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[embedded content] On 26th May, NetherRealms is releasing ‘Aftermath’ – a new downloadable story expansion for its brutal and bloody fighting game Mortal Kombat 11. As previously noted, there’ll also be a free update that adds a bunch of new content. This includes friendship finishing moves. These special moves were originally introduced in Mortal Kombat

Nintendo of America has uploaded the English overview trailer for the upcoming Club House Games: 51 Worldwide Classics for the Nintendo Switch. The trailer gives you a glimpse of some of the tabletop classics included within the substantial package. You will be able to play games such as chess and cards which have been reproduced

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) The ‘80s aesthetic is so overused these days that it takes something fairly spectacular to stand out in the crowd. To be fair to 80’s Overdrive, it originally launched on the 3DS back at the end of 2017, when things like that 3D purple sci-fi grid you see all the

French publication 20 Minutes has had the opportunity to chat with Animal Crossing: New Horizons developer Aya Kyogoku about the popular Nintendo Switch video game. Kyogoku told the site that the team always wants to ensure that when they embark on a new Animal Crossing game they want to create the best possible version that

© Nintendo Life If you’re old enough to remember the N64 classic GoldenEye 007, you might also recall that the game featured a bunch of cheat codes which could be entered to change the game and unlock all of the weapons. You might also be one of the many people who were upset that its

Another Friday brings another Animal Crossing New Horizons-themed episode of Nintendo Minute. Kit and Krysta said in the video description that, this week, “we’re hanging out and having a nice relaxing day visiting the museum. Sometimes, we get so busy doing things around our island we forget to go and walk around the museum. It’s

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Ion Fury doesn’t just love 2.5D ‘90s shooters, it is a 2.5D ‘90s shooter. Developed by Voidpoint, a studio made up of veteran Build modders (the same engine used to create Duke Nukem all those years ago) and published by none other than 3D Realms, Ion Fury has all the

Fire off the warp pipe! A new update for the Mario Kart Tour game has drifted onto smartphone devices, bringing with it new updates that jump-start the competition, including Team Races and Room Codes for multiplayer matches. In Team Races, teammates, whether they’re friends nearby, friends online or other racers online, compete for the high score in a

Three huge licences. One average game. Every weekend here at Nintendo Life we take a look at regional box art variants for retro video games and run a poll on which one is best. It’s a fun, light-hearted exercise; really just an excuse to look at fantastic (and some not-so-fantastic) old-school cover art, which is

Famitsu’s monthly sales data has revealed that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now the best-selling Nintendo Switch game ever in Japan. The creative title has now sold 3.9 million copies and has overtaken Super Smash Bros Ultimate which was the previous record holder on Switch. Super Smash Bros Ultimate has shifted 3.7 million. Here’s the

[embedded content] As promised, Huntdown – an ’80s-inspired bounty-hunting pixel art action comedy game – has blasted onto Nintendo Switch today. A new launch trailer has been released to celebrate. Set in a bleak dystopian future and full of gorgeous-looking 16-bit pixel art graphics and hand-drawn animations, Huntdown could well be an ideal – and

Bloomberg has produced an article providing an in-depth look at the manufacturing issues surrounding the Nintendo Switch system during the coronavirus pandemic. Analysts have chimed in to say that they aren’t expecting supply issues to be resolved completely anytime soon and that the Nintendo Switch console could remain hard to find throughout the year. This

The original Slayin was a mobile marvel of simplicity; a lovely little bite-sized twitchy RPG-ish thing where you effectively just moved left and right putting holes in enemies and using their dropped loot to improve your stuff. It was a familiar rogue-lite approach that worked brilliantly for a few rounds at the bus stop. In

Out of the three current console makers it was Nintendo which spent out the most amount of money on television adverts during the month of April 2020. The company splashed out $6.5 million on TV adverts in the United States during the month of lockdown. However, all firms spent less in April than they had

Welcome back to Box Art Brawl, the weekly bout where regional box art variants battle for supremacy and the adoration of you lovely people. Last week we watched The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask celebrate its 20th anniversary by giving itself a sound thrashing in this crucible of public opinion. Ultimately, the Japanese version took

