Rumour Zelda's 35th Anniversary Will See The Return Of Wind Waker And Twilight Princess
Game journalist says it's "100%" happening
News Nintendo Shares Release Schedule For 2021 And Beyond, And It's Looking Pretty Bare
Major Switch release windows reconfirmed
News Pokémon Sword And Shield Players Can Now Get A Singing Pikachu
Update: Here's the code you need
News - February, 2021
Sunday28th Feb 2021
News Some History About ILCA, The Japanese Studio Working On The Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes
Game Freak's backup
During the Pokémon Presents broadcast this week, The Pokémon Company announced remakes of the Nintendo DS games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. While Game Freak normally handles games like this, right now, it's busy with the open-world prequel Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which is due out next year. This leaves the release of
Video Check Out This Side-By-Side Comparison Of Pokémon Diamond And Pearl On Switch And DS
How do they compare?
When The Pokémon Company announced remakes of the Nintendo DS titles Diamond and Pearl earlier this week, the most notable difference was obviously the art style. All of the sprite work in the original games has now been replaced with cute 3D graphics in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. There's obviously been a lot of...
Video 14 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In March
An action-packed month
It's almost March and we've gotta admit, in terms of third party releases next month, the Switch line-up is looking good. In the first half, we've got Respawn Entertainment's free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends, and a few days after this Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is out. In the second half of March, we'll be...
News Tails' Voice Actor Won't Be Voicing The Character In Sonic Prime
Update: But she's not finished yet
Update [Sun 28th Feb, 2021 09:45 GMT]: Earlier this month, the voice of Tails, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, said she wouldn't be voicing the character in the upcoming Netflix series, Sonic Prime. At the time, fans voiced their concerns about her potentially moving on from the role. In an update on Twitter, Colleen has...
Feature After Fire Emblem And Famicom Detective Club, What Comes Next From Nintendo's Vault?
Raiders Of The Lost Games
Between the eclectic selection of NES and SNES games served up as part of everyone’s Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Fire Emblem's long-awaited (if time-limited) English language release thirty years after its Japanese debut, and the upcoming remake of their Disc System adventure game Famicom Detective Club, it
Video Watch Post Malone's Virtual Concert Celebrating 25 Years Of Pokémon
"Thank you all for 25 beautiful years"
The official Pokémon YouTube channel just aired its Post Malone Virtual Concert Experience, celebrating 25 years of pocket monsters. If you're yet to see the American rapper and songwriter's performance, you can watch the full 13-minute show right here. Post sings a handful of tracks - with one of them being...
Feature Nintendo Life eShop Selects - February 2021
February's best Switch eShop games!
Can you believe we're already two months into the year?! Well, thankfully, no matter how quickly time passes by, the Switch eShop seems to offer up dose after dose of great digital content to enjoy and February was no different. These awards aim to celebrate the best of Nintendo's digital store, giving some love...
Review Astrologaster (Switch) - An Expert Mix Of Historical Drama And Shakespearean Comedy
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Well, thou art running a fever of 38C
Was it not Shakespeare who said: "fie! I have the plague, and my armpits do weep with pus-filled boils like mustard from a Big Mac"? Well, if you liked that quote, you're in excellent company with Astrologaster, a bawdy comedy-musical game from Nyamyam that combines the...
Saturday27th Feb 2021
News Pokémon Platinum Content Spotted In Diamond And Pearl Remake Trailer
"Guess who's there"
It's official, The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are arriving this year. The PR describes how the Nintendo DS originals have been faithfully reproduced. There are also a number of updates, including easy-to-understand and player-friendly conveniences. All of this has got fans...
Poll Do You Like The Chibi Art Style In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl?
Let us know
Yesterday, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were announced for the Nintendo Switch. These games are remakes of Generation IV, which was originally released on the DS and is set in the Sinnoh region. The development is being handled by ILCA and directed by Junichi Masuda (Game Freak) and Yuichi Ueda (ILCA). The aim is to...
News This Is What Old World Poké Balls Look Like In Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Old balls, new game
Next year, Game Freak is venturing into uncharted territory with the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus for Nintendo Switch. It takes place in Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl's Sinnoh region and transports the series back to a time when Pokémon roamed freely in much harsher environments. The official game site for this...
Review Hellpoint (Switch) - A Sci-Fi Soulslike Which Suffers From Hellish Technical Issues On Switch
Blighttown
Dark Souls crossed with Dead Space? Bloodborne set within the bowels of a great big derelict space station? Yes. Yes please, we like this, we want this, sign us up! Cradle Games' Hellpoint has got a great premise, a fantastically atmospheric setting and gameplay that unashamedly pilfers ideas and
Memory Pak When Harvest Moon Taught Me About Death
You can't just save scum this one away
Welcome to the latest instalment in our new column, Memory Pak, where we're going to be doing a deep-dive into some of the most memorable moments in gaming – good and bad. We hope you've got some tissues ready because this one's going to be a bit of a weepy. People play Harvest Moon games for their...
News Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake Takes Flight This Year
Here's hoping for a smoother ride
Panzer Dragoon: Remake got a release on the Nintendo Switch last year, but admittedly didn't quite nail the landing. Publisher Forever Entertainment made the effort to address the issues and slowly improved the game over time. It's now in a better state than before, so what's next? In case it's slipped your mind,...
Anniversary Stardew Valley Is Now Five Years Old
"thanks to all of you for being part of this"
It's been anniversary after anniversary over the past month and now on top of all the other ones currently take place, this week marks Stardew Valley's fifth year. Creator ConcernedApe has taken to Twitter to thank all of the game's fans for being a part of the long journey. Stardew Valley has been...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 27th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
Phew! With news of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes – and a new open-world Pokémon game, too – it was a super busy end to the week. Thankfully, though, it's now time to relax and have a chat about our weekend plans. Members of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our...
Friday26th Feb 2021
News Sinnoh Confirmed: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Officially Announced For Switch
Almost 15 years after the DS originals
The years of waiting are finally over, as The Pokémon Company has announced that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are coming to the Nintendo Switch in "late 2021". It's been almost 15 years since the original Pokémon Diamond and Pearl arrived on Nintendo DS; the fourth-generation games launched...
News Spoiler Alert, The Next Pokémon Games Have Leaked
Update: And it was all true
Update: Both of the leaked games mentioned in our original article have now been officially confirmed. Visit here for official details on Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and here for the open-world
News Introducing Pokémon Legends: Arceus, An Open-World Prequel To Diamond And Pearl
Launching on Switch in 2022
Alongside the news that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl would be launching on Switch later this year, today's Pokémon Presents showcase also unveiled a brand new title, Pokémon Legends: Arceus. A prequel to Diamond and Pearl, the game has players exploring a
Feature Hyperkin Explains How The RetroN Sq Is Bringing The Game Boy To Your Living Room
Update: Pre-orders go live on Amazon
Update: Pre-orders are now available! Original Story [Wed 22nd Jan, 2020 14:00 GMT]: Hyperkin has been one of the biggest names in 'new' retro products for quite some time now, thanks to products like the RetroN 5 and Supa Boy. The company is back with a new device – the
News The Pokémon Company Reveals Top 30 Pocket Monsters, According To Japanese Twitter Poll
In celebration of 25 years
As you might have heard, it's Pokémon's 25th anniversary on 27th February (that's this weekend). In the lead up to this, The Pokémon Company ran a poll, asking Japanese trainers to vote for their favourite pocket monster via Twitter. To vote, participants were required to share any pocket monster's name in Japanese on...
Watch Pokémon Presents - 26th February 2021, Live!
20 mins of new announcements
It's Pokémon's 25th anniversary tomorrow, so what better way to celebrate than with a brand new Pokémon Presents showcase? No details have been shared on what will feature in the show, although – and don't click on this if you don't want to be spoiled – it would appear that a major announcement has leaked ahead of...
Random Product Design Student Creates Switch Entirely Out Of Paper
You can only play Paper Mario on it
This one's not the paper one We might have taken the wrong subject at university. When we had to do projects, it was all "write this essay" and "compare and contrast thing A with thing B". It turns out that we could have been doing way more exciting things with all the paper we wasted on boring, 2000-word...
News Monster Hunter Rise Officially No Longer A Switch Exclusive, Coming To PC In 2022
PC port is "still very much in development”
We're exactly a month away from Monster Hunter Rise's anticipated launch. Releasing on March 26th, it's a welcome return for Capcom's action RPG series to Nintendo platforms, after we missed out on 2018's Monster Hunter World. Initially announced as a Switch exclusive, Capcom has just confirmed Rise is...
News Take A Look The Stunning Nintendo Switch Box Art For Mario Golf: Super Rush
Return to the fairway this June
June and July are set to be an exciting period for the Switch, with Nintendo releasing Mario Golf: Super Rush and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD. The other day we got a look at the box art of Skyward Sword and now Nintendo's social account has released a look at the bright, colourful and stunning North...
Review Azur Lane: Crosswave (Switch) - Great Anime-Style Design Sunk By Terrible Combat
You sunk my busty battleship
Azur Lane started life on mobile devices as a 2D blend of RPG mechanics and side-scrolling shooting. Its move over to console with Azur Lane: Crosswave brings with it some flashy 3D battle scenes, but the overall experience retains a similar structure and feel to its mobile counterpart. Fans of this type of game will...
News Tormented Souls Still Coming To Switch Despite Cancellation Of PS4 And Xbox One Versions
Horror title is getting a physical release, too
We received news back in August that Tormented Souls would come to Switch. Bringing us a survival horror game reminiscent of Resident Evil and Silent Hill,
News Hamster Confirms Two More Coin-Op Classics For Its Arcade Archives Range On Switch
Both involve rescuing hapless females (hey, it was the '80s)
Hamster's Arcade Archives series has given us many coin-op classics to enjoy on Switch, and the Japanese company has just revealed that two more are heading to Nintendo's machine soon. First up is Jaleco's 1988 action platformer Legend of Makai (Makai Densetsu in Japan), which was never...
News Subnautica: Below Zero Dives Onto Switch This May, Alongside The Original Game
Both games are launching for Switch on May 14th
We've known since last August that Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero are coming to Switch. After a recent ESRB rating last month, we suspected release date news was coming soon, and Ban
Anniversary Can You Believe It? The Nintendo 3DS Is Now 10 Years Old
That went quick
It's a very special day for the Nintendo 3DS. Today is the tenth anniversary of this legendary 3D handheld system. Believe it or not, but the console was first released in Japan on 26th February 2011. This followed with the western release in Europe and North America in March of the same year. When the system first launched, it was...
What if you're afraid of cards? What then, eh?
Anyone who's played Slay The Spire has probably spent the last few months wondering how to get another fix of deck-building roguelite monster-slaying, right? Neurodeck might have what it is you crave. Described as a "dark fantasy deck-builder" in which you fight your own phobias, nightmares, and fears,...
Random Fans Take A Dig At Nintendo's Limited-Time Mario Antics With Blade Runner-Style Parody Video
"All those games lost in time like tears in the rain"
On 31st March, a number of Mario games and products will be disappearing from store shelves in what can only be described as a baffling – and frustrating – decision from Nintendo. It's understandably rubbed some fans up the wrong way, and one YouTube duo has decided to express their feelings...
News Hot Wheels Unleashed Speeds Onto Nintendo Switch This September
Check out the announcement trailer
Following on from our previous story, Hot Wheels Unleashed has now been officially announced for Nintendo Switch. As expected, this action-packed arcade-style racer will be arriving later this year on 30th September. It's being handled by the developer Milestone (an Italian-based racing game specialist that has...
News SNK's Guerrilla War Is This Week's Switch eShop Arcade Archives Release
Out now
As we near the end of February, this week's Arcade Archives release from Hamster is Guerrilla War. It's an SNK top-down "survival shooting" game dating back to 1987 (and following with a Famicom release in 1988) that requires you to take control of a rebel leader who must reclaim your country from a dictatorship. Along the way, you'll use...
News New Pokémon Snap Gets New Trailer, Photo Mode And Competitive Online Rankings Unveiled
Zoom, apply filters, and post!
While the new Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes and the open-world Pokémon Legends: Arceus have stolen all the headlines following today's Pokémon Presents showcase, April's New Pokémon Snap was also treated to an enjoyable new trailer. The video shows off plenty of new footage, including a look at the ways in
Poll Bravely Default II Is Out Today On Switch, Are You Getting It?
Another exclusive has arrived
This week sees the release of the Nintendo Switch exclusive Bravely Default II. As usual, we thought we would run a poll to see how many within the Nintendo Life community are interested in picking it up. If this does happen to be your first time trying out this series, there's no need to worry. As previously noted,...
News The Caligula Effect 2 Is Coming To The West This Year
NIS America confirms RPG sequel will arrive this Fall
Last week's Nintendo Direct brought many announcements, but several didn't make it to Western presentations. Alongside eBASEBALL and Crayon Shin-Chan, Japan's Direct also revealed The Caligula Effect 2, sequel to 2019 RPG
News Wind Peaks Is A 'Where's Wally?' Style Game Headed To Switch Next Week
Or Where's Waldo, for our NA chums
Launching next week on Nintendo Switch is Wind Peaks, a 'searching' game that features gameplay in the style of the popular Where's Wally? books and visuals inspired by animated series Hilda and Gravity Falls. Wind Peaks tells the story of a group of scouts who find a map that guides them to a magical part of the...
News Original Stitch's Pokémon Shirts Range Expands With New Ruby And Sapphire Collection
Designer (Tor)chic
Original Stitch and The Pokémon Company are teaming up once again for a whole new range in the 'Pokémon Shirts' lineup, this time with designs based on Pokémon's third generation of monsters. Launching just in time for Pokémon Day, the new line adds 34 patterns inspired by Pokémon that first appeared in Pokémon Ruby and...
News Fortnite Adds Ripley and The Xenomorph From Alien To Its Crew
Jonesy, meet Jonesy
If the original Alien (or any one of its increasingly weird-bad sequels) made you hide behind the sofa in fear, or the creepy hide-and-seek game Alien: Isolation put you in genuine danger of having to change your trousers, then it's time to get your revenge. The Xenomorph - a villain so terrifying that most of the films focus on...
Thursday25th Feb 2021
News Pokémon Sword And Shield Players Can Now Get A Singing Pikachu
Update: Here's the code you need
Update: As promised, a code has now been released which will let you get your hands on a special singing Pikachu in Pokémon Sword and Shield. Simply head to the Mystery Gift section of your in-game menu and input the following code before 25th March: P25MUS1C Enjoy! Original Article (Thu 11th Feb, 2021 16:00...
Review Bravely Default II (Switch) - An Excellent Old-School JRPG That's Happy To Play It Safe
A brave new world, or a throwback to an older one?
Square Enix has always been one of the biggest names in the RPG genre, but it’s been interesting to see how the company has changed its design philosophies with the times. For example, its biggest franchise – Final Fantasy – has long since left behind its humble origins as a turn-based RPG and...
News 'Pokémon Presents' Live Presentation Announced For Tomorrow, 26th February
What will be revealed?
Update: Watch the show live right here! Original Article (Thu 25th Feb, 2021 13:05 GMT): The Pokémon Company has revealed that it'll be airing the latest presentation in its Nintendo Direct-style Pokémon Presents series tomorrow, 26th February. It'll be streamed on YouTube at 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm GMT / 4pm CET and will...
News Splatoon 2 Version 5.4.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Weapon changes, fixes and more!
Last week, Nintendo ended its Direct broadcast with the announcement of Splatoon 3. It's splashing onto the Switch in 2022. This doesn't necessarily mean it's done with Splatoon 2 just yet. As recently discovered, there's a new update for the second game and it's now available. This latest patch will bump your own...
Random This Unused DS Lite Feature Would've Effectively Turned The Console Into A Switch
Nintendo may have been planning the hybrid concept for over a decade
The Nintendo DS Lite was a necessary refinement back in 2006. Contributing to around 94 million of the DS family's 154 million sales, this slimline variant proved highly successful, but 15 years later, we didn't expect to still be finding out about unused features. Outlined by the...
Japanese Charts Super Mario 3D World Stays Top As Switch Takes Entire Top Ten
Another impressive week
Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 21st February, revealing that Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has stayed on top for a second consecutive week. The game shifted another 97,955 physical copies during its second week on sale, keeping Momotaro Dentetsu – a title which had previously...
News Stay Calm, Everyone: Froggy Furniture Is Back In Sanrio's Collab With Animal Crossing
New Sanrio-themed items to decorate your lily pad
We knew that Sanrio goodies would be coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons in March, alongside the Sanrio amiibo cards, and eagle-eyed readers may have even been able to identify the furniture pictured on each card. But now we can see how that furniture looks in-game - and there is finally some...
News Jet Set Radio's Legacy Lives On In This Official Trailer For Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Lines up with JSRF's 19th anniversary
If you're a fan of the Sega series Jet Set Radio, one game you might want to be on the lookout for is Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. It's done by Team Reptile (the developer behind games like Lethal League and Lethal League Blaze) and features music in it by Hideki Naganuma - the guy who composed for Sega's Jet Set Radio...
News This "Cyberpunk" Battery Pack Might Be The Ultimate Companion For Your Nintendo Switch
Available now on Kickstarter
Portable power banks are a fact of life in 2021, because we all own smartphones, wireless headphones and other portable devices which are so power-hungry they need charging on an almost daily basis. Keeping this in mind, it takes something truly special to grab our attention, and the recently-Kickstarted Storm 2 does...
These off-brand Pikas just need a lot of love and maybe plastic surgery
Ever since the birth of Pikachu back in 1996, the little yellow rabbit-mouse has become as much of a mascot of the Pokémon series as Kermit is for The Muppets, the fat cow is for Harvest Moon, and Missile is for Ace Attorney. It's Pikachu's recognisable form that makes it so...
News Minecraft Dungeons' Flames Of The Nether DLC Pack Is Out Now
Free update also available
Update #2: The Flames of the Nether DLC for Minecraft Dungeons is now available. In addition to this paid content, there's also a free update included. In addition to this is a free pet and cape to celebrate 10 million players. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of the official Minecraft website: 1.8.0.0 - February...
News Octopath Traveler Has Now Sold 2.5 Million Copies Worldwide
Square Enix breaks the news a day before Bravely Default II's launch
We're only a day away from Bravely Default II's launch, but Square Enix isn't turning a complete blind eye to Octopath Traveler just yet. Its success paved the way for the latest Bravely Default entry and now, Square Enix has confirmed Octopath Traveler reached 2.5 million copies...
News Nightdive Studios Adds Online Multiplayer To The Switch Version Of Turok 2
Includes cross-platform multiplayer
When a remaster of the N64 classic Turok 2: Seeds of Evil arrived on the eShop in 2019, multiplayer was nowhere in sight. At the time of release, developer Nightdive Studios said it was planning on continuing to support and update the title, as it did with all of its releases. It appears to have honored its word...
News It Looks Like A New Hot Wheels Game Is About To Be Unleashed On Switch
"we got something going on under the hood"
Earlier this month, an Xbox Store listing revealed a new Hot Wheels game was on the way. It's apparently coming to Microsoft's platform on 29th September under the name of Hot Wheels Unleashed. A new teaser from the official Hot Wheels Twitter account tagging the official Nintendo one seemingly confirms...
Music Post Malone's Pokémon 25th Anniversary Song Goes Live Ahead Of This Weekend's Concert
Virtual show kicks off this Saturday
Ahead of this weekend's Pokémon Day Virtual Concert featuring Post Malone, the singer has released a brand new cover song that's available to stream right now. The track – a cover of Hootie and the Blowfish’s 1995 hit 'Only Wanna Be with You' – can be heard up above. The original record was last seen on...
Soapbox Pokémon Diamond And Pearl's Greatest Contribution To The Series Was The Underground
And sort of inventing Pokémon God
There's a Pokémon Presents tomorrow - the Pokémon-flavoured version of a Nintendo Direct - and I should be feeling like a kid on Christmas, since the announcement of a remake for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl seems almost certain. But I feel more like a kid on someone else's birthday: wishing I could
Nintendo Download 25th February (North America)
Ghosts ’n Goblins Resurrection & Bravely Default II
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! Switch eShop - Highlights: Bravely Default II...
News This Insight Into The Localisation Of Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town Is Fascinating
How do you solve a problem like a pun name
The newest Story of Seasons game is already out in Japan, so we're starting to get more information trickling down to us as we wait another month for the western release. A new trailer premiered today, with an English voiceover talking about a year in the life of a farmer, and players have even discovered...
Nintendo Download 25th February (Europe)
Bravely Default II! Persona 5 Strikers! Taxi Chaos!
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 eShop - New Releases: Baobabs Mausoleum...
News A Super Mario Lenticular Magnet Set Is The Latest MyNintendo Europe Reward
North America gets Bravely Default II posters
What a time to be alive. Following the rather dramatic saga of the Splatoon keyrings and the ongoing difficulty people are having in getting the Mario 35th Anniversary pins, it's MyNintendo's game to lose - all they have to do is keep giving us things we actually want, rather than, you know, phone...
News Samurai Warriors 5 Scores Switch Release Date, Special Editions And New Trailer
It'll feature 27 playable characters
Fresh from its appearance during last week's Nintendo Direct presentation, Samurai Warriors 5 has now received a proper release date on Switch. You'll be able to get your hands on Koei Tecmo's latest '1 vs. 1,000' tactical action title on 27th July – that date's locked in for Europe, with North America still...
News Psychological Horror Returns To Switch With In Sound Mind Later This Year
Insane in the Brain
We've got some strong competition between horror games on Switch, and that doesn't look set to ease up in 2021. Having previously been announced for next-gen platforms and PC, Modus Games has confirmed that upcoming psychological horror In Sound Mind is also coming to Switch. Modus has issued this overview: From the creators...
Video Check Out This Exclusive Sneak Peek From Playing With Power: The Nintendo Story
Ahead of next week's launch
Crackle's new five-part documentary series Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story is only days away from release. Exploring Nintendo's early origins to the modern-day, Crackle released a first look trailer last Friday and now, Nintendo Life has been given access to an
News Devolver Digital Is Throwing Boomerang X Onto Switch This Spring
Giving Ty a run for his money
Devolver Digital has brought some fantastic indie experiences to Switch over the years. Publishing acclaimed hits like GRIS, that streak look set to Carrion (I'm not sorry) into 2021. Alongside Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout and Card Shark, it has just announced Boome
News Foreclosed Looks Like A Cyberpunk Comic Book Game, And It Comes To Switch This Summer
Hack in to the mainframe
Foreclosed manages to hit a bunch of cyberpunk buzzword beats in its one-minute trailer: "jacking in", "blockchain", guns that respond to your ID, and "a system where you're in debt before you're even born". Sounding a lot like The Matrix, and looking a bit like a neon Alan Moore graphic novel, Foreclosed is a...
Wednesday24th Feb 2021
News Did The Official Pokémon Twitter Account Just Tease A Diamond And Pearl Return?
"Let's go, Sinnoh!"
This weekend, on 27th February, the Pokémon series celebrates 25 years since the launch of the original Game Boy titles. There have already been rumours floating about and now the official Pokémon Twitter account seems to be joining in on the fun. It's currently doing a countdown featuring different generations of pocket...
