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Image: Nintendo LifeOh, 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 to our ad-free Supporter scheme. Check out the submission guidelines at the bottom of this page. Grab a cuppa and come with us now on a journey through time, space, and spam… Nintendo Life Mailbox – March 2025 “indulge in said bells” (***STAR…
News Nintendo Expands Switch Online’s Game Boy Library With Two More Titles Mario and Donkey Kong are here Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s check out the box art designs themselves. North America / Europe #1 Image: Nintendo / Launch Box The design shared by North America and select parts of Europe (including the UK) is a pretty trippy one. Mario’s disembodied facial features float against a purple/orange background, while brightly-coloured squares trickle down the image. We particularly like how one of these squares sits atop the ‘i’ in ‘Mario’ as if it’s…
Image: NintendoJoy-Con drift has been a major talking point throughout the Switch’s lifecycle and if you’re worried about it making an unwanted return next-generation, there might be some good news on the horizon. The tech experts at iFixit recently did a teardown of Nintendo’s sound clock ‘Alarmo’ and it appears to be using the “more reliable” Hall effect sensors. The teardown reveals a “magnet and Hall effect sensor” located inside the rotary dial button at the top of the device. As The Verge explains, this should well and truly extend the clock’s reliability in the long term: “That tech, which…
Image: Nintendo Life The GameCube generation ended years ago, but the controller for this system is still a popular choice for many Nintendo enthusiast when it comes to select titles. If you are hoping to see support for this particular gamepad on the Switch 2 in some way or form, you might be in luck. A new FCC filing by Nintendo for a “game controller” has recently gone live. The model number prefix attached is ‘BEE’ – matching up with the Switch 2. One other bit of information suggests it will be a “wireless Bluetooth controller” and attached are some…
Image: Square EnixSquare Enix has announced that the Final Fantasy series has surpassed a whopping 200 million sales worldwide, five million of which have come from 2023’s Pixel Remasters. To mark the occasion, the studio has released a new patch for all six games in the collection, bringing the Switch editions up to ver. 1.2.0. The patch doesn’t address anything too drastic in the titles, though there are a good number of balancing tweaks and bug fixes to help things run that bit smoother. The full patch notes were shared on the official Square Enix website, and we have gathered…
Image: TaitoM2, the emulation wizards who are responsible for multiple Sega Ages titles, Virtual Console ports, and the excellent Castlevania Advance and Dominus Collections, has shared a brand new trailer for its upcoming game, Night Striker Gear, which is coming to Switch in 2025. The clip was shared on Bluesky by ohfivepro (via Time Extension), with a timestamped version of the stream viewable on YouTube, and this is our first look at the game. While Night Striker Gear will eventually get a standalone release, initially it’ll only be available if you pre-order the limited edition of M2’s compilation title Operation…
Image: Paramount PicturesIf you cast your mind back to last year’s arrival of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in cinemas, you might remember that SEGA created an all-new Genesis cart as a neat bit of promotion. The cart itself didn’t contain anything too special (character images, posters and a small minigame), but it was a working cart and it was rare. So you know what that means… Yep, one of these promotional carts has now popped up on eBay with an eye-watering $28,000 price tag attached. The seller, grj409, is also accepting a “best offer” if that beefy listing isn’t hit,…
Town of Zoz – Coming Soon “Town of Zoz is an action RPG where you play as Ito, a young shaman chef adventurer as they return home to help the family restaurant. Hunt critters, gather magical ingredients, and rebuild bonds by cooking for the townspeople who need Ito’s help more than they know.” Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube798k On Your Tail – Out Today “Prepare to explore the charming town of Borgo Marina in this delightful detective adventure on Nintendo Switch, releasing on March 13th! Diana, an intrepid writer looking for a bit of inspiration, travels to the small…
Image: NianticIt’s official — Niantic, the developer of Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now, has sold its gaming division for a staggering $3.5 billion to Scopely, “a world leader in mobile games”. This acquisition comes just a few weeks after reports emerged that Niantic was in talks to sell. The deal also includes the community-building apps Campfire and Wayfarer. In a statement on its website, Niantic says that “we have reached an agreement” with the California-based mobile game developer to sell its gaming division for the above amount, “with an additional $350 million of cash from Niantic being…
Image: NintendoNintendo has announced it will be rolling out Splatoon 3’s first update of the year this week – bumping the game up to Version 9.3.0. This update will include adjustments to weapons, Splatfest changes, and all sorts of bug fixes. You can see a rough machine translation of the Japanese patch notes below (note: This post will be updated with English patch notes when they go live). “Update data version 9.3.0 for the Nintendo Switch software “Splatoon 3” will be distributed starting tomorrow, Thursday, March 13th at 10:00 AM. For details on the update, please see the following page.”…