GAME OF CHANCE PROMOTION - TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. By participating in this Nintendo Life x Nintendo Switch 2 Game Chat Giveaway Competition Promotion (the "Promotion") promoted by Hookshot Media Ltd (publisher of Nintendo Life) (the "Promoter"), you agree to these Official Terms & Conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”). When you enter the Promotion, these Terms and Conditions become a contract between you and the Promoter, so read them carefully before participating. This contract includes, without limitation, an indemnification by you of the released parties listed below and a limitation of your rights and remedies.
2. The promoter of the Promotion is Hookshot Media Ltd, 5 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF, United Kingdom (the “Promoter”).
3. Entry is open to users who are legally resident in the United Kingdom and are eighteen (18) years of age or over. Entrants who are eligible to enter the Promotion pursuant to these Terms and Conditions are referred to as “Eligible Entrants”.
4. Directors, management, employees and officers of the Promoter and its related corporate entities (such as parent and subsidiary companies), as well as employees of associated agencies involved in the Promotion and their immediate families are ineligible to enter this Promotion.
5. The Promotion commences 03:00PM (GMT) on June 6, 2025 and closes at 11:00PM (GMT) on June 22, 2025 (the "Promotion Period”).
6. There are four (4) entry options:
- The first option is via X/Twitter. To create a X/Twitter account, go to https://x.com/signup, fill out the form and click “sign up.” To enter the Promotion, entrants log into their X/Twitter account during the Promotion Period and retweet or comment on the below message at @ NintendoLife. This option is worth one entry.
- The second option is via Bluesky. To create a Bluesky account, go to https://bsky.app/signup, fill out the form and click “sign up.” To enter the Promotion, entrants log into their Bluesky account during the Promotion Period and repost or comment on the below message at @ NintendoLife.com. This option is worth one entry.
- The third entry option is to comment on the below tweet (X/Twitter) or skeet (Bluesky) with a screengrab using Game Chat. This option is worth five entries.
- The fourth entry option is to leave a comment on this article link: https://www.nintendolife.com/competitions/share-gamechat-and-win-lego-mario-kart-plus-mighty-bowser. This option is worth one entry.
- Tweet: https://x.com/nintendolife/status/1932091209024995505
- Skeet: https://bsky.app/profile/nintendolife.com/post/3lr6nql65tk2w
Subsequent attempts made by the same individual to submit multiple entries by using multiple accounts or otherwise may result in disqualification of the entrant.
Entries submitted by any other means other than by filling out the specified survey will not be accepted. Any illegible, incomplete or fraudulent entries will be rejected. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Use of script, macro or any automated system to enter the Promotion is prohibited and entries made (or which appear to have been made, in Promotor’s sole discretion) using any such system may be treated as void. All entries become the property of the Promoter. Participants must follow the directions provided by the Promoter and otherwise be bound by and follow these Terms and Conditions to be eligible to receive a Prize in connection with the Promotion. Participants may not take actions that are negligent, injurious or reckless in pursuit of any prize offered in connection with the Promotion. Participants who do not follow this rule or who otherwise participate in the Promotion in an unsportsmanlike manner will be disqualified from the Promotion. Participants alone are responsible for any injuries or other damages that are caused or incurred as a result of their behavior.
7. Promoter will determine the giveaway recipients in its sole and absolute discretion in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Each Prize recipient will be selected and contacted by Promoter. If the Promotion prize recipient is determined to be ineligible to receive the Prize, Promoter may, in its sole and absolute discretion, not give away the goods or may give the goods to the next Eligible Entrant. If you are selected as a prize recipient, you will be required to privately (by email or other secure, private means) provide your name, address, age and other personal information necessary to receive the Prize. The name, contact number and address of each prize recipient will be passed to a third party provider for delivery. Except for Winner Information (defined below), Promoter will not keep or store your information or use it for any purpose other than sending the Prize or providing you information on receiving the Prize. Promotions are subject to all applicable laws, rules or regulations and these Terms and Conditions.
