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Video Rabbid Peach Takes On Beyoncé’s Naughty Girl In Just Dance 2018
"Have fun, dance along, and maybe take a few selfies!!"
Rabbid Peach's selfie-snapping antics arguably stole the show in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and now she's back to strut her stuff in Just Dance 2018. Peach provides some "alternative moves" for the Beyoncé track Naughty Girl, complete with a selection of Rabbids backing dancers...
Video See, Blighttown Really Does Run At 30fps On Nintendo Switch
Hollowed, but stable
Last week we reported on how FromSoftware and Chinese studio Virtuos had reportedly managed to wrestle Blighttown - a notorious location in Dark Souls, known for its brutal boss fights and crippling frame rate issues - to a stable 30fps on Nintendo Switch. Well, PAX East has come and gone, and now we have some actual footage to...
Video See How Well Gravity-Defying Racer GRIP Performs On Nintendo Switch
Rolling the cage
Nintendo Switch has plenty of exciting titles headed its way in 2018, including a flurry of new racers looking to give Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a run for its racing money. That includes the gravity-defying action of GRIP, which is due to burn rubber and level buildings later this year. YouTuber duo The Nintendo Power Couple was able to...
Random Here's What Donkey Kong Country Would Have Looked Like With Classic Kong
Alternate timeline monkey business
When Rare was given the chance to work with one of Nintendo's most famous intellectual properties, it created one of the SNES' truly classic 2D platformers. However, Donkey Kong Country not only gave Kong a new lease of life; it gave him an entirely new look which has become the accepted template ever since. What,...
Video Here's What Wolfenstein II Looks Like Running On Nintendo Switch
Well, in TV mode at least
While we don't know exactly when Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus will arrive on Nintendo Switch, we know that developer Panic Button is hard at work fitting the 2017 shooter onto the plucky little portable console. And with Bethesda offering hands-on previews of the game at PAX East this week, we've finally got our...
Video Build Your Own Guitar With The Cardboard Creations Of Nintendo Labo
Shred on Switch
With Nintendo Labo a mere few weeks away, we're getting more than a little excited to start seeing the world in cardboard. Enter the latest Toy-Con Garage tutorial from Nintendo, which this week details how you can make a functional guitar out of your Nintendo Switch, some rubber bands and a little cardboard. Using the frighteningly...
Video Digital Foundry Lavishes Praise On Outlast 2 Switch Port
Frighteningly impressive
Our friends over at Digital Foundry have put Outlast 2 on Switch through its paces, stating that the game is an impressive port - even when compared to the PS4 version. Like the original Outlast on Switch, the sequel has a 1792x1008 resolution when docked, with a standard 720p in mobile mode. Both run at 30fps, while the...
News Leaked Labo Toy-Con Concepts Suggest Nintendo is Serious About Cardboard
April Fool's!
UPDATE: Yes indeed, as everyone and their dog guessed, this is our April Fool's for this year. We hope you got a bit of a giggle out of it! ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Nintendo has somewhat divided many of its fans with its new Labo line of toys/peripherals, with many claiming it's a great way to get kids interested in coding and just as many...
Hardware Review Retro-Styled Switch Controllers from ColorWare
Back in black (and red)
Custom controllers aren't exactly a new idea; whether they're cobbled together by a passionate young player or expertly crafted by someone with serious experience, the allure of custom gaming gubbins has been around for donkey's years. Colorware apparently knows this, as they offer a wide array of custom controllers for...
Video Sit Back And Watch Darksiders: The Documentary For Free
Something, something, dark side...
With the Darksiders franchise due to make a triumphant return with Darksiders 3 later this year (a title, sadly, that isn't currently slated for Nintendo Switch), there's never been a better time to get to know the series, its origins, the downfall of original developer Vigil and its eventual revival. The...
Video Fox n Forests Is Looking Particularly Gorgeous In This Latest Footage
Foxy
It's fair to say that we're really excited about how Fox n Forests is shaping up. Inspired heavily by the golden age of 2D platformers, German developer Bonus Level appears to be doing a fine job with its gorgeous, season-changing action game after a successful Kickstarter campaign way back in August 2016. It's due to launch on Switch...
Video Here's Almost An Hour Of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy Footage
Tagging in
If you're interested in new fighting games then SNK: Heroines will surely be on your radar; this promising-looking brawler contains some of SNK's most famous female characters in 2-on-2 tag action, and is headed to Switch this year. We've seen snippets of the game in motion before but during a Wednesday Night Fights broadcast we got...