Review Capcom Arcade Stadium (Switch) - A Rich Tour Through The Coin-Op History Of A True Legend
Keep your loose change
Even if you harbour a deep and sincere love for classic gaming, it can sometimes be tricky to muster a bounty of enthusiasm when a new retro gaming compilation lands. Over time we have perhaps become spoiled by an abundance of access to the mainstream of the video game form’s past. Iconic outfits such as Sega and Capcom have...
News The First Review For Bravely Default II Is Now In
It's out on Friday, but is it worth your time?
The very first review of Bravely Default II – Square Enix's new RPG launching on Switch this Friday – has now arrived courtesy of Japanese publication, Famitsu. Famitsu's scoring system has four different reviewers rate the game out of ten; in this case, the magazine's team all awarded the title a...
Review Curse Of The Dead Gods (Switch) - Fans Of Hades Will Find Lots To Like Here
Nietszche and tidy
Sometimes a game comes along that changes the way people look at an existing genre. And then another game comes along and copies it. Curse of the Dead Gods takes enormous inspiration from Supergiant's smash hit rogue-lite Hades. And, we have to say, there are far worse games to draw from – lest we forget, Hades got a coveted...
News Nintendo Gives Us A Look At The Switch Box Art For Zelda: Skyward Sword HD
Featuring Link, Ghirahim and Fi
There's been a lot of information shared about The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD since its big reveal last week, but one thing you might have seen just yet is the game's Switch box art. Nintendo of America's Twitter account has now shown off a North American copy of the game, showcasing the key visual which...
News Nintendo Wants To Know What You Think About The Demo For Square Enix's New Tactical RPG
Go on, tell 'em
One of the many games revealed during last week's Nintendo Direct was Project Triangle Strategy. It's a turn-based tactical RPG by Square Enix, which is expected to launch exclusively on the Nintendo Switch in 2022. It's already drawn comparisons to games like
News Star Wars: Republic Commando Is Landing On Switch This April
I have a good feeling about this
Aspyr Media has made a name for itself lately with Star Wars fans. Having previously released Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Episode 1: Racer on Switch,
News Hori Is Launching A New Monster Hunter Rise Split Pad Pro Controller For Switch
Pre-orders now open from Amazon Japan
Accessory maker Hori has announced that it'll soon be launching a brand new edition of its popular Split Pad Pro controller for Nintendo Switch, and this time the design's based on none other than Monster Hunter Rise. A decent alternative for those who find Nintendo's regular Joy-Con to be a little too small...
News Nintendo Highlights "Promising" 2021 Indie Game Release Calendar
Update: Gnosia's release date gets a tweak
Update: Nintendo of America has issued a correction, stating that the previously mentioned February release window for Gnosia was a mistake. The game will instead launch in March. A new, updated version of the Indie World newsletter can be found here. We've updated the information in our original article...
One million players have received permanent bans
We've witnessed increased efforts lately to stop Pokémon cheaters. After The Pokémon Company announced efforts to crack down on those using "altered data" in Pokémon Sword and Shield and
Random Researchers Visualise How Mario, Luigi, And Dr Eggman Would Look If They'd Actually Aged
Mario and Luigi look ready to claim their plumber pensions
Last year was Mario's 35th birthday, and this year is Link's 35th, yet they still look as young and vibrant as ever. Well, sure, Mario still looks like a plumber who enjoys spaghetti a little too much, but Link's most recent reincarnation in Breath of the Wild emerged from a 100-year sleep...
"believe it or not"
Last weekend, Rare's cancelled Nintendo 64 project Dinosaur Planet was leaked online. It surprised many, including Kevin Bayliss - a former Rare employee who now works at Playtonic Games. With all the memories flooding back, in his words over on VGC, Kev has now revealed how the original star of the game was actually intended to...
News Here's Your First Look At Stardew Valley's Charming Board Game, Out Today
Now shipping to the US, more countries to follow
Today sees the launch of a board game adaptation of Stardew Valley, the fan-favourite farming sim which has taken the indie world by storm over the last few years. A reveal trailer (up above) gives us our first taste of the game's look, while an official website offers a little more detail. The game...
News Sakurai To Host Pyra/Mythra Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Presentation Next Week
Release date will be revealed
Nintendo has announced that a new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate presentation will air early next month, focusing on the newly-announced fighter, Xenoblade Chronicles 2's Pyra and Mythra. As is usually the case, the presentation will be hosted by series director Masahiro Sakurai. It'll take place on 4th March (2pm GMT /...
News Zavvi Details Exclusive Pokémon 25th Anniversary Range Launching This Weekend
Including high tops and a special collector's box
UK retailer Zavvi has lifted the lid on its upcoming Pokémon 25th Anniversary collection, an exclusive set of limited edition items launching this weekend. The range is set to include an official collector's box, a mini clothing line consisting of three Pikachu garments, and a Pikachu high-top...
News Save Up to 88% As CFK Announces Publisher Sale On Switch
From NEKOPARA to Wonder Boy
There's been no end of deals on the Switch eShop lately, so we're not surprised another publisher is launching its own promotion. CFK is the latest to do so, best known on Switch for publishing visual novel series NEKOPARA and Wonder Boy Returns Remix. Running until March 10th across Europe and North America, you can...
News Bravely Default II Spirits Are Being Added To Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Get them while you can
There's a lot of stuff happening in the world Nintendo at the moment. Anniversaries, in particular, seem to be grabbing all the attention, but there are a few other things you should probably be on the lookout for. One game arriving later this week, for example, is the Nintendo Switch exclusive Bravely Default II. It's...
Random Seriously, You Have To Witness This Funk-Tastic Mii Channel Jam Session
It's getting funky in here
You may have come across Alex Moukala previously. Working as a composer, musician and YouTuber, Alex has developed a significant fanbase with his takes on gaming OSTs. Between reacting to Octopath Traveler and making Kirby music sound like One-Winged Angel, he recently took aim at the Mii Channel t
Video Astral Ascent Announces Upcoming Kickstarter With Kick-Ass Trailer
For people who prize promisingly pixel-perfect pugnacity
It's hard to say exactly when the pixel art renaissance happened. Perhaps it never quite went away. Nevertheless, it continues with the gorgeous-looking roguelite Astral Ascent, from the makers of the Dark Souls-like Dark Devotion. Similar to its predecessor, Astral Ascent is presented in a...
Tuesday23rd Feb 2021
Random Nintendo Has A Problem With Its Switch Joy-Con, And We're Not Talking About Drift
Rouge one
Over the years since the Nintendo Switch launched, we have seen a large variety of Joy-Con controller variations. With so many colours on the market, you should be able to find a Joy-Con to express your own individual personality. However, IGN bigwig Peer Schneider has noticed a glaring problem – and no, it's nothing to do with drifting...
Review Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection (Switch) - A Masochistic Medieval Marvel
Give ‘em Hell
Tokuro Fujiwara is back in town, and his mission is murder. The Ghosts ’n Goblins foreman has been summoned by his former employer, Capcom, to impart pain and suffering upon the gaming masses, and he’s come at it with gusto. To put a fine point on the conjecture surrounding Resurrection, it is indeed anvil-through-the-skull hard;...
News Sonic The Hedgehog Voice Actor Says It Was His Decision To Call It A Day
"it’s time to be done"
At the end of January, Sonic the Hedgehog's voice actor, Roger Craig Smith, announced his departure from the role. At the time, it was suspected some big changes were going on behind the scenes at Sega ahead of Sonic's 30th-anniversary celebrations. While this may still be the case, the voice actor says it was his decision...
News Hades Gets Physical Release, Plus Soundtrack Download And Art Book, Available To Pre-Order Now
Please don't lick the Zagreus game card
Update: 23rd Feb 2021 - UK pre-orders are open now. Well, we were hoping for Zagreus in Smash, but we can settle for Zagreus on our shelf instead. The GOTY of many, Hades, is getting a physical release, which comes with a download code for the fantastic Darren Korb soundtrack and a big book of game art...
Review Taxi Chaos (Switch) - A Crazy Taxi Spiritual Successor That Fails To Go The Extra Mile
Ticket to ride?
It’s been a minute since we last got a proper, honest-to-God taxi driving game. Putting aside a couple of questionable mobile spin-offs, Sega’s own Crazy Taxi series has remained dormant for more than a decade. Since then, of course, even the word ‘taxi’ has largely been relegated from the English language for the far less...
News Tony Hawk Has Heard About Crash 4 Coming To New Platforms, Wants His Own Game To Follow
Is it time to make the Switch?
Earlier this month, Activision announced Crash Bandicoot 4 would be coming to the Nintendo Switch this March. As exciting as it was, it also had many fans speculating what else Activision could potentially bring to the Switch in the future. One other game that's been requested time and time again, is last year's...
News Expect To Hear More About Zelda's 35th Anniversary This Summer, Says Industry Insider
Focus will supposedly be on Skyward Sword HD until July
Last week marked Zelda's 35th anniversary and apart from the reveal of Skyward Sword HD and some themed Joy-Con, in terms of full games, there's been nothing else announced. It's left a lot of fans wondering what's going on - with many celebrating the big occasion by themselves. So, what is...
News Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Confirmed For 2021 Switch Release
Launching on Switch after other platforms
Following a not-so-subtle tease yesterday, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 has now been officially revealed for Nintendo Switch. The game, a remaster of both Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, will launch on Nintendo's system at some point in 2021 following a newly announced March release for...
News Diamond Variant Charmander And Vaporeon Funko Pops Confirmed For Emerald City Comic-Con
All that glitters isn't gold
It wasn't long ago we received news that Funko is expanding its range of Gen 1 Pokémon. Including a Metallic Silver Bulbasaur, those are due to arrive later this year but, in the meantime, Funko has just announced two exclusive new variants for Charmander and Vaporeon. Calling them "Diamond Variants", the
With $26.5m ready for extra claims
After reaching a settlement following a class-action lawsuit in connection with random loot boxes, Epic Games has revealed that it will be awarding in-game currency to affected players of both Fortnite and Rocket League. According to details on a settlement website for the case, the lawsuit alleges that "Epic...
News Sega Denies It Has Anything To Do With Crazy Taxi Clone Taxi Chaos
"We are currently investigating this situation"
Back in December, Taxi Chaos was announced for a wide range of systems, including the Switch. Clearly inspired by Sega's legendary Crazy Taxi, the game involves picking up passengers and dropping them at various locations around a sprawling city, with the aim to do so in the fastest time possible so...
Random Talented Hacker Bumps The Frame Rate Of SNES Race Drivin' From 4fps To 30
A significantly improved experience
Race Drivin' is considered an arcade classic in some quarters, which made its SNES port extremely disappointing back in 1992. Offering a meagre 4 frames-per-second, that edition was widely slated, but now, one software engineer has reverse-engineered it to run at a significantly enhanced 30fps. This comes from...
News New Story Of Seasons Interview Reveals New Secrets Ahead Of Next Month's Release Date
Read all about puddles, sprinklers, and the Witch Princess
Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town will come to the Switch in Japan this Thursday, the 25th February, but for the western world, we won't get our hands on it until the 23rd March. We will, of course, be covering the Japanese reception here on Nintendo Life, but until we can play it for...
Gallery Sakurai Shares Some New Screenshots Of The Next Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Fighters
Arriving next month
To kick off last week's Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed Pyra and Mythra as the latest fighters for Smash Bros. Ultimate. If this first-look trailer wasn't already enough, the game's director Masahiro Sakurai has been uploading photos of the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 duo, along with Rex. This includes a shot recreating a...
News Analogue Explains How It's Going To Deal With Scalping Amid Concerns Over Pocket Pre-Orders
"We have taken careful action to address bots"
Thanks to the current pandemic, more of us are relying on online retailers than ever, and whilst we can't always use traditional retailers, scalping has gotten worse. Between recent drama surrounding the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S launches,
News Footage Of The Cancelled Nintendo DS Game Black & White Surfaces Online
Presenting Black & White Creatures
Following on from the surprise leak of Dinosaur Planet last weekend, footage of the cancelled Nintendo DS project Black & White has now surfaced online. If the name doesn't ring a bell, this is a handheld entry of the god video game series created by the famous video game designer Peter Molyneux (Populous,...
News RetroMania Wrestling Will "Likely" Be Delayed On Switch Due To Certification Hold-Up
"We do not expect the delay to be more than two weeks"
After several disappointing wrestling games on Switch, we're looking forward to RetroMania Wrestling. An official sequel to 1991 arcade title WWF Wrestlefest, it was
Random Neat Bowser's Fury Trick Lets You Farm Coins For Quick Power-Ups
Try this at home
Have you found the time to get stuck into Bowser's Fury yet, the new mode that comes included in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury? Well, if you've been struggling to make progress or if you're still yet to jump in, this nice little trick should help you to be as powerful as can be. Brought to our attention by @MarioBrothBlog...
News We Might See A Female Slayer In A Future DOOM Game
"I think if we did it, I’d want it to be lethal"
A still from 2019's direct-to-video Doom: Annihilation, which is the closest we've gotten to a female Slayer so far Demon-slaying in DOOM has always been something of a man's game, but id Software’s Hugo Martin has revealed that the team behind the series has been discussing bringing a female...
Reminder Persona 5 Strikers Launches Today On Nintendo Switch
Here's the launch trailer
Just in case it had slipped your mind, here's a friendly reminder that Persona 5 Strikers is available starting today on Nintendo Switch. Featuring a deep story campaign and an exciting hybrid battle system, Persona 5 Strikers has been available to those who purchased the Digital Deluxe edition for several days now. Today...
News Horned Knight Brings Challenging 2D Platforming To Switch This Week
Out on Friday with a 20% discount!
Launching later this week on Nintendo Switch is Horned Knight, a "challenging" 2D action-platformer from 2Awesome Studio – the team behind games like Lost Wing, Dimension Drive, and BFF or Die. It's out on PlayS
News The Outer Worlds' Second Expansion "Murder on Eridanos" Confirmed For Switch
Halcyon Helen's final adventure is going portable
The Outer Worlds has slowly been making its way to Switch. Launched nearly a year after rival platforms, its first DLC expansion, Peril of Gorgon, arrived in a similarly timely fashion two weeks ago. Now we know that the second expansion, Murder on Eridanos, is also coming to Switch. We don't know...
News "Cute And Creepy" Storybook Adventure Beacon Pines Smashes Switch Kickstarter Goal
Stretch goals become the next target
Beacon Pines, a "cute and creepy" storybook adventure that we reported on earlier this month, has now flown past its initial Kickstarter goal to land a release on Switch. At the time of writing, the project has earned over $48,500 from backers, comfortably outdoing its target of $30,000 with ten days still left...
Monday22nd Feb 2021
Rumour 'Switch Pro' Console Still Aiming For 2021 Launch, According To Known Insider
"I'm confident it gets announced this year"
The Nintendo Switch – Mario Red & Blue Edition console that launched earlier this month. Despite the fact that Nintendo has insisted it won't be announcing a new Switch model "any time soon," rumours continue to suggest that an upgraded '
News Nintendo Ignored Zelda's 35th Anniversary This Weekend, But Fans Are Celebrating In Style
Not even a quick social media mention
Yesterday, 21st February, marked the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, the very first game in one of the industry's most successful, popular, and important series. Despite heavily celebrating Mario's 35th last year with remastered games, merchandise, and more, Nintendo has been surprisingly quiet on the...
Random Oh No, Soulja Boy's Making A Video Game Console Again
It's 2018 all over again
As if the previous Soulja Boy games console fiasco wasn't enough back in 2018, the American rapper has announced that, once again, he's planning on launching his very own video game console. As you might recall, Soulja Boy initially attempted to sell rebranded Chinese games consoles running unlicensed ROMs – and then a...
News Try Not To Be Jealous, But Japan Is Getting An Exclusive Physical Edition Of Legend Of Mana
Square Enix's latest remaster launches on June 24th
When it comes to their remasters, Square Enix hasn't give them much physical love on Switch. Final Fantasy VII/VIII was an exception, but SaGA Frontier and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles' are currently digital-only. Unless you plan on importing this new collector's
News Study Suggests Nintendo Switch Is The Most Eco-Friendly Console On The Market
All thrills, cheap bills
If you're in the market for a new games console that won't cost the Earth to run, it would appear that a shiny new Nintendo Switch could just be your best bet According to a new survey by NerdWallet, the Switch has been declared the most eco-friendly system of the current generation of consoles. According to the study's...
News Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Sells Out In Japan Following Pyra and Mythra's Smash Announcement
Everyone wants to know the Xenoblade lore, of course
Could Xenoblade Chronicles 2 finally be getting the hype it deserves? With just over 2 million sales worldwide since its 2017 release - take Breath of the Wild's 23 million sales as a comparison - it's still the best-selling Xenoblade game by about half a million. Following the announcement that
Guide Where To Buy Bravely Default II
Buy bravely by default
Bravely Default II, the follow-up to Bravely Default and Bravely Second on 3DS arrived in February 2021. Coming from the same team that made the excellent Octopath Traveler, Bravely Default II has you joining the Heroes of Light on a fittingly epic quest through five kingdoms as you do your utmost to
News Game Devs From Riot To Xbox Spoke About Their Love For Zelda, And How It Influenced Them
Huh, we didn't realise Zelda was so popular
In celebration of Zelda's 35th anniversary, journalist Imran Khan spoke to 18 different game developers across the industry for Inverse, including members of Riot Games, Capy, and Phil Spencer himself, the head of Microsoft's Gaming division and the face of Xbox. Although Spencer's quote was a little dry,...
UK Charts Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Fends Off FIFA To Stay Top For A Second Week
Animal Crossing drops to fourth
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 20th February, revealing that Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has managed to stay on top for a second consecutive week. The new Switch release continues to fend off the likes of FIFA 21 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with Nintendo's console accounting for half of...
News Momotaro Dentetsu's 11-Week Run Atop The Japanese Charts Sets A 20-Year Record
Money train
You might not be familiar with Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! outside of the Japanese game charts. Having never been localised for Western release, this board-game style series is comparable to Monopoly or Fortune Street, seeing players attempt to become successful entrepreneurs. Initially produced by Hudson Soft,...
News This Wii Sports Glitch Lets You Golf From Out-Of-Bounds Locations
Wii love to see it
We didn't think we'd be writing about new Wii Sports discoveries in 2021, but even the oldest games retain dedicated communities. After unseen E3 2006 footage came to light several weeks back, a new Wii Sports Golf glitch has just been discovered. Found on February 18th, this was uploaded by YouTube account
News Kill It With Fire Lets You Murder Spiders With Excessive Force On Switch Next Month
Not arachnophobic, just don't like 'em
More people are more creeped-out by spiders than they'd ever admit, but some are merciful and release them outside when spotted. Others take a more bloodthirsty approach, using whatever's nearby to smit those eight-legged freaks. It's a rough deal for the species, and Casey Donnellan Games is tapping into our...
News 3D Platformer Mail Mole Burrows Onto Switch Next Month
No relation to Monty Mole, however
There's no lack of choice when it comes to 3D platformers on Switch. Home to some excellent games, Mail Mole's got strong competition ahead of it next month. Previously announced for
Sunday21st Feb 2021
Feature 8 NES Games That Were Better On Famicom Disk System
Saves + Synth > Passwords
The Famicom Disk System (or the Family Computer Disk System to give its full title) released in Japan — and Japan only — on 21st February 1986. This Famicom add-on came with a wave of new games on bespoke Nintendo-branded floppy discs which had several advantages over cartridges at the time, plus one or two drawbacks...
Review Haven (Switch) - It Takes Two To Fully Enjoy This Space-Age Love Story
Huggin' and a-kissin', dancin' and a-lovin'
Although it's not about the pandemic (and it's been in development for much longer than we've all been trapped inside), Haven is a game that came at exactly the right time, because its message is all about two lovers, alone together for the foreseeable future. Having escaped the Aviary – a futuristic...
News Zelda: Skyward Sword HD Tops "Best Seller" Chart On Amazon
Will take flight on July 16th
Update [Mon 22nd Feb, 2021 22:45 GMT]: If you want a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD from Amazon, you can pre-order the game now for $59.99. Nintendo's website is also taking digital pre-orders for the same price. Original article [Sun 21st Feb, 2021 03:25 GMT]: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
News SNK's First Season Pass 3 Fighter For Samurai Shodown Arrives This March
And a Guilty Gear character will fill the fourth slot
Update #2 [Sun 21st Feb, 2021 14:30 GMT]: SNK has now locked in a release date for Cham Cham. This fighter will be arriving in Samurai Shodown on 16th March as part of Season Pass 3. See her in action in the trailer above. In addition to this, it's also been revealed the fourth Season Pass 3...
Feature The Legend Of Zelda Is The Robinson Crusoe Of Video Games
We start our 35th anniversary feature series at the beginning... and the end?
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, we're running a series of features looking at a specific aspect — a theme, character, mechanic, location, memory or something else entirely — from each of the mainline Zelda games. Today, Alan looks back at the...
PSA Turn Off The Music In Rock N Roll Racing If You Stream The Blizzard Arcade Collection Online
Licensed soundtrack "not cleared for streaming"
During BlizzCon Online this weekend, Blizzard announced (and released) a three-in-one retro selection comprised of The Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing and Blackthorne. Just days after the launch of the Blizzard Arcade Collection, Blizzard's Adam Fletcher has issued a warning about streaming Rock N...
Review Thomas Was Alone (Switch) - An Ageing Indie Hit That Still Has Something To Say
Be there or be one of several different rectangles
More than 10 years after its inception as a Flash game, Thomas Was Alone is now so much more than the puzzley, story-driven platformer it appears to be. It is an artefact of an interesting time in the progress of indie games; a time when lo-fi, hi-concept darlings made Twitter swoon week-to-week...
News No More Heroes For Switch Has Been Updated To Version 1.1.1, Restores "Missing" Music Track
"The K-entertainment music is back"
No More Heroes made a surprise return last year, allowing Switch owners to take control of Travis Touchdown and his beam katana with their Joy-Con. If you've not got around to finishing this one just yet, now might be the time to return. According to Engine Software (the team that helped port the game across to...
News Zelda Remake Specialist Grezzo Appears To Have Helped Out With Miitopia's Nintendo Switch Port
It's in safe hands
A week after discovering Japanese video game developer Grezzo was hiring for a new project, Nintendo's UK website has seemingly revealed the same company is behind the slightly enhanced Miitopia port for Switch. This does not appear to be the same "Medieval" And "Stylish" project the company was referring to in its recent callout...
News Two Of Capcom's Legendary Street Fighters Drop Into Fortnite
Available now
We've seen Ryu and his buddies from the Street Fighter series in plenty of fighting games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the SNK titles over the years, but this latest crossover is slightly different. Instead of another fighting game, this time he'll be transported into the world of Fortnite alongside Chun-Li. To celebrat
Saturday20th Feb 2021
Review Blue Fire (Switch) - A Superb Action-Platformer That Puts Gameplay First
Fire in the whole
It’s often interesting when a game wears its inspirations on its sleeve, especially so when they actually manage to capture some of the magic of the beloved titles from which it draws said influence. Spoiler alert: Blue Fire is a roaring success, weaving together elements from several other games in a way that still manages to...
News Blizzard Arcade Collection Announced For Nintendo Switch, Out Today On The eShop
A blast from the past
This year's BlizzCon has just kicked off. To start the show, Blizzard announced the Blizzard Arcade Collection. It's out today on the Nintendo Switch for $19.99 / £16.99 and contains The Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing and Blackthorne. Both the original editions and upgraded definitive editions are included in this package...
