Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Guides
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Walkthrough, All Gyms, Evolutions, Collectibles, Tips, And Tricks
Gotta catch 'em all?
Welcome to our Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Full Walkthrough Guide hub! This Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Walkthrough — which includes the Full Paldea Pokédex, plus tips to conquer Victory Road and all gym leaders, the Path of Legends and all Titan Pokémon, and Starfall Street and Team Star — will
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Mystery Gift Codes List
All the current Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Mystery Gift codes
Mystery Gifts are returning for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and that means you'll be able to get various Poké freebies over the coming months (and years!). The Pokémon Company and Nintendo will be releasing various special distributions for the games to give fans unique rewards, and...
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Pokédex - Complete Paldea Pokédex, All Pokémon Locations
All Pokémon available in the Paldea Region
With a brand new region comes a brand-new Pokédex. Pokémon Scarlet & Violet introduced multiple new Pokémon to discover, and in the Paldea region, you'll also find a ton of returning Pokémon and favourites to add to your team. There are also some brand-new evolutions, and new forms, for some...
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: All Ominous Black Stake Locations
Stake them out
Early on in your Pokémon Scarlet & Violet journey, you'll come across some strange items sticking out of the ground — Ominous Black Stakes. These can be pulled from the earth in order to unlock the four shrines across the Paldea Region, which seal away the four Ruinous legendary Pokémon. On this page, we'll list all 32...
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: How To Change Clothes, Where To Buy New Outfits
Yes, you can take off the hat
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Gym Order - Which Path Should I Do First?
Victory Road, Path of Legends, or Starfall Street?
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Kitakami Pokédex, All Pokémon Locations In The Teal Mask DLC
All 200 Kitakami region Pokémon
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Where To Find & How To Get Fezandipiti
Don't underestimate this foul fowl
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: How To Beat The Elite Four And Champion
How to become a Champion Pokémon Trainer
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: All Returning Pokémon, Including DLC
The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero will add another 230
Guide Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The False Dragon Titan
How to beat The False Dragon Titan
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Guides
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: Walkthrough - Collectibles, Tips, And Tricks
Top tear
Welcome to our Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Full Walkthrough Guide hub! This Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Walkthrough — which includes All Shrine Locations, All amiibo Unlocks, All Korok Seed Locations, plus maps,
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: All Armour Locations And Best Armour Sets
Dress for success
With over 30 full armour sets and plenty of other outfit items to hunt down, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom takes the importance of what you're wearing to new heights for the series. We've been busy tracking down as many full sets and separate pieces as we can in an effort to nab every available bit of clothing in the game and have...
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: All Shrine Locations And Maps
I'd rather be Shriny
Shrines return in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and just as in Breath of the Wild, there are dozens to find across the land of Hyrule in this enormous sequel adventure. Shrines are small dungeon-like arenas that test your puzzle-solving and combat abilities. Finding all 152 shrines in Tears of the Kingdom is a significant...
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: All Korok Seed Locations
Maps for all Koroks in TOTK
Welcome to our Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Korok Seed Location guide. In your travels through and above the land of Hyrule, you'll no doubt have come across Koroks hidden throughout the landscape. Much as they were in Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Koroks are hidden in nooks and crannies all over the map in the Sky...
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: Best Recipes - How To Cook, Full Recipe List
Tips for cooking up a storm in TOTK
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: Central Hyrule Korok Seeds
Find every Korok in Central Hyrule, Surface and Sky
Guide Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: How To Defeat Seized Construct
Aaaand in the green corner...
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Guides
Guide Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Guide - Tips, Hints, Tricks And Unlocks
Get that boost with our expert tips
Whether you're entirely new to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or an old veteran from the Wii U original, the game has plenty of tricks worth knowing in order to ensure those podium finishes. Some of them are old methods that Mario Kart veterans will already know, but adjusted physics and mechanics in the Deluxe edition also...
Guide Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Fastest Kart - How To Build The Best Kart
More data than you can throw a shell at
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is easy to pick up, but difficult to master. For all that is good about it, and believe us there's plenty, the game isn't very good at explaining what its various stats mean, and more importantly how they affect your chances of victory. Fortunately, we're here to help you make sense of it...
Guide Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Full Character Roster List
Including that one you need to unlock
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is exactly what it sounds like — all of the goodies from the Wii U original, plus the DLC and a dollop of extras in one rather nice package. That means a packed character roster of over 40 racers, among other things, each with distinct looks, stunt animations and traits that could help you...