8. The winning entries will be drawn at random on or around June 23, 2025 from all complete, eligible, properly submitted entries received by Promoter during the Promotion Period. The first entrant whose entry is drawn from the eligible entries shall win the Prize described below. There will be only one prize recipient for this Promotion. The Prize Winner will be notified by email on or around June 23, 2025, and the name and locality of the Prize Winner may be announced on https://www.nintendolife.com/competitions/share-gamechat-and-win-lego-mario-kart-plus-mighty-bowser. If a Prize Winner does not reply to the notification email acknowledging acceptance of the Prize within one (1) business day, such Prize Winner will forfeit the Prize. In such instance, the Promoter reserves the right to award the Prize to another Eligible Entrant.
9. The winning entrant (the “Prize Winner”) will receive the following prize(s) (collectively, the “Prize”):
- LEGO Super Mario Mario Kart – Mario & Standard Kart, valued at approximately £149.99; and
- LEGO Super Mario The Mighty Bowers, valued at approximately £229.99
Total estimated retail value of the Prize is £379.96.
10. The Prize must be accepted by the Prize Winner as stated and cannot be transferred to another person, exchanged for other goods and services or redeemed as cash in whole or in part. Any element of a Prize which is not accepted will be forfeited, and no compensation will be paid in lieu of that element of the Prize. Should a Prize be unavailable at the time that the Promoter seeks to acquire the Prize for the Prize Winner, Promoter reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to substitute with an alternative of equal or greater value or to substitute a cash alternative for any Prize. You agree that the Prize is awarded on an “as is” basis and that neither the Promoter nor any of its parents, subsidiaries or affiliated companies make any representations or warranties of any nature with respect to the Prize. Each Prize Winner in the Promotion is solely responsible for any and all applicable taxes (including income and withholding taxes on any Prize), regardless of whether the Prize, in whole or in part, is used. The actual retail value of any Prize is based on available information provided to Promoter and the value of any Prize awarded to a Prize Winner must be reported for tax purposes as required by law. Prizes may subject to the terms and conditions of a third party prize provider which will be made available by such third party; in such instance, any complaints or queries relating to the use of the Prize should be directed to such third party prize provider.
11. Except for any liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, fraud or any other liability that cannot be excluded by law, the Promoter and its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, units and divisions, and the current and former officers, directors, employees, shareholders, agents, successors and assigns of each of the foregoing, and all those acting under the authority of the foregoing or any of them (including, but not limited to, advertising and promotional agencies and prize suppliers) (collectively, the "Released Parties") exclude all liability, claims, actions, injury, loss, damages, liabilities and obligations of any kind whatsoever (collectively, “Claims”), whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, which entrants have ever had, now have, or hereafter can, shall or may have, against the Released Parties (or any of them), including, but not limited to, all Claims for personal injury, theft, unauthorised access or third party interference arising from or related to: (a) the Promotion; and (b) the receipt, ownership, use, transfer, sale or other disposition of the Prize, including, but not limited to, claims for personal injury, death, and/or property damages. Prize Winner shall be solely responsible for any tax liability incurred in connection with the Prize.
12. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any variation of the Prize or any aspect of the Prize, due to circumstances outside its reasonable control. In any such event, an alternative prize or element of the Prize will be arranged.
13. The Promoter is not responsible for any problem or technical malfunction of any website or communications network or any late, lost, incorrectly submitted, delayed, ineligible, incomplete, corrupted or misdirected entry whether due to error, transmission interruption or otherwise. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any entrant submitting an entry which, in the opinion of the Promoter, includes objectionable content, including but not limited to profanity, nudity, potentially insulting, scandalous, inflammatory or defamatory images or language. The Promoter’s decision is final.
14. If, for any reason, the Promotion is not capable of running as planned, including, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the reasonable control of the Promoter which corrupt or affect the administration security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Promotion, the Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Promotion. The Promoter assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to, or alteration of, entries beyond its reasonable control. The Promoter is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received by the Promoter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this Promotion. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR THE INFORMATION ON A WEBSITE, OR TO OTHERWISE UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION, MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, WHETHER SUCCESSFUL OR NOT, THE PROMOTER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
15. The Prize Winner, by acceptance of the Prize, grants to Promoter and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, designees and assigns the right to publicize his or her name, address (city and country of residence), photograph, voice, statements and/or other likeness and prize information for advertising, promotional and/or trade and/or any other purpose ("Winner Information") in any media or format now known or hereafter devised, throughout the world, in perpetuity, without limitation and without further compensation, consideration, permission or notification, except where prohibited by law. The Prize Winner agrees to participate in reasonable publicity activities surrounding the Promotion as requested by the Promoter.
