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News Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition Physical Switch Release Confirmed
Arriving on the Switch eShop this September
In case you missed it in the recent Nintendo Partner Showcase, Team17 is reviving its classic Worms Armageddon with the help of Digital Eclipse. The Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition is releasing on multiple platforms including Switch and will come with all sorts of improvements like optimised...
News The Last Ninja Collection Brings Seven Retro Games To Switch In 2025
"A tribute to the golden era of computer gaming"
The Last Ninja Collection Kickstarter campaign went live earlier before and in less than an hour it reached its funding target. It means the collection is officially on the way to the Nintendo Switch in 2025. It will bring together "every" Last Ninja title across the Commodore 64, ZX S
News Beautiful Metroidvania Sequel 'Ender Magnolia' Arrives On Switch January 2025
Bloomin' marvellous
2021's critically acclaimed Metroidvania Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is getting a sequel. If you're a PC player, you may have already dove into ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist's early access period, but the full release has just been announced. Ender Magnolia launches on all platforms on 22nd January 2025 (or 23rd...
News Lon Lon Ranch Potentially Spotted In New Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Footage
Giddy up!
We're just over two weeks away from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom's release, which means Nintendo is drumming up interest and giving us a few teases all across social media. And the company has done it once again today with some brief new gameplay footage featuring Zelda's horse-riding skills. We've seen Zelda ride a horse before...
News Here's Another Look At The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom World Map
Zelda's adventure is out later this month
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is just weeks out from release, but we already know a little bit about it thanks to hands-on impressions and some official gameplay reveals. The map of the Hyrule in this particular entry has also surfaced online in recent times, and now we've got another look courtesy...
Round Up The Previews Are In For Super Mario Party Jamboree
The party starts this October
Super Mario Party Jamboree is on its way to the Switch this October and the first batch of previews are now rolling in. You can view our own 'hands on' here on Nintendo Life - we think it has great potential based on our time with it so far: "Our time with Super Mario Party Jamboree may have been brief, but it was...
News Konami Reveals More Game Boy Titles For Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection
Coming to Switch in 2024
In case you missed it, earlier this year Konami announced the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection for the Nintendo Switch. At the start of this month, it also launched a new social media account for this collection and other Yu-Gi-Oh! themed 'retro games'. Now in another update, Konami has revealed more of the games coming to...
Round Up The Reviews Are In For Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
"A must-own for fighting game fans"
The big week has arrived for the fighting game community, with the launch of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. Many fighting game fans already suspected this was going to be an all-star package, and it seems like it's living up to expectations. In our own review here on Nintendo Life, we've...
News More Super Mario Party Jamboree Pre-Order Goodies Have Been Revealed
Launching next month on Switch
Ahead of next month's release of Super Mario Party Jamboree, Nintendo has revealed some of the goodies fans will be able to receive if they pre-order the game from select stores in the US. This includes a themed tote bag from Best Buy, a party tin from Target and a dice block keychain from GameStop. Here's a look,...
News Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? She'll Be On Switch In 2025
She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery
The world's greatest thief Carmen Sandiego is no stranger to video games, but amazingly, she's managed to avoid the Switch in her near-40-year career. That is, until next year when Carmen Sandiego will be coming to all consoles. Revealed by IGN, Carmen Sandiego appears to be based on the...
News Yooka-Replaylee Art Team Highlight Laylee's New Fluffiness In Remaster
"She is a fan favourite already"
Yooka-Replaylee was a bit of a welcome surprise when it was announced back in June. It looks utterly gorgeous and promises plenty of tweaks, changes, and accessibility features when it eventually launches. But one thing that many fans spotted was Laylee, Yooka's purple bat companion, and her new, incredibly fluffy...
Hands On Super Mario Party Jamboree Brings Together The Best Of Both Worlds
It's Mario 'Par-tay'
“Super Mario Party, Mario Party Superstars, Mario Party 1, 2, & 3; what does that tell you about Mario Party games on Switch” “There’s too many of them?” “Or, people like them, let’s release some more of them.” That’s how we imagine the initial pitch for
Video Early Gameplay Of Sega Revival Projects Leak Online
Five legacy franchises are returning
It appears there have been some more gameplay leaks of Sega's legacy revival projects. This information comes from a leaker formerly known as 'Midori'. According to the source, the footage on display is still "early" in each game's development cycle. First up, we have a look at the Crazy Taxi reboot, which shows...