News Rare's Cancelled N64 Project Dinosaur Planet Has Been Leaked Online
Take a trip back in time
Just weeks after GoldenEye 007 XBLA was leaked online, Rare's other cancelled project Dinosaur Planet has now appeared on the internet. This title started out during the Nintendo 64 generation around 1999, was cancelled for this system, and eventually resurfaced as Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube. You can read about how...
News Diablo II: Resurrected Is Coming To The Nintendo Switch This Year
Return to Hell
At Blizzard's all-digital BlizzCon event this year, the company announced Diablo II: Resurrected for the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. It'll be arriving later this year. The remaster of this classic ARPG hack 'n slash will include the ability to toggle between new and old graphics, the same gameplay "you know and...
Review SNK vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium (Switch) - The Battle Still Rages, 20 Years On
A portable victory
Once upon a time, the battle between Capcom and SNK was real. During the early '90s, the two companies – each dedicated to the evolution of the fighting game – embarked in a tit-for-tat cold war. SNK’s Ryo, an orange gi-wearing approximation of Street Fighter’s Ryu, ended up in Capcom’s official Street Fighter II:...
Preview Ghosts 'n Goblins: Resurrection Is Going To Hurt You, A Lot
Hell and high water
Blood is red, spirits are blue, here come Ghosts ’n Goblins, to murder you. If you’re a gamer of the old-school persuasion or just a masochist who enjoys agony, you will be undoubtedly titillated by the torture that Ghosts 'n Goblins: Resurrection promises to deliver later this month. The first new console game in...
News Get A Stack Of Extra Goodies In Blizzard's 30th Anniversary Celebration Collection
Includes the new Blizzard Arcade Collection
If you're interested in purchasing the Blizzard Arcade Collection for your Nintendo Switch, you might want to consider Blizzard's 30-year celebration collection instead. This pack not only includes Blizzard's new retro arcade collection but also a cache of commemorative in-game content for Overwatch and
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 20th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
After what has been the busiest week in the Nintendo world for some time – feel free to catch up on everything that was announced during this week's Nintendo Direct here – it's finally time for us to catch a breather and chat about our weekend gaming plans. Members of the Nintendo Life team have done just...
News Overwatch 2 Team Needs More Development Time To Ensure It's A "Worthy Successor"
And a "true sequel"
Earlier this month, Activision Blizzard confirmed the sequel to the team-based shooter Overwatch would be not be arriving this year. At the time, it was simply explained how the company outlook for 2021 did not include the launch of this title. Today, at BlizzCon Online, game director Jeff Kaplan and the team elaborated on this,...
Friday19th Feb 2021
News Controversial Rising Sun Design Removed From Street Fighter II's Re-Release
E. Honda's bathhouse gets a new look
Capcom Arcade Stadium came to Switch yesterday, and people are already finding new secrets and updates in the various arcade games within. In the latest discovery, Twitter user @pomegd (h/t Kotaku) noticed that part of the E. Honda bathhouse stage has been removed for the
News Nintendo Might Have Revealed A New Mario Golf: Super Rush Character Ahead Of Schedule
Is the king returning?
Perhaps one of the more exciting reveals during this week's Nintendo Direct was Mario Golf: Super Rush. Although Nintendo didn't go into all that much detail, it seems it might have revealed more information than it intended to on the game page. As spotted by many fans, it seems King Bob-omb could be a playable character. In...
News Our Top Picks From The Games In The Current eShop Sale
Ni No Kuni! Superhot! Bioshock! Among Us!
So, what are you in the market for? We've got whatever it is you crave. We know eShop sales can be overwhelming, scary places, but we're here to guide you through the best of what's on offer. We'll include our review score (and a link to the full review), the discount, and the price, which hopefully will be...
Titan Quest
If you've ever wondered what The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past would be like if you added a bunch of modern roguelite elements, randomly generated its dungeons and threw local and online four player co-op into the mix, well, wonder no longer, as Heliocentric Studios' Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is pretty much exactly that. Here is...
Random WandaVision's Latest Episode Sneaks In Some Nintendo References
A trip back in time
We've seen a Nintendo Switch in the new Karate Kid series Cobra Kai, and now we've got GameCube controllers and Wii Remotes in Marvel's new show WandaVision, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany. In this particular series, the pair travel through the ages of television history. This week's episode (episode seven)
Random Pokémon Fan Aims To Build Sinnoh Region Entirely Out Of LEGO
Here's where to find Empolego and Bricketot
Ahead of the rumoured reveal of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes for the Switch, one fan has gone above and beyond, recreating the entire Sinnoh region out of LEGO. Don't worry, it's not quite as huge of an undertaking as it sounds - Reddit user Scoutisaspyable, also known as warlordjimbei
Soapbox The Modern Games Industry Has A Hype Problem, And It Needs To Stop
When will it be enough?
Soapbox features enable our individual writers to voice their own opinions on hot topics, opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. In this piece, Mitch talks about the problem with video game hype... Look up any news about the upcoming Bayonetta 3 and you’re sure to notice a fascinating trend. Even...
News Nintendo Hiring Splatoon 3 Level Designer To Renovate "Existing" Stages
Are older levels making a comeback?
It's official, Splatoon 3 - whether you're ready for it or not, is arriving on the Nintendo Switch next year. If you've been reading up on the third game's lore, you'll already know it's set in a new region called Splatlands - a harsh desolate environment. In the first teaser trailer for the game, we also got a...
News New Nintendo Infographic Shows Off The 30+ Games Announced During This Week's Direct
You know the drill, it's circling time!
As it often does after a major presentation, Nintendo has shared a new infographic featuring all the logos of the games included in this week's Nintendo Direct. It's become something of a tradition for Nintendo fans to download a copy of these images and circle all the games they're interested in, so feel...
Random Twitter Has Completed Its Playthrough Of Pokémon Red Inside Someone's Avatar
It even caught Mewtwo
Despite suffering a major setback last week - with "Team Rocket" releasing the majority of the party, it seems the social media experiment Twitter plays Pokémon Red Version inside someone's avatar has bounced back. According to the creator Constantin Liétard, it took 40 days and more than 90K comments to defeat the Elite...
News Famicom Detective Club Is Getting A Collector's Edition In Japan
A western release remains unconfirmed
Nintendo's remakes of Famicom Detective Club has been known for some time. Previously announced back in 2019, Wednesday's Nintendo Direct confirmed The Missing Heir and
Random Zelda: Breath of the Wild Player Beats Every Shrine With His Feet
An impressive feat
We're approaching four years since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild launched, and fans continue finding news way to play it. As we await further news on its sequel, Breath of the Wild has maintained a vibrant community, between glitch exploits like
Reminder Play Persona 5 Strikers Early By Picking Up The Digital Deluxe Edition
Start playing today!
Persona 5 Strikers isn't technically out on Switch or other platforms until 23rd February, but there is a way to get stuck into the game ahead of time if you're super-keen on checking it out. By purchasing the Persona 5 Strikers Digital Deluxe Edition, you'll get access to a variety of bonus content on top of the base game, all...
Book One comes out this September
Ever wonder what all your Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers do without you? Our guess would be that they wander around the town, having banal conversations with each other and literally counting down the amount of time we're gone for so that they can berate us when we return. However, according to the...
News Mario Kart Tour's Snow Tour Event Brings Back A Classic Mario Kart Wii Circuit
DK Summit returns on 23rd February
Mario Kart may have been absent in the latest Nintendo Direct, but Mario Kart Tour is still receiving regular updates. After the recent Cat T
News Nintendo's Giving Away Free Super Mario 3D All-Stars Wallpapers For A Limited Time (Europe)
Get em' while you can
The latest treat has arrived on the My Nintendo website in Europe, and this time, fans can download the new reward at no cost whatsoever. From now until 31st March – yes, it's that dreaded date again – My Nintendo is offering Super Mario 3D All-Stars wallpapers for the wonderfully low sum of 0 Platinum Points. There are...
Video Get A Closer Look At Super Nintendo World's Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge Ride
I'm gonna win historic, on the Rainbow Road!
It's been a rocky start for Super Nintendo World. We can't deny that it looks spectacular and we'd previously seen some (now removed) footage of Y
Video Here's Bravely Default II's 'Final Trailer', As Promised In The Nintendo Direct
One last hurrah before next week's launch
During this week's Nintendo Direct, a special 'final' trailer for Bravely Default II was mentioned but not shown. The video is now live in all its glory, and you can check it out in full above. The nearly-four-minute video gives us a last look at the battles, jobs, and characters present in the new release,...
News EA Acquires Racing Game Specialist Codemasters
"Welcoming Codemasters to the family"
Since the end of last year, there have been reports about the third-party giant EA buying the UK developer Codemasters. It's now official - with EA announcing the creator of titles such as Formula 1, DIRT, Project CARS and GRID has joined the family, in a deal believed to be valued at $1.2 bil
News Narrative Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game Sorcery! Gets A Switch Release This Year
And it'll include all four parts of the story
You already may be aware of the work of narrative-focused indie studio Inkle, thanks to their recent Switch release of Heaven's Vault, or perhaps you know them from their earlier games, 80 Days and the Sorcery! series. Up until now, their fantastic Sorcery! games have remained locked away on PC and...
News Capcom Will Broadcast Three Monster Hunter Live Streams Next Month
Covering Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Stories 2
Next month, Monster Hunter celebrates its anniversary. We're now also close to the release of Monster Hunter Rise on the Switch. With this in mind, Capcom has announced via Twitter that it will be hosting a total of three live stream events in March. This includes a digital event on 8th...
News Crackle's "Playing With Power: The Nintendo Story" Documentary Series Gets A New Trailer
Premieres On March 1st
You may recall that earlier this month, a new five-part documentary series called Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story was announced. Launching through streaming service Crackle on March 1st for free, we've now got a first look trailer via IGN. Starting from Nintendo's early origins in the 1800s, t
News Panic Co-Founder Tweets Out A Firewatch Secret In Celebration Of Fifth Anniversary
You can find it by following a series of clues
It's Firewatch's Fifth anniversary, and to celebrate the big day, Cabel Sasser - the co-founder of Firewatch publisher, Panic, and co-creator of the PlayDate - tweeted out a big secret about the game. Don't read past this if you want to discover it for yourself! We'll give you a hint: Search for
News Flyhigh Works Offering 40-50% Savings On Switch Rhythm Games
Deemo and VOEZ included in latest "Digital Deals" sale
We've seen some good sales lately across the regions. With Nintendo recently launching their "Digital Deals" sale in Europe - never mind Bandai Namco and Arc System Works' own North American sales - di
Thursday18th Feb 2021
Rumour Zelda's 35th Anniversary Will See The Return Of Wind Waker And Twilight Princess
Game journalist says it's "100%" happening
If the reveal of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD wasn't the exact HD release you were hoping for from Nintendo, don't worry - as there are apparently other Zelda games returning to mark 35 years of the series. According to VGC journalist, Andy Robinson, Nintendo fans can be on the lookout for
News Miitopia Has An 18+ Rating In Russia Because Of Its Same-Sex Relationships
It joins The Sims and Stardew Valley in this dubious honour
Russia's "gay propaganda" bill - more accurately, the bill "for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values" - was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin in 2013. The law states that children must be protected from being...
News Minecraft Is Getting New Ore Textures, Except For Diamond, Which Is Already Perfect
Diamond Ore textures are forever
The lead artist of Minecraft, Jappa, just tweeted out a teaser of some updated ore textures, saying that they were designed with colourblind players in mind. All of the ores look a little chunky and have a little more depth to them, and some even have different shapes and colouring to stand out better in the new,...
News Nintendo's 'Digital Deals' Sale Is Now Live, Up To 75% Off (Europe)
Update: Here are the sale highlights
Update: The sale is now live, so we've rounded up some of the highlights for you below (prices are shown in GBP, although similar discounts can be found across Europe). Nintendo 'Digital Deals' Sale - Highlights: Game Price Among Us £2.72, was £3.89 Sonic Mania £11.19, was £15.99 Diablo III:...
News Capcom Arcade Stadium Is Out Now On Nintendo Switch
Full collection costs $40
Capcom has been rather quiet about when Capcom Arcade Stadium would go live on Switch – and now we know why. The company was saving the confirmation for the first Nintendo Direct in what feels like forever. The games are offered in three packs, each costing $14.99 and each covering a period of Capcom's coin-op history:...
Soapbox Zelda: Skyward Sword Is Good, Actually
The Titled Groose Game
Soapbox features enable our individual writers to voice their own opinions on hot topics, opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. In this piece, Kate defends The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword against its many critics... I bet some of you clicked on that headline to yell "IT WAS ALWAYS GOOD", and you know...
Poll What Did You Think Of The February 2021 Nintendo Direct, Then?
Happy? Sad? Or somewhere in the middle?
So, there we have it – the first proper Nintendo Direct for ages, and it gave us plenty to talk about – including a Zelda remaster, an amazing online multiplayer title and a second sequel to a beloved classic. However, there were also mo
Random A Reddit User Correctly Leaked Half Of Yesterday's Nintendo Direct Ahead Of Time
Uh-oh
There were roughly 30 games shown off in total during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, including releases of popular third-party games, new indies, and even some new and remastered Nintendo releases, but thanks to a leak over on Reddit, around half of them (or their titles, at least) were already doing the rounds online ahead of time. A known...
Round Up Everything Announced In The February 2021 Nintendo Direct
Splatoon 3! Fall Guys! Zelda: Skyward Sword HD!
Yesterday gave us our first Nintendo Direct broadcast, and it was pretty packed. Not only did we see updates on titles we already knew about, but we also got brand-new announcements in the form of Splatoon 3, Zelda: Skyward Sword, Fall Guys and much more besides. Below you'll find a rundown of...
News Nintendo "Doesn't Have Anything To Share" About Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 Right Now
"We should be able to bring you some information this year"
Although Nintendo said it would be focusing mostly on releases in the "first half" of 2021 during its latest Direct broadcast, there were still high hopes for some news about the upcoming sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In the second half of the presen
News The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD Will Feature amiibo Support, File Size Revealed
Launching on Switch this summer
We might not have received the Breath of the Wild 2 news we were hoping for during yesterday's Nintendo Direct, but series producer Eiji Aonuma did reveal that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD would be arriving on Switch later this year. Now, thanks to an eShop listing popping up for the new title, we can s
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Animal Crossing Will Get A Bunch Of Mario Items And Clothing In Next Update
Set your calendars for the 25th February
Happy birthday, Mario! We got you, er, a bunch of people dressing up as you. Also, we're going to delete some of your games. Yeah, Mario's 35th birthday reminds us a bit of that 13th birthday party where it rained and the clown stole the cake, to be honest - but Animal Crossing: New Horizons' latest new...
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News Splatoon 3: First Gameplay Mechanics, Weapons, And 'Splatlands' Lore Details Revealed
Fresh new facts
Had enough time to recover from the Splatoon 3 hype following yesterday's Nintendo Direct? Good, because we're about to dive in a little deeper. With both Splatoon 3 and Splatoon 2 launching on the same system, it might seem that there's not all that much of a difference between the two, but early signs suggest that the new entry...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Switch Exclusive Project Triangle Strategy Looks Set To Scratch That Final Fantasy Tactics Itch
Coming 2022, but you can play the demo now
Square Enix has just lifted the lid on its next turn-based tactical epic, which has the working title Project Triangle Strategy. Looking like a cross between Final Fantasy Tactics and Octopath Traveler, this Switch exclusive is expected to launch in 2022, but a free demo will be available to download on...
Thursday18th Feb 2021
Review Cathedral (Switch) - A Fine Metroidvania Which Can't Quite Match The Best Of The Genre
What a wonderful night to have a curse
About seven years ago, a Swedish developer named Eric Lavesson set out to build his own game engine, not knowing entirely where it might lead. As time passed and prototypes were made, a retro-style project began to coalesce which demanded more of his time and attention. That project was Cathedral, a new 8-bit...
News Splatoon 3 Was Just Announced, But Splatoon 2 Isn't Done Just Yet
New update arrives next week
Arguably the biggest reveal of yesterday's Nintendo Direct was Splatoon 3, the latest entry in Nintendo's squid shooter series that's sure to be another hit when it arrives next year. Even with a new game on the way, though, Nintendo has announced that good old Splatoon 2, already available on Switch, will be receiving...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News World's End Club Is A Surprise Addition To The Switch Catalogue From The Makers Of Danganronpa
Time to, er, watch some children murder each other?
If you're into the brutal teen-murdering, teddy bear creepiness of Danganronpa, then you'll be happy to hear that Tookyo Games - a studio that boasts members of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape teams - is bringing World's End Club, the game they previously teased on Apple Arcade, to the Switch...
News Nintendo Reveals Splatoon 3, Coming To Switch In 2022
Welcome to Splatsville
Nintendo had plenty of cool stuff to show off in today's Direct broadcast, but it saved a huge reveal for last – Splatoon 3. The third game in the series isn't due for release until 2022, but Nintendo showed off quite a bit of footage. The setting is a little more grim and post-apocalyptic this time around, while players...
News Pyra and Mythra Are Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Newest DLC Fighters
Smash Bros' latest characters arrive next month
We've got our latest look at Super Smash Bros. Ultimate newest arrival and joining our ranks this time, it's Pyra and Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Confirmed within the latest Nintendo Direct, it follows on from
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News Square Enix Is Releasing A Legend Of Mana Remaster On Switch This June
Seek out the mystical Mana Tree, again
The Nintendo Switch is already home to a number of legendary JRPG games and later this year there'll be another one enjoy. On 24th June, Square Enix fans will be able to get their hands on a "fully remastered" version of Legend of Mana. This action-role playing game was first published on the original...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Return To The Fairway, When Mario Golf: Super Rush Arrives On Switch This June
A hole in one
One of the first-party highlights of the latest Nintendo Direct was the reveal of Mario Golf: Super Rush. This marks the return of the Mario Golf series, after quite some time. In fact, we haven't had an entry in the series since the 3DS title, dating back to 2014. In Camelot's latest instalment, arriving on Switch on 25th June,...
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News Check Out The Japan-Exclusive Games Revealed During Yesterday's Nintendo Direct
eBASEBALL, Crayon Shin-Chan and The Caligula Effect 2 were all confirmed
Last night's Nintendo Direct was full of surprises. We got confirmations of Splatoon 3, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, Mario Golf: Super Rush and plenty more but, like before, the Japanese present
News The 3DS Game Miitopia Is Coming To Nintendo Switch This May
Embark on a hilarious adventure with anyone
Mii representation hasn't exactly been Nintendo's top priority during the Switch generation, but it looks like things could be changing based on the latest Direct broadcast. Apart from featuring in the upcoming title Mario Golf: Super Rush, Mii will also be making a comeback in Miitopia for the Nintendo...
Video Here's What Apex Legends Looks Like On Nintendo Switch
EA's free-to-play Battle Royale shooter arrives next month
We've known for a while that Apex Legends is finally launching for Switch on March 9th. Having seen delays and no end of release date speculation
News After 33 Years, Famicom Detective Club Is Finally Coming To The West
Both games are launching for Switch on May 14th
Nintendo is known for pulling off surprises, but very few could've predicted this announcement. After three decades of Japanese exclusivity, Nintendo is finally releasing Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind in the West. As the names suggest,...
Gallery Splatoon 3 Is Looking Pretty Fresh In These New Screenshots
Splatsville, here we come
In yesterday's Nintendo Direct, we were treated to a quick look at Splatoon 3, which Nintendo will be bringing to the Switch in 2022. In the game you’ll leave Inkopolis behind and head to a new region: the Splatlands. Its heart is a new city where battle-savvy Inklings and Octolings gather: Splatsville, also known as the...
A superb opening weekend for Mario
Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 14th February, revealing that Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has debuted at number one. The Switch re-release sold an estimated 250,000 physical copies in Japan during its opening weekend to secure the position, comfortably finding itself ahead...
Arriving "later this year"
FarmVille developer Zynga and Lucasfilm Games have joined forces to announce Star Wars: Hunters. It's a new online third-person competitive shooter, is "free-to-download" and will be arriving on the Switch, App Store and Google Play later this year. The game takes place after the fall of the Galactic Empire and is...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Is Getting An Expansion Pass
New characters, weapons, costumes and stages incoming
Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity had a strong launch back in November. Becoming the best-selling Musou game of all-time, it presented a highly enjoyable prequel to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News Samurai Warriors 5 Officially Revealed, Comes To Switch This Summer
Follows historical figures Nobunaga Oda and Mitsuhide Akeshi
Dynasty Warriors is no stranger to spin-offs and today's Nintendo Direct confirmed they just keep coming. Alongside news of
News Introducing Knockout City, A New Dodgeball Game From The Developer Of Mario Kart Live
Launching on Switch this May
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville wasn't the only EA game on show during Nintendo's latest Direct broadcast. Knockout City was also announced. It's handled by Velan Studios. If that name sounds familiar it's because this is the same team behind last year's Nintendo game, Mario
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection Slices Up The Nintendo Switch This June
Still sharp after all this time
Ryu Hayabusa is coming to the Nintendo Switch thanks to a three-game collection which pulls together all of his most recent mainline adventures. Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection launches on Switch and other formats on June 10th. It includes Ninja Gaiden Sigma, originally released in 2007, as well as Ninja Gaiden Sigma...
News Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville: Complete Edition Arrives On Switch Next Month
Garden Warfare goes portable
It's been 10 years since Plants vs. Zombies was last seen on a Nintendo console. Gracing the DS and DSiWare back in 2011, the series continued with Garden Warfare, but those sequels always stuck to rival platforms. Until now.
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power Is Coming To Switch This June
One of Nintendo's more surprising first-party reveals
Nintendo's got quite a slate of upcoming games. During last night's Nintendo Direct, we got some brand-new reveals for Splatoon 3, Mario Golf: Super Rush, The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD an
News SaGa Frontier Remastered Arrives Sooner Than Expected, Now Launching This April
Square Enix's latest remaster was scheduled for Summer 2021
We received word back in November that Square Enix is remastering its 1998 PS1 JRPG, SaGa Frontier. Originally aiming for a Summer 2021 release, last night's Nintendo Direct confirmed this will arrive sooner than expected, now launching on April 15th 2
News Travis Touchdown Returns In No More Heroes III On August 27th
Get ready to kick some alien butt!
Last year, Grasshopper Manufacturer's anticipated Switch release No More Heroes III was delayed due to the global pandemic. In the latest Nintendo Direct, we finally got the official word it would be "touching down" on 27th August 2021. Travis Touchdown returns in a new story requiring him to fight his way to the...
Nintendo Download 18th February (North America)
Cathedral, Capcom Arcade Stadium, Persona 5 Strikers!
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! Switch eShop - Highlights: Capcom Arcade Stadium...
News World's End Club Gets Physical Editions With Goodies From The Game
Art books, soundtracks, enamel pins and more
Announced on the Nintendo Direct last night, World's End Club is an intriguing prospect for fans of Danganronpa and Zero Escape, and not just because the team behind it worked on those games in the past. Although we don't have a lot of info on the upcoming game, we know it's about a group of 12-year-olds...
Nintendo Download 18th February (Europe)
Azur Lane! Thomas Was Alone! Cathedral!
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 eShop - New Releases: Azur Lane: Crosswave (£44.99 /...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Fall Guys Is Coming To Switch This Summer
Take the fall
Fall Guys was one of the big hits of recent memory on PS4 and PC, and today we found out that it's coming to Switch this summer. Here's the PR: Be the last Fall Guy standing! The hit party game finds up to 60*** players running, jumping and shoving their way to victory. Dive into a series of ridiculous challenges and wild obstacle...
