been 20 years since I sat down and cobbled together the somewhat infamous 'Our Nintendo Life Begins…' article back in late 2005, a world before iPhones, iPads, Fortnite, and YouTube wasn’t even a year old yet. How times have changed. Both generally and specifically, the video game...
Mailbox Metroid Excitement Levels, Game Clubs, "The Galaxy Strategy" - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #29 - October 2025
We're deep into October now, which means it's time to open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox and see what word-based packages you've been sending our way this month. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter, the...
Video Let's Have One Last Chat With Zion Before He Leaves Us Forever And Ever
... and ever and ever
You didn't think we'd let Zion go without one last chat, did you? Nah, he's not getting away that easily. So before our beloved video producer departs, we thought it would be nice to have one last chinwag and go over some of our happiest memories with Mr. Grassl. So yes, the chaps reminisce over some key memories together...
Video After Six Wonderful Years, Zion Is Leaving Nintendo Life
We'll miss you, friend
It's always difficult to say goodbye to someone, and today we bid farewell to our lovely, lovely video producer Zion Grassl, who is leaving Nintendo Life for pastures new. Zion joined us all the way back in 2019, and helped our YouTube channel grow exponentially as we navigated the world of the Nintendo Switch. His enthusiasm...
Mailbox Switch Game Pricing, Shovelware, Self-Nerfing - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #28 - September 2025
And here we are again, entering the last third of the year, kicking furiously to keep our head above the water as the deluge of big new video games washes in. What's that floating like a flotsam-y life raft on the surface? Why, it's the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Grab on! Yes, it's time for our monthly letters page feature...
Mailbox Game-Key Cards, Slacker Sakurai, Shapes & Beats - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #27 - August 2025
Welcome, one and all, as we sit down and take a look through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Switch 2 is a couple of months old now - can you believe that? This is the third edition of our monthly letters page since we finally got our hands on it, and the hot takes are flowing like wine. Lumious green, gamer wine. Got something...
Mailbox Ninty Getting Its Freak On, Area Codes, The 'Discourse' - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #26 - July 2025
And we're back for another delve into the Nintendo Life Mailbox. In our part of the world it’s summertime and the Switchin' is easy. Most of us at NL (and I imagine many of you) are sitting back with Mr. D Kong this weekend, enjoying his first 3D platformer since the 64-bit days, possibly while supping a delicious summer...
Mailbox Switch 2 Price Point, Wind Waker Vs. HD, Drip-Feed Updates - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #25 - June 2025
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. You are now living in a post-Switch 2-release world. Having fun? It's been a whirlwind month for Nintendo fans, with a brand new console to busy ourselves with! Consequently, penning missives to us at NL Towers hasn't been top of your list, it seems. Don't worry, we understand - those...
Mailbox Switch 2 Innovations, Localisation Dreams, "That Big Playtest Thing" - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #24 - May 2025
Assuming the postie doesn't deprive us on launch day, we're less than three weeks away from having a brand new Nintendo console in our hands! This 24th edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox will be the final spread with the original Switch as Nintendo's flagship console! Yes, we've been rifling through our inbox and publishing...
Mailbox Switch 2 Price Drops, Remake Replacements, Pokémon Acquisitions - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #23 - April 2025
Here we are, everyone. We're living in a post-Switch 2 release-date reveal world! And it's...oof, it's a lot! Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox, our monthly delve into correspondences of you lovely lot. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings...
Mailbox Switch 2 FOMO, Spark Games, Pancakes & BOTW - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #22 - March 2025
Oh, hello there! You must be here for our monthly rummage through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Pull up a chair! Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter, the writer of which will receive a month’s subscription...