News More Developers Announce Their Tokyo Game Show 2024 Lineups
Guilty Gear Strive, Dragon Quest III HD-2D and much more
The Tokyo Game Show will take place later this month and more publishers are slowly revealing the lineup of games they'll be showing off at the big event. Some of the latest reveals come from Square Enix and Arc System Works. Starting with Square Enix, it will be hosting a special live stream...
News Trails In The Sky Dev Apparently 'Surprised' By Recent Nintendo Direct Reveal
Nihon Falcom's president says he didn't know about it
Nintendo's Direct broadcasts come with all sorts of exciting news, and during the latest 'Partner Showcase' in August, developer Nihon Falcom even got a surprise. According to the developer's president Toshiro Kondo, he wasn't actually aware Nintendo would reveal Trails in the Sky the 1st during...
News Final Fantasy Creator Considers Square Enix & Nintendo His "Hometown"
"I am truly happy just to be able to send my child out into the world once again"
Hironobu Sakaguchi needs no introduction. As the father of the Final Fantasy franchise, he's the mind behind one of the most successful and popular JRPG series of all time. With FANTASIAN Neo Dimension reuniting Sakaguchi-san with Square Enix, he's spoken about how...
News Night Slashers: Remake Brings Horror Arcade Beat 'Em Up To Switch This Month
Things that go 'slash' in the night
Forever Entertainment and Storm Trident are bringing the remake of Night Slashers to Switch on 26th September 2024. Previously released in arcades in 1993 by Data East, and then available on Switch thanks to the Johnny Turbo's Arcade rerelease — until it vanished in 2023 — Night Slashers is a horror-inspired
News Nintendo Highlights Super Mario Party Jamboree's Five New Boards In Fresh Footage
Let's roll
After learning last week that Pauline will be joining the fun in Super Mario Party Jamboree, Nintendo has today revealed another trailer, this time highlighting the game's new boards. Shared to Twitter by @NintendoUK, the 39-second video provides a whistle-stop tour of the five game boards and shows some of the sights we can expect to...
News Ubisoft Shares New Details On Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown's Upcoming Story DLC
Return to Mount Qaf this month
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is gearing up for its first paid story DLC, 'Mask of Darkness,' which lands in the meaty metroidvania on 17th September. Ahead of its launch, Ubisoft has shared the four biggest things we need to know about the upcoming expansion in a new blog post, so we can ensure Sargon is in tip-top...
News Looney Tunes: Wacky World Of Sports Launches On Switch This Month
That's all folks!
In case you missed it, Bugs Bunny and the rest of his crew are coming to Switch on 27th September in Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports. This new title by Game Mill features four classic sports including "basketball, soccer, golf and tennis" and nine iconic Looney Tunes chracters, each with their own talents. Apart from Bugs,...
News Level-5's 'Vision 2024' Showcase To Share Multiple Project Updates And Announce Brand New Title
Update: Another mystery game is being teased
Update [Fri 6th Sep, 2024 00:45 BST]: Level-5's official website for this broadcast has now been updated with a list of featured titles. Apart from the five previously mentioned titles (including a brand new game), there's now a sixth mystery game reveal being teased. Original article [Sun 1st Sep,...
Round Up The Previews Are In For The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
It's sounding very promising!
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is fast approaching and we've now got the first batch of preview impressions doing the rounds. This includes a "hands on" courtesy of our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney: "We left wanting more. Wishing we could stay on and progress further than we were allowed, wishing we could take a...
News SNK Announces ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 1 And Vol. 2 For Switch
But there's no mention of a local release
SNK has announced ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 1 and ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 2 for the Nintendo Switch. Both collections will be released in Japan on 12th December 2024. If we hear anything about a local release, we'll let you know. Here are the games in each package (via Gematsu): ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol...
News Fantasian Neo Dimension Will Let You Listen To Final Fantasy Music In Combat
Let the battles begin!
Previously exclusive to Apple Arcade, Fantasian Neo Dimension is coming to Switch (and other consoles) later in 2024 as an expanded version of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's RPG. And while we're still waiting for a specific release date, hands-on previews for the game have dropped and given us some new information...
Video We've Played The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom - Here's 15 Minutes Of Gameplay
Rhoaming around
We are mere weeks away from the release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom on 26th September and just to get the excitement levels even higher, we have a crisp 15 minutes of brand-new gameplay footage to share with you. The above footage comes from our recent trip to a hands-on event, where we got to play through the opening...
