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Tuesday6th Feb 2024
Random Capcom Survey Asks If Fans Want Sequels To Okami, Dino Crisis, More
Yes to all
Capcom has launched a rather elaborate survey dubbed 'Super Elections' via its Capcom Town website, in which it is asking fans ten questions relating to its games and business. Answering all ten questions will grant users eligibility to win one of three prizes: a Capcom wood badge set, a key art catalogue, and Capcom Hanafuda. The most...
Tuesday7th Feb 2023
Watch Zion And Kate Talk About Ace Attorney For An Hour
Hold it!
It's Kate's last day at Nintendo Life, and that means being terribly self-indulgent. And what's more self-indulgent than talking about the Ace Attorney games for an hour? From the beloved Ace Attorney trilogy to the underrated eShop exclusives of Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice — and even including the niche crossover event that was
Thursday2nd Feb 2023
Random The Ace Attorney Court Bot Is Probably Closing Shop Thanks To Twitter's New Rules
NOOOOOO
Pour one out for a real one: the Ace Attorney Court Bot, one of the best bots on Twitter, is being forced to shut down after Twitter announced that it would be charging for access to its API. This affects a ton of bots, of course, including Hourly Hatsune Miku, Endless Screaming, and Monopoly Mermaid Monday, the loss of which will make the...
Friday5th Aug 2022
Random This Ace Attorney Musical Mashup Casts Edgeworth And Phoenix As Backstreet Boys
Backstreet's back, ALL RISE!
We can't decide if this Backstreet Boys-meets-Ace Attorney combination is brilliant, or horrifying. We think it's both, but we also admire the musical skill it takes to think, "you know what would go well together? Boybands and an old DS game about the legal system." It's like the first person to find out that chocolate...
Monday30th May 2022
Random Do Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney's Outfits Harbour A Revealing Secret?
What does it MEAN
Right, it's a slow Monday afternoon, the entire US is on holiday, and E3 week Geoff Keighley's Not E3 is next week, so all the video games are hiding until then. Dear readers, there is not a lot happening right now. Except this bombshell of a discovery in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, that is! It turns out that the hex code for...
Thursday5th May 2022
News Ace Attorney's 20th Anniversary Concert Takes Place Later This Week
Here's the full tracklist
As you might recall, the Ace Attorney series is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. Yep, it's been a whole 20 years since the series originally made its Japanese debut on the Game Boy Advance in 2001. It's still going strong 20 years later, and to pay respect to the series, a special 20th anniversary orchestral...
Monday28th Mar 2022
News Ace Attorney Trilogy Will Be Discontinued On Mobile And Replaced With Console Port Version
Download it before June
Did you know that the iOS and Android version of the Ace Attorney Trilogy is an entirely different game to the one on 3DS, Switch, PlayStation, and PC? Initially released for mobile in 2012, Ace Attorney Trilogy HD is just a high-definition remaster of the original games, whereas the console version (which dropped the HD)...
Monday7th Mar 2022
Random Valve Artist Reimagines Ace Attorney Characters As '80s Lawyers
Nobody puts Apollo in a corner
Anyone who has eyes and a heart and a copy of at least one of the Ace Attorney games will agree that it is a game series full of stone-cold hotties. (Can you be both stone-cold and a hottie?) From the aloof, dadly suavity of the maroon-suited Edgeworth to the distressing ghost-cleavage of Mia Fey inhabiting other...
Thursday3rd Mar 2022
News A Concert Will Be In Session For Ace Attorney's 20th Anniversary
All rise in 7th May!
Hold it! How is Ace Attorney already 20 already? While the series debuted in Japan on the GBA in 2001, the West had to wait until the DS ports to play these magnificent games. Many were concerned the series was done and dusted, just kept alive by various re-releases, but with last years' The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, these...
Thursday10th Feb 2022
News Sleep In Edgeworth's Office To Celebrate Ace Attorney's 20th Anniversary
No, he won't be there
Luxury Japanese capsule hotel, Anshin Oyado Nagoya Sakae, has just announced a collaboration with Capcom to bring two Ace Attorney-themed rooms to its customers, in celebration of the series' 20th anniversary. There are two rooms available: The Ace Attorney room On one side, Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth's office, complete...
Wednesday22nd Dec 2021
News Capcom Shares Special Ace Attorney Artwork To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary
The gang's all here
Capcom's Ace Attorney series turns 20 this year, and the company has released a special piece of artwork to celebrate that fact. The art showcases characters from the entire series – including The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, which takes place many years before the famous exploits of Pheonix Wright – and i
Tuesday30th Nov 2021
News Phoenix Wright And Miles Edgeworth Nendoroids Are Now Available To Pre-Order
Hold it! (and treasure it)
[Update: Tue 30th Nov, 2021 15:30 GMT] Phoenix and Miles are now available for pre-order, with delivery scheduled for October 2022! Get a look at these tiny boys: [Original: Mon 5th Jul, 2021 19:30 BST] It only took twenty years, but finally, Phoenix Wright (ace attorney) is getting his own Nendoroid figure...