Mailbox Switch 2 Pre-Order Preoccupation, Iterative Crimes - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #21 - February 2025
And we're back for the February edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Time is moving slowly for those of us jonesing for that Switch 2 Direct, but we've had games like Civ 7, Laika, and Citizen Sleeper 2 to keep us busy, and we're all looking forwa
Mailbox Switch 2 Caution, Unpopular Opinions, Easy Games - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #20 - January 2025
Welcome back as we open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox once again. Here we are in 2025, ready to thrive, and Nintendo has kindly given us all some good news: ‘Switch 2’ is indeed Switch 2, it's looking sexy… and watch this space. We're paraphrasing, but that's the gist. It's time for our monthly letters page feature,...
Video Let's Celebrate 10 Lovely Years Of Alex YouTube Videos
A decade of Mr Olney
Sure, 2025 might be home to some pretty big gaming anniversaries, but you want to know the biggest of them all? This week marks 10 years since the wonderful Mr Alex Olney published his first video on the Nintendo Life YouTube channel. That's right, it has been a decade of "Heeeeello there lovely peeeople". To mark the occasion,...
Mailbox Festive Wishes, Remaster Hype, DSi Love - Nintendo Life Letters (Holiday Edition)
Issue #19 - December 2024
Ho ho holy moly, it's Christmas already!? Welcome, welcome - come on in and take the weight off! Grab a mug of warm cocoa, pull up a chair, and join us as we open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox for the holidays. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings,...
Mailbox The Death Of GameCube, Mario Party Matchmaking, Tariffs - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #18 - November 2024
We're well into the back half of November and we're back once again to open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter, the writer of which will receive a month’s subscription...
Random Reddit Is Alight With Reports Of 'Pure Evil' Mario Party Jamboree Player
"unadulterated danger"
As we inch ever closer to Halloween, whispers grow of an emerging evil manifesting within the Nintendo Switch online servers. An evil so malicious, so malcontent, that its mere presence is causing the Mario Party subreddit to go wild with unsettling reports. An evil simply known as... 'Annalingus' (cue creepy organ music)...
Mailbox Nintendo Dinner Parties, Banger Years, Business Types - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #17 - October 2024
You hear that? It's coming. GOTY season is coming for us all... [Wakes up, startled, a little bit of dry dribble] Wha—!? Oh, it's you. Hello! Welcome to Round 17 of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month...
Mailbox Mini Consoles, Grand Festivals, Weekly Downloads - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #16 - September 2024
Are we back? We're back. Yes, it's time for another round of correspondents' correspondence as we open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox. As summer comes to an end for Northern Hemisphere dwellers, the season of all the video games is upon us — a bountiful three months when quality software is being pumped out at a...
Mailbox The Mario RPG-naissance, Xenosaga Sadness, Golden Days - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #15 - August 2024
Hello there. We're back once again for another good ol' rummage through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It's been a relatively quiet few weeks on the gaming front, as people head off on holidays for a break from their inboxes. We, however, are here to check ours! Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and...
Mailbox eShop Closures, Comedy, The Physical Future - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #14 - July 2024
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. As football fever grips England with headlines such as National Team In Not-Crap Shocker top the tabloids (probably), it's time to relax a little and sit back with our monthly letters page. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your...
Mailbox Switch's Pokémon Woes, NSO's Value, First-Person Plurals - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #13 - June 2024
Welcome back, one and all, as we delve into the Nintendo Life Mailbox once more. It's Direct season, and Summer Game Fest has done a good job of whetting our appetite for hearty Nintendo announcements sometime soon. It's been a little quiet recently on the Switch front, which may have something to do with the small amount of...
Mailbox 'Switch 2' Launch Ports, Soulslikes For Beginners, Poké Parks - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #12 - May 2024
Welcome back once again to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. My word, it's been a full year since we first opened up our inbox to your missives! Time flies when you're anxiously awaiting word on Nintendo's next console. Yes, it's time for issue 12 of our letters page. A relatively light offering this month — you're all obviously...