News First Minecraft Movie Trailer Features Creepers, Piglins And Jack Black's Steve
Blocked
After years of casting rumours and speculation, we finally have our first official look at the live-action Minecraft movie — or 'A Minecraft Movie', to give it its official title — and it looks... well, about as horrifying as you'd think a live-action Minecraft movie would be. Releasing in cinemas on 4th April 2025, the film sees a...
Hands On Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Brings Tantalising Creativity To The 2D Template
Echo, Echo, Echo, what's going on here?
It’s fairly safe to say that everyone was pretty jazzed when Nintendo announced The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. We haven’t had a new top-down Zelda game since 2013’s A Link Between Worlds, assuming of course you don’t count Tri Force Heroes, and if that was your mindset, we wouldn't entirely...
News Square Enix Reveals New Character Art For Every Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Job Class
Including the new Monster Wrangler class
With the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake release date (14th November) fast approaching, Square Enix is doing everything it can to keep our hype levels sky-high. And it's working. Today, the publisher has revealed full character art for all nine vocations you can recruit into your party (plus the Hero class,...
News Capcom Outlines Changes To Each Game In 'Fighting Collection 2'
Visual changes, certain characters made playable and more
One of the major surprises during Nintendo's Partner Showcase was the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, coming in 2025. This new collection will contain eight games (covering series like Street Fighter and Capcom vs. SNK) and will also come with a bunch additional settings, training modes,...
News Mario & Luigi: Brothership Trailer Welcomes You To Concordia
Greetings!
Wowie zowie! Wrong Mario game, we know, but there's been quite a deluge of Mario & Luigi: Brothership details over the last 24 hours. After last night's new screenshots, Nintendo has dropped a brief but delightful new trailer for the upcoming RPG. Titled 'Greetings from Concordia' — a slightly unfortunate name (and timing) given
News Yars Rising Story Trailer Reveals Boss Characters And Space Bugs
WayForward's new title launches 10th September
Atari has revealed the final story trailer for its upcoming 'Metroidvania' Yars Rising, developed by WayForward Technologies. Launching on 10th September, Yars Rising blends traditional Metroidvania gameplay with classic Yars' Revenge-inspired hacking minigames, in which protagonist Emi 'Yar' Kimura...
Video Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection Spotlights Two More Games
Out on Switch next week
Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection will launch on the Switch next week, and ahead of the big day, Capcom has been releasing highlights of each game in the collection. The latest videos give us a look at 'X-Men vs. Street Fighter' - another all-star fighting game that originally landed in arcades in 1996. Its roster is...
Gallery Mario & Luigi: Brothership New Screenshots And Video Released
Arriving on Switch November 2024
Nintendo has published a new post about Mario & Luigi: Brothership on its Japanese website. According to a rough translation, it reveals new information about the islands in the game, some of the attacks in battle and the new enemies Mario and Luigi will face. Here's a gallery of every screenshot and video...
News Yu-Gi-Oh! Launches Retro Games Social Media Account For 'Early Days Collection'
It will also cover other "retro themed products"
Yu-Gi-Oh! is reviving its past with an official 'Yu-Gi-Oh! Retro Games' account launching on the social media platform 'X' today. This account will cover all things related to retro Yu-Gi-Oh! including the long-running trading card game as well as the upcoming Early Days Collection, which has been...
News Nintendo Releases Its First Commercial For Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
"Save Hyrule your way"
We've officially made it to September, which means the new Switch exclusive Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom arrives later this month! Nintendo has been steadily promoting this one since its initial reveal in June and now it has taken its advertising to the next level with the game's very first commercial featuring two actors, pugs,...
News Pokémon-Inspired RPG 'Coromon' Is Getting A Roguelite Spin-Off
Rouge-mon
A brand new Coromon game is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2025, publisher indie.io and developer TRAGsoft have announced. Coromon: Rogue Planet will combine the strategic turn-based gameplay of the original game while introducing roguelite elements to the monster-catching RPG (via Gematsu). The game was officially unveiled at the
News Atelier Yumia Release Date Announced, And The First Gameplay Trailer Is Beautiful
We could have envisioned this
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land was only just announced last week, but we already have a release date, a new trailer, and ten minutes of gameplay (below) footage to get through, thanks to Koei Tecmo Games. First, that release date. originally slated for "Early 2025", Atelier Yumia...
News Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Reportedly Offers 'Normal' and 'Hero' Difficulty From The Get-Go
It's even more dangerous to go alone...