Video Nintendo Shows How To Create Your Own Labo Remote Control Tank
Part two of the Toy-Con Garage series
Nintendo's running a series of videos on YouTube which looks at the ways you'll be able to create cool toys using Labo, which arrives next month. This week, it's the turn of the RC Tank. This demonstration shows how you can start with a very basic concept - such as the Joy-Con's IR camera "seeing" some...
Video Nintendo Releases Infectiously Upbeat Switch Spring Line-Up Video In Japan
Mario Tennis Aces! Splatoon 2 DLC! Donkey Kong! Kirby!
Nintendo's got a lot of forward momentum right now, but if 2018 is going to be anywhere near as successful as 2017, the company needs to keep hammering home the key "play anytime, anywhere" message of the Switch. That's precisely what it's doing in Japan with this new spring line-up commercial,...
Video Ever Wondered Why Joysticks Are Always On The Left?
It's probably not why you think, either...
Like night following day and grass being green, joysticks being on the left-hand side of a controller has been a solid rule in gaming since what seems like forever. While you could argue that the recent shift to twin-stick pads may run counter to this perspective, the left-hand stick is always your primary...
Video Take A Tour Of The Now Closed Final Fantasy "Memories of You" Museum
A Perfect Memory
From 22nd January to 28th February, Square-Enix hosted a special art and multimedia exhibition in Tokyo to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Final Fantasy game series. It isn’t the only way Square-Enix will celebrate these thirty glorious years, and this event follows the other big role-playing game series...
Video Check Out This GameCube Dock For Nintendo Switch
Just in time for Smash
With the exciting news of Super Smash Bros. coming to Switch later this year, a modders thoughts turn to how to make a homemade GameCube Switch dock with working controllers naturally. We normally wouldn't cover such mods, but Rated-E Mods did such an amazing job with this one, we just couldn't resist! So what do...
Video Check Out The Scope Of Nintendo Labo's Toy-Con Garage Mode
Programming with cardboard
Nintendo is kicking off a new series of videos devoted to showcasing Nintendo Labo's Toy-Con Garage mode, which allows you to create your very own Toy-Con using a basic programming tool. The first video - shown above - talks about how you can use 'nodes' to create inputs and outputs. For example, on the most basic level...
Video Digital Foundry Considers "Nintendo Switch Pro" With NVIDIA Tegra X2 Processor
Power up!
Our good chums over at Digital Foundry certainly do like to look to the future when it comes to gaming tech. Having debated the benefits of the PS4 Pro and the more recently released Xbox One X, both of which offer substantial benefits to gameplay performance on existing games, industry veteran Richard Leadbetter turns his...
Video Here's More Evidence That The Switch Port Of WWE 2K18 Really Is Terrible
As if you needed it!
We'd just about gotten over the disappointment of the Switch port of WWE 2K18, which we awarded a generous 3/10 to back in December, but following a recent patch to the Switch version the lovely folks over at Digital Foundry have opened the wound again with one of their trademark comparison videos with the Xbox One...
Random Join Us As We Do Our Best To Guess The Super Smash Bros. For Switch Roster
Or should that be our worst?
Nintendo likes to be a tease, and knows its fanbase will tear everything apart within moments of its publication. To make sure this trend continues we've painstakingly analysed the trailer for the upcoming Switch Super Smash Bros. entry in order to see if we can tell what new characters may be arriving in 2018. We're...
Video This New Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition Trailer Is Full To The Brim
HD fairies ahoy
Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition may be a triple-dip for Nintendo and Koei Tecmo, but we're nevertheless quite interested in playing it for a third time in portable HD. To drum up interest ahead of launch, Koei Tecmo has released a fresh trailer which is literally bursting at the seams with content. There's action, fairies and...
News Playdough Platformer Semblance Is Coming To Switch This Year
It's a soft, bouncy world of fun
We love a good platformer here at Nintendo Life, so we were delighted to hear about Semblance coming to Switch later this year in an announcement from publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and South African developer, Nyamakop. Semblance is a puzzle-platformer where your soft, bouncy character and its...
Weirdness We've Been Sent a Ludicrously Big Box to Open
Bloober Team delivers (indirectly)
We're used to getting the odd freebie now and then, usually in the form of press kits or t-shirts, but suffice it to say we never expected to be sent anything quite of this scale; what's more this was entirely unexpected. Make sure you check out the video above to see what's inside the goliath package, or if...
News This Faithful Fan-Made Brawler Is Mega Man Meets Smash Bros
Blue Bomber beatdown
Do you love yourself a bit of Mega Man? Can't wait until the release of the Mega Man Legacy Collection and Mega Man Legacy Collection 2? Well, how about a fan-made creation that takes the classic retro platforming of the Blue Bomber and transforms it into a multiplayer brawler, a la Smash Bros? Mega Man Arena - which you can...