Mailbox A More Powerful, Digital-Only 'Switch 2' And "Obscurer" Treasures - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #11 - April 2024
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox, our monthly feature where we read and respond to a collection of correspondences from your lovely selves. Before we dive in, a quick request. 17th April is International Haiku Day and we'd like to run a Back Page article highlighting the best Nintendo-related haiku's from the NL...
Mailbox Layoffs, Hot Takes, Delayed Gratification - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #10 - March 2024
Welcome back as we rifle, once again, through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It's March, and around these parts we're wading through a deluge of fantastic games (and the weekly eShop cack) while we await Princess Peach's upcoming solo Switch performance with great anticipation. Let's put our Switches down for a moment, though, as...
Mailbox Switch 2 Concepts, Legacy Revivals, Goemon Haiku - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #9 - February 2024
Welcome, one and all, as we once again rifle through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Our monthly letters page returns with a crop of correspondences from Nintendo Life readers covering all sorts of gaming-related topics. Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related...
Mailbox Genre Mixing, Punk-Rock Retro, Crickets - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #8 - January 2024
So, how's 2024 treating you so far? Hopefully you've had a great start to the year and are ready for a fresh batch of letters from the Nintendo Life Mailbox. After a festive blowout on Christmas Day, we're a little light on correspondence this month. Don't worry, we understand — who wants to be writing letters over the...
Mailbox Remakes, Rewinds, Elden Rings - Nintendo Life Letters (Holiday Edition)
Issue #7 - December 2023
Ho ho ho! Welcome to this special festive edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It's December and at the time of reading we're hopefully tucking into a hearty meal with the family, embarking on a festive board game or puzzle, or else we're tucked up in front of the telly with a sherry and mince pie. Either way, we're...
Mailbox Mother Remakes, Dual Screens, Washing Machines - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #6 - November 2023
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It's November and we're knee-deep in new releases as publishers scramble to get their games live on the Switch eShop ahead of the lucrative Holiday season. We've been averaging over a review a day here on Nintendo Life since September and we're still not able to cover everything...
Mailbox The Future Of 3D Mario, Indie Sequels, Deadlines - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #5 - October 2023
Welcome back for another round of correspondence from the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It's October, and the heady aroma of freshly released Mario is in the air. *long sniff* Lovely! Do you smell it? It's peaty. Bit wet. Dungy, even. Like a... an elephant? Enough of that. It's time for our monthly letters page feature. Got...
Mailbox Missing Zelda Ports, Nerd Rage, 16-Bit Blowback - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #4 - September 2023
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. You hear that? That's the sound of 2024 creeping up on you as we plough into the last week of September. Yes, we're back (slightly later than planned — hey, last week turned into a busy one!) with another selection of your correspondence for our monthly letters page feature...
Mailbox TOTK Overload, Patches, Geno-Lovers - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #3 - August 2023
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. We're deep into August, so let's dig into our inbox and see what's been spinning 'round those brainboxes of yours over the past month, shall we? Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll...
Video What Would A 'Master Mode' In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Be Like?
Horrifying, that's what
If you purchased the additional DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, then you'll know that the game supports a 'Master Mode' option, enabling players to experience the story with a number of bum-chafingly difficult alterations, including enemy types, regenerating health, and more. Sadly, Tears of the Kingdom...
Mailbox Loose Carts, Old Fogeys, Other Ms - Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #2 - July 2023
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It’s mid-July, so it’s time to delve into our digital mailbag and see what’s on the minds of the loveliest people in all of gamedom – Nintendo Life readers! Got something you want to get off your chest? Gaming-related, preferably, but we receive all sorts of things. Want to get...
Mailbox Welcome To The Nintendo Life Letters Page!
Issue #1 - June 2023
Hello there! Welcome to the first edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox! In this new monthly feature, we'll be rifling through correspondences we receive via our Contact page (scroll to the bottom of this post for precise instructions) and highlighting some of the best on this here letters page. Each month we'll also pick out a...
Site News Miss The Letters Page In Game Mags? So Do We!
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...
