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Nintendo, apparently dissatisfied with being a stalwart of nearly every school child’s life, is aiming even younger. A new range of products under the banner of My Mario has been announced, including wooden block toys, board books, and a Switch and mobile app that’ll let kids mess with Mario’s face, all focused on a preschool market. Gotta get ’em young and impressionable. Initially launching in Japan, the physical toys will be available in select Nintendo stores, but will almost inevitably find their way to international markets soon enough. The range includes plastic crockery, a mini-backpack, rattle plushies, and super-adorable teeny…

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1994’s Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders and its 1995 sequel, Hexen: Beyond Heretic forged new frontiers in first-person shooter games. Experience these pivotal games today with Heretic + Hexen, a collaboration between id Software and Nightdive Studios bringing an enhanced re-release of Raven Software’s legendary games to a new generation of players. Play Video From demonic sci-fi to dark fantasy “As one of the original developers back in the ’90s, it’s honestly kind of surreal to see Heretic and Hexen coming back like this,” says Brian Raffel, studio co-founder and co-head of Raven Software. “We built those games on…

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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube830k Update [Fri 8th Aug 2025, 7am]: A new Mario Party style LEGO game called LEGO Party was announced in June, and now the team behind it has locked in a release date – confirming it will be arriving on Switch and multiple other platforms on 30th September 2025. Once again, it will feature online and cross-platform support. Along with this, a physical addition has also been announced by iam8bit for $44.99. Pre-orders now live. Shipping will begin on the same date. If you pre-order you can also score some exclusive minifigs…

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MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad.This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved Bad Company 2 was the better FPS because it had vehicles, 32-player lobbies, class roles, and maps that put Modern Warfare 2’s puny arenas to shame. I was and still am correct. But CoD fans always had the same comeback: Call of Duty had the better gunplay, and…

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Guntouchables, a co-op roguelike doomsday shooter, has just launched into 1.0 on Steam with a hefty discount. How hefty? Well, it’s 100% off! Now, that does come with the catch that you have to pick it up within the first 24 hours of launch, which started at 12 AM PT / 3 AM PT / 8 AM BST / 9 AM CEST, so you’ll have to figure out how many hours you’ve got left yourself. Once you’ve claimed the game, it’s yours for life, but if you miss out after the 24 hours are up, it’ll revert to the still-pretty-affordable…

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