Video New Trailer For Raging Justice Shows Off Some Of The Deadly Weapons On Offer
Baseball bats, shotguns and bears to name but a few
We recently brought you the news that Team17 would be bringing MakinGames' Raging Justice to the Switch soon. This tribute to scrolling beat 'em ups of yesterday such as Streets of Rage is still due in Q2 2018, but now we have a better look at the gameplay in a new trailer shown above...
Video Every Single Switch Game Released in Year One
No game left behind
The Switch, as it stands, is an unmitigated success both commercially and critically. Developers are flocking to release their games on the system as soon as they can, but just how many games have been released in the first year of this console's life? Short answer, 404 in Western territories. That's over 100 more than the...
Video Koei Tecmo Unleashes New Attack On Titan 2 Trailers
Titanic stuff
Attack on Titan 2 launches on March 20th, and to drum up some interest publisher Koei Tecmo has released a trio of new trailers showing off various elements of the game. The game's online multiplayer features get detailed in one trailer. Annihilation Mode offers 4v4 action where players have to compete for the highest possible score...
Feature These Five Switch Accessories Are Too Stupid to be True
And yet here they are
As with any successful video games console, many manufacturers out there have been trying their hand at creating accessories they believe people will want. Most of the time these are fine or forgettable, but these five are so ridiculous it's amazing they exist at all. This one doesn't really need explanation. The only time...
Video See How The Magic Mario + Rabbids Battle Music Was Made
Rabbid love of music
There are a lot of things to love about Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Its endearing mashup of classic Mario mechanics and turn-based strategy, the emotional director who brought the game to life and, of course, its brilliant score. So, here's a video showing you how that orchestral magic was brought to life. Written by Grant...
Video Check Out This New Range Of SteamWorld Merchandise
T-shirts and the coolest pin badge ever
Image & Form's SteamWorld franchise seems to be popping up everywhere at the moment; SteamWorld Dig 2 arrived last September on Switch (and was then followed by a 3DS release just yesterday), and the original SteamWorld Dig also saw a re-release on Switch at the start of February. Now things ha
Guide The Secrets to Making Millions in Luigi's Balloon World
It prints money!
Luigi's Balloon World is a very welcome addition to Super Mario Odyssey, and has helped bring us back to the game after our painful yet brief time away from it. It's also a very effective way to make an absolute killing in coins, as long as you know what you're doing. That's why we've shone a light on the secrets of the mini game...
Video What's It Like To Play DOOM With Motion Controls, Then?
Alex finds out, using science (kinda)
DOOM was updated today with motion control support, bringing Splatoon 2-style aiming to one of the most impressive technical showcases on Switch. This significant update has caught the attention of quite a few Switch owners, and if you've previously passed on purchasing the game, it could be the selling point...
Video This Homemade Pikmin Adventure Is A Veritable Winter Wonderland
A proper Pikmin tribute
While Pikmin 4 continues to pickle and bubble away behind closed Nintendo doors, there's still plenty of fan love for the oddball series among fans. Longtime Nintendo-based YouTuber and animator Josh Thomas is one of those fans, and he's produced his own fair share of convincing tributes in the past (including...
Video Nintendo Labo Is Much More Than Cardboard, You Guys
What's in the box?
We were lucky enough to go hands-on with Labo ahead of its official announcement some time ago and after that initial swell of hype has faded, we've almost put it to the back of our minds. However, Nintendo doesn't want you to forget about this cardboard marvel and has released a
Video Feel Our Horror as We Play Layers of Fear: Legacy
Subtlety is king
Horror can be a divisive genre, and it can be extremely tough to get it right. Thankfully if the reactions in the video above are anything to go by, Layers of Fear: Legacy manages to do just that. By letting your mind play tricks on you and fill in the details of what's happening, fear is all but assured. Make sure you give that...
Video How Overwatch Helped A Street Fighter Legend Overcome His Hatred Of Video Games
Akira "Akiman" Yasuda opens up on Capcom, designing games and loneliness
Even if the name Akira "Akiman" Yasuda means nothing to you, there's a chance you've been touched by his talent. Yasuda was the driving force behind many of Capcom's '80s and '90s smash-hits and has recently taken part in a superb interview with toco toco TV. Yasuda...