Everything you need to know about Mario Kart 8's expansion
Nintendo has finally released DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is officially the best-selling Switch game with 43.35 million copies sold at the last count. By the time it's finished,
Guide Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Controls - All Control Options And Assists Explained
"I'm using motion controls!"
Guide Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Blue Shells - How To Avoid Blue Shells
Everyone's favourite item
Guide How Do You Access The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass DLC?
You have to download it manually
For defence, offence and just downright mischief
Pikmin 4 Guides
Guide Pikmin 4 Walkthrough: 100% Guide, All Collectibles, Hints & Tips
Let's Pik our way through this one
Hello and welcome to Nintendo Life's Pikmin 4 full walkthrough guide! Here we'll be making our way through each and every main mission region and dungeon in the game, showing you how to get your hands on every last treasure, all onion upgrades,
Guide Pikmin 4: Hero's Hideaway Walkthrough
Sitting Room Safari
Welcome to Nintendo Life's Pikmin 4 Hero's Hideaway walkthrough. In our Pikmin 4 guide series, we'll be showing you All Treasure Locations, all Gear and Item Upgrades, all Oatchi Abilities, all Pikmin Type Locations,
Guide Pikmin 4: Giant's Hearth Walkthrough
They must be giants!
Welcome to Nintendo Life's Pikmin 4 Engulfed Castle walkthrough. In our Pikmin 4 guide series, we'll be showing you All Treasure Locations, all Gear and Item Upgrades, all Oatchi Abilities, all
Guide Pikmin 4: Below-Grade Discotheque Walkthrough
Attack of the killer glitter balls
Welcome to Nintendo Life's Pikmin 4 Below-Grade Discotheque walkthrough. In our Pikmin 4 guides, we'll be showing you All Treasure Locations, all Gear and Item Upgrades, all Oatchi Abilities, all Pikmin Type Locations,
Guide Pikmin 4: Kingdom Of The Beasts Walkthrough
Lions and tigers and bears?
Guide Pikmin 4: Sightless Passage Walkthrough
Who turned out the lights?
Guide Pikmin 4: Blossoming Arcadia Walkthrough
All treasures and dungeon walkthroughs for the second region
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Guides
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Walkthrough, Tips And Hints
Heroes, skills, classes, cards, coins, unique monsters and more chronicled
Welcome to our Xenoblade Chronicles 3 walkthrough and guides hub. This third numbered entry in the Xenoblade Chronicles series is bigger and better than ever, an enormous 100-hour+ epic with a huge map to explore, friends to meet, and enemies to best in series-best combat...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 All Heroes And Classes - How To Unlock And Upgrade
Ultimate Team
Warning: There are major spoilers for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ahead. As you play through Xenoblade Chronicles 3's campaign, take on specific hero and side quests, gather information at colonies and explore the enormous world of Aionios, you'll discover and unlock a bunch of brand new heroes to aid you in your Ouroboros journey. In...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - How To Complete The 'Uniting The Seven Nopon' Quest
Unite the clans!
'Uniting The Seven Nopon' is a quest that you'll get served up quite late into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and it charges you with finding and speaking to a handful of Nopon who wield Ultimate Hammers before reuniting them in order to unlock the ability to upgrade your weapons. Sweet! But where are all of these elusive Nopon? Well,...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Unique Monster Locations List
All Unique Monster locations with maps
Hello, and welcome to our ongoing guide to every Unique Monster location in Xenoblade Chronicles 3. There's a ton of these massive beasts to find and fight in Monolith Soft's latest adventure — somewhere in the region of around 140 — and plenty of them are super-tough to locate, hidden away in secret areas...
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Fornis Region Unique Monsters
Every Unique Monster in Fornis, with maps
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Cadensia Region Unique Monsters
Every Unique Monster in Cadensia, with maps
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - All Ferronis Hulk Locations
How to find every Ferronis Hulk in the game
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Do You Need To Play The Previous Xenoblade Games First?
How much do you need to know before diving into XC3?
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Chain Attacks Guide
Because team work makes the dream...eh...something
Guide Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Pentelas Region Unique Monsters
Every Unique Monster in Pentelas, with maps
Bayonetta 3 Guides
Guide Bayonetta 3: Walkthrough, All Collectibles, Tips, And Tricks
A 100% completion guide to Bayonetta 3
Welcome to our Bayonetta 3 Full Walkthrough Guide hub! This Bayonetta 3 Walkthrough, which includes all collectibles, will guide you through the game, chapter by chapter, showing you the location of every hidden item. We awarded the game 10/10 in our Bayonetta 3 review, describing it as "a stunning return for...
