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Gallery Casio Celebrates 25 Years Of Baby-G With This Amazing Pokémon Watch
Complete with a hidden Pikachu!
As one of gaming's leading franchises, it's no surprise that Pokémon has enjoyed some eye-catching crossover collaborations over the years – and now we've got another. To mark the 25th anniversary of its Baby-G watch range, Casio has created a limited edition watch which focuses on the 25th Pokémon in the...
News Goodsmile's New Splatoon Figmas Are Fresher Than Your Bed Linen On Laundry Day
Judd and Li'l Judd are included, too!
Japanese toymaker figma has announced some new Splatoon figures for 2020, and they're looking insanely good. A new 'DX' double pack – which contains two Inkling Boys, Judd and Li'l Judd and a whole bunch of accessories – is available for pre-order now. This pack comes with Splattershot guns, a...
News 'Jumbo Snorlax' Joins The Pokémon Build-A-Bear Range
And he comes with pyjamas
Build-A-Bear's ever-growing range of Pokémon plushies has had yet another friendly face join the ranks, with 'Jumbo-Sized Snorlax' available to buy as we speak. The new toy can be picked up from both the UK and
News Pokémon Center London Calls In New Pikachu Plush As Items Start To Permanently Sell Out
The "unprecedented demand" continues
London's pop-up Pokémon Center has introduced a new Pikachu plush for visitors to buy as other products begin to completely disappear from shelves. The Pokémon Company has revealed that, starting today, the London Guard Pikachu plush will be available in limited quantities. There is a limit of one London Guard...
News Hey, Come On And Get Your Very Own Terry Bogard Hat
Just like Smash Ultimate's newest star
If you're feeling the Terry Bogard hype after yesterday's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate presentation and the SNK star's first day in the game, why not treat yourself to a replica hat, allowing you to be just like your new favourite fighter on the big screen? This charming piece of Fatal Fury
News Here's Our First Look Inside Nintendo's New Tokyo Store
Such clean, much wow
Nintendo's first official store in Japan is set to open its doors later this month, and we've finally been treated to our first look inside its magical, glistening halls. Located in Tokyo's new Shibuya Parco shopping centre, the store will officially open on 22nd November. We've already seen some of the merchandise you'll be...
News Nintendo's New Tokyo Store Is Looking Great, Here's A New Range Of Super Mario Merch
Store opens this month
On 22nd November, Nintendo is set to open a brand new official store in Tokyo, Japan. Amazingly, it's the first ever official shop to arrive in the company's home country, but the merchandise on offer is looking better and better every time a new announcement comes our way. Today, we've been treated to a look at some of the...
News Pokémon Center London Goes From Bad To Worse, Products Could Sell Out Before Closure
Update: We have our first casualty
Update (4th Nov, 12:00 BST): As feared, The Pokémon Company has now confirmed that the exclusive London City Pikachu Plush will sell out before the store's closure. If you're planning a trip to the store next week, you'll likely be out of luck. "Due to overwhelming popularity, this week will be the final week...
News This New Line Of Animal Crossing Home Merchandise Is As Adorable As You'd Expect
To appear at Nintendo's new Tokyo store
Don't forget, Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrives in March! When you have a franchise as charming and adorable as Animal Crossing, it's only fitting that any related products should be equally cute and heartwarming. Thankfully, this latest range of merchandise for the series is just that. The new line will...
Random This Terrifying Ash Ketchum Costume Is Perfect For Halloween
Poké-nope
What is it with all of these unintentionally creepy costumes of popular children's characters? And how can anyone legitimately wear such a thing without shuddering every time they walk past a mirror? Sadly, we might never find the answers to these questions, but we can give you a little more info on this horrific Pokémon costume. Made...
Feature How Fangamer Changed The World Of Video Game Merchandise Forever
"We created the merchandise that Nintendo never made for us"
Before the turn of the century brought with it online communities, before the standard for monetary transactions became digital, and not to mention, before good old-fashioned globalism, being able to officially declare your super fandom for almost anything you can think of meant frequent...
Random Rare Expands Its Official Banjo-Kazooie Swag Collection With A Colourful Keychain
Feast your googly eyes on these
After many years stuck out in the video gaming wilderness, the return of mighty duo Banjo-Kazooie had one or two of us at Nintendo Life Towers shedding a tear when they were revealed to be joining the fray with the other Smash Bros. fighters. IP owners Microsoft might not be doing anything Rareware's bear and bird,...
News Pokémon And Super Mario Collide In This Subtle, Pixel Art Merchandise Crossover
Japan-only genius
Nintendo has come up with an ingenious way to fly your fandom flag for both the Pokémon and Super Mario franchises in one piece (or various pieces) of quality swag. Next month the Nintendo Tokyo store will be opening with a host of exclusive merchandise for lucky shoppers in the Japanese capital to fritter away their hard-earned...