Thursday18th Feb 2021
Video Capcom Shows Off Apex Monsters And New Rampage Mode In Monster Hunter Rise
"more dangerous than we've imagined"
One game shown during the Nintendo Direct that we don't have to wait long for is Monster Hunter Rise. It's arriving exclusively on the Switch on 26th March. It seems Capcom still has a few surprises to share about the game. During today's broadcast, we got a look at some additional environments, Apex Monsters...
News Telltale Lives Again As Tales From The Borderlands Arrives On Switch
Let us tell you a tale of Telltale...
After reappearing on Xbox and PlayStation stores earlier today, it seems that Tales From The Borderlands is finally bringing Telltale Games back from the dead - well, sort of. It seems like it's now in the hands of publisher 2K and Borderlands dev Gearbox, and that somehow means it's coming to Switch. With...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News Timeloop Game Outer Wilds Finally Comes To Switch This Summer
Twenty-two minutes to do... something... in space
Hold on a second, we need to stop screaming in excitement - the fantastic narrative-loop adventure mystery game Outer Wilds is coming to Switch at last! (No, not Outer Worlds - that's the Obsidian game that's like Fallout in space. Yes, we get them confused all the time, and we'll eat our hat if we...
Thursday18th Feb 2021
News Donut County Dev Is Now Working On Neon White, A First-Person Action Game About Killing Demons
Ben Esposito has an impressive range, it turns out
Annapurna Interactive is a publisher that constantly puts out video games that are the equivalent of arthouse movies, and we mean that in the best way. If you're looking for the cinematic, the strange, and the downright kooky, Annapurna's catalogue is where you'll find it. They're the Devolver...
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...
News Capcom Reveals Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection Contains A Local Co-Op Mode
Arthur and friends
With only a week until launch, you wouldn't expect Capcom to have further reveals for Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection, but last night's Nintendo Direct told us otherwise. For the first time in Ghosts ’n Goblins history, Resurrection is introducing a co-op mode. Available locally for two players, Arthur can be assisted by one...
News Stubbs The Zombie Makes A Surprise Return On Switch Next Month
Dead man on a mission
Expectations always vary when it comes to Nintendo Direct presentations, but we can't imagine anyone had a Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse re-release on their bingo card. Originally released in 2005 for Xbox and PC, Stubbs the Zombie is a third-person action game from Aspyr Media. Launching on 16th March, you play...
News Turn-Based Tactics RPG Battle Brothers Stabs Its Way Onto Switch On March 11th
The original Battle Brothers are Mario and Luigi in Smash
The wildly popular Battle Brothers has almost 12,000 reviews on Steam, with PC Gamer describing it as "when Game of Thrones has a one-night stand with X-COM." If that description alone perks up your ears, then we really don't need to tell you much more about the game - e
News Teamwork Is Key In KeyWe, A Kiwi-Co-Op Coming To Switch This Summer
Do you have any proof that the postal system ISN'T run by birds?
Love Overcooked, but wish the characters were a bit... rounder? KeyWe might be what you're looking for. It's a co-operative game where you play as little kiwi birds named Jeff and Debra running a mailroom, trying to type out letters, telegrams, and ransom notes alike with nothing but...
Wednesday17th Feb 2021
News SNK Vs. Capcom, One Of Video Gaming's Greatest Crossovers, Is Now Available On Switch
Check out the launch trailer!
Update #2: SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millenium is available to download from the eShop now, and you can watch the lovely launch trailer above. Update #1 [Fri 5th Feb, 2021 08:20 GMT]: Last month, SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millenium was rated for the Switch by the South Korean ra
Talking Point What We're Hoping To See In Today's Nintendo Direct
IT'S TIME
Well, well, well. We may have been disappointed when our 2020 Direct predictions failed to come true, but what's 530 days of waiting between friends? Besides, we've been really busy in the intervening months, haven't we? We don't need you, Nintendo. We've got, er, a global pandemic. We're just kidding, Ninty. We love you. Please come back...
Watch Nintendo Direct February 2021 - Live!
50 minutes of Direct goodness
It's finally time! After more than 500 days between major presentations, Nintendo is about to host a brand new Direct focused on a variety of titles. The 50-minute show will feature "information focused on available games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and games coming to Nintendo Switch in the first half of 2021."...
News Zelda: Skyward Sword HD Hits Switch This July Alongside Themed Joy-Con
Reach for the skies
Nintendo has just revealed that it is bringing the Wii title Zelda: Skyward Sword to the Switch this year. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD will boast revised controls which not only allow you to replicate the motion interface of the original, but also permit the use of buttons and sticks for control – a vital point when...
Reminder Nintendo Switch Online Gets Four New SNES And NES Games Today
Don't forget to update your apps
Don't forget to update your Nintendo Switch Online SNES and NES apps today, because they're getting updated with four (count 'em) new games.
Random Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 Trends On Social Media Ahead Of Nintendo's Direct Broadcast
Here we go again
It's official, we're getting a 50-minute Nintendo Direct later today (UK time) and it'll be focused on games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate along with titles coming to the hybrid system in the "first half" of 2021. This year also happens to be The Legend of Zelda's 35th anniversary, so there are obviously expectations of some sort...
Review Psycho Dream (SNES) - The Flawed Yet Fascinating Cult Classic Finally Comes To The West
Import Inception
To best understand Psycho Dream – which has finally come to the west thanks to its addition to the Nintendo Switch Online SNES line-up – you first need to understand Nihon Telenet. It was a prolific company throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, and while its games often had some interesting concepts (and some legitimately...
Rumour Hidden File Suggests Toadette Was Planned As A Playable Character In Super Mario 3D World
Datamine effort reveals all
With Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury now available on Nintendo Switch, plenty of new players are enjoying the Wii U classic for the first time. The title's known for its mash-up of 2D and 3D Mario platforming, cats, and a four-player roster made up of Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad, but it looks like things could have...
Random Sakurai Reminds Smash Fans That His Tweets Don't Contain Nintendo Direct Hints
Hype responsibly
It's almost Nintendo Direct time, and that of course means that the entire online Nintendo community is going absolutely bonkers. It's perhaps wise, then, that Super Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai has reminded fans that they shouldn't take any hints from his social media posts. As those who follow him on Twitter will...
Mini Review Fire 'N Ice (NES) - A Fine Puzzler That's Worthy Of Rediscovery On Switch
I've got the (Solomon's) key, I've got the secret
Sokoban, initially released in 1982 for Japanese home computers, is the first “block-pushing” puzzle game that challenged players to move around boxes to accomplish some kind of goal. Of the numerous similar games it inspired, one of the most popular was Tecmo’s Solomon’s Key, released for...
Mini Review Doomsday Warrior (SNES) - A Street Fighter II Clone That's Doomed From The Start
Welcome to your doom
The Super Famicom port of Street Fighter II was released in June 1992. Telenet’s Doomsday Warrior then hit the market later that year in November. It’s unknown how long it was in development, but based on the final product, one could easily surmise that it was slapped together as quickly as possible to capitalize on the...
Mini Review Prehistorik Man (SNES) - The Stone-Age Platformer That Time Forgot
You're in real Barney Rubble now
For a brief, shining period, the video game industry seemed to become obsessed with cavemen. We’re not sure why this is – the Flintstones remake can’t have accounted for all of it. Bonk’s Adventure, Caveman Games, BC Racers, Joe & Mac, Bignose the Caveman and more absolutely flooded the market with...
News DOOM Eternal's Part Two DLC Has Been Rated In Australia
Can the Switch have part one now?
After a delay, DOOM Eternal finally arrived on the Nintendo Switch at the end of last year as a digital-only release. Since then, Switch fans have been waiting for the first part of the DLC "The Ancient Gods" to arrive. While an official FAQ previously revealed it would be coming to the Nintendo version at a "later...
News Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is Getting Official Merchandise
And costumes and accessories, too
It's not going to be out for more than a year, but official merchandise for Sonic The Hedgehog 2 has already been confirmed. JAKKS Pacific, Inc. has today announced that it has the global toy rights for the film in partnership with Sega of America. JAKKS says it will "design, manufacture, market, and sell Sonic the...
News Civilization VI's Next Free Update Introduces A 'Barbarian Clans' Mode
Goes live on February 25th
Since arriving on Switch in 2018, Sid Meier's Civilization VI has witnessed strong post-launch support, receiving two expansions, the New Frontier Pass and more. It hasn't always been the
Random Streamer Tries To Beat Hades Using A Pomegranate As A Controller
Welcome to 2021
Just in case you thought the trend of playing games with weird and whacky homemade controllers was a thing of the past, Twitch streamer Rudeism is here to remind you that the sport(?) is very much alive and well. Just like that time someone played Super Smash Bros. Ultimate using a bunch of bananas as a controller, Rudeism has...
News Reggie Shares His Favourite Memories From Working At Nintendo
"My name is Reggie"
Reggie Fils-Aimé left Nintendo in 2019, but he's popped up pretty often to talk about his former employer. This year alone, he's already co-hosted the New York Game Awards, joined an industry roundtable on Twitch and next month, he'll appear in "
News These Adorable Pikmin Plush Are Being Restocked In Japan
Just look at that Bulborb
In today's episode of 'Japan gets all the cool things and we're immensely jealous', Nintendo has announced that its adorable selection of Sanei Trading Pikmin plush is making a comeback. The cutesy set is available to order right now from Nintendo's official Japanese store – although worldwide shipping is sadly not...
News Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon Team Seeking Experienced Talent To Help "Wrap Up" Development
Shovel Knight Dig Team also hiring
Almost a year ago, Yacht Club Games lifted the lid on its new puzzle game Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon for the Switch. If you're wondering what's happened to this project, it seems development on the game is now close to completion. According to a tweet over on the official Yacht Club Games Twitter account, the...
News Reggie Wants E3 And Platform Holders To Find A Way To "Digitally" Enable Fans
"I think that would be huge"
Since the global pandemic hit, gaming conventions around the world have become all-digital events. This includes E3, which last year had no option but to cancel. This year, it'll be returning in the same format as many other events. While it's really the only way this type of event could even go ahead right now, one man...
News Jaleco's Cybattler Is This Week's Arcade Archives Title On Nintendo Switch
A little-known 1993 blaster
This week's Arcade Archives release has been announced, and it's taking us back to 1993 with the little-known Jaleco shmup Cybattler. Boasting loads of mechs and a rather unique control system, Cybattler was released in arcades at a time when most coin-ops were trying to imitate Capcom's Street Fighter II and therefore...
News Tales Of Vesperia: Definitive Edition Reaches One Million Sales After Two Years
Celebratory sale announced for Japan
Tales of Vesperia's been kicking around since 2008, but it never arrived on Nintendo platforms until 2019. Released as a Definitive Edition, it still offers a fine JRPG experience, and we awarded it 8/10 stars. Announcing the news earlier toda
News Super Smash Bros. "Body To Body" Tournament Starts Later This Week
Another Ultimate event
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be hosting a tournament later this week on 19th February. It'll run for three days and is themed around fighters who use body attacks and "deadly tricks" to defeat their opponents. As usual, the more opponents you defeat, the more spirits you'll get. Here's the official tweet for this event:...
News This Week's Super Mario Bros. 35 Event Serves Up A Course-Limited Special Battle
Coming in on February 19th
Super Mario Bros. 35's delisting gets ever closer, but Nintendo isn't letting up just yet with its Battle Royale platformer. While we await tonight's much-anticipated Nintendo Direct, it has revealed Super Mario Bros. 35's next event. Going live on February 19th, this week brings us a "course-limited special battle",...
Tuesday16th Feb 2021
Random Did You Know About Nintendo Switch's ZL/ZR Battery Feature?
Handy!
Those ZL/ZR triggers are more useful than we thought! The Nintendo Switch has been sitting in peoples' homes for almost four whole years now, but it seems the hybrid console might still have the odd trick up its sleeve that plenty of owners haven't yet discovered. Over on the Nintendo Switch subreddit, site user antglyforreal has shared a...
News Nintendo Direct To Air Tomorrow, Wednesday 17th February
And it's 50 minutes long!
Nintendo has revealed that a brand new Nintendo Direct will air tomorrow, and this time it's a 'proper' one. The show will be approximately 50 minutes long and will feature "information focused on available games like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and games coming to Nintendo Switch in the first half of 2021." The show kicks...
News Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Fans Will Want To Tune Into Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct
Sakurai teases new info
After well over a year of waiting, Nintendo fans are finally being treated to a major Nintendo Direct presentation tomorrow. Earlier today, the company announced that it will host a 50-minute show featuring games coming to Switch in 2021, while also giving a small nod to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It seems that Smash fans...
News Pokémon Unite Gets Development Update And Beta Test Announcement
"There's still plenty to be done"
We haven't heard a whole lot about Pokémon Unite since it was first announced for Switch and mobile last June, but The Pokémon Company has now shared a quick development update. Progress has been made since last summer's reveal as you'd expect, although there's still work to be done. "More playable Pokémon have...
Random Japanese Fitness Mag Discusses How To Play Ring Fit Properly
The secret is not being unfit
Oof, it's been a while since we booted up Ring Fit Adventure. Our bones have returned to their previously creaky state, and our muscles to marshmallow. But it seems like Nintendo Japan know we've been struggling, so they've just published some tips and tricks courtesy of Murata-san, from the editorial department of...
News Nintendo's Success With Switch Made Reggie's Retirement Decision "Easy"
"I knew the company was going to be in great shape"
Although Reggie Fils-Aimé is no longer with Nintendo, he still seems to talk about his former employer just about every week. During an interview with Gamertag Radio yesterday, Reggie was asked if he was at all surprised by the success of the Switch. It seems not - with Reggie explaining how he...
News Capcom Insider Backs Up Previous Claims Of "Switch Focused" Resident Evil Revelations 3 Release
Will apparently be announced later this year
Last year, Capcom suffered a leak revealing a game called Resident Evil Outrage was scheduled for a Q4 2021 release. As previously stated by Capcom insider Dusk Golem, this title is apparently Resident Evil Revelations 3 (or at least was originally named that at some point during development) and will be...
Memory Pak When Link Left The Temple Of Time In Zelda: Ocarina Of Time And Everything Changed
Lesson learned: touching swords makes you get old
Welcome to the first instalment of a new column, where we're going to be doing a deep-dive into some of the most memorable moments in gaming – good and bad. We're starting off strong with a moment that cemented the Zelda series as one of the all-time greats, in celebration of Link's 35th birthday...
Review The Outer Worlds: Peril On Gorgon (Switch) - A Solid Expansion To A Cracking Sci-Fi RPG
Noir Wars
The Outer Worlds' first helping of DLC finally makes its way onto Nintendo Switch, having released on all other platforms back in September of 2020, and it's a very solid return to the Hyperion System for the colourful crew of the good ship Unreliable. Peril on Gorgon sees fans of Obsidian's satirical sci-fi romp indulged with a handful of...
News Bloodstained's Miriam Is Coming To Blasphemous This Week In A Free Update
Boss Rush Mode and 8-bit Demake Area also confirmed
We loved Blasphemous when it first launched. Awarding it 9/10 stars, The Game Kitchen was onto a winner, offering a Soulslike/Metroidvania action game with beautiful pixel art. Supported by free DLC ever since, th
News Nintendo Demands More Damages In Colopl Lawsuit, Now Suing For A Cool $47 Million
White Cat Project developer is accused of infringing six patents
You may recall that back in 2018, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against mobile games developer Colopl for around 4.4 billion yen ($41.7 million). It's not going away anytime soon – having entered multiple hearings – and now, Nintendo has raised that figure to 4.95 billion yen ($46.9...
Thanks to the legendary Dale Baer
A classic '90s commercial for Nintendo has surfaced online, giving us an insight into how the company won the hearts, minds and wallets of an entire generation of players. The commercial was issued by Roses Discount Stores for its "World of Nintendo" range, which not only included video games but a whole host of...
News Youtooz Is Releasing Official Banjo-Kazooie Figures, Pre-Orders Open Next Week
Tooty and Bottles, too
Banjo-Kazooie hasn't been sighted since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but that hasn't stopped the famous bear and bird from getting merch and more on a regular basis. If you've not already got a collectible based on this iconic duo sitting on your shelf, you might be interested in the Youtooz creation of this character dating...
News Celebrate 25 Years Of Pokémon With This Pikachu-Themed PowerA Controller
Update: And a Switch protective case
If the recently revealed Apex Legends PowerA controller doesn't particularly interest you, perhaps you would prefer this Pikachu-themed to mark 25 years of Pokémon. This latest controller from PowerA is another enhanced
News Irem's SNES Brawler Undercover Cops Is Getting A New Physical Release
And it comes with loads of goodies, too
One of Irem's 1990s classics is getting a fresh physical release this year, thanks to American company Retro-Bit. Undercover Cops originally launched in arcades in 1992, and built upon the legacy of Kung-Fu Master, which Irem had released way back in 1984. Set in a post-apocalyptic 2043, it's a...
News Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon 2 Is Getting A Limited Run Physical Release
Pre-orders open later this month
If you've been holding out for a physical release of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2, you're in luck. Physical specialist Limited Run Games has officially revealed its hard copy of the 2020 release for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It was originally announced last July. Pre-orders open on 26th February...
Soapbox There's One Thing I Want To See In Tomorrow's Direct, And It's Pullblox
Smash Bros. who? Give me Mallo
To be a Nintendo fan is to be intimately familiar with disappointment. Each one of us has a particular game or series that we cling to like Rose on the Titanic door, desperately hoping that Papa Ninty will eventually notice us and give us the sequel (or at least a remake) we crave. It's their fault for making such good...
News Pokémon Trading Card Game Battle Academy Wins 'Toy Of The Year' Award
Beating the very best, like no toy ever has
We've witnessed some shameful antics lately regarding the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It's made the news due to scalpers targeting McDonalds Happy Meals, a statement we never expected to write. Whilst fans wait on The Pokémon Company to
News Layoffs Hit Peter Molyneux's Studio 22cans
"Development at the studio is continuing"
UK developer 22cans – the studio responsible for the Switch eShop title The Trail: Frontier Challenge – has been hit with layoffs, GamesIndustry.biz reports. Founded in 2012 by Populous and Fable c
News Find The Love Of Your Life In Platforming Adventure Sir Lovelot
Coming to Switch next month
Saving damsels in distress is one of gaming's oldest tropes, but few actively make you work for their affection upon reaching them. It's exactly what Pixel Games are aiming for with Sir Lovelot, now launching on Switch on March 3rd. Offering a classic platforming adventure, we'll be playing as the titular Sir Lovelot,...
News UK Magazine Retro Gamer Is Celebrating Capcom's Legacy With Eight Collectable Covers
Final Fight! Strider! Street Fighter II!
UK magazine Retro Gamer is no stranger to amazing cover artwork, and regularly offers an exclusive "subscriber" cover each month which has different imagery to the one which is sold in newsagents. However, the magazine is doing something a little different this month; issue 217 will offer eight (count 'em)...
Control hit 2 million sales in December
Work smart, not hard, they say - and it looks like Finnish studio Remedy is doing both. GI.biz reports that Remedy's 2020 was their most financially successful year ever, with full-year revenues rising 30% to €41.1 million (£35.8m). In 2019, they made a total of €6.5 million (£5.6m), even with the...
Monday15th Feb 2021
Guide How To Spot Fake Nintendo Video Games
Keepin' it real fake
Bootleg video games have been plaguing the industry for a while, but as time goes on it's become increasingly difficult to tell the difference between an official cartridge released by Nintendo and a fake. Take these copies of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen on Game Boy Advance. To the naked eye, they look strikingly authentic,...
A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird
Weeks before the dawn of spring, the month of February brings not only Valentine's Day to get your heart pumping, but also carnival season with its confetti, dancing and general jovialness. We could all do with a drop of frivolity, right? The arrival of carnival seasons means it's time for Pavé, the divine...
Random Fan Reimagines Pokémon Sword And Shield As Game Boy Games
With Red and Blue-style music and graphics
Released on Nintendo Switch back in 2019, Pokémon Sword and Shield are currently the latest entries in Pokémon's mainline series of games. Of course, plenty of Sword and Shield players will have been with the franchise from the very beginning, and while the new games are great fun in their own way,...
Reminder Don't Miss Festivale, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Latest All-Day Event
Ooh la la, Festivale!
If you're still loving life on your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, here's a quick, friendly reminder that today is Festivale! Festivale is an all-day event celebrated around this time each year in the Animal Crossing universe in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The event's inspired by cultural celebrations...
News A Switch Development Unit From April 2016 Has Just Surfaced Online
Almost a year younger than the retail release
It's always fascinating to get a look at the early development stages of hardware and software. Having recently seen a prototype Game Boy Advance and early build cartridges for F-Zero X and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
News Panic Button Explains Why DOOM Eternal's Cutscenes Run At 20fps On Switch
"I think there are still improvements we can make"
DOOM Eternal is undeniably one of the Switch's more impressive ports. Brought across by port specialists Panic Button, gameplay successfully runs at a solid 30 frames per seconds. When compared to the PS4 and Xbox One editions, however, it took a significant visual hit. As part of this perfor
Video Here's How Mario Kart Could Look Running On A 4K Console
Mamma mia!
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is already one of the finest looking games Nintendo has ever released, but how could the series look if a new, shiny 4K version of the Switch were to hit stores in the near future? Well, thanks to YouTube user Snazzy AI – who we've featured on the site a couple of times now –
UK Charts Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Launch Sales Are 190% More Than The Wii U Version
2021's fastest selling release yet
We never doubted Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury would be successful. Recently awarding it 10/10 stars, 3D World was the last Switch port we'd been waiting on from the Super Mario 35th Anniversary celebrations. So far, it's doing significantly better than
Find out more about Photo Mode, mining, and puddle fishing
It's not long now until the 23rd of March launch of Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, and Marvelous Japan have been sending out copies to streamers andYouTubers in an effort to reveal a little more about the game (h/t Fogu). Two Let's Play channels, HikakinGames and SeikinGames,...
News Save Up To 87% In Arc System Works' Switch Sale (North America)
Double Dragon! BlazBlue! Guilty Gear XX! Kill la Kill!
Publishers rarely need an excuse for a sale nowadays. Bandai Namco's latest slate went live in North America several days ago and, not to be outdone, Arc System Works is up next. Going as high as 87%, expect to mostly find fighting games, anime adaptations and beat 'em ups in this one. The...
Neo? Trinity? Where's Agent Smith??
We think it’s fair to say that modern gamers aren’t known to be the most patient of audiences. When we want gratification, we want it now. It’s 2021, we don’t want instruction manuals (unless they’re part of some boutique physical release, of course), we just want to get into the game. Neoverse Trinity...
News Overcooked! All You Can Eat Serves Up The Series' Biggest Portion Yet On Switch Next Month
Featuring both base games, all DLC and more
Team17 and Ghost Town Games have announced that Overcooked! All You Can Eat – a new, standalone release featuring both base games, all previously-released DLC and more – will be launching on Switch this March. The game includes Overcooked, Overcooked 2, all DLC, seven new levels, and a brand assist...