Nintendo brought the first publicly playable demo of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom to PAX West this weekend, and attendees were quick to spot one feature that is yet to be officially revealed. As highlighted on Twitter by @Nintendeal, it seems Echoes of Wisdom will offer both 'Normal' and 'Hero'...
Video 16 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In September 2024
Zelda, Marvel vs. Capcom, Epic Mickey and much more
September has officially arrived and it's going to be an action-packed month on the Switch front. Starting off early on the 6th, we've got games like Ace Attorney Investigations Collection to look forward. Then there's the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection in the following week. Another...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For September And October 2024
Zelda! Mario Party! Sonic!
Can you believe it's September already? Blimey... At least we have plenty – and we mean plenty – of fantastic games headed our way on Nintendo Switch. We've been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail over the next few weeks, including some highlights picked by us as well as lots of other games...
News Zelda-Themed 'Hyrule Edition' Switch Lite Spotted At PAX West 2024
It's out later this month
PAX West 2024 is taking place this weekend in the US, and as part of the fun, Nintendo is showcasing upcoming games and hardware. This includes the Zelda-themed 'Hyrule Edition' Switch Lite, which will launch alongside the new Zelda game Echoes of Wisdom on 26th September. The first photos of this new themed Lite are now...
News Guilty Gear Strive's Switch Edition Won't Support Crossplay
But rollback netcode has been confirmed
After a sign was spotted earlier this week at PAX West, Arc System Works has now confirmed the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive is on its way to the Nintendo Switch. While it's set to offer up the entire package (including the 28 currently available fighters), one thing it seems it will be missing is...
Feature The Return Of Lynels And Five Other Exciting Reveals In The Latest Zelda Trailer
Lynels and dungeons and tears, oh my!
A new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is here and we are excited! So excited, in fact, that we have watched it another 20 times to narrow down our top reveals — the things that really got us beaming cheek to cheek. These aren't blink-and-you'll-miss-'em details like those we spotted after...
“Switch has been very, very important”
Out of the Seven Wonders of the World, we can add one more to the list in recent years, a triumph of human engineering achievement almost as jaw-dropping as the Great Pyramids of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Sid Meier's classic 4X Civilization series now operates fine and dandy on Nintendo...
News Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Trailer Introduces Us To The 'Still World' And Dungeons
It's still dark in there
Nintendo has dropped a brand new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and we finally know a little bit more about those rifts that cover Hyrule. The Still World is a brand new location that probably reminds you of the Dark World by its name alone, but it's a little bit more than that. In these rifts, Hyrule is...
Random The Plucky Squire Will Be Narrated By Shrek In Brazil (Kind Of)
Voice ogre
Gorgeous-looking storybook adventure The Plucky Squire will, rather brilliantly, be localised into 11 different languages with full voice acting. Developer All Possible Futures made this announcement on Twitter yesterday and shared the full localisation credits (again, brilliant), but it was what followed that made us smile the most...
News A Bunch Of Classic Mario Party Minigames Are Seemingly Returning In Jamboree
Re-roll
Many of us were so blinded by the announcement that Pauline would be joining Super Mario Party Jamboree that we failed to look closer at the new website's contents. And yet, coming back to it with a clear head, it seems that a bunch of returning minigames were also teased. The website highlights a boatload of the 110+ minigames that we can...
News Super Mario Party Jamboree Will Include Pauline As A Playable Character
Party like it's 1981
We haven't heard much about Super Mario Party Jamboree since its original announcement in June, but that changes today! Nintendo has opened an official website for the game in Japan and some screenshots show off what appears to be a playable version of the classic character 'Pauline' alongside fan favourites such as Peach,...
News Cocoon And The Stanley Parable 'iam8bit' Physical Switch Releases Delayed (US)
"We apologize for the inconvenience"
We've got some unfortunate news if you happen to be located in the US and were looking forward to the 'iam8bit' versions of COCOON and The Stanley Parable. Due to an "unforeseen shipping delay", Cocoon will now arrive on 24th September and Stanley Parable will launch on 15th October. This delay also applies to...
News PlayStation Dating RPG 'Eternights' Is Coming To Switch
Eternal love
Studio Sai's Persona-inspired dating RPG Eternights is coming to Switch later this year. After being heavily pushed for PlayStation consoles and showing up at various State of Play presentations, the action RPG will be landing on the hybrid console on 17th October for GBP £26.99 / USD $29.99 both physically and digitally. Now, before...