News Splatoon 3 Will Be At EGX 2022, Come And Splat Us Live On Stage
Battle against Nintendo Life in a Splatoon 3 tournament!
Next week, Splatoon 3 will be showcased at EGX 2022 from 22nd to 25th September at ExCeL London, with fans able to take part in a series of casual 'Turf-War' tournaments. Not only that, but we'll be there too! Nintendo Life will have a curated freeplay area of 15 stations featuring a...
Site News Nintendo Life Will Remain A Smash Ultimate Leak-Free Zone
You're safe with us
As you may well be aware, early copies of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate have found their way into the hands of the public, instantly being thrown online for all to see and share. Game data has been dumped online and spoilers have sadly started to appear all over the place just a couple of weeks before the game's official release...
Site News We Want Your Help To Become Even Better
For the Switch players
It's been an exciting few years for Nintendo Life. We launched the latest version of the website in early 2016 and of course, in 2017, Nintendo launched a little device called the "Nintendo Switch" which has proved rather popular. Who'd have thunk it, right? If you've been a reader for a longer period than that you'll...
Site News Thanks For Playing, Thomas Whitehead
Nobody likes goodbyes
Hopefully by now you've heard the news that our illustrious editor Tom will be leaving Nintendo Life in a mere matter of hours. It's been quite an adventure over the last 6.9 years and it simply wouldn't be right to not take a dive into the numbers, Tom style. In The Beginning It was Saturday, 22nd January, 2011 and a...
Site News Say Hello To The New Nintendo Life Editor, Dom Reseigh-Lincoln
A new face at the helm for 2018 (and beyond)
Like a Christmas Doctor Who regeneration, exiting editor Tom Whitehead will vanish on New Year's Eve in a blinding flash of golden light, only to be replaced by a brand new face. Well, another bearded face with glasses, that is. Hey everyone, my name’s Dom and I’m the new guy in the editor’s chair...
Site News A Fond Farewell from Nintendo Life Editor, Thomas Whitehead
After nearly 7 amazing years
As the headline makes clear, I’m bidding a fond farewell to Nintendo Life to go on a different path; I’ll hand over the editor’s hat on New Years’ Eve. I was asked to ‘announce’ this myself, making this the toughest article I’ve written to date. My new role will be as Product Manager for CIRCLE...
Site News Take a Tour Around Our New YouTube Studio
Foaming at the mouth
It's quite strange for me to be sat here writing something like this up, celebrating the unveiling of our new studio to you lovely people, when just three years ago I was just a part-time contributor to this fair site occasionally throwing up the odd news article for the supreme overlords. Now to be tasked with producing the...
Site News Nintendo Life is Red, Nintendo Life was Blue
So long Wii branding, and we still love Wii U
Update: Seeing as so many comments revolved around the ability to have a view where all articles are displayed in the same way, chronologically, we've added a new timeline view that is dedicated to this purpose. We'll monitor usage of this feature and if popular perhaps make this an option for the...
Site News Welcome To The Brand New Nintendo Life!
This is a bit different isn't it?
Those who have been following Nintendo Life for a while should already know that we are currently in a milestone year during which I said it was time to "shake things up", so here we are, the new website in all its glory. Yes, you might need to adjust your eyes, but we're sure you'll settle in soon. What's New? The...
News Happy New Year from Nintendo Life
So, how was 2015 for Nintendo Life?
It's been 10 years since Nintendo Life first began and we're just about ready to wrap up our coverage of 2015, so far we've looked back over Nintendo's most notable moments in 2015, a year in development with a selection of indie developers, we've selected
Site News Nintendo Life Turns 10 Today
Time flies when you're having fun
It was difficult finding out exactly when I started Nintendo Life. I can see that the domain name was registered on 29th October 2005 and my user account was created on 4th November, but the first article 'Our Nintendo Life Begins...' was posted 10 years ago today, 7th November 2005. I guess it took me a few days to...
