!.05-Nintendo Life | Latest Updates

!.05-Nintendo Life | Latest Updates


A New Limited-Time Pokémon Sword And Shield Porygon-Z Distribution Event Has Begun

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 12:00 PM PDT

Get it while you can!

Once again, there's a new distribution event available in Pokémon Sword and Shield. It's only on offer until tomorrow - so act fast! This time around it's a Porygon-Z. As explained by Serebii.net, this Pokémon was given out for the Korean Trainer Battle tournament.

The code you'll need this time is: 1STPTCCHAMP

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Feature: How Fire Tonight Took A Decades-Old Synth-Pop Song, And Made A Game Out Of It

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 10:00 AM PDT

Flamey-o.

Information Society in 2019, looking extremely cool

You might think that there would be more video games based on songs, and yet, there really aren't. At least, I can't think of any, but then again, I am writing this at 10am on a rainy Friday morning, so my brain isn't exactly at its peak.

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Sakurai "Can't Count" How Many Times He's Thought About Quitting Game Development

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 09:45 AM PDT

"Making games is really tough".

Most Smash Bros. fans will already know how much effort game director Masahiro Sakurai puts into each title, but what's not been made quite as public is how often he's been pushed to his limits.

While on the subject of "retirement" in his part two chat with the Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada, Sakurai spoke about how he's thought about quitting game development on more occasions than he can remember while acknowledging how "tough" it can be.

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Talking Point: Which Pokémon Legends: Arceus Starter Are You Going To Pick?

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 08:00 AM PDT

Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott, oh my.

Rowlet.

Wait, sorry, I have to write more words than that? Fine.

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Review: Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition - A Solid Plort Of A Superb Slime Sim

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Your next farming Plort of call.

Upon hearing the title of Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition you might be forgiven for imagining a dozy, snoozy farm simulator that bears a striking resemblance to Stardew Valley with some Dragon Quest Slimes and a first-person perspective thrown in. If that's you, well you're only half right, or maybe a quarter right. Slime Rancher is a tricky game to pin in a single box; it's part Stardew, part Subnautica, and when you come across what few enemies there are, part DOOM Eternal. All right, we might be slightly overdoing it with that last one as all shooting is done to either feed things or lightly douse them in water, but we're standing by it.

You play as Beatrix, a new rancher of Slimes who has to make a go of this new vocation by selling nondescript consumable 'Plorts' that any and all Slimes produce whenever they're fed. Simple enough in theory, but there's wrinkles upon wrinkles to contend with that make things far more interesting than such a simplified explanation suggests.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 21st)

Posted: 21 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT

Go on, tell us...

Another week of 2021 goes zipping by like a zippy thing in Zippy Mode — a zip, for instance — and we can but look back on the events of the past seven days as events dropped into the fast-flowing river of Time. Treasured memories, like that time when some Nintendo fan turned their N64 into a Switch, or when the Special Edition Pokémon Dialga & Palkia Nintendo Switch Lite was announced — remember that? What about the time when Brendan Fraser was playing his Switch before meeting a fan over Zoom? All those moments lost in time, like tears in rain...

After a busy week it's time to chill out and discuss our weekend gaming plans. A few members of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our entries a read and then join in with your own via our comment section. Enjoy!

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Nintendo Is Adding A New Driver To Its Mobile Game Mario Kart Tour

Posted: 20 Aug 2021 08:55 PM PDT

The 'Kamek Tour' is on the way.

Mario Kart Tour is quickly becoming the most expansive game ever in the series' history. Following on from the addition of retro tracks like Cheep-Cheep Island from the GBA release, Nintendo is now adding another new (but classic) character.

It's the Magikoopa Kamek. Although this isn't the first time Kamek has appeared in some way or form within the Mario Kart series, this does mark his official debut as a playable driver. If you look close enough, you should be able to see him in the background of the following image:

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