Gaming is fairly nice today, however there are a handful of issues we miss from the olden instances earlier than all the things went on-line. Recreation shops are an enormous one — there’s nothing like wandering right down to your native emporium and seeing row upon row of precise real video video games, consoles and equipment previous and new. You recognize, versus a wall of Funko Pops, a chair with blinking lights, and a cupboard of secondhand Samsung Galaxies.
Recreation magazines are one other factor we miss. There are nonetheless some stalwart publications hanging in there, fortunately, and there is one thing intimate and particular about holding print in your fingers and poring over bodily pages on your gaming information and critiques. It is a feeling we do our greatest to duplicate on the location, which leads us to our latest common function. Introducing the Nintendo Life Mailbox.
Readers’ Letters?! Nice, however what in regards to the feedback part? Effectively, that is not fairly the identical, is it? Don’t fret, the feedback and the boards aren’t going anyplace — we’re simply wanting to recapture a few of that old-school, month-to-month Letters web page spirit!
To be clear, these mails will nonetheless be digital, we’ll simply be showcasing a handful of them by way of our new and month-to-month Mailbox article that offers readers the possibility to get in contact in a barely completely different, retro-flavoured method. Wish to get an opinion on a particular recreation or sequence or console off your chest? Wish to know our ideas on a sure gaming subject? A query in regards to the website, maybe? A determined want to listen to Jim’s ideas on the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy 3 versus the earlier two entries and the broader MCU audioscape? Now’s your probability!
In the event you suppose again, you may additionally do not forget that mags would usually spotlight a ‘Star’ letter, and we’ll be doing the identical. We just lately began up our Supporter scheme for NL readers who benefit from the website and would love the choice to expertise it ad-free (you might have seen the little pulsing ‘∞‘ badge subsequent to customers’ names, and even signed up your self — thanks!), and each month a Star letter of our selecting will obtain one month’s free subscription to our Supporter programme.
Take a look at the article beneath for the total lowdown on our Supporter scheme. To reiterate, we’ve zero plans to paywall content material in any method. Each article on the location will stay obtainable to all readers — that is simply another option to help what we do for anybody who prefers an ad-less studying expertise.