Gaming is fairly nice today, however there are a handful of issues we miss from the olden occasions earlier than every little thing went on-line. Sport shops are a giant one — there’s nothing like wandering all the way down to your native emporium and seeing row upon row of precise real video video games, consoles and equipment outdated and new. You understand, versus a wall of Funko Pops, a chair with blinking lights, and a cupboard of secondhand Samsung Galaxies.
Sport 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 to your gaming information and critiques. It is a feeling we do our greatest to copy on the positioning, which leads us to our latest common characteristic. Introducing the Nintendo Life Mailbox.
Readers’ Letters?! Nice, however what concerning the feedback part? Effectively, that is not fairly the identical, is it? Don’t fret, the feedback and the boards aren’t going wherever — we’re simply desperate 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 means. Need to get an opinion on a particular sport or sequence or console off your chest? Need to know our ideas on a sure gaming matter? A query concerning the web site, 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 likelihood!
If you happen to assume again, you may additionally do not forget that mags would typically spotlight a ‘Star’ letter, and we’ll be doing the identical. We lately began up our Supporter scheme for NL readers who benefit from the web site and would really like 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.
Try the article beneath for the complete lowdown on our Supporter scheme. To reiterate, we now have zero plans to paywall content material in any means. Each article on the positioning will stay obtainable to all readers — that is simply an alternate solution to assist what we do for anybody who prefers an ad-less studying expertise.