Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a stroke of genius. I can’t be the only one with fond memories of playing with Mario Kart toys as a kid—both a kid-sized kid and an adult-sized kid—using everyday household objects to build Micro Machines-esque courses and have my little karts “race” around …
It’s hard to imagine what the videogame landscape would look like without 3D Mario. Super Mario 64, especially, influenced the entire direction of 3D games, and the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy made big impacts of their own. Such historically significant games need to be preserved …
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is, more than any other Legend of Zelda game I’ve played, a game that puts Zelda herself at the front and centre. Link is ostensibly the player-insert protagonist—though with multiple playable characters, you could easily sit Link on the bench for most of the game …
A free demo for Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise has just launched on the Nintendo Switch eShop, if you want to give Nintendo’s rhythm exercise game a spin before its launch next month. The demo includes Daily Exercise and Free Training modes, with three original songs: Birdsong, Aim High, …
I loved the original Hyrule Warriors a whole heap, in part because I just like Warriors games in general, but mostly because it felt like a celebration of the history of The Legend of Zelda. An admittedly contrived plot paved the way for a whole host of fan-favourite characters to …
It’s hard to fairly describe a game like Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I said as much when I shared my first impressions, and despite having spent much more time with it since then, I’m still struggling to do it justice. It’s a game that’s not quite like anything else out there, …
I have to be honest: I’ve never played Pikmin before, nor have I really had any inclination to. I never had a GameCube, so Pikmin and Pikmin 2 never even crossed my radar, and none of the nostalgic attachment when Pikmin 3 came out almost a decade later. All I …
Earlier this morning, Nintendo released a new video presentation to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of Super Mario Bros. Among the company’s birthday plans are a collection of classic 3D Super Mario games for Switch, an augmented reality Mario Kart game with radio-controlled cars, and a brand new …
Every time there’s a Pokemon Direct, a bunch of cultured souls cry out for Pokemon Snap—if not a new game, at least a Switch port of the Nintendo 64 original. Every time there’s a Pokemon Direct, a bunch of cultured souls walk away disappointed. But not today. There is a …
Nintendo has just released Jump Rope Challenge, a free little exercise game for Nintendo Switch that turns your Joy-Con into the handles of an imaginary jump rope. Jump Rope Challenge was created by a small team of Nintendo developers while working from home, as a way of adding some quick, …