Feature Five SNK Neo Geo Pocket Games We Want To See On Switch
More than a fighting chance
With excellent ports of Fatal Fury First Contact, King of Fighters R-2, Samurai Shodown! 2, Gals' Fighters and The Last Blade soon to be joined by the magnificent
News Lost WiiWare Title Space Invaders Get Even Could Come To Switch If There's Enough Demand
"We'd love to be able to release it"
We enjoyed Space Invaders Get Even when it launched in 2008 for WiiWare, giving it 8/10 stars. One of Space Invaders' more curious spinoffs, it offered a role reversal that saw us playing the invaders, destroying cities from a UFO. Unfortunately, there's currently no official method of playing it since the Wii...
Sunday14th Feb 2021
Hardware The Retro-Bit Prism HD Review - Another Great GameCube HDMI Adapter
With an added bonus...
HDMI output on the GameCube has been around for a while. Back in 2018, we got the rather rough-and-ready GC Video Plug 'n Play 3.0, which did the job but came in a rather ugly 3D-printed case. Shortly afterwards there came the EON GCHD adapter (and, not long afterwards, its
Random Even Suda51 Is Playing Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury This Weekend
Now where is No More Heroes 3?
It's been an exciting weekend for many Nintendo Switch owners with the first big release of the year Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury now available. It's not just us fans who have been enjoying the game, either. Yesterday, Goichi Suda, aka "Suda 51" (and the director of the upcoming Switch exclusive No More Heroes...
News Charles Martinet Would Love To Voice Mario In Upcoming Illumination Movie
"if they invite me"
Like every other major video game franchise at the moment, Super Mario is being adapted into a big-screen movie. If you've been wondering if the voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, will voice the iconic plumber in the upcoming CGI film, you might be interested in reading on. In Charles' words, he apparently hasn't been contacted...
News We Might Now Know Why Swapnote For 3DS Got "Remastered" Last December
Was this update tied to an exploit?
In December last year, Nintendo released a remaster update for its out-of-date 3DS messaging app Swapnote. It had a lot of fans wondering what was really going on at the time, as it didn't seem like much of a remaster at all. The
News Zelda Remake Specialist Grezzo Is Hiring For A New "Medieval" And "Stylish" Project
What could it be for?
Japanese video game developer Grezzo might not necessarily be a household name, but it's become known within the Nintendo community over the past decade for its work on The Legend of Zelda remakes. In 2019, it released a remake of the 1993 Game Boy title The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the Switch. According to...
Guide Celebrate Pokémon's 25th Anniversary With 25 Toys And Plushes From Jazwares
Gotta Catch ‘Em All!
It's been a long and crazy ride for the Pokémon series since it originally arrived on the scene, on the 27th of February it will be its 25th anniversary. To celebrate, we have rounded up 25 products that “trainers” everywhere will not want to miss, including a special 25th anniversary plush Pikachu available for...
News Crash Bandicoot 4 Switch eShop File Size Revealed
Go digital and score some "Totally Tubular Skins"
After multiple reports and rumours, earlier this week, Activision finally made it official - announcing Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time for the Nintendo Switch. It's priced at $39.99 / £44.99 and will be arriving digitally and physically on 12th March. For those of you planning on getting a...
Mini Review Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing (Switch) - A Love Story That's Too Close To Reality
A quaran-teeny tiny game
The original Half Past Fate has been out on Switch for almost a year now, and our review praised it for its striking pixelated visuals and engaging dialogue, albeit with a few too many mini fetch quests. The same can be said for its follow-up, Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing, a short (really short) story in which two...
Saturday13th Feb 2021
"Team Rocket" is playing up!
The social media experiment allowing you to play the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red Version inside someone's Twitter avatar appears to have suffered a major blow. Prior to this, it had been relatively smooth sailing. Earlier this month the Soul Badge was acquired and more recently the Volcano Badge was earned. In a new...
News A Day-One Update For Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Is Now Live (Version 1.1.0)
Update meow!
Update [Sat 13th Feb, 2021 03:45 GMT]: Nintendo's support page has now made the full patch notes for version 1.1.0 of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury publicly available. Unfortunately, there are no details about what exactly has been updated, but there are apparently fixes to various issues that improve the overall gameplay...
Random Ariana Grande Sang About Playing Mario Party And Mario Kart
Baby, you might need a seatbelt when I... hit you with a Blue Shell
Before we begin: if you're here to be angry about Ariana Grande, might we suggest reading about something you like instead? We've got a pretty crackin' review of Bowser's Fury over here, or maybe you'd like to check out an Animal Crossing survey for the chance to win a free Switch...
News Microsoft's Edge Extensions Store Has Reportedly Been Hosting Illegal Copies Of Nintendo Games
Sonic, Pac-Man and Minecraft also spotted
Microsoft's Edge extensions store is believed to have been hosting "illegal copies" of classic games like Mario Kart 64, Super Mario Bros. and various other titles like Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man and Tetris. Even the Microsoft-owned IP Minecraft
News The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch
Tales from the Borderlands, Secret Neighbor and SnowRunner, too
Taiwan's Digital Game Rating Committee has recently rated a total of four games for the Nintendo Switch. The first title is The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - which is part of Capcom's Ace Attorney series (you know, Phoenix Wright) and is apparently a two in one release, according to...
"Your parents continue to be disappointed in your life choices"
Believe it or not, but there are some other big releases out on the Switch this week. One is the lewd remaster, Gal*Gun Returns. Obviously, it's a bit out there compared to your average game - this rail shooter requires a young man to fend off prospective lovers with his 'Pheromone...
Review Gal*Gun Returns (Switch) - A Mechanically Basic Yawn-Fest
Absolute pants
Inti Creates' 2011 on-rails ecchi shooter Gal*Gun, a bishōjo game that has only ever seen the light of day in Japan, finally makes its way onto western consoles in this remastered edition that comes complete with dolled-up visuals, full voice-acting and all previously released DLC. But does it improve on the decidedly-average Gal*Gun...
Review Heaven's Vault (Switch) - A Beautifully-Realised Adventure With A Few Technical Quirks
Archaeology, without the guns and whips
Aliya Elasra is not a likeable character. She is cynical, untrustworthy, and as stubborn as a wayward child. She is unpleasant to those who care about her, and as a result, the list is rapidly dwindling. Her mentor at the University of Iox calls her into her office one day and tasks her with finding a missing...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 13th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
With a brand new Mario game, new titles to check out on Switch's NES and SNES apps, and a whole lot of scalper sneakiness going on at McDonald's, it's been another hectic week in the world of Nintendo. Thankfully, it's now time to relax and chat a
Friday12th Feb 2021
Video 11 Great 3DS Games Overshadowed By The Nintendo Switch
Now might be the time to check them out
The 3DS is easily one of the greatest handheld systems Nintendo has ever released, but admittedly it was overshadowed in its later years when the Switch arrived on the scene and games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild became top priority. Our Kong-loving video producer Jon Cartright has taken the...
News Stardew Valley's Version 1.5 Update For Nintendo Switch Is Now Available
Get farming, again
The big moment has finally arrived for console players of the hit game Stardew Valley. Creator, ConcernedApe, has at last rolled out the long-awaited version 1.5 update. "The Stardew Valley 1.5 Update for Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation are out" If you've not been keeping up with our Stardew Valley coverage, version 1.5 contains...
Video Here's Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Looking Stunning In 4K, 60FPS
Switch Pro when?
Last year's release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a bundle including modern re-releases of classic Mario titles to celebrate the franchise's 35th anniversary, has left plenty of us wondering whether Zelda's 35th anniversary – which just so happens to be this year – will receive similar treatment. A package containing remasters...
Review UnderMine (Switch) - A Supremely Refined And Downright Delicious Roguelite
That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
By this point in time, the roguelite genre has become positively saturated in the modern indie scene, spurred on no doubt by key success stories (like Dead Cells) over the last few years. This can be both a good and a bad thing; on one hand, fans of the genre are spoilt for choice when looking for another game to get into,...
Random This Suggestive Bridge Made It To The Switch Version Of Super Mario 3D World
P is stored in the bridge
We've been wondering - does the concept of Not Safe For Work still apply when we're all working from home? If not, then this rather phallic bridge is Perfectly Safe For Work, unless your boss is also in your house. As Twitter user @akfamilyhome discovered (h/t Kotaku), there's a certain bridge in Super Mario 3D World's...
News New Nintendo Adverts Continue To Pretend That Their Own Voice Chat App Doesn't Exist
Honestly, we'd forgotten about it, too
The latest "Nintendo Switch My Way" adverts, which show off Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Party, and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, are part of an ongoing campaign to show a bunch of diverse people playing the Switch in different scenarios. Unlike the recent Super Bowl adver
News Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection Director Finally Reveals The Deal Behind Arthur's Underwear
"On the inside, he gets a little fancy"
It's been 15 years since we last saw a mainline entry, but Ghosts ’n Goblins is making a big comeback in 2021. With just two weeks until Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection launches on Switch, no one could be more thrilled than Tokuro Fujiwara, director of the original game. Having returned to his position f
Poll Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Is Out Today On Switch, Are You Getting It?
Double-dipping? First time? Cast your votes
The latest Wii U port has landed on Switch, and this one's a biggie: the excellent Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is out today. A rerelease of the original Wii U game, but with some subtle yet welcome improvements, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury offers lots of fantastic gameplay for single...
News Bandai Namco Switch Sale Discounts Anime And Arcade Games, JRPGs And More (North America)
Up to 84% off!
Once again, Bandai Namco has kicked off a tasty sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop in North America. With discounts reaching as high as 84%, there's hopefully something for everyone in the full list of discounted titles below. Feel free to click on any game that piques your interest to visit our hub for your chosen title, complete...
News Beep Beep! Taxi Chaos Takes Its Directions From Crazy Taxi, Coming To Switch On February 23rd
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know whatcha got 'til it's gone
Update: Sega has since denied it is involved with Taxi Chaos. Original Story [Fri 12th Feb, 2021 16:30 GMT]: We first covered Taxi Chaos last year, when we said it was a "spiritual successor" to the much-loved Sega classic, Crazy Taxi. It turned out that Taxi Chaos is sort...
News 505 Games Is Publishing Suikoden Successor Eiyuden Chronicle, But A Switch Release Is TBC
"Our team is looking forward to working with 505 Games"
Calling Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes’ Kickstarter campaign successful would be understating matters. A spiritual successor to Konami’s acclaimed JRPG series Suikoden, it reunites the former's key developers and was first revealed back in August. Aiming for $500,000 in crowdfunding,...
News Yooka-Laylee Studio Playtonic Celebrates Six Years In The Biz With New Publishing Label
"Playtonic Friends had been brewing as a serious ambition for a while"
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic turns six this year – and is marking the occasion by showing off a brand-new logo and by launching a new publishing label which aims to bring some of the world's best Indie games to market. Playtonic Friends is the name of the new label, and it...
Another strong month for Switch
Just in case there was any doubt, the Switch is still doing the absolute business when it comes to sales; Nintendo's hybrid machine sold better than its industry rivals to be the best-selling system across the US in January. Not content with simply outselling the PS5 and Xbox Series X, the Switch actually sold more...
News Get Ready To Fight For The Users, Tron Is Coming To Fortnite
Update: Epic Games confirms the “End of Line” collection
Update: Epic Games has confirmed that Tron is indeed coming to Fortnite: In the Tron system, humans found themselves rezzed onto the Grid within a vast digital frontier. Now it’s your time. Grab your Light Suit and gear up as Grid Warriors to embark on a new journey… this time to the...
News Trials Of Mana Has Surpassed One Million Sales Worldwide
"Thank you for your support"
Last April, Square Enix released a remake of Trials of Mana on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. Since then, it has enjoyed ongoing success - with Square Enix today announcing it's now sold more than one million units worldwide. This includes the combined digital and physical amount across Switch,...
News Become A Trading Card Game Master With Pokémon's New Weekly Video Series
Update: Episode 1 and 2 now live!
Update: Episode one is now live! Join Pokémon TCG player Ellis Longhurst in the video below to learn all about building a deck, including a detailed look into which types of cards – and how many of each – you should consider adding to your own creation. Update 2: And episode 2 is also live. Check them both out...
Mini Review NUTS (Switch) - A Relaxing But Repetitive Way To Spend A Few Hours
Furry found footage
With its striking visuals, first-person perspective, and rural setting, you could easily mistake NUTS as a spin-off of the critically acclaimed narrative title Firewatch. Indeed, you spend much of your time free-roaming a woodland area, retreating back to the comfort of your caravan to sleep and chatting to a friendly colleague...
Random Gamers Can Be Pigs, According To Science
Ham they play Porknite though
We know that you spent hours on Wind Waker's Outset Island terrorising the little piggies that roamed freely around the place. We know that you chucked them in the ocean, and off cliffs. We saw everything. Well, the pigs are about to get their revenge, because scientists taught them how to play video games. Scientist...
News Indie Hit Spiritfarer Will Receive Three Major Updates This Year, All For Free
Development roadmap shared
Thunder Lotus Games, developer of last year's wholesome indie hit Spiritfarer, has detailed plans to launch three "major" updates for the game throughout 2021. All three updates will arrive free of charge across all platforms, with spring, summer and autumn release windows currently expected for each update respectively...
News Jack Black Will Voice Claptrap In The Borderlands Movie
Another A-lister joins the cast
Lionsgate's upcoming movie adaptation of the Borderlands series will feature the Tenacious D, School of Rock and Jablinski Games star Jack Black as the talkative Hyperion robot Claptrap. According to Variety, he'll be joined by a bunch of other "A-list" actors including Cate Blanchett (Lilith), Kevin Hart (Roland)...
News Paperball Deluxe Is Like Monkey Ball (With Cats) And It's Rolling Onto Switch This March
Keep on rollin', kitty
A few years ago, Sega revived AiAi and friends in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD. It was slightly better than the Wii version but fell short of being anywhere near as good as the GameCube originals. If you're still in need of a classic Monkey Ball-style gameplay fix, you might want to be on the lookout for Cliax Games'...
News Lonely Mountains: Downhill Is Getting A Physical Edition On Switch
And it goes on sale next week
Thanks to a new partnership deal with Megagon Industries and Thunderful Games, Super Rare Games has announced that it'll be launching a physical edition of Lonely Mountains: Downhill on Nintendo Switch. As is normally the case, this physical release will be a limited affair with just 5,000 copies being printed in...
News Numskull Games Is Bringing RICO London To Switch, Along With Four Other Physical Releases
Battle Axe! Brigandine! Bladed Fury!
Numskull Games is making a name for itself lately in physical games publishing. Having previously broadcast a Nintendo Direct-style showcase back in July 2020, its latest set of reveals has just gone live in today's showcase. We've got new information about five upcoming titles, due to launch in the first half...
News Pokémon HOME Mobile Update Adds Language And Poké Ball Search Filters
Update is only for Android and iOS versions
Pokémon HOME has proven a useful tool for players. Letting you transfer Pokémon between different entries from one central app, a new update has gone live for Android and iOS. If you've been using HOME on Switch, this hasn't been made available yet for console players. Coming in as a quick 63MB update,...
Video Watch Japanese Comedy Duo Yoiko Play Through Bowser's Fury
Bowser's Funny
If our own 10/10 review wasn't enough for you, perhaps Nintendo Japan's video of Bowser's Fury - played by popular comedians Yoiko - will convince you whether or not to buy the game. The 20-minute-long video shows Shinya Arino and Masaru Hamaguchi making their way through various obstacles and battles in the Switch-only expansion for
Set to launch on consoles this May
Most deckbuilding games are about biffing your opponents with various card-based attacks. The Amazing American Circus is instead about impressing your audience with incredible card-based feats of strength, acrobatics, and clownery. Set in a 19th century American circus during the decline of the Wild West, the game...
Thursday11th Feb 2021
News Post Malone To Star In Pokémon 25th Anniversary Virtual Concert
"It’s the concert you never saw coming, Trainers"
The Pokémon Company has announced plans to host a special virtual concert featuring American rapper and songwriter, Post Malone. The show will take place on 7pm ET on 27th February – also known as Pokémon Day, thanks to the release of original games Pokémon Red and Green taking place on that...
News Star Wars: Republic Commando Appears To Be On The Way To Switch
The force is strong with this one
The 2005 LucasArts release Star Wars: Republic Commando appears to be en route to the Nintendo Switch. Well-known dataminer @NWPlayer123 has spotted a Nintendo server update that seemingly confirms Aspyr Media is publishing Republic Commando on the Switch. Aspyr is the same team that has ported across Star Wars:...
News Cyberpunk 2077 And Witcher 3 Source Code Reportedly Being Auctioned After CD Projekt Hack
CD Projekt have refused to meet ransom demands
CD Projekt RED made the news again this week, confirming it had been targeted by a ransomware attack. Gaining access to a large swathe of employee data, this anonymous hacker also threatened to release The Witcher 3, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and
News Among Us Quickens Masahiro Sakurai's Pulse, But He's Not Sure How Long It Will Remain Popular
"It isn't a game that allows you to come up with a clear strategy when playing"
You've likely seen that outside of directing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Masahiro Sakurai writes a regular column for Famitsu. Having previously shared his PlayStation 5 thoughts and calling Cyberpunk 2077 a "
News Pirate RPG King Of Seas Gets Snapped Up By Team17, Switch Release Planned For May 2021
"It’s a fantastic opportunity"
Last summer, we shared the news that Italian developer 3DClouds was working on a brand new pirate-based RPG called King of Seas. The announcement went down a treat, and while the new title missed its initial 2020 release window, a new partnership means the game's in very good hands. Today, the developer has...
Review Hero-U: Rogue To Redemption (Switch) - A Fine Successor To The 'Quest For Glory' Series
So U Want to Be a Hero
23 years have passed since the release of the fifth and final entry in Corey and Lori Ann Cole’s Quest for Glory hybrid adventure/RPG series and now, after two Kickstarter campaigns, the duo has returned with Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. This is a spiritual successor to their classic franchise that manages to harken back to...
News Capcom Reveals Average Completion Time For Monster Hunter Rise Demo Quests
Were you ahead of the pack?
Since Capcom ended the online portion of the Monster Hunter Rise demo, it's been sharing some interesting player stats. Last week, we found out the top three most used weapons (the Long Sword was out in front), and now, in its latest tweet, Capcom has shared the amount of time (on average) it took players to complete the...
News Ubisoft To Show More Love To Free-To-Play Titles Moving Forward
Will continue to compliment "strong" AAA releases and more
In Ubisoft's recent earnings call (where it was revealed the French company was the top third-party publisher on the Nintendo Switch), CFO Frederick Duguet spoke about the changing model of the publisher. It will achieve this by focusing on free-to-play titles and premium experiences...
Random Zelda x Beavis And Butt-Head Is A Mash-Up That Works Better Than You'd Think
"I am the Great Cornholio"
Children of the '90s will no doubt be familiar with the exploits of Beavis and Butt-Head, two rather dim-witted teens who enjoyed amazing success via an MTV series, movie and even a smattering of (mostly bad) video games. If you're one of those '90s kids, then it's fair to say you're also familiar with the Zelda series...
Mini Review PUSS! (Switch) - Strangely Compelling Nightmare Fuel
A whisker away from sadism
Remember that scene in the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where the tour group take a boat ride through a psychedelic tunnel? Remember how utterly terrifying it was (still is)? Now imagine such lunacy applied to an entire video game; that’s pretty much what you get with PUSS! Billed by developer...
News Yuji Naka Is Really Excited For 2022's Sonic Movie Sequel
"As expected Tails is going to appear now"
It's been 15 years since Yuji Naka last anything to do with a Sonic the Hedgehog game. Having worked as the lead programmer on Sonic's original adventure, he left Sega in 2006 – not long after producing Sonic Riders – and since then, he's more recently popped up with Balan Wonderworld
Video How Pokémon Snap Replaced Its Blockbuster Collaboration On Wii & Wii U
Next slide please, professor
With New Pokémon Snap on the horizon, we can be sure many of you are itching to share the various photos you take around the new Lental region, but things weren't always so simple in the olden days. The original Pokémon Snap had quite a marketing campaign when it launched in 1999; in collaboration with Blockbuster...
Nintendo Download 11th February (North America)
Bowser's Fury, Little Nightmares II & UnderMine
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! Switch eShop - Highlights: Super Mario 3D World +...
News Clueless About Your Switch? Nintendo Is Offering A Free "Concierge" Service For New Owners
Only in North America, though
Considering the Switch has sold nearly 80 million units, it's not a stretch to believe some players aren't making full use of it. If you're not so acquainted with modern gaming, Nintendo has now launched a new service designed to make your life easier. Calling this the "Nintendo Switch Concierge" program – currently...
News Vivid Story-Driven RPG VED Is Coming To Switch In 2022
Right said VED
Fans of story-driven RPGs might want to add VED from developer 1C Entertainment on to their watch list. It's going to be a bit of a wait for the to land on the Switch (and other platforms) however, it's slated to arrive sometime in 2022. In VED, you take the role of Kir, a young hero who comes to the city of Micropole in search of a...
Nintendo Download 11th February (Europe)
Mario 3D World! Little Nightmares II! Gal*Gun Returns!
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 eShop - New Releases: Gal*Gun Returns...
Japanese Charts Momotaro Dentetsu Stays On Top For A 12th Consecutive Week
Runaway train
Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 7th February, revealing that – yes – Momotaro Dentetsu is still top of the pile. The railroad sim has sat in first place each and every week since it launched in mid-November, comfortably outselling Nintendo's evergreen titles as it dominates proceedings. If you'd...
News Say Your Prayers As The Shovel Knight-Style Cathedral Launches On Switch This Month
Pre-order now for a 20% discount
You may recall back in September, we held our first ever Nintendo Life Indie Spotlight, announcing brand new games coming to Switch. Among this lineup was Cathedral, a promising 2D retro-styled Metroidvania from Decemberborn Interactive, remi
News Konami Shmup Thunder Cross Joins The Arcade Archives This Week
Take to the skies
This week's Arcade Archives release is the 1988 Konami side-scrolling shoot 'em up, Thunder Cross. As the player, you'll take control of the "Blue Thunder M-45" and fight against the Mechanikon hordes. Multiple versions of the game are in this release - including the "Old Japanese Version" and the "New Japanese Version" - both...
Video Bravely Default II Gets New Battle Trailer Ahead Of This Month's Launch
Learn all about 'Brave' and 'Default'
With just a couple of weeks remaining until Bravely Default II arrives on Switch, Nintendo has dropped a new trailer exploring the game's battle mechanics. You can check it out for yourself above; you'll not only be taught about certain battle features like 'Brave' and 'Default', but you'll also get to see a...
Wednesday10th Feb 2021
Review Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch) - A Superb Mario Adventure With A Bowser Bonus
Meow that's what we call value
Well, it’s finally here. The 35th anniversary of Mario may soon be ending with a Thanos-style snap of the fingers for Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Super Mario Bros. 35, but before we mourn them, Nintendo has one final release to celebrate the big three-five, and this one’s sticking around for good. Super Mario 3D...
News Nintendo Expands Its Switch Online SNES And NES Service With Four More Titles
Arriving next week
Nintendo has just announced the first batch of SNES and NES games coming to the Switch Online service. All up, we've got a total of four releases. On SNES, we've got Telenet's 2D action-platformer from 1992, Psycho Dream. This game was also exclusive to the Japanese market. In addition to this, is Doomsday Warrior from the same...