Tuesday12th Oct 2021
News Capcom Launches Ace Attorney 20th Anniversary Website
Initiatives and more planned
As you might have already seen, today marks 20 years of Capcom's Ace Attorney series. It all began when the first Phoenix Wright title was released on the Game Boy Advance in Japan on 12th October 2001. And although we didn't get to experience the series here in the west until 2005, we've been huge fans of the...
Monday11th Oct 2021
Poll What's The Best Ace Attorney Game?
You be the judge
20 years ago, on 12th October 2001, the very first Ace Attorney game was released on Game Boy Advance. Although we wouldn't get the game in English until 2005 — when it was re-released on the DS — the Ace Attorney series has long been beloved by people all over the world. A large part of that is due to the loveable protagonist...
Tuesday27th Jul 2021
News Ace Attorney Turnabout Collection Combines Great And Trilogy Releases In One
If you want to go all in
Today sees the launch of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, which combines the previously Japan-only The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve into one lovely remastered collection. We liked it very much in our review. If you're planning to grab it on Switch but also fancy going all-
Monday7th Jun 2021
Random This Ace Attorney "Class Trial" Cosplay Is Spot On
No objections here
Ace Attorney fans will hopefully remember the heartwarming story of how prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, defense attorney Phoenix Wright, and loveable idiot Larry Butz all became friends. It began with a simple crime in a classroom, for which Wright was blamed, and which Edgeworth acted as his lil baby defense attorney; it ended with...
Wednesday26th May 2021
Random Japanese Café Introduces Limited-Time Only Ace Attorney-Themed Menu
Object-YUM
When it comes to Ace Attorney and food, what comes first to most people's minds is the series' slightly strange localisation of common Japanese foodstuffs into American dishes, like Maya's love for ramen being translated as "burgers". But we're not here to split hairs noodles about whether or not a burger is a type of sushi — we're here...
Tuesday27th Apr 2021
Random The Cast Of Ace Attorney, As Pens
Phoenibs Write
Most people perhaps remember fountain pens as "those inky things that I was forced to write with at school", or perhaps "that pen that's always secretly a gun or a car in a James Bond movie", and although you would be right on both counts, fountain pens are also beautiful artefacts that some of us here at Nintendo Life (read: me)...
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News Open World Vaporwave Detective Game, Paradise Killer, Is 30% Off On Switch
Whodunnit? Probably the developers, we'd guess
You may not have heard of Paradise Killer, the cult-favourite that secured a few GOTY nominations last year thanks to its excellent writing and bizarro cast of characters, but that's ok - it's best if you go into it completely blind, anyway. Fans of Ace Attorney and Danganronpa will love the mystery...
Wednesday27th Jan 2021
Phoenix Wright should have been allowed to punch people
For fans of Ace Attorney, Persona, and Danganronpa - first of all, wow, you really like solving murders, huh? Secondly, Root Film may be just what you need to scratch that murder-itch you've been having lately. Like the rest, it's a visual novel with a huge dollop of spooky goings-on, as you...
Tuesday19th Jan 2021
Random This Bot Turns Reddit Arguments Into Phoenix Wright And Edgeworth Yelling At Each Other
Take that!
If you've ever wanted to see Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright, saying things like "a grilled cheese is NOT the same as a melt, and I will report you to the FBI if you continue this slander", then you'll probably love this bot, by 24-year-old software engineer, Micah Price. It takes arguments from Reddit, which are often about as juvenile and...
Wednesday28th Aug 2019
Random Looks Like Capcom Forgot To Remove Mention Of The Wii In Ace Attorney Trilogy On Switch
Oops
We're all used to seeing older games be remade, remastered, or just straight ported to Switch, and the Ace Attorney series is one of many which has received such treatment this year. As it happens, this particular release appears to have retained a little more of its past life than you'd hope for. As you can see in the screenshot below, shared...
Thursday11th Apr 2019
Nintendo Download 11th April (Europe)
Phoenix Wright! Hellblade! Vaporum!
The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch Retail - New Releases: Vaporum (Merge Games, €19.99 / £15.99) -...
Thursday4th Apr 2019
Nintendo Download 4th April (North America)
Phoenix Wright, Mechstermination Force and Safety First!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Nintendo Switch Retail: Super Dragon Ball...