News Physical Luigi's Mansion 3 Goodies Appear On The Japanese My Nintendo Store
Don't worry, we get wallpapers
It's no secret that Japan gets all the neatest stuff, whether it's Kirby cafes, Pokémon phone cable clips or, you know, all the cool video games and hardware. The Japanese My Nintendo Store is chock-full of lovely physical merch to spend your platinum points on. There's
News Japan's Finally Getting Its First Ever Nintendo Store Next Month, Here's What You Can Buy
Exclusive merch and hands-on experiences
First revealed at the start of the year, Nintendo's first ever store in Japan (nope, we can't believe it either) is set to open its doors next month. Ahead of the grand opening, the house of Mario has shared just some of the exclusive items shoppers can hope to pick up. Fittingly called Nintendo Tokyo, the...
News Pichu Is Your Next Pokémon Build-A-Bear, Available To Buy Now
Get an exclusive trading card
Yet another Pokémon has joined the Build-A-Bear ranks, and this time it's the turn of Pikachu's adorable little baby and feisty Smash Bros. terror, Pichu. You can go ahead and pick up a Pichu of your own from the Build-A-Bear store as we speak (UK /
Video Let's Take A Tour Of London's Pop Up Pokémon Center, Shall We?
Here's what you can buy from the store
As you've probably already heard by now, London is currently enjoying its very own pop-up Pokémon Center. With exclusive merch items and even some new Pokémon Sword and Shield related goodies up for grabs, it's certainly worth having a look for serious Poké-fans. As it happens, our very own video wizard...
News Puma Launches Its Tetris-Themed Collection
An iconic crossover
Shoe and video game crossovers appear to be a thing now. Following on from Nike's Nintendo 64 Air Max tribute, Puma has now launched its previously announced Tetris-themed shoe and apparel line. The PUMA x TETRIS collection includes Puma's "future-retro" RS 9.8 and RS-X sneakers. Both come in daring colours a
News Here's Your First Look Inside London's Shiny New Pokémon Center
So this is where our money will be going!
Tomorrow sees the grand opening of London's pop up Pokémon Center store and if you're interested in having a sneak peek before you visit - or even if you live too far away and want to see what you're missing out on - you're in luck. Before the place gets swamped with eager visitors, we've been treated to a...
News Here's Your First Look At Some Of The Exclusive Merch Coming To London's Pokémon Center
Starring London City Pikachu
The pop-up Pokémon Center coming to London, UK will be opening in just two days' time, and if you're as keen on Pikachu and pals as we are, you're probably going to want to head on over to the capital for a visit. Before you do, though, let's take a look at some of the exclusive items you can expect to find. The...
News Get Into The Festive Spirit With These Ugly Nintendo Christmas Sweaters
Mario, Pokémon and Peach lead the line up
Yep, it's that time of year once again when the gods of retail decide it's time to bombard everyone on the planet with more Christmas products than Santa could ever hope to carry in his sleigh. Luckily, though, this also brings with it some lovely Nintendo merch for you to consider, including these "ugly" -...
Site News The First Ever Piece Of Lovely Nintendo Life Merch Has Landed
Snag yours online or at EGX
It's a rather special day here at Nintendo Life towers, as the first ever piece of NL merchandise has just been plonked on sale by our good friends at EGX. That's right, we're joining the big boys and girls at sites like Eurogamer with our very own design, mixing our luscious logo with the famous SNES controller for an...
News You Can Now Design Your Own Pokémon Shirt In The US, All 151 Original 'Mon Included
But it's super-pricey
Back in January, a new line of Pokémon shirts was revealed for Japan. Featuring all of the original 151 Pokémon, the designs can be fully mixed and matched to suit your style, and it was soon confirmed that they'd be headed to the west, too. Now, that magical day has arrived. You can go ahead and
Competition Attend The Pokémon Center London's Exclusive Preview Event
5 Pairs Of Tickets Available
A special Pokémon Center London pop up shop will be opening at Westfield Shepherd’s Bush (Ariel Way, White City, London W12 7GF) for a limited time from Friday, October 18th, but we've been given five pairs of tickets for an exclusive preview event on Thursday 17th October, at 13:30 to 15:00. Those attending will get...
Random iPhone Charging Cable On The Fritz? Get A Sleeping Pokémon On It
No Snorlax?
We've all been there - you're in bed looking at your phone while it's charging, but if you hold it a certain way the power disconnects. Sometimes dislodging pocket fluff from the port with a pair of tweezers does the job, but more often than not your charging cable is giving up the ghost after being stretched and pulled and twisted too...
