400 platinum points each.

Bloomin’ heck, 2026 is getting close, isn’t it?

It’s a good job, then, that Nintendo has launched not one, but two 2026 calendars for your perusal over on the My Nintendo Store. Both cost 400 platinum points, but one of them is limited to those with a paid Nintendo Switch Online membership.

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Hey! Look!

Nintendo has revealed a new batch of photos of the upcoming live-action Zelda movie, giving us our closest look yet at its central duo.

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Featuring some familiar faces.

After the debut Emerald Rush event wrapped up earlier this month, Donkey Kong Bananza‘s second DLC in-game event is getting off to the races next week, with two particularly swanky reward statues up for grabs.

The ‘So Strong It’s Funny’ event will get underway on 25th November and will be hanging around until 2nd December, so you have just one week to rack up a high score and pull in the bonus goodies.

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Gaga, Cher, Streisand… Mega Starmie?

It came during the night. From the darkest, most existentially tortured recesses of a Game Freak designer’s brain. Diffidently, at first, then more boldly. Finally, hips swishing, stripper heels glittering, it announced itself across the Internet in a burst of dramatics. I am speaking, of course, of Mega Starmie, the breakout Internet star of Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

At first, Mega Starmie frightened us. In its first official days of life, its long, powerful legs and humanoid gait evoked images of runway models, male, female, or otherwise; however, its lack of a head seemed at odds with this, confusing anyone who had liked those legs. “Am I attracted to Mega Starmie?” asked certain players, before ultimately dismissing Mega Starmie as a valiant yet unfinished design. Certainly, it was not something that they had thought of sexually when alone and three drinks in, staring out the window during a rainstorm.

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So the devs used gyro, instead.

Capcom is going all-out to promote Resident Evil Requiem on the Switch 2 ahead of its launch on 27th February 2026, including offering up a limited edition Pro Controller and a Grace Ashcroft amiibo figure.

In speaking with Press Start Australia, producer Masato Kumazawa shared more details on the game’s development, and it turns out that the team “tried really hard” to implement the Switch 2’s mouse controls into Requiem, but ultimately decided against it when it became apparent that mouse controls “confused and convoluted the gameplay”:

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Every Zelda game, ranked.

Updated with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. Enjoy!

What are the best Zelda games? Following decades of adventures across Nintendo consoles, ranking The Legend of Zelda series is one heck of an undertaking. Most stand among the very best games on their respective consoles, so assembling a ranked Zelda list is no small task.

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Surprise and Deee-Lite.

If you want to really understand (or remember) what TV looked like before the internet, Blippo+ is just the ticket.

This unique little time capsule launched on Panic’s Playdate in May and landed on Switch and PC in September. Now in full colour, this remarkable collaboration between the band Yacht, Telefantasy Studios, developer Noble Robot, and Panic itself teleports you back to a time when television was an appointment pastime and we viewed the world in fuzzy 4:3.

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Issue #30 – November 2025.

Good day, Nintendo Lifers. We’re here once more to carefully open your digital missives as we open the door and put the little flag down on the Nintendo Life Mailbox.

Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll highlight a Star Letter, the writer of which will receive a month’s subscription to our ad-free Supporter scheme. Check out the submission guidelines at the bottom of this page.

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Footpoll.

We are back with this week’s clash of the covers! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl.

It was a trio of designs for the NES’ Dragon Power that went head-to-head (to-head) last time, though neither the European nor North American artwork stood a chance against the eye-catching Japanese variant, which gobbled up 72% of the vote and left with the win.

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Yee-haw!

Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare fans will soon be back in the saddle with Rockstar Games recently announcing it’s reviving John Marston’s journey on Switch 2 and multiple other platforms this December.

While the announcement already had many cowboys jumping for joy, in case you missed it, Rockstar Games has also confirmed this will be a completely free upgrade for existing owners. This applies to current owners of Red Dead Redemption on the Switch and existing PlayStation and Xbox owners.

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