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Random Yes, Someone's Made A Handheld Virtual Boy With Light Up Buttons
I'm a Real Boy!
We've seen a variety of Nintendo's illustrious home consoles turned into handhelds by talented modders with some know-how and plenty of elbow grease and spray paint — we're thinking of fanmade consoles like the Wiiboy Color or the Portable N64 — but you probably wouldn't expect somebody to go to the trouble (and from the video...
Feature Nintendo's Most Iconic E3 Moments
5 of the best, from live shows to pre-recorded puppets
E3 2021 is just around the corner, though with a whole lot of competing events and streams it's not quite the industry-defining occasion of the past. Yet Nintendo will be 'there' with a day that'll feature an E3 Nintendo Direct and three hours of Treehouse demonstrations streamed for your...
News Nintendo Resumes Distribution Of Switch System Update 12.0.3
"We apologize for any inconvenience caused"
Update #3: Nintendo has now resumed the distribution of Switch System Update 12.0.3. According to Twitter's translation service, the statement reads as follows: We have resumed distribution of system version 12.0.3 of Nintendo Switch, which was suspended. After updating to 12.0.3, if an error occurs...
Random Remember That Zelda HD Tech Demo For Wii U? It's Now 10 Years Old
Time flies when you're saving Hyrule
E3 is almost here! In the lead-up to the event, the Nintendo Reddit community has been reflecting on the Japanese company's big reveals and announcements at the annual convention over the years. With this in mind, it's now been 10 years since Nintendo gave the world a look at "The Legend of Zelda HD" tech demo...
Soapbox Without A Dedicated Handheld Division, Is Nintendo Less Weird?
Missing the micro-games
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their own opinions on hot topics or random stuff they've been thinking about, opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. Today, Nathan discusses the sense that Nintendo's handheld hybrid approach with Switch has led to fewer experimental...
News The LEGO Group Announces Its First Ever LEGO CON, Will Air Later This Month
Update: Here's a sneak peek of what's to come...
Update [Sun 6th Jun, 2021 14:30 BST]: Lego has now shared a "sneak peek" of what will be shown at its first ever official LEGO CON. It seems there'll be a "closer look" at some of the latest Super Mario sets and a Q&A featuring Mojang's Lydia Winters. Original article [Thu 3rd Jun, 2021 07:30...
News Nintendo's 81st AGM Of Shareholders Will Allow Remote Voting
Confirms total number of employees rose 374, to 6,574
Nintendo unveiled its headline financial results and broader strategies during its annual financial results earlier this Spring, but as normal there'll be an AGM (annual general meeting) this Summer to formalise Director roles and the accounts; it is dated for 29th June at 10am Japan Time. Due to...
News Nintendo Wants To Know If You Would Fork Out $50 For A New WarioWare Game
In the words of Wario, "this money's mine!"
One series many Nintendo fans would love to see the return of during the Switch generation is WarioWare. The microgames would arguably be perfect with the system's touch controls and Joy-Con controllers, so when is it going to happen? While we've unfortunately got nothing to share about a new WarioWare...
News Nintendo Is Turning One Of Its Old Facilities Into A "Nintendo Gallery"
It should be ready by 2024
Nintendo has announced its Uji Ogura Plant and the land surrounding the building is being transformed into a new gallery to showcase the company's development history and philosophy. The gallery will be tentatively known as the "Nintendo Gallery" and renovations are expected to be completed within Nintendo's 2023 fiscal...
News Nintendo Wins $2.1 Million In Lawsuit Against ROM Website
Another one bites the dust
Back in September 2019, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the game download portal website, RomUniverse. The site reportedly facilitated massive online copyright infringement of many popular Nintendo titles. It also profited by selling paid premium accounts - lifting the cap on the number of games users could download. The...
Random Nintendo Of America's President Doug Bowser Is An Extreme Dude
He's living life on the edge!
It's not every day you get to see what the president of a major company does on their day off, but today is one of those rare occasions. Nintendo of America's Doug Bowser likes to share a little bit of his personal life on social media from time to time, and in the latest update, he's revealed his love of mountain bikes...
News The Guy Who Made The Stretchy Super Mario 64 Face Also Almost Gave Us Portal Zelda
The cake was a lie
We do love a good retro infodump here at Nintendo Life, and the latest is a podcast interview between Ben Hanson from the MinnMax Show and legendary game developer Giles Goddard. We reported on the interview earlier in the week, in fact, but the full show (above) featured so many intriguing titbits that we wanted to explore them...
Poll What's Your Favourite Game Boy Color... Colour?