16. Without limiting the foregoing, the personal information provided by entrants in connection with this Promotion will be handled in accordance with data protection legislation and in accordance with the Promoter’s privacy policy, which may be found here. You understand that when you register on the Twitter/Facebook website or submit information to or via Twitter/Facebook, such submissions are also subject to Twitter’s/Facebook’s privacy policy.
17. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts located in London, England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute or claim arising in association with the Promotion or these Terms and Conditions.
18. Although the Promotion may be featured on Twitter/Facebook etc., the Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or association with Twitter/Facebook and you agree that Twitter/Facebook are not liable in any way for any claims, damages or losses associated with the Promotion. You acknowledge that when you submit an entry or other correspondence in connection with the Promotion, are providing information to the Promoter and not to Twitter/Facebook.
19. A list of Promotion winners can be made available on request by writing to the offices of the Promoter: Hookshot Media Ltd, 5 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF, United Kingdom. A stamped addressed envelope must be included with the request.





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Removed - unconstructive
I used the C button with Mario Kart World and my 4 year old with his uncles. It was hilarious and a fun family moment, especially him getting as close to the camera as he could.
Im most excited for mario party jamboree additions, that should be an absolute hoot.
Honestly, the game I'm most excited to use GameChat with would be the Splatoon games.
Removed - discussing moderation
I have attempted to set up for GameChat but it appears not to be available for people who live in the Isle of Man. 🇮🇲
When I got to the ‘Phone Number Verification Required’ screen. I use the QR code, logged into my account and then I was asked to enter my phone number.
I live in the Isle of Man, 🇮🇲, part of the United Kingdom. Our mobile phone numbers all start +44 (0) 7624.
I entered my phone number (with and without the zero) and I pressed Submit. I immediately got an error message stating “The phone number you entered cannot be registered” as seen in the image.
A few friends, also living in the Isle of Man with Isle of Man mobile phone numbers, have also tried to register their phone numbers and get the same response.
I really do hope that for us Switch 2 owners who live in the Isle of Man that Nintendo haven’t restricted its service so we cannot use GameChat on our new Switch 2. Especially as this is a new key function.
I truly hope this is just an oversight for all the Nintendo Switch 2 owners in the Isle of Man.
Any other Isle of Man 🇮🇲 Switch 2 owners who use Nintendo Life that have experienced this or hopefully maybe have got it to work.
(Note: purchasing a UK mobile phone sim is not an option here.)
Still having to use discord as the chat is dreadful and the pro controller doesn’t even support voice chat headsets.
Wasn't interested in game chat at first, but having friends not live close by we are using it for game nights, currently mario kart world and next month Mario party jamboree.
Can't wait to use gamechat in Splatoon 3... or really any game when any of my friends get switch 2s
I've had an absolute blast using game chat on Mario Kart World and can't wait to use it on Splatoon 3!
I have a few friends I would love to use gamechat with once Elden Ring comes out, I want to see that pure frustration 😂.
@Lord Had to create an account just to respond to you 😅
Disagree about voice chat being bad, it is actually very good. To be able to pick out voices only is excellent and you can change settings in menu for chat too (such as turn down game volume).
You can use headsets with the pro controller. I have it and use my turtle beach absolutely fine whenever I want the voice chat contained to my ears only. Not sure why you’re having a problem?
The next Animal Crossing I think will benefit greatly from the GameChat feature.
It would be like Wii Speak all over again!
Another thought is whether they could pull off something a bit like Project Milo from E3 2009 with the Kinect and have your villagers respond to things you might say (within certain limits of course) and generate responses based off key words.
I’m hoping to get some switch 2 buddies and play some splatoon or mario kart on game chat! That’s what I look forward to
My best friend and his partner spent years in the adoption process and now have a wonderful 7 year old son, the same age as my own. They live a few hours away from us and our sons are so excited to be able to play online together, especially deep breath Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV when it comes out in a couple of days ☺️
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