Guide Bayonetta 3: Chapter 1 - Scrambling For Answers Walkthrough
Shibuya Scramble
We continue our Bayonetta 3 walkthrough guide with the first chapter proper. Get ready for lots of battles and a ton of collectibles! Bayonetta 3: Chapter 1: Scrambling For Answers Walkthrough - All Collectibles: Bewitchments Destroy 3 Obstacles While Sliding On Gomorrah - During the opening sequence of the Shibuya, Tokyo...
Guide Bayonetta 3: Chapter 4 - World's Apart Walkthrough
Great Walls of Fire
Welcome to chapter 4 of our Bayonetta 3 walkthrough guide. Let's waste no time in jumping right into the mix here as Bayo heads to China for a feast of fighting and a ton of collectible goodies. Bayonetta 3: Chapter 4 - World's Apart Walkthrough - All Collectibles: Bewitchments Enter the lotus field in Ginnungagap - During...
Guide Bayonetta 3: Chapter 3 - A Sinking Feeling Walkthrough
Kaiju Konfrontation
Welcome to chapter 3 of our Bayonetta 3 walkthrough guide. Let's get straight into the action here and find every verse and collectible in this bombastic third level. Bayonetta 3: Chapter 3 - A Sinking Feeling Walkthrough - All Collectibles: Bewitchments Collect The Halos Hidden In The Giant Lantern- In the area where Verse...
Guide Bayonetta 3: All Umbran Tears Of Blood Locations
Every Umbran Toad, Cat and Crow in the game
Guide Bayonetta 3: How To Unlock All Weapons
Get your hands on every weapon in the game
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl Guides
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Walkthrough, Tips And Hints
How to catch 'em all, again!
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on Switch take players back to the Sinnoh region first seen on Nintendo DS in 2006. This region is also the setting for the prequel adventure Pokémon Legends: Arceus, so these Generation 4 remakes are a great introduction to the Sinnoh Pokédex for new players. Pokémon...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Defog HM - Where To Get Defog
Where to find the Defog HM in Sinnoh
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on Nintendo Switch let fans head back to the Sinnoh region for the first time in since the original games on Nintendo DS. While the Sinnoh games are famous for a lot of things, the sheer number of HMs that the game offers is certainly one of the most contentious. While...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: Full List Of Mystery Gift Codes
All current Pokémon BDSP Mystery Gift codes
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl retells the story of the Pokémon series' fourth-generation games that originally debuted on Nintendo DS. With a new set of games comes a new bunch of Mystery Gift codes – special items that can be downloaded via the internet in-game – and this guide is...
And exclusive Legendaries, too!
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launch exclusively for Nintendo Switch on Friday 19th November and just like all main series games, the first decision players need to make isn't which Starter Pokémon to choose, but which version to actually buy. In these games, which serve as remakes of the original...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Eevee, Leafeon And Glaceon
The theory of Eeveelution
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Riolu And Lucario
How to get two iconic Gen IV Pokémon
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Mew And Jirachi
How to get two mythical Pokémon in BDSP
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Beat The Elite Four
Born to be a winner, born to be a Champion
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Ditto
Mr Lova Lova is back
Disney Dreamlight Valley Guides
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: Walkthrough, Quests, All Recipes, Tips, And Tricks
Everything you need to make your dreams come true
Updated with select guides for the latest Remembering Update. Disney Dreamlight Valley is a life sim game featuring a large number of characters from across the Disney universe. It launched in 2022 and has received regular updates ever since, with new characters, quests, and mechanics being added...
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: How To Upgrade Tools
The right tool for the right job
Figuring out how to upgrade tools in Disney Dreamlight Valley is an important part of cleaning up the Valley and clearing room for more decorations, though the game isn’t too keen on telling you how to upgrade any of them. Tool upgrades happen during friendship quests. Some of them are locked behind the final...
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: Fishing Guide - How To Fish, Where To Find Fish
Finding Nemo
Disney Dreamlight Valley's Animal Crossing-like gameplay wouldn't be complete without a fishing mini-game, but how do you get the ability to fish, and where can you find fish? We've got the tips ready for you! How to fish in Disney Dreamlight Valley Fishing in Disney Dreamlight Valley is quite straightforward. Equip your fishing...
