Mailbox: The Wii U’s Legacy, Mii Singing, Hippos – Nintendo Life Letters

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Guess who’s back, back again? NL Mailbox‘s back, tell a friend. Yes, it’s once again time to recline in a comfy chair with your favourite beverage by your side, as we rifle through our monthly mailbag. Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting…

The sequel to flying city-builder Airborne Kingdom just hit 1.0 with a huge update and a 50% discount

Airborne Kingdom was one of the early pioneers of what I’ve dubbed the “weird city builder” trend, one that takes the genre out of its realistic, SimCity-esque roots and plonks it on the back of a dinosaur or in a world populated by beavers. In Airborne Kingdom’s case, the gimmick was building a flying city,…

Costco Is Randomly Selling Big Switch 2 Games For Just $30

If you’re behind on your Switch 2 game collection and out and about this weekend, it might not be a bad idea to swing by your local Costco. The wholesale warehouse retailer appears to be running a surprise sale on recent releases like Kirby Air Riders and Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and the savings are steep….

A new Project Zomboid update could make multiplayer servers much more deadly

The next Project Zomboid update is about to make your sandbox adventures more varied, and your multiplayer lobbies a whole lot more terrifying. Developer The Indie Stone has been cooking up fresh overhauls for its zombie game, and says that Project Zomboid build 42.17 is almost ready for release. This latest patch includes a range…

Microsoft doesn’t know what it’s going to do with Xbox Game Pass

Microsoft increased the price of every Xbox Game Pass tier in October 2025 and claimed it did so because it was “delivering more value, more benefits, and more great games across every plan.” Now, seven months and an Xbox leadership change later, even Microsoft seems unsure of what the subscription service’s future looks like, according…

Box Art Brawl: Professor Layton And Pandora’s Box

Europe Image: Nintendo / Launchbox There is a lot going on in the European design. The game’s new key art is relegated to the titular box in the centre, with six of its puzzles highlighted around the outside. A bright red background keeps everything perfectly eye-catching, but it’s perhaps a little busy, no? North America…

Tomodachi Life: A Guide To Living The Dream And Having Fun

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is less of a game and more of a reality TV show where you work on set. You’ll create the members of its cast and support them from the sidelines, but you won’t have much control over the important decisions your Miis make. It’s a really fun premise if you’re…

15 Years Later, Games Still Can't Nail What Portal 2 Perfected

Portal 2 is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, April 18, 2026. Below, we examine how it approached comedy, and how many games still struggle with it. Today, Portal 2 turns 15. Unlike most of us at that age, though, Valve’s revered 2011 puzzler is completely confident in its identity and funny as hell. In a…

XCOM spiritual successor Warhounds dumps its gen-AI portraits, and I’m breathing a sigh of relief

I’ve been watching Warhounds with keen interest for a while now, and one of my biggest gripes with the upcoming turn-based strategy game has just been tackled by developer Everplay. Citing XCOM and Jagged Alliance as its main inspirations, it boasts all the environmental tactics and squad specialization that you want, with a refreshing focus…

Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what’s under women’s skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved

“This may be one of the longest running secrets in the history of The Elder Scrolls we are about to reveal,” says the holy repository of knowledge that is the Ultimate Elder Scrolls Portal, “this has seemingly stayed hidden for 28 years from general knowledge.” In 1998, Bethesda released a third-person action-adventure set in the…