Random Fill Out A Survey About Your Animal Crossing Habits For A Chance To Win A Switch Game
And to help science, obviously
Anyone who's been to university will probably remember their final projects as a time of huge stress and lots of book-reading, in a frantic attempt to prove whatever thesis you pitched several months beforehand. Turns out, we could have been studying Animal Crossing, like final-year Psychology student Sam Davern, who...
News The Konami Code Unlocks A Hidden Castlevania Tribute In Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
Taking us back to 1986
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has witnessed significant post-launch support since arriving in 2019. It's most recent update was rather hefty, bringing us a crossover with Kingdom: Two Crowns alongside Classic Mode, the latter featuring an 8-bit retro aesthetic
News Nintendo Registers New Trademark For The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Is it time to set sail again?
There's been a lot of talk about Nintendo potentially re-releasing a bunch of Link's older games in an All-Star style collection similar to the Mario one released last year, but Nintendo itself hasn't actually said a thing just yet about what it has planned for Zelda's big anniversary. Now though, we do have some news...
News Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Sequel Gets Official Name Reveal Trailer
2022 release date planned
The first visual tease for the upcoming Sonic movie sequel has dropped, revealing the official name for the new film: Sonic the Hedgehog 2. How did they come up with that? Yes, the ten-second clip above showcases the new film's name and logo, while confirming that the planned 8th April 2022 release date is still very much...
Round Up The Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Reviews Are In
Is it any good?
This Friday, 12th February, sees the launch of Mario's latest adventure on Nintendo Switch. Well... kind of. Yes, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, a rerelease of the Wii U original with some shiny new bells and whistles, is just days away from launch. You may well have spotted that we've already shared our review of the game,...
News As Switch Hits The "Middle Of Its Life Cycle", Nintendo Is Confident It Will Overtake The Wii
"We are aiming to continue this momentum"
Saying Nintendo did well last year would be putting things mildly. Having reached just under 80 million Switch sales, the Japanese company revised its expected profits to $5.34 billion and there's been talk about "
Random The Pokémon Company Forgot What A Magnemite Looked Like, And It's Really Sorry
Time to sort out Magneright from Magnewrong
Okay, okay, we're just speculating, but The Pokémon Company's latest Muk-up is a Magnemite oversight that might be worth something some day (h/t Kotaku). See, it turns out that Magnemite should look like this (helpful red circle added by TPC themselves): But the plushie looks like this: You see?!...
News Shin Megami Tensei II Is Being Added To Japan's NSO Super Famicom Collection
Experience the second entry in Atlus' RPG series
As usual, Japan's monthly lineup of Switch Online offerings are slightly different from the west. The titles for Japan in February include Psycho Dream, Mario's Super Picross (already available in the west), Solomon's Key 2 (Fire 'n Ice) and the highlight of the lot is Atlus' 1994 Super Famicom JRPG,...
Random Fan-Made Mod Brings Among Us To Super Smash Bros.
Complete with mock reveal trailer
With several DLC fighters still to be confirmed, plenty of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans will still be hopeful that their favourite characters are about to make the cut. With internet sensation Among Us selling so well on Switch, could one of the game's crewmates be a genuine contender? YouTube user
News Former Nintendo Employee Howard Phillips Is Launching A "Tell-All" Book About The Company
And "Brawl In The Family" artist Matthew Taranto is involved, too
Retro fans will likely remember Howard "Gamemaster" Phillips. Having worked for Nintendo of America between 1981-1991, he became their spokesperson and was widely known for his vast knowledge of NES games. Now, he's back with a new book, launching Gamemaster Classified: An Insider's...
News Nintendo Shares Printable Animal Crossing Birthday Calendar For 2021 (North America)
Grab a free PDF
If you're looking for a way to keep track of all your favourite Animal Crossing characters' birthdays – or you're just wanting a free calendar and don't mind looking at a load of animal faces each morning – you'll want to jump on this new listing on the My Nintendo website. Available for just 80 Platinum Points (which can easily...
Random Tommy And Timmy Get Turned Into Slippers In This Animal Crossing Loungewear Collection
Once again, it's Japan-only. Come on!
We want to wear fluffy Nook pyjamas. We want to have a big Tommy/Timmy pillow to squeeze when times are hard. But, alas, we will not get the chance, for loungewear brand Gelato Pique is only releasing their new Animal Crossing: New Horizons collab in Japan. The collection was first released last year, with...
Already took great effort to get it running on X1 and PS4
Hazelight Studios founder, Josef Fares - who once famously got up on stage at The Game Awards and told The Oscars where to go, has recently been asked about the possibility of a Nintendo Switch version of his company's upcoming co-op adventure It Takes Two. In case you have been wondering...
News Pokémon Combats Scalpers By Promising To Print More Trading Cards
"We are maximizing production"
Pokémon Trading Card Game players have been having a tough time tracking down the latest cards over recent months, with scalpers and internet personalities choosing to buy stock in bulk to make quick – and sometimes crazy – profits by selling on rare cards. Thankfully, The Pokémon Company appears to be on the...
News #DRIVE Is A Gorgeous Endless-Driver Game Inspired By '80s Action Films
And it's coming to Switch next week
Racing onto the Nintendo Switch eShop next week is #DRIVE, an endless driver game inspired by road and action movies from the '70s and '80s. The game has you selecting a car and place before simply hitting the road – just "try not to hit anything else," the press release says. Each stage you play on will offer...
News Sonic Movie Voice Actor Says Sequel Script Is "Awesome", Hasn't Been Asked To Voice Any Games
Filming starts "soon"
There's a lot going on in the world of Sonic right now. A second film, serving as a sequel to last year's movie, is now in the works for a 2022 release – in fact, an official name reveal arrived earlier today – and it was also recently confirmed that Sonic's voice actor in video games, Roger Craig Smith, would no longer...
News Ubisoft Leads As The Top Third-Party Publisher On Switch In 2020
"Reaping the benefits of the Switch's huge success"
Ubisoft may not have collaborated with Nintendo since Starlink: Battle for Atlas but in its latest quarterly financial report it has revealed once again that it's the top third-party publisher on the Switch. This sales success has been driven by games such as Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle and...
News Solve Space Mysteries In Outer Worlds' First Expansion, Now On Switch
Pew pew! Pew pew pew!
It's almost Valentine's Day, and you know what that means: time to beat up monsters in space. For love. Or maybe just for new, shiny armour. The Outer Worlds, which came to the Nintendo Switch last summer, is getting its first of two narrative expansions: Peril on Gorgon. The story begins with a message summoning you to the...
News Fight To Become The Coin King In Super Mario Bros. 35's Next Event
Goes live on February 12th
The clock is ticking for Super Mario Bros. 35, but before it gets delisted on March 31st, Nintendo is keeping players busy. Recently tasking us with killing Bowser 3.5 million times – which feels excessive by most counts – we've received details about this week's new
News Smash Bros. Ultimate's Sharpening Its Claws For Its Next Spirit Board Event
Clawing us back
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's weekly rotation isn't slowing down yet for 2021. We got a Spirit Board event two weeks back based around the colour yellow, and last week offered a "Going Ballistic" tournament for projectile users only. This week, we're bac
News Untangle A Puzzling World When Harmony's Odyssey Lands On Switch Later This Year
Put on your best witches’ hat
If you are a fan of adventure puzzle games, then MythicOwl's Harmony’s Odyssey will likely be right up your street. In the game, the modern world (as we know it, at least) mingles with mythology and comedy. Let's find out a bit more about this interesting title from the developer: Welcome to a place where...
News Get Radical As Skate City Flips And Grinds Onto Switch Soon
Totally tubular
Publisher Snowman recently brought the rather lovely The Alto Collection to the Switch eShop after enjoying great popularity on smart devices. Next up is the totally radical Skate City, which aims to capture the heart and soul of street skating in an authentic light. In the game, players will have the opportunity to explore four...
Random This Minecraft Recreation Of "Still Alive" Is Packed With Portal Easter Eggs
This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: Huge Success.
We may never get Portal on the Switch. The port is a lie, and all that. But we can attempt to recreate at least some of the joy of throwing sentient (?) cubes into lava and overthrowing a megalomaniacal robot lady in Minecraft in the meantime. Reddit user minoan8128 has been posting their...
News Combine-'Em-Up Doodle Devil 3volution Brings Hell To Switch This March
Satan + Switch = ?
You might remember Doodle Devil (and its sister game, Doodle God) as a game that came out on phones back when smartphone games were relatively new and exciting. In both games, combining elements (Air, Water) will create new ones (Steam) which can then be used to perform ever-increasing numbers of combinations, with results that...
Tuesday9th Feb 2021
Random Breath Of The Wild's Secret Debug Room Is Full Of Weapons, Frogs, And A Bull In A Box
The boss is a Very Large Bug
We've covered modder Waikuteru a fair... few... times... here on Nintendo Life, and that's largely because the mods they make and the secrets they discov
Rumour Updated Art In New Fire Emblem Trailer Sparks Hope For Three Houses News
Edelgard SMILING?! Must be a mistake
Eagle-eyed fans of Fire Emblem on Reddit and Twitter have noticed a potential leak of new Fire Emblem: Three Houses art that may or may not come from a new game - or an updated version of the current one. In the recent video, "Fire Emblem Castle Conversations", made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the...
News Scalpers And Collectors Buy Up McDonald's Pokémon Happy Meals
Like stealing burgers from a baby
This is why we can't have anything nice. Kids across the US are unable to get their hands on any of the 50 Pokémon cards included in McDonald's Happy Meals this month to celebrate Pokémon's 25th anniversary, since eBay scalpers have been buying up the packs in bulk. Since some of the cards are rare holographic...
Review Persona 5 Strikers (Switch) - Much More Than Your Average Musou Spin-Off
Screwball Scramble
Persona 5 Strikers, otherwise known as Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers in Japan, finally blasts its way onto Switch consoles in the west and, if you were expecting this Atlus/Koei Tecmo crossover to be a straight-up Musou style spin-off, a Dynasty Warriors-esque effort with a fancy Persona skin hastily slapped on top,...
News It's "Plausible" The CD Projekt Server Hack Was An Inside Job, Claims Digital Privacy Expert
"They run a real risk that those games will be leaked online"
Earlier today, Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red revealed that it had become the target of a ransomware attack. The studio posted the news online, publicly sharing a ransom note said to be left by a hacker which claimed that the source code for some of its top...
Review Little Nightmares II (Switch) - A Spooky Platformer Dripping With Tension And Dread
Sweet dreams are made of this
Ever been somewhere you know you shouldn’t? Fear and curiosity can entwine themselves into intoxicating shapes, dancing in your guts as you push ever forward into the dark, knowing that the consequences of your being discovered will most likely be dire and terrible? That’s what Little Nightmares II goes for, and it...
News Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Hits Nintendo Switch This March
"It's a big undertaking"
After rumours and reports, it's finally official – Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is coming to Switch this year. The game will release on March 12th, 2021, and will cost $39.99 in North America. Our friends over at
Random Super Mario 64 Gets A Ray Tracing Makeover Thanks To Fan Mod
Fan support continues on
You may recall that before Super Mario 3D All-Stars was formally announced, Super Mario 64's source code was reverse engineered and released on PC. Offering greater modding possibilities than emulation for the platforming classic, naturally, Nintendo tried shutting this down.
Hands On We've Played Bravely Default II On Switch, And Here's What We Think So Far
Classic gameplay meets classic grind
The original Bravely Default launched during a time where it felt like everyone had moved on past the tried and true turn-based RPG. Even the king of the formula, Square-Enix, seemed like it had given up on the genre as it had been (unfortunately) pouring its everything into the action RPG, Final Fantasy XIII,...
News Monster Hunter Rise Producer Says You'll Have To "Get Used" To The New Wirebug Feature
"It'll take some time"
We're over a month away from Monster Hunter Rise and – though the demo was recently removed from the Switch eShop – Capcom has been in full swing promoting its latest entry. Despite a mostly positive reception, a few
Random Oops, Super Nintendo World's Cactus Seems To Be Lifted From A Fan-Made Game
Comes from the "Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii" mod
Super Nintendo World's opening may have been recently delayed but – when the pandemic is over – we'll be excited to see it in person. Understandably, fans have been pouring over the details provided and one has made a more unusual discovery: the theme park's cactus design is slightly off. Taking...
News Switch Owners Can Soon Play Overcooked 2 In Its Entirety For Free (For A Limited Time)
Update: Confirmed for NA and Europe
Update: Good news, folks! The Free Trial for Overcooked 2 has now also been confirmed for North America! Original Article (Mon 8th Feb, 2021 15:45 GMT): Nintendo is giving Switch owners the chance to check out the wonderful Overcooked 2 in its entirety for free later this week. Team17's crazy, chaotic, co-op...
News Pillars Of Eternity Will Get No More Patches On Switch, Despite Unresolved Issues
Publisher blames the hardware
In a statement on Twitter today, Versus Evil, the publisher of the Switch port of Pillars of Eternity, stated that the game would not receive any more patches, as they have "reached a limit on what we can do with our updates". " have exhausted the options left to us from the PC original in regards to the limitations of...
News Nintendo Executive Blocked Remake Of GoldenEye 007, Says Former Rare Dev
There was "one guy" who didn't approve of it
It was a rather historic moment in the history of video games last week when Rare's cancelled XBLA remake / remaster of GoldenEye 007 was leaked onto the internet. The game nobody thought would see the light of day was finally released, even if it wasn't official. Following this, discussions immediately...
News Violent Fantasy Football Game Blood Bowl 3 Arrives On Switch This August
"Funnier, bloodier, and more spectacular"
During Gamescom last year, Nacon and Cyanide Studios announced Blood Bowl 3 would be released on Nintendo Switch. This is the third entry in the violent turn-based strategy series that takes place within the Warhammer Fantasy universe (and is based on the fantasy football board game of the same name). To...
News CD Projekt's Servers Have Been Hacked, Data Leak Threatened In Ransomware Attack
Hackers claim access to Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 source code
Cyberpunk 2077 didn't arrive on Switch, but you've likely seen the troubled launch it went through back in December. Opinions on the game aside, it's been a difficult state of affairs for CD Projekt RED ever since, which has come under investigation by the Polish Government. Adding...
News Try To Act Surprised, The Nintendo Switch Conquered Europe In 2020
Nintendo led the charge in both hardware and software
Listen, we get it – the Switch is doing incredible business right now. Nintendo's system took the crown in North America, Japan and the UK, and we've now had confirmation that it was top dog i
Video Nintendo Shares Bowser’s Fury Co-Op Gameplay Footage Ahead Of This Week's Launch
Three days to go!
If you've been wanting to see how Super Mario 3D World's new Bowser’s Fury mode will play in co-op mode, you're certainly in luck, as Nintendo has shared a video exploring exactly that. Handy. In the video above, Nintendo Minute's Kit and Krysta jump straight into some Bowser's Fury multiplayer action, with one player...
Video Strap Yourself In For This Action-Packed R-Type Final 2 Gameplay Trailer
Blasting onto Switch this April
NIS America has shared a brand new gameplay trailer for R-Type Final 2, the return of the classic side-scroller that's planned to launch on Nintendo Switch and other systems this April. The video, which you can check out in full above, shows off some of the ship customisation options you'll be able to play around...
Random No, This Isn't A New Colour Of Famicom - It's Just Really Dirty
The years have not been kind to these bits of plastic
This image could be a PSA warning about the dangers of smoking... at least when it comes to your consoles. In a tweet by @arare_wansaka, these two consoles - a Famicom and a Super Famicom - look like a rare colour variant, with the more common white, grey, and red plastic replaced with a sexy...
News To The Moon Gets Physical Version On Switch Ahead Of Sequel's Summer Release
Dream a little dream of me
To The Moon has no tagline, but we would like to formally propose - ten years after its initial release - that they go with "Lie Down, Try Not To Cry, Cry A Lot". It may not be original, but it's certainly a good way to describe how you'll be feeling after finishing the game. With a soundtrack to cry for and a...
News ZA/UM Talks About Disco Elysium's Big 'Final Cut' Update Ahead Of Its Summer Switch Release
In case 2020 wasn't quite enough politics for you
Disco Elysium, the intensely complex political-supernatural-murder-mystery-thriller-detective novel-RPG that's clearly quite hard to put in any one genre category, has been out on PC since 2019. It's due to hit PS4 and PS5 in March, and the Nintendo Switch some time this summer. For those who haven't...
Video Story Of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town Gameplay Features Trailer
Start your farm life next month
Apart from Monster Hunter Rise, one other game we're rather excited for in the month of March is Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. It's out next month on 23rd March, and to help build some excitement, Nintendo has published a video of all the gameplay features into a single trailer. As previously noted, if...
News Moving Out Gets A Tropical Paradise DLC Update On 25th February
"Get those bags packed and ready"
Team17 and SMG Studio have announced Moving Out will be receiving some brand new paid DLC on 25th February. It's called "Movers in Paradise" and contains 14 new story levels, four new movers and 10 new arcade levels. So get those "bags packed and ready" because paradise awaits. While you will be required to pay...
News Pokémon World Championships Pushed Back To 2022, Will Still Take Place In London
2020 invites remain valid for 2022
The Pokémon Company has announced that the next Pokémon World Championships event will now be held in 2022. The event, which was been delayed since 2020, will still take place in London, UK as planned. The Pokémon Company says it has made the "difficult decision" to move the event to 2022 following "careful...
Monday8th Feb 2021
News Unseen E3 2006 Demo Footage Showcases Early Gameplay For Super Mario Galaxy And More
Wii Series was also prominently featured
E3 2006 was a big event for Nintendo. Having formally revealed its GameCube successor in 2005 under codename "Revolution", E3 marked the first time press were formally allowed to try the Nintendo Wii. If you were ever curious to see how that looked, several videos have now made their way online. Released by...
News Ubisoft And Warner Bros Are Holding Valentine's Day Sales On Switch (North America)
Can you feel the sale tonight?
Valentine's Day is slowly approaching, and whilst Haven has its own steamy plans for Switch, publishers can never resist a good sale opportunity. Both Warner Bros and Ubisoft have begun their own Valentine's themed sales in North America, though these aren't what we'd consider particularly romantic games. Warner Bros...
News Pokémon Rumble Developer Ambrella Has Been Acquired And Dissolved By Creatures Inc.
What's next for the series?
Ambrella, the Japanese studio behind a number of spin-off Pokémon titles, has been fully acquired by Creatures Inc., it's been confirmed. Pokémon fans will know Ambrella for its work on the Pokémon Rumble series, GameCube's Pokémon Channel, and N64's Hey You, Pikachu! among other titles in the franchise, but 2019's...
News Street Fighter II Turned 30 At The Weekend
Go home and be a middle-aged family man
Capcom's seminal Street Fighter II turned 30 last weekend – a fact that makes us feel very, very old indeed. Originally launched in arcades on February 6th, 1991, the game triggered a flood of imitators throughout the early part of the decade, and spawned several 'update' variants in the form of Street...
News Nintendo Celebrates Fire Emblem’s 30th Anniversary With Special Voice Actor Interviews
Update: The video is now live!
Update: And the video is now live! The whole thing is just over an hour long, so make sure to get yourself comfy or pop back and visit us again when you have the time. For details on what you can expect to see, check out our original article below. Original Article (Thu 4th Feb, 2021 16:30 GMT): Nintendo has...
News Yooka-Laylee Developer Playtonic Games Teases New Reveal Coming "Soon"
"We know you're wondering what we have cooking"
Playtonic Games, the UK-based developer behind Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, has teased a new reveal that should be headed our way "soon". The studio took to social media today to offer some kind words to fans and to promise that a reveal is on the way. "We'd like to give...
News You Can Now Buy A Gigantamax Meowth Plush, And It's Over Five Feet Long
Wanna guess how much it costs?
There are Pokémon plushes, and then there are Pokémon plushes. That's right, catering for that very specific market who have the space, desire, and funds to buy the longest Meowth plush known to humankind, the Pokémon Center website is now offering a brand new 'Gigantamax Meowth Poké Plush'. It's 65 inches in...
News Silent Hill, Gradius And Contra Composer Akira Yamaoka Teases New Project
Update: Konami states it did not ask for interview to be taken down
Update: A Konami spokesperson has issued a statement making it clear that the company was not behind the request made to Al Hub to remove the Akira Yamaoka interview. Given that he's not a Konami employee, you could say the statement makes it unlikely that Yamaoka's next project is...
News Jackbox Games Want To Make Its Party Packs Easier To Play Remotely
Ain't no party like a Jackbox Party
It's no secret that gaming has seen a significant boost thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and Jackbox Party – now spanning seven entries, all of which are available on Switch – has been one of the many beneficiaries. Initially designed as a local experience to be played off your phone, 2020 saw record...
News Full First Edition Pokémon TCG Set Smashes Another Record At Auction
A new record has been set after nearly three weeks
We don't know how this keeps happening with Pokémon cards. Records were already set pretty high back in January when a rare Blastoise card and first edition Trading Card Game box sold for $360k and $408k respectively. It's only been a few weeks since that happened and once again, another record has...
UK Charts Animal Crossing Stays Top With Mario Kart And Ring Fit Adventure Close Behind
Another solid week for Nintendo
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 6th February, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has managed to stay on top. Enjoying a return to form following a single-week drop down the pecking order last month, New Horizons managed to fend off Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for this week's honours. The two...
News Bandai Namco Appoints New President, Will Begin Division Restructure This April
Toy and game divisions are being merged into one unit
We're witnessing some significant changes across existing publishers lately. After Konami clarified its restructuring plans two weeks ago and Sega revealed it will be splitting up its divisions, changes are afoot at Bandai Namco, too. Announced within its latest finan
News Mask Of The Rose Launches Kickstarter, Gets 50% Funded In Two Hours
A murder of crows, and also of people
Failbetter Games, the developer behind Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, and long-time fans of placing scary adjectives next to big places, launched their newest Kickstarter today to fund Mask of the Rose, an upcoming romantic visual novel about "love, mystery, the restructuring of society after...
News Surreal Avoid-'Em-Up PUSS! Comes To Switch On February 19th
Cats, glitches, and eyeball-searing colours
WARNING: This game trailer contains flashing graphics that could potentially trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. If you enjoyed the nail-biting Super Hexagon, a game where you have to dodge walls while terrifying rhythmic chiptunes pulse in your ears, then PUSS! will probably grab...
Sunday7th Feb 2021
Soapbox Super Mario 3D World Is The Closest To A Super Mario Bros. 2 Sequel We'll Ever Get
Sub-consciously influenced
Soapbox features enable our individual writers to voice their own opinions on hot games, trends and topics — opinions that may not necessarily be the voice of the site. In this piece, Jon Irwin discusses how Nintendo seems reluctant to return to the mechanics of Super Mario Bros. 2... When Super Mario 3D World first...
News Will You Be Clearing Up Some Space For The Switch Version Of Apex Legends?
File size detailed
One of the bigger games arriving on the Nintendo Switch next month is Apex Legends by EA and Respawn Entertainment. This team-based battle royale shooter doesn't cut corners - bringing the "full-featured" experience to Nintendo's hybrid system. According to Respawn, port specialist Panic Button (Rocket League, DOOM Eternal)
News Platinum Seems To Have Explained Why It's So Quiet About Bayonetta 3
Doesn't have "much say" over projects it's not publishing
In the same interview with VGC the other week, PlatinumGames' co-founders Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya used the company's upcoming self-published title Project G.G. to seemingly touch on why it's been so quiet about certain other releases. With these other games - like Bayonetta 3, for...