And which version should you pick?
So, you want to buy Disney Dreamlight Valley. Maybe you've been waiting until your favourite character gets added, or maybe you've been slowly worn down by the marketing and the updates for the game. Either way, you're here, and you're wondering what the differences are between the three versions available on the...
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: Recipes - Ingredients, Sell Prices, Star Ratings, Full List
The best recipes to sell and eat
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: How To Make Seafood Platter
For Moana and Maui's quests
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: How To Make Seafood Salad
For Moana and Maui's quests
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: How To Upgrade Your House
Home sweet (expensive) home
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: How To Tame Critters, All Critters' Favourite Foods
Channel your inner Snow White
Guide Disney Dreamlight Valley: Spirits Of Nature Quest Walkthrough
How to unlock Anna and Elsa
Metroid Dread Guides
How to become a ZDR superstar
Hello and welcome to our Metroid Dread walkthrough and guides hub where we'll be helping you get your armoured hands on all of Samus Aran's various abilities and power-ups as well as taking a look at some boss battle and E.M.M.I. strategies to help make your adventure a little smoother. We've also detailed where you...
Guide Metroid Dread - Where To Go After You Get The Grapple Beam
Ghavoran awaits!
From where you've just got the Grapple Beam we're now going to make quite a few quick jumps of location, first to Dairon and then on to a new area, Ferenia, where we've got some backstory to get filled in on. Starting out from the statue room where you picked up the Grapple Beam head right, retracing your steps and using your new...
Guide Metroid Dread - Where To Go After You Get The Speed Booster
Getting into the swing of things
Now that we've got the Speed Boost ability we need to use it a couple of times as we make our way up from the E.M.M.I. area in which we retrieved it to Dairon's yellow teleporter, which is located in the north east of the region, right beside the save station, as shown in our map below. Once you make your way up...
Guide Metroid Dread: Gravity Suit Location - How To Enter Cold Areas And Survive In Lava
Now we can go anywhere
We're getting deep into Metroid Dread and still unlocking vital equipment. Samus' Gravity Suit hugely reduces damage taken from enemy attacks and it also, more importantly, enables her to travel through extreme cold and even red hot lava and move around freely underwater. Obviously, this gives you access to a lot more places...
Guide Metroid Dread: What To Do When You Arrive In Cataris
How to proceed once you've reached the second area in the game
Guide Metroid Dread: Where To Go After You Get The Phantom Cloak
How to progress after picking up your stealth ability
Best Nintendo Games By System
Guide The Top 50 Games On Every Nintendo System
As ranked by you (except for Virtual Boy)
Welcome to our guide hub for the best Nintendo games ever made, as ranked by Nintendo Life readers! Below you'll find our top 50 lists covering the best games for every Nintendo system, including both home and handheld consoles. Every one of the lists here — excluding the Virtual Boy, of which we...
Guide 50 Best GameCube Games Of All Time
As ranked by you lovely people
The Nintendo GameCube launched in Japan in September 2001 and a couple of months later on 18th November in North America. Unlucky Europeans wouldn't get their hands on it until the following year, but the wait was worth it for one of the best-looking video game consoles of all time. The NGC (sorry, GCN) is a beautiful,...
Guide 50 Best Nintendo Switch Games In 2023
The very best Switch games ever (so far)
Nintendo Switch has amassed a huge amount of great games since the console launched back in 2017. Of course, this abundance of riches leaves us in something of a pickle — too much software, not enough time to play it all. In fairness, it's a lovely problem to have. Help! There are too many excellent games...
Guide 50 Best Nintendo 3DS Games Of All Time
As voted by you
It may have had a slow start at launch back in 2011, but Nintendo 3DS steadily went from strength to strength and amassed a huge library of quality titles — enough to rival the company's finest. Sure, glasses-free stereoscopic 3D turned out to be a bit of a non-starter, but the best games made great use of the feature and the...
Guide 50 Best Game Boy Advance (GBA) Games Of All Time
The Top 50 GBA games ever, as ranked by you
Guide 50 Best Game Boy Color (GBC) Games Of All Time
The top 50 GBC games, as ranked by you
Guide 50 Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time
As voted for by you
Guide 50 Best Game Boy Games Of All Time
Black and white brilliance
Guide 50 Best Nintendo 64 Games Of All Time
The top 50 N64 games ever, as ranked by you
