{"id":135637,"date":"2026-01-12T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196118"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:30:00","slug":"site-news-please-welcome-mai-the-newest-member-of-our-youtube-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/site-news-please-welcome-mai-the-newest-member-of-our-youtube-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Site News: Please Welcome Mai, The Newest Member Of Our YouTube Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/32d471a65137c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/32d471a65137c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/32d471a65137c\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube with-primis\" data-videoid=\"39IaAJCEyYE\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39IaAJCEyYE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\"><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yes that&#8217;s right, although we said a fond farewell to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a8-V27iLc3w\">Felix<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kI4hKbp64UI\">Zion<\/a> over the last few months, Alex has now been joined by a brand new face over on YouTube: please say hello to Mai Ladyman!<\/p>\n<p>Mai is no stranger to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@maireadthepirate\">making YouTube videos<\/a>, but she now joins Alex full-time as we storm into 2026. We&#8217;ve no doubt she will flourish as Nintendo ramps up its Switch 2 plans over the coming months and years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Nintendo, Mai is particularly partial to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Arceus<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>. On other consoles (yes, they do exist!), Mai is fond of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/fallout-4-anniversary-edition\">Fallout 4<\/a> (hey, that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/fallout-4-anniversary-edition-brings-the-apocalypse-to-switch-2-in-2026\">coming to Switch 2<\/a>!), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/baldurs_gate_3\" class=\"external\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3<\/a> (hey, that probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/01\/larian-would-have-loved-baldurs-gate-3-on-switch-2-will-certainly-consider-divinity\">isn&#8217;t coming to Switch 2<\/a>!), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/last_of_us_part_ii\" class=\"external\">The Last of Us Part II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the team, Mai!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes that&#8217;s right, although we said a fond farewell to Felix and Zion over the last few months, Alex has now been joined by a brand new face over on YouTube: please say hello to Mai Ladyman! Mai is no stranger to making YouTube videos, but she now joins Alex full-time as we storm into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}