Don't miss it
Listen up, American and Canadian Pokémon trainers - if you play Pokémon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch, it seems you'll soon be able to claim a free Shiny Toxtricity in your copy of the game. Serebii.net reports signage across stores in the US and Canada are popping up, which reveals this event will be getting underway on...
News Select Arcade Archives Games Are Currently On Sale On The Switch eShop
Get 'em while you can
If you feel like some retro gaming action this weekend, there's currently a sale taking place on the Switch eShop (in both North America and Europe) that features a number of Hamster's Arcade Archives releases. There are SNK Neo Geo games along with some standard Arcade Archive classics. Each one will set you back $3.99 /...
Feature Curse Of The Dead Gods Devs On Early Access, Switch Challenges, And Hades Comparisons
"One can only be flattered by such a comparison"
Fans of the roguelike and roguelite genre have had some real gems to enjoy over the last couple of years, with excellent games like Dead Cells and last year's award-sweeping Hades serving up some incredibly satisfying run-based dungeon-crawling on Switch.
Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel #77 - Super Mario 64 DS
Where's my DS wrist strap thumb nub thing?
Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, our poll series to find out which of two or more regional retro box art variants is the most pleasing to our modern sensibilities. Last time we observed SNES brawler Final Fight 3 as it engaged in a fierce duel between East and West. It seems that ganging up was a smart plan...
Featuring interviews with Reggie, Phil Spencer and more
Streaming service Crackle will premiere a five-part documentary series Playing with Power: The Nintendo Story on 1st March. According to Deadline, this series has been written and directed by Jeremy Snead and executive produced (and narrated, for that matter) by Sean Astin (aka Samwise from...
Saturday6th Feb 2021
News Limited-Time Pokémon Sword And Shield Distribution Offers Players A Rare Evolution Item
You have less than 24 hours to claim it
This little fella will be undergoing some mighty changes... Update 2: Following the delay mentioned below, the distribution of the Galarica Wreath – an item necessary to evolve a Galarian Slowpoke into a Galarian Slowking – is now live in Pokémon Sword and Shield for a very limited time. You can get the...
News Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Leaked Online A Week Before Launch
Bowser won't be happy!
Oh no, according to certain parts of the internet, the street date for Nintendo's upcoming Switch release Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has been broken one week out from the game's official release. On top of that, it's also been leaked online! While it is not entirely clear at this point how it all started, a thread...
News Get Ready For More Remasters From Activision Blizzard In 2021
What might be making a comeback?
Video game powerhouse Activision Blizzard has been banking big bucks for some time now thanks to a number of remasters. We've seen the return of IP like Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater from Activision's side, while Blizzard has chipped in with titles such as Warcraft III: Reforged - that one obviously...
Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
One of the coolest aspects of the Metroid series – in particular the Prime trilogy – is the Morph Ball ability. Curling up into a literal ball and using its momentum to reach new places is a consistently unique and fun way to traverse the world. Glyph takes this concept and applies it to an entire...
News Mike Pollock Will Continue To Voice Dr. Eggman In The Sonic Video Games
"You've not yet heard the last of me"
Day after day this week, Sonic the Hedgehog voice actors have been announcing they're moving on from the series. One fan favourite, Mike Pollock - who does the voice of Sonic's antagonist Dr. Eggman - has taken to Twitter to confirm he won't be going anywhere. In other words, he's staying on with Sega to...
News Nintendo's Paper Mario Series Is Now 20 Years Old
Happy anniversary!
This week marks the 20th anniversary of Paper Mario in North America. Yep, the original Nintendo 64 Mario RPG was first released in this region on 5th February 2001. This also marks 20 years - in general - since the series started out. To celebrate this special occasion, Nintendo of America has shared the following tweet, asking...
Soapbox Time Loop Games Are Strangely Comforting In Times Like These
Every day feels the same, so let's play games where every day IS the same
Right at the end of last year, Natasha Lyonne — star of Groundhog Day-inspired TV show, Russian Doll which sees her character Nadia (a software developer, no less) stuck repeating the same night over and over again — shared a tweet that made everyone collectively start...
Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 6th)
Here are our picks, but what are yours?
With yet another week behind us, this time bringing news that Nintendo is finally updating its multiplayer server system and a pretty bare-looking 2021 release schedule, it's time to sit back, relax, and chat about our weekend gaming plans. Members of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so f
Friday5th Feb 2021
Guide Every 2D Super Mario Game Ranked
As rated by you
With the imminent release of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury on Switch, and the Super Mario 35th anniversary celebrations drawing to a close in a matter of weeks, we thought it was about time we tried putting all of Mario's original 2D platforming adventures into some kind of order. We've previously looked at each and every...
News Nintendo Is "Rigorously Responding" To Demand For Multiple Switch Consoles Per Household
Investors believe the Switch could overtake the Wii's lifetimes sales
We've gotten a few pieces of information about Nintendo's recent financial results this week. Having published 2020's nine month figures on Monday, the Q&A session between Nintendo President Shuntaro Furakawa and numerous investors has also been released. It's brought up...
Random Dataminers Use Original Uncompressed Samples To Restore Super Mario World's Soundtrack
And it sounds glorious!
The Super Nintendo game Super Mario World is already amazing, but what might have changed if there were no file size limitations back then? For starters, the iconic music might have been even better. The truth is, we've been listening to "heavily compressed" music in this game for many years now. Today, though, we can...
News Resident Evil Returns To The Big Screen On September 3rd
Upcoming reboot takes us back to Raccoon City
Capcom might be busy preparing Resident Evil Village, but it isn't letting up with its adaptations. We were made aware of plans for Netflix series Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness back in September and now, Sony Pict
News Sonic's Voice Actor From Sonic Adventure Has Already Contacted Sega About A Possible Return
"We'll see what happens"
Last week, Roger Craig Smith - the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog for over ten years - announced his departure from the role. It's obviously raised discussion about who the next Sonic voice actor could be. A lot of long-time fans have even called for past Sonic the Hedgehog voice actors to return and well, it looks like one,...
News Nintendo Will Discuss Upcoming Switch Games "At The Appropriate Time"
But we can expect "a variety of software titles"
No one can deny Nintendo's had a hugely successful 2020. With operating profits up by 98%, Animal Crossing: New Horizons reaching 31 million sales and an
News The "Relaxing" RPG Littlewood Is Making Its Big Debut On Switch Later This Month
Discover what happens after you save the world
Towards the end of 2019, we found out indie developer Sean Young would be bringing his "relaxing" RPG Littlewood to the Nintendo Switch. It's inspired by the likes of Animal Crossing and Dark Cloud. In this one, the "world has already been saved" and now you must rebuild your town, learn new hobbies,...
Video Someone Finally Managed To Hit Every Smash Bros. Melee Credit
It only took 20 years
Have you ever tried to shoot all 190 names in Super Smash Bros. Melee credits sequence? Haven't we all. Apparently, up until a few days ago, nobody had ever got a perfect run. Now, though, one guy by the name of Martin Zarate has achieved this seemingly impossible feat (see 0:00 - 1:20 in the video above). Speaking to...
News Haven Gets Gorgeous (And Raunchy) Launch Trailer
Lovers in a dangerous spacetime
Haven's new launch trailer is surprising from the very first second, in which the ESRB rating states that the game contains "nudity, sexual content, use of drug and alcohol, and violence". Now, the violence we knew about - it's an RPG with combat, after all - but nudity?! Goodness. (We can't actually post the trailer...
News Activision Blizzard Says Overwatch 2 Won't Be Released This Year
But the world needs heroes
Activision Blizzard has confirmed the sequel to the team-based shooter Overwatch will not be arriving this year. This announcement was made by the company's chief financial officer and president of emerging businesses, Dennis M. Durkin, during the fourth-quarter earnings call. "Our outlook does not include Diablo IV or...
Review Project Starship X (Switch) - An Unconventional Shmup That's Full Of New Ideas
X marks the spot
Just as we tend to approach games that try to hammer the shoot-em-up into a new mould with an air of caution, Project Starship X, in fact, starts with a caution. And it’s necessary. We fired it up in a dark room and, ten seconds into the first stage, just as hell broke loose, the cat sat on the TV remote. The volume went so...
News Ori Director Apologises For Previous Criticism Of Fable, No Man's Sky And Cyberpunk Developers
"I realize I wasn't thoughtful in the way I presented my thoughts"
Thomas Mahler's been making the news this week. The Game Director for Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps offered some strong criticisms of "snake oil salesmen" on Wednesday via
News Nintendo's Real-Life Animal Crossing Dodo Airlines Collection Is A Thing Of Beauty
And the official Nook Inc jacket is available, too!
T-shirts and jumpers featuring our favourite gaming characters are always cool, but nothing quite compares to official clothing based on actual, in-game designs. Nintendo currently has a collection of items for sale on its official US website based on clothing found inside Animal Crossing: New...
Video Super Mario 3D Land Deserves to Be Remembered
It's like Mario's jumping right at me
There's understandably a spotlight on Super Mario 3D World with its impending Switch port but we shouldn't forget what came before. 3D Land may be the better selling game but it simply doesn't have the same prominence in conversation and is largely seen as the lesser of the two. We're not here to compare them...
News More Pokémon Journeys Episodes Arrive On Netflix Next Month (US)
The season finale!
The Pokémon Company has announced that the next batch of Pokémon Journeys episodes will be landing on Netflix next month in the US. The new episodes will debut on the streaming service on 5th March, as revealed in the tweet below. Serebii reports that these episodes will be the final batch for the current season – although,...
News The Cat Mario Show Is Back, Showing Off Bowser's Fury (And BIG Cat Mario)
Nya!
In a new video posted on the Nintendo Japan YouTube channel, Neko Mario and Neko Peach are back as the hosts of the much-loved Cat Mario Show, or "Nyan Nyan! Neko Mario Time", as it's known in Japan. In the video, the feline forms of Mario and Peach discuss their new amiibo, and what they add to Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. You can...
Gallery Geeks Line's NES/Famicom Anthology Is The Most Exhaustive Look At The Console Yet
No stone left unturned
French publisher Geeks Line is no stranger to a good book – it has already given us the superb N64, SNES and GameCube anthologies – and it's rounding off this Nintendo-themed selection with an exhaustive look at the machine that started it all, the NES (or Famicom if you're of the Japanese persuasion). Penned by Math...
News Multiplayer Vehicle Combat Game Drive Buy Speeds Onto Switch Next Month
With head-to-head online battles
UK-based indie studio Glitchers has announced that Drive Buy, its upcoming vehicle combat game, will launch on Nintendo Switch and PC on 12th March. Said to be inspired by games like Twisted Metal, Rocket League, and even Mario Kart, Drive Buy is described as a "short-session multiplayer vehicle combat game with a...
News SNK Vs. Capcom: Match Of The Millennium Arrives On The Switch eShop Later This Month
The dream collab title returns
Last month, SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millenium was rated for the Switch by the South Korean ratings board. It was only a matter of time until the game was officially confirmed, and it seems today is that day. SNK has just announced the Neo Geo Pocket Color version of the popular fighting crossover will be coming...
News New Windjammers 2 Trailer Reveals Arcade Mode And The Return Of Steve Miller
Steve, darling, aren't you a bit old for frisbee
Following the slightly disappointing news that Windjammers 2 was delayed to 2021, we're getting a ton of news, new trailers, and even a demo on Steam, which makes us think that maybe the frisbee-throwing game isn't as far off as we thought. This latest trailer reveals the addition of Arcade Mode, in...
Deals Celebrate Valentine's Day With Lovely Discounts On Animal Crossing Merchandise (UK)
25% off merch and other great deals
T'is the time of the season for loving (as The Zombies would say). Yes, Valentine's Day is looming and now's the time to pick up something sweet for that special person in your life, even if that special someone is you. Hey, we all need a little pick-me-up this time of year, right? Especially after the last twelve...
Thursday4th Feb 2021
News Amy Rose's Voice Actor Confirms She's Done With Sonic The Hedgehog
"It has been my honor"
Sonic the Hedgehog turns 30 this year and it seems some changes are happening behind the scenes with the series. After Roger Craig Smith announced he would be moving on from his role as Sonic last week, there's been a chain reaction of sorts - with a number of other voice actors linked to the blue blur suggesting they've also...
News Wonderful 101: Remastered Gets Its Final Wonder Code, Here's Every Code Released So Far
Update: Hideki Kamiya joins the action!
Update: A seventh Wonder Code has now been released! We've updated our original article below to include all codes available so far. Original Article (Mon 14th Dec, 2020 11:15 GMT): When The Wonderful 101: Remastered was updated to Version 1.0.3, a new feature was introduced which allows players to get their...
News Capcom Reveals The Most Used Weapon In The Monster Hunter Rise Demo
It's the weapon of choice
One of the most anticipated Nintendo Switch releases right now is Monster Hunter Rise, which is due out next month. The "limited-time" demo ended up being so popular it crashed the Switch eShop - something you don't see all that often nowadays. Now that the online portion of the demo is no longer accessible, Capcom has...
Review Sword Of The Necromancer (Switch) - A Dismal Dungeon-Crawler That's Best Left For Dead
Sometimes dead is better
A sword that can raise the dead? That’s the opposite of what they usually do! Gosh, if only we had something like that, we could resurrect all our enemies so we can enjoy destroying them again. But we digress. The titular Sword of the Necromancer and its ability to is the hook upon which this game enacts its otherwise...
News Japanese Man Arrested For Selling Hacked Pokémon Sword And Shield Monsters
Sobble was the last straw
Sobble, a Pokémon players can obtain in Pokémon Sword and Shield. A Japanese man has reportedly been arrested after being caught selling hacked Pokémon to Pokémon Sword and Shield players. According to a report from the Asahi Shimbun, a 23-year-old man was accused of violating the country’s Unfair Competition...
Random There's A Speedrun Of Super Mario Sunshine In Which Peach Never Gets Kidnapped
It's called Max% Pre-Peach
God, we love speedrunners. Not only are they performing incredible feats of glitchery, skill, and mad code manipulation, but they're also just breaking games and having a great time with it. It's basically a middle finger in the face of the designers, proving that the way the game is "supposed to be played" is not the only...
Random Breath Of The Wild Speedrunner Completes 100% Run Without Taking Any Damage
"It's done"
We feel like we keep seeing more and more impressive feats achieved within The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild every week, but is this actually the most impressive one yet? Read on... Towards the end of last month, Breath of the Wild "expert" joedun became the first player to ever complete the game 100% without taking any damage...
News Nintendo Reveals The Top 15 Most-Downloaded Switch Games In January 2021 (Europe)
The eShop's biggest games
Nintendo has shared an updated list of Europe's most-downloaded Switch eShop games, revealing which titles were the most popular during January 2021. Online multiplayer sensation Among Us has managed to claim top spot for the second week in a row; just like last month, the game managed to fend off the ever-popular...
News The Outer Worlds' First Expansion Comes To Nintendo Switch Next Week
Version 1.3 out now
Obsidian Entertainment has announced The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon will be coming to the Nintendo Switch next week on 10th February. This is the first of two narrative expansions that can be purchased - offering intrigue and danger, new locations, more "science" weapons and expanded character customisation and lore. -...
Random These 3D-Printed Stands Allow The GameCube To Be Treated As The Work Of Art It Is
We're absolutely here for this
We know the GameCube didn't get the love it deserved when released, and these days, many players going back to Nintendo's older library use their Nintendo Wii instead. Criticised for being "gimmicky" due to its shape, we'd argue the GameCube's appearance is nothing short of high art. So, if we may offer a suggestion,...
Fans of Slay The Spire, take note
In the world of tactical card games, is there any man more revered than Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering? Maybe whoever actually invented cards, but since they're not coming forward to take credit, Garfield holds the top spot. Roguebook is a roguelike deckbuilder (like Slay The Spire, Dicey...
News LEGO Partners With Sega To Turn This Fan-Made Sonic Set Into A Real Product
It's actually happening
You know how we keep sharing these amazing fan-made LEGO Ideas projects based on video games, hoping that one day one of them will actually be made into a real thing? Well, it's finally happened! LEGO has today confirmed that the fan-made Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone set we featured on the site last year has been given the...
News Famitsu Coverage Of New Pokémon Snap Includes New Snaps, More Pokémon
New images have also been added to the website
We're so glad Meganium is finally getting their time in the spotlight. As the best starter Pokémon that's ever existed, they deserve it. Chikorita's final evolution may be a left-field choice for the face of the upcoming New Pokémon Snap, but we have to say - it's the right one. Ahead of the 30th...
Nintendo Download 4th February (North America)
Blue Fire, Haven and Skyforge!
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! Switch eShop - Highlights: Blue Fire (Graffiti Games, 4th Feb, $19.99)...
Japanese Charts Ring Fit Adventure Is Still Selling Well, But Nothing Can Stop Momotaro Dentetsu
Disgaea 6 debuts in fourth
Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 31st January, revealing that Momotaro Dentetsu is still leading the way by some margin. The game, which is really taking Japan by storm right now, managed to fend off Ring Fit Adventure for another week at the top. Konami's t
News Square Enix Reports Increased Annual Sales, Despite Individual Game Losses
33% increase in net sales reported
2020 held mixed fortunes for Square Enix. Whilst Switch users received some enjoyable experiences with Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory and Trials of Mana, they had a rocky time with Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition. On rival platforms,
News Pre-Order Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town And Get A Buffalo Costume
Your moove, Harvest Moon
Following on from the announcement that physical pre-orders of the game will get a Buffy the Buffalo plush, XSEED has added another boon on for potential fans of the upcoming Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town: a Buffalo costume. Is there something we don't know about buffalos? Should we be investing in the bison...
News ZeniMax Founder Robert A. Altman Has Died
RIP Robert A. Altman, 1947-2021
Bethesda announced on Twitter today the passing of their founder and CEO, Robert A. Altman. "He was a true visionary, friend, and believer in the spirit of people and the power of what they could accomplish together," they said in the tweet, with an attached statement that said they are "proud to carry on the values...
Nintendo Download 4th February (Europe)
Re:ZERO! Skyforge! Haven!
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 eShop - New Releases: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The...
News Numskull Announces Direct-Style Showcase, "Brand New" Switch Game To Be Revealed
Airs next week on YouTube
Numskull Games has kept itself busy on Switch. Publishing physical games that range from indie hits like Ministry of Broadcast to anime adaptation Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World: The Prophecy of the Throne, it's got an interesting library to its name. Next week, we're set to find out how that library expands...
Video Animal Crossing: New Horizons Trailer Shows Us What's New In February
Festivale, Valentine's and more!
Nintendo has released its latest trailer for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, reminding us about all the fun stuff we'll be getting up to throughout the next month. The new clip starts off with a quick look at some of the adorable critters you'll want to be keeping an eye out for over the next few weeks. Our...
News Derren Brown Scares Us Silly In Little Nightmares II's Latest Trailer
Launching on Switch next week
With Little Nightmares II just days away from release on Nintendo Switch, who better to give us the heebie-jeebies than award-winning illusionist and mentalist Derren Brown? Bandai Namco has today launched a brand new trailer for the game starring Brown as he explores the topics of fear and nightmares. You can watch it...
News Puyo Puyo Tetris 2's Second Post-Launch Update Adds Colourblind Support And More
Returning characters and new modes are also present
If you're a fan of puzzle games, then we strongly advise checking out Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Scoring an 8/10 from us last December, Sega confirmed there'd be significant post-launch support via free updates and last month's started in style,
Random Arkansas Dental Practice Offers Nintendo Switch To Encourage Brushing And Flossing
Floss, but not in Fortnite
Dentists have tried numerous methods over the years to ensure patients practice good dental hygiene. For kids, that can emerge as positive reinforcement by giving them stickers. For adults, it's avoiding the absolute agony that comes with a root canal. A Nintendo Switch giveaway, though? That's definitely a new one...
News Jaleco's Ninja Kazan Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release
Become a "master of the ninja arts"
Hamster is bringing some old-school ninja action to the Switch eShop this week, with its Arcade Archives release Ninja Kazan. This side-scrolling action game was originally released by Jaleco in 1988 and requires the player to set out on a journey across the world and reclaim the 5 lost secrets, in order to...
Exclusive Nyamyam On Bringing The Award-Winning "Game Sitcom" Astrologaster To Switch
"The Switch version will get the 'sitcom' element across the best"
Those of you with very good memories might recall the UK studio Nyamyam, which was responsible for the gorgeous Tengami on Wii U. Fronted by former Rare developers Jennifer Schneidereit (Kinect Sports) and Phil Tossell (Star Fox Adventures), Nyamyam created a game engine which...
Gügle Legend
Game developers are notoriously bad at archiving. In fact, Kotaku wrote a whole piece about how some games are in danger of disappearing forever, partly because of just how bad game developers are at archiving. Nintendo loses code. Floppy disks decay and crumble. Long-lost prototypes lie in dusty drawers of filing cabinets sent to...
$100 million is being split across 40 studios
It's a big day for indie game fans, as games fund company Kowloon Nights dedicates $100 million (£73.2m) towards 23 upcoming and unannounced titles. The studios that will receive a portion of that one hundred million dollars include Thunder Lotus (Spiritfarer), Night School Studios (Oxenfree,...
Wednesday3rd Feb 2021
News The First Review For Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Is Now In
A purrfect port, or not up to scratch?
The very first review of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has now been published by Japanese publication, Famitsu. The verdict arrives just over a week ahead of the game's official release. Famitsu's scoring system has four different reviewers rate the game out of ten; in this case, the magazine's...
News Levi's Just Announced A New Line Of Pokémon Clothing, And It Includes Misty's Outfit
The new range celebrates Pokémon's 25th anniversary
Ash Ketchum is not the most fashionable of 10-year-olds, but the series that made him famous has spawned shirts, shoes, and now - thanks to denim-doers Levi's - a whole collection of Poké-themed apparel. A lot of the collection is a bit, well... odd, with jeans that have an entire Pikachu just...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Super Mario Update Arrives This March
Mario's 35th anniversary celebrations continue
Nintendo has issued a reminder via social media that the next big update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Switch will be arriving next month. Yay! While no specific release date has been shared just yet, we do know this update will be Super Mario themed. This lines up with Mario's...
News Ori Director Criticises "Snake Oil Salesmen" Behind No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk, And Fable
"From the perspective of a developer, all of this just sucks"
Thomas Mahler, the Game Director of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, took to gaming forum ResetEra earlier today to get something off his chest. He's tired of "snake oil salesmen" (as he calls them) getting hyped up by the games press and consumers, and then...
Talking Point So, What Are The Chances We'll See A 'New' Nintendo Switch In 2021?
A Pro-mising year?
What's that? Did someone say 'Switch Pro'? Oooh, 'New Nintendo Switch', is it!? A more powerful variant with 4K resolution Deep Learning Super Sampling? 60 frames-per-second? Carbon fibre styling? Swiss Army Switch?... It wasn't long after the Switch launched back in 2017 that rumours of a hardware revision started circling. You...
Tuesday2nd Feb 2021
Video 5 Special Wii U Virtual Console Games Not on Switch
These games went above and beyond simple preservation
For years the Virtual Console allowed us to relive our fondest memories in gaming. Being able to download The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and play it in its original untouched state held a tremendous amount of value...but sometimes the service went above and beyond. Did you know Super Mario...