Love it or hate it, there’s been a lot of buzz surrounding Fortnite as of late. Epic Games has been heavily advertising the new, more laid back event called ‘Party Royale’ where players can kick back and relax (and watch some short performances by famous DJ’s, in this instance). Nintendo’s loveable character Kirby makes a

© Nintendo Life With yet another week down, this time bringing with it a newly-found Animal Crossing glitch, a super gorgeous Super Mario 64 PC port, and all sorts of interesting stats from Nintendo’s fiscal year earnings report, it’s finally time to sit back and enjoy the weekend. Members of Team Nintendo Life have gathered

You may have heard that the free-to-play online Nintendo Switch exclusive Ninjala has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. To compensate for this, the team has announced that they plan to hold a second beta test. Those of you who tried the first beta test will know things didn’t go completely to plan as

[embedded content] Last week, the Neo Geo Pocket Color title SNK Gals’ FIghters got released on the Switch eShop. Now a post on the Nintendo Switch subreddit by the user Vcom7418 has noted how it’s been removed: Gals’ fighters was on my to buy list, but when I went to check it in the eshop,

Investment advisor David Gibson was present during the Nintendo investors Q & A session and reports that the company informed investors that the Nintendo Switch platform is barely in the middle of its life cycle. This indicates that there won’t be a successor to the Switch until around 2023, though plans do change.. Nintendo previously

Last month, we ran a story about a new exploit ruining competitive play in Pokémon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch. It became such a “well-known bug” one video on Twitter demonstrating this nasty trick was viewed more than 50,000 times before it was removed. The Pokémon Company caught onto this a week later

US Gamer has published an exclusive interview with Minecraft Dungeons game director Måns Olson. The Diablo 3-style dungeon crawler is set to be released on the Nintendo Switch soon, as it is destined for the platform on Tuesday, 26th May. Mr. Olson revealed in the interview that the original theme for the game was influenced

Retro Studios has been hard at work on Metroid Prime 4 ever since development was scrapped and restarted last year, but there was a time long ago when the talented team was apparently working on a Legend of Zelda game starring Sheik, and a Super Mario game about the mischievous ghost, Boo. According to Shinesparkers,

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has proved to be a huge success for Nintendo and by all accounts many of you are enjoying every moment of the game. What’s of interest is that Animal Crossing Portal rounds up the most popular, the most sought after, and the most expensive villagers and creates a list. The latest

Nintendo Life Not long after Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched back in March, players figured out a way to duplicate items in-game. As you can imagine, the process goes against the nature of the game’s slow and steady progression style – and saves the player a fair few Bells in the process – so Nintendo

The Japanese Times is reporting that Nintendo Switch stock in the United States might not return to normal until sometime in June. As of right now it’s very hard for U.S. consumers to get ahold of a Nintendo Switch system because of production issues due to the coronavirus pandemic and increased demand due to the

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) ITTA is the kind of game that will make you scream with frustration as much as it’ll make you’ll whoop with joy. One of those interactive experiences that gets your adrenaline pumping like a shot of epinephrine to the heart, while simultaneously putting your Nintendo Switch at risk of being

The official SEGA Forever Twitter has announced that SEGA AGES G-LOC Air Battle is now available on the Nintendo Switch. If you don’t know what the game is, it’s a combat flight simulator arcade game that released in 1990 for arcades, the Master System, Game Gear, and SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive. It’s a spin-off of SEGA’s

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Mario Kart has taught us to expect a close-up, over-the-shoulder view of our arcade racers, but it didn’t always used to be this way. Back in the NES days, the likes of R.C. Pro-Am and Super Off-Road offered a birds-eye view of the action. It’s this old-school racing spirit that

Nintendo of America has confirmed this evening that you will be able to switch between the original and remastered soundtrack in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition while you are playing through the game. This is a neat addition to what sounds like a fantastic remake. Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is due out on Nintendo Switch on