Feature Articles
Saturday19th Oct 2024
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th October)
Let's kill some time
The weekend is here, which means it's time to kick back and enjoy some quality time with games. Before we find out what we're diving into, however, let's take a look back at some of this week's biggest stories. First up, it looks like the GameCube controller might be making some sort of comeback, which is pretty wild. We also...
Sunday7th Apr 2024
Back Page 'NL Destinations' Presents The Best Vacation Locales On Switch
'Never Leave', amiright?
In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you'd find all the weird goofs that we couldn't fit in anywhere else. Some may call it "filler"; we prefer "a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag". We don't have pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes —...
Saturday27th Jan 2024
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 27th)
Capturing those 'mons
Welcome to another edition of What Are You Playing?, where we find out which games we're going to be chilling out with this weekend. Before we get into that, though, let's go over what's been happening this week. Naturally, there's been a lot of Palworld discussion, and perhaps the most noteworthy event was when The Pokémon...
Saturday16th Dec 2023
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 16th)
We have liftoff!
Well, the weekend has rolled around once again so it's time for a spot of gaming, we'd say. Before we get to that, however, does anyone fancy a quick round-up of the Nintendo highlights from this week? We've been taking a look at what classic SEGA franchises you'd like to see return, keeping up with everything going on in Fo
Saturday7th Oct 2023
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 7th)
Tell us! Do it now!
The weekend is here once again folks, so it's time to sit down, relax, and play some games. Before we do so, however, let's just go over what's been going on this week. First, we got another teasing look at Hotel Chocolatier, the new game from the creator of Stardew Valley, and it's looking mighty fine indeed. We also learned...
Saturday5th Aug 2023
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 5th)
Let's Gooigi
Woohoo, the weekend! Yes, another week is almost done, which means it's time to look back on some of the highlights from the last few days. First up, kicking off the week with a bang, it was rumoured that Nintendo is targeting a 2024 release for its next major piece of hardware. Details so far are scarce, but it sounds like the...
Saturday29th Jul 2023
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 29th)
Taking hearts
The weekend is here once again, folks, so it's time to recap some of our biggest news items of the week before we settle down for some good ol' fashioned comfort gaming. First up, of course, we reviewed the rather excellent Disney Illusion Island for the Switch and gave it a resounding score of 9/10. Be sure to check the link below to...
Saturday28th Jan 2023
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 28th)
Shaken not stirred
Well here we are folks. It's the final week of January and we have had our first big Nintendo release of the year. Consider 2023 to be well and truly underway! This week at Nintendo Life, we got all kinds of excited for the eventual release of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo Switch Online N64 library and suggested a quick fix for...
Wednesday21st Dec 2022
Feature Game Of The Year 2022 - Nintendo Life Staff Awards
Our personal picks for the best Switch games of 2022
Another year has come and gone (almost) and once more we're looking back over all the games we've played, along with those we wish we had played. It's been a great year for Switch releases, with a crop of excellent first-party Nintendo games joined by some great third-party offerings (Square Enix,...
Saturday22nd Oct 2022
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 22nd)
Persona-fied rabbits
Wow. This week has been so full of news, we would be hesitant to add any more for fear of bursting. After long anticipating the releases of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Persona 5 Royal on the Switch, who would have thought that Bayonetta 3 drama would overshadow it all? Hey, welcome to the world of Nintendo! Aside from...