Fine and Dandelion
We recently asked you to rate your favourite Game Boy Color games, but while the results for that ranking are still coming in (look out for the Top 50 soon, and don't forget to rate your own GBC collection if you haven't already!), we thought we'd pose a question regarding the hardware itself: Which is the best Game Boy Color...
News 1080° Snowboarding Creator Would Be Happy To Bring The Series To Switch
If Nintendo wants to make a new one...
During the peak of the N64 era, Nintendo EAD released an extreme sports title known as 1080° Snowboarding. While it wasn't quite as popular as Nintendo's big hitters like Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, it got enough attention to spawn a follow-up on the GameCube. The...
News Nintendo Releases Two Day-One Updates For Miitopia On Switch
See the full patch notes!
This week sees the return of the 3DS release Miitopia on the Nintendo Switch. If you've already tried out the demo, you should probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the journey ahead. For those that don't, there are updates such as "expanded customisation" and a horse ally that'll lend you a hoof in...
News Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Is Coming To Switch
Proper tidy!
Awww yeah, we love it when a rumour turns out to be true — especially when it concerns the excellent Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (or, to be honest, anything from Level-5). Yes, Ni No Kuni 2 is coming to Switch on the 17th of September, 2021, and even better, it looks like it's going to have a physical version, too. Now that's...
Random "Nintendo-kon" Trends In Japan As Two Nintendo Ad Stars Get Hitched
Love and #NintendoMarriage
We are gathered here today for our daily dose of wholesome Nintendo content. Japanese Twitter was all abuzz yesterday as a celebrity bride and groom began a life of matrimonial bliss and "Nintendo-kon" started trending. What does it all mean? How is this related to Nintendo? Is this a new Joy-Con controller or console or...
This flight is gonna cost you!
Yesterday, Nintendo announced a brand new Zelda & Loftwing amiibo for its upcoming release, Skyward Sword HD. It allows Link to now fast travel from the land to the sky (or vice versa) in any location, and even make a quick exit out of buildings and dungeons at any moment. One major talking point seems to
Talking Point If Nintendo Released Them, Would You Play Virtual Boy Games In 2021?
Virtually unheard of
Nintendo's Virtual Boy was an inarguably strange system, although mentioning its name can elicit markedly different responses. To many, the little tabletop non-HMD is little more than a punchline; a hilarious blink-and-you'll-miss-it example of Nintendo toying with an idea that was sabotaged from the off by hopelessly inadequate...
Video Remembering The 3D Classics NES Range On Nintendo 3DS
The "definitive way" to play these retro releases
Remember when Nintendo got Arika to bring a bunch of NES games to the 3DS? These games were part of the short running series known as the 3D Classics line, which contained six games like Kirby's Adventure and Kid Icarus, and even had a stereoscopic 3D enhancement. The series kicked off with 3D...
Random Nintendo's Doug Bowser Introduces His Parents To Mario Kart 8 On Switch
Family fun for all ages
If you wanted to get a friend or loved one hooked on the Nintendo Switch, what game would you choose for them? For some, it might be The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but for Nintendo of America's current president Doug Bowser, the top pick is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In his latest post on...
News Mobile Dev DeNA Wants To Make Its "Relationship" With Nintendo "Even Better" Going Forward
The alliance grows stronger every day
Nintendo's mobile partner DeNA - known for past releases such as Miitomo, Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes - has been quizzed about the future plans for the "Nintendo Alliance" during a Q&A session of its fourth-qu
News HAL Laboratory Looking Forward To Sharing Kirby's "Next Phase" With Fans
More adventures starring the pink puffball are on the way!
Nintendo's pink puffball Kirby hasn't been sighted since the surprise release of Kirby Fighters 2 on the Switch last year. This doesn't necessarily mean HAL Laboratory has forgotten about him, though. Following on from an interview late last year, when the company teased new games,...
News You Can Now Get A Platinum And Gold Point Coin Pin Set From My Nintendo (US)
Or a New Pokémon Snap zipper case
My Nintendo in North America is offering some new rewards for its members. The highlight is a physical Platinum and Gold Point Coin Pin Set. You know, the currency you use on the online store to buy various wallpapers and items? Yeah, that. "Show off your My Nintendo pride with this exclusive pin set featuring a...
Guide Nintendo Switch System Update 12.0.2 Is Now Live
Fancy some more stability?
Last month, Nintendo released its big 12.0.0 update for the Nintendo Switch. This was followed by a stability update, but there was believed to be a lot more going on behind the scenes. Now, it's rolled out its very first update for the month of May, and it's yet another stability update. Yes, who needs things like...