News Official Pokémon Sword And Shield Jerseys Are Coming And We Wanna Buy 'Em All
Show your team's colours
It was always only going to be a matter of time before a new splattering of official Pokémon Sword and Shield merch arrived on the scene and these new designs are amongst the coolest bits of Pokémon gear we've ever seen. That's right, sport-style jerseys of the new games' starter Pokémon - Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble...
News The UK's Pop-Up Pokémon Store Will Stock An Exclusive London City Pikachu Plush
How can you resist that little face?
The pop-up Pokémon Center heading to London next month will be stocking an exclusive plush, and it's probably the most obvious choice they could have gone with. It's still adorable, though. Yes, the London City Pikachu will be available exclusively at Pokémon Center London, a new store which will only be open...
Random Ruin Your Children's Christmas With This Horrifying Detective Pikachu Mask
Available for only £24!
Pikachu is lovely, the entire Pokémon franchise is pretty lovely, and you usually can't go wrong with a nice piece of Poké-merchandise or two to brighten up someone's day. This, however, is very not lovely. Introducing the 'Movie Pokemon Detective Pikachu Cosplay Mask Latex Animal Headgear Adult Child Halloween Cosplay...
News Sonic Monopoly Scraps The Usual Formula For Rings, Emeralds And Boss Battles
A fast-paced take on the classic
A new Sonic Monopoly game has hit the market and Sega has given us a glimpse of what to expect when picking it up from stores. Called 'Monopoly Gamer Sonic the Hedgehog Edition', this version of the classic game ditches the standard tokens, allowing players to zoom around the board as Sonic, Tails, Amy, or Knuckles...
News Celebrate Untitled Goose Game's Launch With This Honkingly Cool Merch
We need those socks
If you missed the news earlier today, the adorable, quacky nuisance simulator Untitled Goose Game finally secured a release date on Nintendo Switch. We can't wait to get stuck into its pesky delights for ourselves, but before that, there's some merchandise to attend to. The game's publisher Panic is attending PAX West this...
News Zavvi UK Celebrates 10th Birthday With Limited Edition Boo Merch
Don't turn your back...
Zavvi is celebrating 10 years of being online with a special selection of discounts and limited edition products across the store. Earlier in the year, the UK based online retailer had a limited edition Super Mario series which we thought was pretty nifty, continuing the same "Original Hero" theme they have a couple more...
News Prepare Your Wallet For This New Range Of Mario And Splatoon T-Shirts From Uniqlo
Update: Splatoon shirts down to £2.90!
Update (15th Aug, 2019): At the time of writing, some of the Splatoon shirts mentioned below have dropped to an amazingly low £2.90! If you're after a bargain, check out the discounted shirts here. Original Article (28th Jan, 2019): Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has revealed a brand new lineup of...
News New Cosplaying Duck Range Will Include Spyro, Crash, Street Fighter And More
DC, Lord of the Rings, Fallout, more...
It's not every day that you get to write an article all about cosplaying ducks, so let's savour this magical moment while it lasts. Yes, Numskull Designs has announced TUBBZ, a new range of cosplaying duck figurines that could well end up becoming your next obsession. Some of the biggest names in video games,...
News Sega Releases Its Very Own Sonic The Hedgehog Back-To-School Range
Learn fast!
Whether you're heading back to school over the next few weeks, or you're just like us older folk who jump at any opportunity to pick up gaming merch, Sega has something for you. A range of Sonic the Hedgehog products has popped up across a variety of retailers, with backpacks, lunch boxes and t-shirts all available. You can check them...
News This Magikarp Plush Flops And Splashes All Over The Place, Just Like The Real Thing
What do you mean, "it's not real"?
Leaping right to the very top of our Christmas lists like the world's most elegant, waterfall-climbing salmon is this fantastic, flopping Magikarp plush. Just like the real thing (by which we mean, 'just like how the fictional monster fish is portrayed in video games and other media'), this plush can actually...
News The UK Is Getting Its Very Own Pop-Up Pokémon Center
Update: Dates and location revealed
Update (5th Aug, 10:50 BST): New information has revealed that the Pokémon Center will be a pop-up store that will be open to the public from 18th October until 15th November (dates are subject to change). It'll be located at Westfield London, Ariel Way, Shepherd’s Bush, W12 7GF and will include exclusive...
News Yet Another Wave Of Pokémon Apple Accessories Launches This Month
Join the waiting list
Tech accessory maker CASETiFY is back for a third and final time, once again offering a selection of Pokémon accessories which can keep your trusty devices safe and smart. Wave one and wave two both sold out pretty quickly, so if you're liking the look of any of these designs, you'll probably want to sign up to the
News Good Smile Company Reveals New Nintendo-Themed Nendoroid
Bayonetta also announced!
