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Poll Box Art Brawl: Zelda: A Link To The Past And Four Swords (GBA)

Portable magic

Welcome back to another edition Box Art Brawl! Last time, we were back with the Mega Man franchise to look at Mega Man Zero 3, the, uh, third entry in the Zero sub-series for GBA. As expected, the beautiful Japanese design won by a landslide, scoring 73% of the vote. The US variant bagged 17%, while the ghastly European design...

• Sun 11th Aug 2024
• Features
• Poll
• Box Art Brawl
• GBA
• Nintendo

News Nintendo Switch Online Gets Four New Additions Today, Including Zelda, Metroid, And Perfect Dark

Expansion Pack expanded

As part of the 18th June Nintendo Direct, Nintendo has announced the arrival of four new games for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. Game Boy Advance titles Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords and Metroid: Zero Mission will be available later today as part of the GBA library. And Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and...

• Tue 18th Jun 2024
• Nintendo Switch
• Retro
• Nintendo Switch Online

Feature Zelda's Forgotten Steward - Who Is Hidemaro Fujibayashi?

The man, the myth, the legend

Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring, and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds just about as much prestige in the ranks of Nintendo as Shigeru...

• Sat 6th Jan 2024
• Features
• Nintendo
• Nintendo Switch
• Zelda

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 22nd)

Our not-so-final fantasies

Who would have thought that in the run-up to the release of Tears of the Kingdom, we would have so much Switch news to talk about in the space of a week? Nintendo was really firing on all cylinders this time around, as we got an official release date for Xenoblade Chronicles 3's final DLC, four new games added to the

• Sat 22nd Apr 2023
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing
• Features

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 4th)

Game on!

Well folks, we made it through January and the upcoming months are looking bright (in gaming, at least). It's now fewer than 100 days until the release of Tears of the Kingdom so the countdown is well and truly on. This week at Nintendo Life, we had a chance to get hands on with Theatrhythm Final Bar Line, and we also

• Sat 4th Feb 2023
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing
• Features

Feature A Link To The Past's Dark World Changed Zelda Forever

"Everyone who wanders into this land is changed to a shape that reflects his true nature"

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, we ran a series of features looking at a specific aspect — a theme, character, mechanic, location, memory or something else entirely — from each of the mainline Zelda games. Today, on the 30th...

• Sun 21st Nov 2021
• Legend of Zelda
• Features
• Zelda 35th Anniversary
• Nintendo
• Best of 2021

Feature Zelda: Four Swords Was Probably Great, But Finding Pals To Play With? Talk About A Master Quest

All the idea, no gear

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, we're running a series of features looking at a specific aspect — a theme, character, mechanic, location, memory or something else entirely — from each of the mainline Zelda games. Today, Gavin struggles to gather the necessary items to get his multiplayer quests...

• Fri 26th Mar 2021
• Features
• Zelda
• Zelda 35th Anniversary
• Retro