News Nintendo's Ready For Acquisitions, When The Time Is Right
It's got $9.2 billion ready to go
Mergers and acquisitions have been the talk of the town since Microsoft completed a $7.5 billion deal with Bethesda last year, so what's Nintendo's approach to acquisitions moving forward? In a press conference following the company's full-year earnings results earlier this week, president Shuntaro Furukawa touched...
But thought a deal with Nintendo would be a "moonshot"
Take this with a grain of salt, but at some stage, the Fortnite creator Epic Games was apparently eager to get Sony, Microsoft and even Nintendo's first-party titles on its digital storefront - and for all we know, it could still be interested in making this happen one day. According to yet...
News It Took This Nintendo Fan Over 20 Years To Complete Their Famicom Collection
Snow Bros. acquired!
The Japanese YouTuber Somari has finally completed the Nintendo Famicom collection, and it only took 20 years. According to Kotaku, they started the collection (which is similar but different to the NES library of games) in December 2000 with the 1986 release Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Hot Scramble, and most recently acquired the...
Random The Internet Goes Wild For New Waluigi Render
Look at that tongue, and that pose...
If you're a fan of Nintendo's purple mischief-maker Waluigi, there's not all that much to be excited about right now. We guess that's why his followers on social media are so happy about the latest render of him that's popped up in this week's episode of Nintendo Minute. As our resident render expert Jon...
News Illumination Founder Chris Meledandri Set To Join Nintendo Board
The partnership grows
There's little doubt that, barring delays, the Mario movie will be a huge gaming culture event in 2022. Nintendo's recent drive to expand its business into broader entertainment such as theme parks will, arguably, go to a whole new level once the film hits theatres. The company making the film - Illumination - made its name...
What do they know that we don't?
The Epic v Apple case continues to surprise and delight with day three of the trial, during which it was revealed — through various extremely boring financial documents — that, back in August 2020, the seniors at Xbox expected Nintendo's Breath of the Wild 2 to release between 2019 and 2020. It's funny to laugh...
News Here's All The Juicy Gossip From The Epic V Apple Lawsuit So Far
XOXO, Journalist Girl
Games journalism Twitter (yes, it's a thing) is having an absolute field day with the ongoing Epic V Apple trial, which is being broadcast to anyone who wants to listen — you just have to dial in. This is basically our version of The Bachelorette, full of twists, turns, betrayals, and leaked emails. It's a wild ride. In case...
News The Epic Vs Apple Lawsuit Might Have Revealed Phil Spencer's Nintendo Secret
We knew that Switch was a hint!
The ongoing legal dispute between Epic and Apple is being live broadcasted this week, and a lot of incredible stuff has come out of it already. Tim Sweeney, Epic's founder and CEO, has been repeatedly asked to identify consoles; the money Epic paid out for their
News A Record 57 LEGO Ideas Sets Are Being Reviewed, And Yes, That Includes Zelda LEGO
Child Link, Toon Link... Brick Link?
If you're a LEGO fan and a Nintendo fan, you probably have LEGO Ideas on your radar. It's an official project, run by LEGO themselves, which lets fans submit their ideas for new LEGO kits. If you get above a certain number of votes, then your build will go through to a review round, where a bunch of people at the...
News Nintendo Has Updated Its Official Island In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
And this is the code you'll need...
Think back to last year when the Dream Suite arrived in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and you might remember how Nintendo actually released the Dream Address code for its own official island in the game. Now, in an update on Twitter - it's announced the same island has had a facelift, with what appears to be...
News Nintendo Will Reportedly Ramp Up Switch Output To 30 Million This Fiscal Year
Nikkei is expecting a "higher-end" Switch model as well
A new report from the Japanese publication Nikkei suggests Nintendo will ramp up the production of the Switch to 30 million units this fiscal year (ending 31st March 2022), in an attempt to capitalise on the "stay-at-home demand" for the hybrid system. According to people "with direct...
News Nintendo Says It's Already "Looking Into" Animations Beyond The Mario Movie
Could this be the start of something special?
Last September, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa claimed the video game giant already had multiple 'visual content expansion projects' in the works. At the time, it was thought he was referring to movies and/or possible television series. Shigeru Miyamoto and Illumination's animated Mario movie is...
News Ni No Kuni II Might Be Coming To Switch
Ni YES Kuni. Or Ni Maybe Kuni, at least
ESRB ratings are hardly confirmation of video games becoming a reality, but we're hoping that this latest one is. Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is the colourful follow-up to Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (which came to Switch in 2019 after widespread critical success), and recently, a few eagle-eyed...