Video 9 Mario Games We Wish had Never Existed
Pesky plumber
Mario's been in countless fantastic games over the years, but to say our favourite portly plumber has a spotless record is an outright lie. Usually at the hands of another studio, Mario's been the figurehead of some truly awful video games over the years. That doesn't mean they can't be enjoyed for what they are, of course, but...
Video Meta Knight Is Bossing It In This New Kirby Star Allies Trailer
Knight knight
Here at Nintendo Life, we're more than a little excited for the latest entry in the Kirby series. In fact, we're so hyped for it we even put together 26 of our favourite facts about the upcoming co-op platformer. Well, now Nintendo has released a new Japanese trailer for Kirby Star Allies, this time focusing on long-time series baddie...
Video Get Hyped For Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition On Switch With This New Trailer
Characters galore!
A new English trailer has been released for Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition on Switch, and it's all looking rather lovely. Featuring new outfits based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a good look at some of the 29 playable characters, and more fighting action than you can shake a Master Sword at, this trailer will...
News Russian Super Mario Odyssey Commercial Was Created By The "Banana Switch" Team
Behind the scenes feature reveals more about this important advert
As 2017 was coming to the end, Nintendo’s Russian division made the surprise decision to produce its own TV commercial for Super Mario Odyssey, a first for the company in that country. The ad, which we’ve covered alongside other tactics designed to win over hearts of many...
Video Gobble Up these 26 New Facts About Kirby Star Allies
Pink power
Kirby's had a bit of a hard time historically on home consoles. Kirby's Return to Dream Land went through so much developmental complications we assumed we'd never get it, and the only outing he received on Wii U was the spin-off Kirby and the Rainbow Curse. But that's all about to change with Kirby Star Allies, so we've rifled through...
Video Feast Your Eyes on Bayonetta 2 on Switch Compared to Wii U
Climax for your console
Bayonetta 2 may once have been a Wii U exclusive, but all of that is about to change with the unsurprising re-release of this excellent game on Nintendo's latest machine. It's still sporting a 720p resolution just as the original did, but various little details here and there have been improved to make it shine brighter than...
Soapbox The Super Mario Movie Might Not Be All That Great
“The perfect mix of terrible”
Mario had a film before, and it wasn't exactly stellar, and so when the news was confirmed this morning that Nintendo is partnering up with the studio responsible for such products as Minions and The Secret Life Of Pets, it was hard for me to contain my scepticism and frustration. I can't personally see how a film...
News Pokémon GO's Gen III Trailer Is Narrated By Stephen Fry, Because Why Not
Closer to nature
Pokémon GO has a brand-new trailer, shot in the style of nature documentaries Frozen Planet, Blue Planet and Planet Earth. Stephen Fry supplies the vocal duties - we assume David Attenborough must have been busy getting groceries or having his hair trimmed. The trailer showcases new Gen III monsters Minun, Plusle, Wailord and...
Video The 26 Best Game Boy Advance Games of All Time
Advance to the next level
Every Nintendo system has its gems, but to say we were a bit spoilt with the Game Boy Advance is an understatement. Game after game after game kept being released, and there were so many incredible ones our original list was well over double the size of this one. For the sake of brevity and my own sanity, we cut it down...
Video This Heartwarming Home Movie Shows The Moment Mega Man 2 Changed Everything
State of the art high resolution memories
Mega Man turns 30 this year, an event which will no doubt make many players feels really, really old. Capcom's series may be undergoing a revival of late thanks to the announcement of an all-new entry, but for many fans it never got any better than the NES sequel, which still ranks as one of the best action...
Video Check Out Pokkén Tournament DX's Latest DLC Pokémon In Action
Aegislash, Mega Rayquaza and Mimikyu all feature
Pokkén Tournament DX has found a great new home on Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo continues to show support for the arena brawler with some new Pokémon that recently arrived as DLC. If you're as yet undecided on the game, or you've yet to get the new downloadable content, then this new footage...
Random Dragon Ball FighterZ On Low PC Settings Gives Us Hope That A Switch Port Could Happen
Or even a Nintendo DS one, for that matter
Dragon Ball FighterZ is pretty special, but it's not coming to Switch - not yet, anyway. While Bandai Namco continues to mull over the potential of a Switch port, fans have been digging into the options of the PC version to come up with some interesting findings - one of which relates to scalable graphics
Video West Ham United Fans Welcome New Player João Mario With Open 8-Bit Arms
The Portuguese playmaker gets a really unusual tribute
When a Premier League side signs a new player - especially one as capped and experienced as Portuguese midfielder João Mario - fans often find unusual ways to welcome the new footballing talent. And when that player happens to share a name with a certain mustachioed plumber, well you can...