Wednesday3rd Feb 2021
Could Commander Shepard return?
Over the past year, there have been ongoing rumours about the Mass Effect trilogy remaster coming to the Nintendo Switch. In November 2020, EA officially announced the game would be arriving on Microsoft and Sony's consoles alongside a PC release. At the time, this put an end to speculation about a possible Nintendo...
News Marvelous Reveals Rune Factory 5 "Premium Box", Launches This May In Japan
No word on a Western release date at this time
It's been some time since we last heard about Marvelous' anticipated Rune Factory 5. Previously due to launch in 2020, we received gameplay footage last September of the upcoming RPG simulation game – but that also brought news of a delay,
Review Redout: Space Assault (Switch) - A Bargain-Bin Star Fox With Spectacular Visuals
In space, no one can hear you scream
A couple of years ago, the Switch played host to Redout: Lightspeed Edition, a flawed futuristic racer that nonetheless turned out to be a pretty good experience all around. It was the sort of thing that established a great foundation to be built upon, and we were sure that a sequel – if one was coming –...
News NES DuckTales Originally Had An Option For Scrooge To Give Up His Fortune
"I love that fans found out about the original ending"
It's been quite the week for retro discoveries. Alongside GoldenEye 007's cancelled remake resurfacing online, DuckTales has been in the news after an unearthed prototype build made its way online, revealing a previously unreleased song called "Map". As it turns o
News New Super Nintendo World Videos Show POV Ride Footage, Café, Merch And Lots More
See everything the park has to offer
With Super Nintendo World originally set to open its doors to the public tomorrow, 4th February, a whole boatload of footage and press impressions from media outlets across Japan has now found its way online. YouTube channel Universal Parks News Today has uploaded a staggering 21 videos today showing off various...
News Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack Is Coming To Nintendo Switch This April
New gameplay features have also been outlined
Koei Tecmo has given Switch owners a lot of love with Atelier. We had great things to say about Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy last week, and hot off those heels, the Japanese publisher has revealed we'll be getting the Atelier Mysterious Trilogy Deluxe Pack next. Launching on April...
News No, Nintendo Is Not Solely To Blame For The Cancellation Of Goldeneye's XBLA Remake
A long-standing rights issue prevented this happening, it seems
You might've seen that GoldenEye 007 has been back in the news lately. We've known for a long time that Rare planned an Xbox Live Arcade remake of the acclaimed shooter and, courtesy of Youtuber G
Random Super Mario Galaxy Gets Remade In Minecraft, With 86 Stars To Collect
It's a collaborative project between three builders across many years
The community's Nintendo-flavoured Minecraft creativity continues to amaze and astonish us. We've seen Link's Awakening, Super Nintendo World,
Random Fan Brings Pokémon Cards To Life With Augmented Reality
Seeing is believing
Pikachu and Machamp do battle thanks to some clever AR trickery... The Pokémon franchise is no stranger to augmented reality – Pokémon GO uses the tech to put hundreds of monsters in your living room, and even the 3DS had Pokémon Dream Radar, another game that had you capturing Pokémon in a real-life setting – but one...
News Apex Legends "Champion Edition" Physical Release Confirmed
Just don't expect a game card
Respawn Entertainment and EA have now confirmed Apex Legends is coming to the Switch next month on 9th March. A physical version has also been locked in. After listings were discovered in Japan, EB Games in Australia (GameStop) has revealed a retail copy will be released in stores alongside the digital launch. As...
News A Bunch Of Upcoming Switch Games Have New Demos During The Steam Game Festival
Only on PC, mind you, but why not try before you pre-order
The latest Steam Game Festival just went live, with a load of livestreams, developer chats, and demos for upcoming games to play. Many of these games will also be coming to Switch, so if you're the type who likes to sample the cheese before buying the goat, you might want to take a look...
News Port Specialist Panic Button Worked On The Switch Version Of Apex Legends
The best in the business
Well, it's finally official, EA's battle royale Apex Legends is dropping onto the Nintendo Switch next month. So. how did Respawn Entertainment actually get this version of the game up and running? Of course, it's called in the Switch port specialist Panic Button to help deliver the "full-featured" Apex Legends experience...
News Nintendo Indie World Star SkateBIRD Gets New Trailer Showing Off Unseen Rooftop Level
And a demo arrives on Steam today
Glass Bottom Games, the indie game developer behind SkateBIRD, has shared a brand new trailer which shows off a previously unseen level from the game. You might remember SkateBIRD as one of the stars of the December 2019 Indie World Showcase – it was originally planned to kickflip onto to Switch eShop in 2020,...
News Swedish Company Embracer Buys Borderlands Dev Gearbox For $1.35 Billion
Embracer also owns THQ Nordic and Koch Media
Embracer is on track to becoming the Tencent of Scandinavia, having already added THQ Nordic and Koch Media to its portfolio of games studios, and now expanding even further with the acquisition of Gearbox Studios. Gearbox, the makers/publishers of Borderlands, Battleborn, Bulletstorm,
News Smash Bros. Ultimate's "Going Ballistic" Event Goes Live On February 5th
All-Range mode
Last week's yellow-themed spirit event might've been an odd choice for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but this time around, Nintendo's latest offering is back on course. Set to begin on February 5th, we'll be getting a "Going Ballistic" event and this lasts for 3 days. The rules here are simple: only fighters with 3 or more missile...
News Narita Boy Is A Neo-Retro Homage To The '80s, Coming To Switch This Spring
Grab your Betamax tapes and boot up your Sega Mega Drives
If Ready Player One left you craving more of that shameless '80s nostalgia, then Narita Boy is probably right up your alley. With elements of Tron, Star Wars, and various retro consoles sprinkled throughout its pixel art graphics, Narita Boy is bound to tickle that memory gland of yours in...
News Gorgeous Puzzle-Platformer Minute Of Islands Comes To Switch On March 18th
Hand-drawn artwork plus post-apocalypse? Sign us up
This game is going to get a lot of Adventure Time comparisons. That's not a bad thing. With its deceptively simple art style and its post-apocalyptic setting, Minute of Islands shares a lot of DNA with the absurdist cartoon, and its creepy monsters, cursed aesthetic, and axolotl companion only...
And yes, it's planned for Switch
A new Kickstarter project has appeared, and this time it's not a farming sim - it's something a little bit different. Beacon Pines is a "cute and creepy adventure" that takes place within a magical storybook, where you - both the reader and the main character of the book, Luka - decide the story by filling in words,...
Tuesday2nd Feb 2021
News Nintendo Is "Replacing Its Multiplayer Server System" Dating Back To The Wii U And 3DS Era
A long time coming
Let's be real, Nintendo's online service hasn't always been the best. While it's always worked, it has not always necessarily been a completely stable experience across every game. While we won't name any specific titles, you probably already know the ones that haven't run quite as smoothly as others. With this in mind, it seems...
News Nintendo Cancelled Star Fox TV Show After Netflix Leaked Legend Of Zelda Plans
"Playtime is over, Star Fox!"
Netflix has built up a pretty big slate with adaptations in recent years. Between The Witcher, Castlevania and Dragon's Dogma (to name a few). There were rumours for a time that they'd even take on
Video 15 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In February
Mario and more!
Wow, the first month of 2021 is already over! February marks the start of Nintendo's year, with the upcoming release Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, There's also plenty of other third-party stuff to enjoy like Little Nightmares II, Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection and Persona 5 Strikers. And towar
Random No, Nintendo Did Not Sue A 9-Year-Old Child For Creating A Cardboard Game Boy
Nintendo officially debunks dank meme
Nintendo is a notoriously litigious company, and has gone to extreme lengths to protect its copyright over the decades – from trying (and failing) to block sales of the Game Genie on the NES all the way up to its closure of ROM-sharing sites in more recent years. That's why when a post appeared on social...
Review Gods Will Fall (Switch) - An Addictive And Original Nintendo Switch Roguelike
Pictmin
Clever Beans Ltd, the team behind 2012's When Vikings Attack! and, perhaps more notably, the fantastic WipEout Omega Collection of remasters on PlayStation 4, make its first foray onto Switch with Gods Will Fall, and what a successful first foray this is. What we have here is a properly challenging and highly inventive dungeon crawler packed...
News Apex Legends Launches On Nintendo Switch This March
Prepare to drop
Update: We've got confirmation: Original Story [Sat 30th Jan, 2021 06:00 GMT]: According to a recent YouTube video and Amazon listing, Respawn Entertainment's battle royale free-to-play game Apex Legends is arriving next month on 2nd February. While there's no official confirmation from EA just y
News Cloud Gaming Service Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Development Studios
Will instead focus on supporting partners
While cloud gaming appears to be slowly becoming a thing, today it's experienced a minor setback. Google's cloud-based service Stadia has officially closed its internal studios and will no longer be developing in-house games moving forward. In fact, it never even got a game out the door. Kotaku was the...
News Nintendo Of America Job Listing Offers Hope That Nintendo Directs Aren't Dead After All
The last 'big' Direct was almost a year-and-a-half ago
In recent years, the hype-rumour-announcement-amazement/disappointment cycle of Nintendo Direct presentations has been almost as important to fans as the games themselves; nothing sparks excitement among Nintendo players quite like a good old Direct tease, and it's great to see a whole community...
News Fire Emblem's Gatekeeper Wins Popularity Poll Ahead Of Marth, Chrom, And Byleth
Poor Chrom's lost five years in a row
You know what? Maybe we've had enough of Fire Emblem's very similar-looking, blue-haired boys. They've had their time in the spotlight, and they've all been invited to Smash. You know who doesn't get enough recognition? Everyone's favourite nameless friend, the Gatekeeper. His endlessly sunny disposition was...
News Sonic Writer Talks About His Love-Hate Relationship With The Fandom
"I have a chequered history"
In the same interview on the YouTube channel RebelTaxi, Sonic the Hedgehog writer Ken Pontac - who has seemingly moved on from Sega, spoke about his "chequered history" with the Sonic fandom over the years. As much as he loves them, he admits a "vocal group" who hated on him for "dumb reasons" have essentially "screw
Random Pokémon And Animal Crossing Both Featured On Jeopardy
Who is Dankey Kang?
Jeopardy is back with some video game questions, and once again, none of the contestants knew the answers. What's the opposite to "maybe you need to go outside more"? For those of you who are British, and don't really know what Jeopardy is: imagine Countdown, but instead of being about accidentally spelling naughty words with...
Random Okay, You Can't Actually Use This Kirby Keycap, But It's Still Very Cute
Kirby, no, put the bottle down
Between Kirby keycaps and Froggy Keyboard, we're about to have a very cute (and very hard to use) desktop setup. Keycap artisan Tiny, who you may know from her TikTok, where almost 3 million followers have watched her making tiny food replicas for keyboards, has a history of making Kirby keys. She's made
News RetroMania Wrestling Reveals Official Trailer Ahead Of Launch This Month
WWF WrestleFest's sequel will arrive on February 26th
We've not had a great streak with wrestling games on Switch. After WWE 2K Battlegrounds proved rather disappointing, WWE 2K18 offered us an abysmal port and Wrestling Empire proved to be a bug-ridden (but nonetheless entertaining) mess, it falls to
News Apex Legends Switch Controller Pops Up On Amazon Amid Confusion Over Game's Release
It's supposed to come out today, but no one's mentioned it yet
Way back in October, we announced that Apex Legends, the super-popular battle royale game, had delayed its Switch release. A few weeks ago, there was an accidental "reveal" of the release date - and that date is today, February 2nd. There have been other hints that the game is almost...
News EA Sports Is Bringing Back College Football Games After 8 Year Hiatus
That's long enough to complete college at least twice
College football is a big deal in America, and while star players don't get paid - they receive free tuition, housing, training, and equipment - they bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for the college they play for. Each. Sure, it's not as big as the big leagues, like the NFL,...
News It's Groundhog Day, Which Means It's The Last Day To Get Resetti In Animal Crossing
Get your Resettis before it's too late!
Do you feel like the days keep resetting? Like you're living in an endless, repetitive loop? Yeah, us too. Only this time, it's not because it's Groundhog Day - the day where a weather-predicting squirrel tells us about the future, which was skyrocketed to fame after the Harold Ramis film of the same name -...
Will likely overtake Gold and Silver lifetime sales
Yesterday, Nintendo released its financials for the third quarter of the current fiscal year - revealing twenty-nine Switch games have sold over a million copies over the past nine months. The highlight of the lot was Animal Crossing: New Horizons' sales but a few other games have also reached...
Feature Blessed By Hermes - A Peek Inside The Hades Speedrunning Community
We speak to Supergiant Games and two prominent Hades speedrunners
When you think of speedrunning in games, where does your mind go? Is it Super Mario 64? Breath of the Wild? Dark Souls? Undoubtedly, the 'classics' are popular choices with speedrunners, but there are plenty of others which defy expectation;
Video 10 Times Nintendo Characters Appeared In Third-Party Games
Peach Panda will never be forgotten
Nintendo has historically been rather careful with whom they lend out their characters and properties, which is why the likes of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda are such a recent breath of fresh air. That's not to say there were...
Random People Are Making Really Awful Fart Remixes Of Mario Music On TikTok
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
Gen Z social media platform TikTok can be wonderful, and a carefully-curated For You Page can consist of bread recipes, comedy routines, and Hank Green telling you about why you shouldn't eat grass. But TikTok can also be a wasteland of cursed content that combines nonsensical memes with dance routines, because we're all just really...
News Here's Why The Cover To F-Zero Is So Special
Well, the Japanese one, at least
F-Zero may not be on Nintendo's radar at present, but it's a series which is close to the heart of many a Nintendo fan – and part of its appeal is the colourful cast of comic book characters which have populated the franchise since it made its debut on the Super Famicom / SNES way back in November 1990. Takaya...
News Adaptation Expert Virtuos Is "Excited" About New Switch Projects "This Summer And Beyond"
"There’s plenty more to come from the Switch family"
Switch's release schedule might be looking a little light at the moment, but it would be fair to assume that there are projects in the pipeline which have yet to be announced – and we've arguably had confirmation of that assumption from Christophe Gandon, Managing Director of Games at Virtuos,...
News DuckTales NES Prototype Unearthed, Features An Unused Song
That's no moon (theme)...
Capcom brought us a remastered edition of DuckTales several years back, but we still hold a lot of love for the original NES version. Offering us a unqiue platforming adventure, DuckTales was widely noted for its excellent soundtrack – the Moon Theme most prominently – though it only featured a dozen tracks. Within the...
News Much-Loved Indie Platformer Thomas Was Alone Is Making The Jump To Switch
Update: February release confirmed
Update: A Nintendo eShop listing has now confirmed that Thomas Was Alone will launch on Switch on 19th February. The game will cost £9.99 (although pre-orders grant you a 20% discount) and there's also a free demo to download should you want to give it a go. Original Article (Fri 9th Oct, 2020 14:00 BST): Indie...
News Remember The Brawler64 Controller? It's Now Available Without A Wire
And in four colours
When we reviewed the Retro Fighters Brawler64 controller for the N64 back in 2019, we came away suitably impressed. Described as a "next-generation" N64 pad replacement, it's comfortable to use and very responsive. While it has serious competition in the form of the Tribute64, it's still an excellent option for th
Video Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Treated To Two New Commercials
Only ten days to go!
'Special effects added' – you know, just in case you thought sprouting real cat ears was a side effect... With only ten days to go until the launch of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury on Switch, Nintendo has released two brand new commercials to keep the hype rolling ahead of the big day. Your typical 'everyone in the...
News New US Switch TV Ads Show Off Mario Party And Clubhouse Games
Both are part of the "Nintendo Switch My Way" ad campaign
Are all adverts going to start with things like "I'm so glad we get to bubble together" now, just to protect the company from COVID-related backlash? Well, Nintendo's new Switch advert for Super Mario Party does. Featuring three women in a very fancy house, the ad shows off the co-operative...
News Nintendo Celebrates Fire Emblem Heroes' Fourth Anniversary With New Updates And Rewards
Including Legendary Hero Remix events
Nintendo and Intelligent Systems' free-to-play Fire Emblem smartphone game turns four years old today, and a new wave of updates and rewards have arrived to celebrate the occasion. Whether you've been playing Fire Emblem Heroes from day one, or you're just jumping in this year, there's plenty of fun stuff...
Random GameStop's Stock Saga Is Getting Multiple Film And TV Adaptations
Forget Godzilla vs. Kong, the real business here is Reddit vs. Wall Street
Where do we even begin with this one. Most of you have likely seen last week's GameStop drama by now – and if you haven't, we've got our own rundown – but to cut a long story short, thanks to investing subreddit r/wallstreetbets, the video game retailer's stock price even...
Video Exclusive Peek At Soundtrack Sessions For Upcoming Zelda-Style Dungeon Platformer, Blue Fire
Launches later this week
We're big audiophiles here at Nintendo Life Towers, and there's nothing we like more than a little behind-the-scenes peek at a recording studio (well, there are some things, but it's up there!). Remember that Mario Medley from Abbey Road? Yep, that's the stuff! There's just something about the cellos, mics, mixing desks, and...
Monday1st Feb 2021
News Nintendo Shares Release Schedule For 2021 And Beyond, And It's Looking Pretty Bare
Major Switch release windows reconfirmed
As it always does when a new financial report is due, Nintendo has published an updated look at its upcoming release schedule. As you might expect, though, things aren't quite as exciting as they could be. Below, you'll find a list of Nintendo's major releases planned for 2021 and beyond (so not including...
News Pixel FX's N64Digital Promises "Crystal-Clear HDMI Video" For Your Nintendo 64
New device offers lag-free HDMI output up to 1080p
Much as we love the Nintendo 64, it's a known issue that HD TVs don't always play nice with our favourite 24-year-old console. When plugged into newer units, the N64's composite and S-Video outputs look washed out, meaning you'll need an HDMI upscaler to make them playable. Pixel FX is the latest...
News GameStop Investors Are Paying It Forward By Donating Nintendo Switches To Children's Hospitals
Stitches get Switches
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the hospital. Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of Nintendo Switches. Feared by the hedge fund investors, loved by the sick children, Robin Hooood, Robin Hooood, Robin Hooooood! It might not be the most traditional of Robin Hood gestures, but it's certainly something you wouldn't see...
News Nintendo Won't Be Announcing A New Switch Model "Any Time Soon"
Focus is on the Super Mario and Monster Hunter SKUs in 2021
The Nintendo Switch has just overtaken the lifetime sales of the 3DS, selling an amazing 79.87 million units in the space of four years. Thanks to titles like Animal Crossing: New Horizons – which has sold over 31 million copies in l
News Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of December 2020
The latest official figures are in
Thanks to today's financial earnings release, in which Nintendo revealed that the Switch has now overtaken the 3DS's lifetime sales, we now have an updated list of the Switch's best-selling titles. In recent years, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has consistently reigned supreme at the top of this list – it's perhaps no...
News Sony's MLB The Show Is No Longer A PlayStation Exclusive, But Where's The Switch Version?
Update: Xbox edition confirmed, but no sign of a Nintendo edition
Update: It's official, Sony is publishing a game on the Xbox, with MLB The Show 21 coming to the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and Xbox One in April. This isn't massively shocking as it was pr
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For February And March 2021
Bowser’s Fury and lots more
We're now one entire month into 2021 and it's becoming clearer with each passing day that this year may turn out to be '2020: Part Deux'. The good gamers of the world are in need of diversion more than ever, and fortunately there are some rather fabulous-looking Switch games coming over the next month or two to lift...
News EA Has Quietly Reduced Burnout Paradise Remastered's Price On Switch
Now available at a 40% reduction
We had a lot of fun with EA's Burnout Paradise Remastered last year. Awarding it 7/10 stars, it still offers a solid open-world racing game but – outside of some handheld mode issues – one of our biggest gripes with this Switch port was the high price. Charging £44.99 / $49.99 for a 12-year-old game seemed...
News Nintendo Toys And Super Mario Meals Have Arrived At Burger King
Available starting today in US and Canada
Starting today, fans across the U.S., Canada and parts of Latin America can pick up a new range of Nintendo-themed toys from their local Burger King. The toys will come bundled with King Jr Meals at participating restaurants and include toys inspired by a variety of Switch games. There are six toys to...
Anne Helen Petersen interviews children from 5 to 15 about their gaming habits
Journalist Anne Helen Petersen is tired of the "alarmist rhetoric" around video games. She's not the only one. In her newsletter, Culture Study, Petersen has already spoken to psychologist Rachel Kowert about the fearmongering, satanic-panic-adjacent stigma around gaming,...
News Nintendo Switch Has Overtaken 3DS Lifetime Sales In Just Four Years
Switch Lite has almost outsold the Wii U on its own
Nintendo's latest financial report – for the nine months ending December 31st 2020 – has revealed that the Switch has overtaken the lifetime sales of the 3DS in the space of just four years. 79.87 million Switch consoles have now been shipped worldwide. 3DS total sales are pegged at 75.94...
News Netflix Officially Announces Sonic Prime, A New 3D Animated Series
Featuring 24 episodes
And there we have it, Netflix has now officially confirmed that a brand new Sonic series will be launching on the platform in 2022. From Sega, Wild Brain (Teletubbies, Degrassi, and Inspector Gadget) and Man of Action (Ben 10, Big Hero 6), the new animated series will be called Sonic Prime. It'll feature 24 episodes in total...
Review Shing! (Switch) - Will Test Your Patience More Than Your Fighting Skills
Streets of Rage (quit)
Mass Creation's Shing! is a side-scrolling beat 'em up in the traditional Streets of Rage mould that valiantly attempts to inject a little originality into the genre by utilizing a unique control scheme which sees player's attacks assigned to the right thumbstick, rather than the usual button-bashing way of things. It's an...
A fake worthy of Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler
The last time we wrote about Castaway Paradise, the free-to-play Facebook and iOS game that combines elements of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon, we said that the game might come to Wii U. That's right, folks! It's been a while since Castaway Paradise's 2014 release, and though it never came out
If you can learn about IV breeding, you can learn anything
We're tired of the takes that say that kids are playing too many games. Of course we are - we literally wouldn't have jobs at Nintendo Life if we hadn't spent way too many hours on Zelda, Mario, and friends. But there are still people out there who can see games for what they are: potential...
News Mario Kart 8 Overtakes Mario Kart Wii As Best-Selling Series Entry
Combining Wii U and Switch sales, that is
Having published its latest quarterly financial results, it appears Nintendo is doing all right — if you define selling software by the truckload as Switch outperforms 3DS lifetime sales less than four years into its lifespan 'all right'. One of the secrets to Nintendo's success is the evergreen appeal of...
News Nintendo Shows Off New Mario-Themed 7-Eleven Menu
The Japan-exclusive food includes Yoshi, Bowser, and Peach
You may recall our coverage of the special "Ichiban Kuji" lottery that Japanese 7-Eleven stores have been enjoying these past few days, with prizes ranging from alarm clocks to soap dispenser. You may specifically recall the Mario's Mix Roll, a special spaghetti sandwich made to celebrate...
News Ring Fit Adventure Might Be The Best-Selling New JRPG Of This Generation
Yes, it's a JRPG. Search your feelings, you know it to be true
Kids who grew up in the '90s fondly remember Final Fantasy and Pokémon as their first JRPGs. Kids who grew up in the 2000s might have nostalgic feelings over Dragon Quest, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, or Persona. Apparently, children born in the last few years will one day recall