News Miitopia's New Mii Creation Tools Are Terrifyingly Powerful
Help Mii
It's been a long, long, long, long time since any new Mii creation tools were introduced — we're all pretty much using the same technology from the Wii days — but Miitopia, of all things, might be about to change that. See, it turns out that Nintendo aren't just re-releasing an old, weird 3DS game on Switch — they're also modernising...
Random Feeling Flush? The Queen's 24 Karat Golden Wii Has Popped Up On Ebay
Royal Family Games
You may remember an old PR stunt pulled by publisher THQ around the 2009 launch of Big Family Games (known in the US as Neighborhood Games) which involved sending a gold-plated Wii to Buckingham Palace as a present for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen isn't in the habit of opening unsolicited gifts, so she almost certainly never...
News How Do You Feel About Mario After His 35th Anniversary? Nintendo Apparently Wants To Know
You still love him, right?
Last month, Nintendo pulled the plug on Super Mario's 35th-anniversary celebrations. It did this by removing Super Mario 3D All-Stars from the Switch eShop, shutting down Super Mario Bros. 35 and even ending online services for older Mario games. Many fans are still questioning why it had to end like this, and for some,...
Anniversary The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask Is Now 21 Years Old In Japan
You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask today turns 21 years old in Japan. Although it's not quite as significant as last year's 20th anniversary, in some countries Link and Skull Kid would now be old enough to have a drink. The game first arrived in Japan in the year 2000 and despite being one of the...
Random The Internet Goes Wild For "Rockstar" Shigeru Miyamoto
A look at the creator of Mario in his younger years
Have you ever wondered what the creator of Super Mario and Nintendo God Shigeru Miyamoto might have looked like in his younger years? Well, here you go! A photo shared by Nintendeal on social media reveals Miyamoto's appearance many years ago - back when he had long locks of hair. Some fans have...
News Warhorse Rules Out Kingdom Come: Deliverance Switch Release (Again)
Latest images and tweets were apparently a "mistake"
At the start of this year, Warhorse Studios' 2018 medieval role-playing title Kingdom Come: Deliverance was spotted on an official Nintendo Switch release schedule. At the time, Warhorse's PR Manager Tobi Stolz-Zwilling said the game wasn't planned for the Switch and mentioned that the studio was...
News The Pink Puffball Kirby Is Getting A New Statue From First 4 Figures
More will be revealed next week
Statue specialist First 4 Figures has today revealed a 9" Kirby and the Painted Goal Door PVC statue. Alongside a teaser of this upcoming release, it also announced it would be hosting a launch stream next week on 27th April. In addition to this, F4F will be giving fans a chance to win one of these Kirby (well, an...
News Animal Crossing Crowned Family Game Of The Year At The 2021 D.I.C.E. Awards
Mario Kart Live wins best racing game category
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has already won a bunch of awards over the past year, and now to top it off, it's taken out the best family game at the 24th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. The other games in this category included Astro's Playroom, Dreams, Fall Guys and Sack Boy. The only other first-party...
News You Can Play Super Mario 64 In Your Browser
Browser's Inside Story
Nintendo is known for cracking down on downloads, torrents, and ports of their games, but they have to take breaks some time, right? Just last week, the developers of the "Super Mario 64 Plus" PC port of the game stated that they weren't too worried about DMCAs, since they weren't actually a threat to the sales of the game...
News Nintendo Teases Mario Kart Tour's Brand-New City Course
Update: Here's a first-look!
Update [Thu 22nd Apr, 2021 02:45 BST]: Nintendo has now shared a new trailer showing off the latest tour. Original story [Sun 18th Apr, 2021 17:00 BST]: As the Ninja-themed event wraps up in Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo has decided to lift the lid on the next round of racing. It seems Mario and friends are off to Sydney,...
News Nintendo Explains Why It Took Down The Labo Website
"We routinely conduct product website maintenance and reorganization"
[Update #2: 21/04/2021]: Nintendo of America has responded to reports that it has removed the Labo website, stating that the line is still available for purchase. Speaking to Games Radar, NoA said: "Nintendo Labo is available at retail locations. We routinely conduct product...
News First 4 Figures Announces Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Champions Series
Update: Pre-orders for Revali are now live
Update [Wed 21st Apr, 2021 00:45 BST]: Pre-orders for the first champion, Revali, are now live on the First 4 Figures website. The exclusive edition is priced at $137.49 USD but if you purchase if early you can save $10. The highly detailed Revali PVC statue is inspired by his official artwork from The...