Good Smile Company, known for its high-quality figurines, this weekend revealed a new range of Nendoroid at the 2019 Wonder Festival summer event in Japan. Below you can see an update of the Breath of the Wild Princess Zelda Nendoroid (previously announced earlier this month) and prototypes for Splatoon Boy, Edelgard von...
News Pre-Orders Are Now Live For The Squirtle Funko Pop Figure
Completing the set
The latest Pokémon to receive the Funko Pop treatment is the adorable Water-type starter, Squirtle. It may well have had its cute glowing eyes replaced with the traditional Funko black beads of doom, but we're sure collectors will be itching to add this one to their set. Pre-orders for the figure are now live on Amazon US - you...
News Nintendo Focuses On Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 At San Diego Comic-Con
The Black Order booth
With Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order launching this week, Nintendo has decided to devote its booth at San Diego Comic-Con exclusively to that game. The event runs from 18th-21st July with the game launching on 19th and the Marvel connection seems like a natural fit for the biggest comic book convention of them all...
News Zelda Is Getting An Adorable Breath Of The Wild Nendoroid Figure
Long hair edition
Good Smile has teased a prototype for an upcoming Nendoroid figure for none other than the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda. The design was revealed at this year's Anime Expo and is based on Zelda's appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. You can see the prototype figure in full below - as you'd expect, it features the...
News The US Pokémon Center Store Has Introduced A 'Psyduck Bewildered' Collection
Fashion we can get behind
Forget 'Spring/Summer 2019' or whatever the mainstream fashion outlets are trying to sell to you; the Psyduck Bewildered Collection is absolutely where it's at. The US Pokémon Center has introduced a new line of Psyduck merch with hoodies, t-shirts, backpacks and more. As you can probably imagine, they all feature Psyduck...
News These Adorable Super Mario Maker 2 Plushies Are Now Available To Pre-Order
Part of a larger set
If you've been loving Super Mario Maker 2 as much as we have, you'll probably find yourself needing these adorable Mario Maker plush toys in your life. From toy manufacturer Sanei Boeki, these two delights are both now available to order from Amazon Japan (international shipping is available). They sadly don't release until...
News This Bowser's Castle Playset Features Super Mario Sounds And Music
Pre-orders now live
Making us feel like over-excited children who are already looking forward to Christmas this year is this Bowser's Castle playset. Measuring in at 14-and-a-half inches wide by 12-and-a-half inches tall, the castle features deadly trap doors, spinning fireballs and a working lift - as well as a figure of Bowser himself. The best...
News All 151 Original Pokémon Star In This New Smartphone Case Collection
Plus reimagined designs
Tech accessory brand CASETiFY is back again with more Pokémon smartphone cases, and this time each of the original 151 Pokémon has received its very own design. You may remember that last month, we shared news of the company's first partnership with the Pokémon brand which saw an initial batch of phone case designs be...
News Official Mario Kart Hot Wheels Tracks And Cars Are On The Way
And they look amazing
Nintendo and Hot Wheels have today announced a partnership which will see a global release of Hot Wheels Mario Kart die-cast vehicles and tracks. The collection will be made up of three Mario Kart game-inspired track sets and plenty of characters from the franchise. At launch, Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Bowser will all be...
News This £125 Pac-Man Sculpture Looks Like It Belongs In An Art Gallery
Available to order now
Bandai Namco is releasing a brand new Pac-Man figurine this week, available to pre-order as we speak. If you like to decorate your house with quirky, artistic pieces, perhaps this would be something to consider? The sculpture has been designed by Richard Orlinski, a French contemporary artist whose art can be found in more...
Random Gotta Slice Fast With This Official Sonic The Hedgehog Pizza Cutter
A cut above the rest
Combining two of our favourite things, and actually coming in pretty handy in the kitchen, is this official Sonic the Hedgehog pizza cutter. If you're looking for a way to spice up your pizza-cutting endeavours at home (and let's face it, who isnt?) this is probably a cool way to go. You likely don't need us to tell you that...
Random Fan Spends Over $1,000 On Every Johto Pokémon Plush, And That's Just The Start
Ho-oh my goodness
Last month, we shared the news that every single Johto Pokémon was set to launch in Japan in plush form, joining the original Kanto set which was released last year. One lucky soul has done what many of us wish we could do, but never would: buy every single one of them. Yes, Twitter user
News Save Up For Your Switch Games With This Officially Licensed Donkey Kong Money Box
Super Mario Savings!
Saving up for all of your favourite video games can be tricky, and while even the coolest of money boxes can't help you to buy them all, it can certainly help you store your cash in style. This officially licensed Donkey Kong money box is set to release next month, available directly from Merchoid. It stands at 30cm tall and...
