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It’s been a while… by Liam Doolan 57 mins ago If you’re one of the few people who still make regular use of the Switch Online smartphone app, you might be interested to hear Nintendo recently rolled out a new update for it. Admittedly, though, it doesn’t do much. This time around it’s a simple

Nintendo has released a brand new update for Luigi’s Mansion 3. This brings the game to version 1.2.1. The update doesn’t add any new content, and there isn’t any official patch notes from Nintendo as of this article’s writing. However, it has been discovered that it does fix some bugs. The only bug fix that

The Switch’s ever-expanding library of games is slowly but surely bringing more and more FPS titles into the fold. Juggernauts like Overwatch and Alien: Isolation rule the roost, but there’s definitely a conspicuous gap in the market for a true co-op FPS game, and that’s where Hypercharge: Unboxed comes in. Channeling the spirits of Toy

Nintendo Switch owners will soon be able to experience the world of Metro with Metro Redux, which is set to arrive on February 28. Set in a post-apocalyptic rendition of Moscow, the game revolves around a character named Artyom on a quest to save his besieged home station from all that would threaten it. You can

[embedded content] Imagine running through the land of Hyrule as Link. What, you’ve already done that a long time ago in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Well, have you tried it with the Ring-Con? That’s exactly what the modder Super Louis 64 did. He got his Ring-Con from Ring Fit Adventure and

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe owners in the U.S., Canada and Mexico now have a chance to compete in the Mario Kart North American Online Open tournament on Nintendo Switch. Players can take part in up to 24 races each day and will be scored based on their in-game ranking in each race. At the end

[embedded content] Nintendo has been putting out ASMR videos – that’s Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ‘videos that are supposed to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end’ – for a while now. Over the holidays we got 30 minutes of a woman playing her Switch Lite in a log

Capcom had something special to show off today regarding Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition for the Nintendo Switch. As had previously been rumoured, the action game will now be getting Free Style mode. You can check the new mode out in the tweet down below. Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition is now available

[embedded content] Towards the end of last year, Bandai Namco filed trademarks in Japan for multiple classic titles including the puzzler Mr. Driller. Now, in the latest update, the video game publisher and developer has gone and trademarked Mr. Driller Drill Land in Europe. As explained by Gematsu, Drill Land is the name of a

It’s time to take centre stage in Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore and dazzle your audience with stylish moves any J-pop star would be proud to present. And, when the time is right, swap your mic for a sword, bow or battle axe and sweep through the Idolosphere, stopping any enemy – savage or boss

Following on from our reader-voted Top 50 Games of the Decade, Nintendo Life staff members will be picking their personal favourite Nintendo games between the years 2010-2019. Today, Liam reminds us that sometimes, you have to keep trying to really find a gem… Let’s make this clear, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt is not

For the first time this year, Nintendo is promoting the summer launch of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan. What may surprise you is that they’re promoting it with a music video. The music video features the song “We Are Born To Play” by Galantis and Charli XCX. Nintendo of America has tweeted the

Following on from our reader-voted Top 50 Games of the Decade, Nintendo Life staff members will be picking their personal favourite Nintendo games between the years 2010-2019. Today, Alan sums up what made Nintendo’s short-lived mobile experience so gripping… Miitomo is not just my Nintendo Game of the Decade, it’s Nintendo’s Game of the Decade.

A new Grand Hero, Travant: King of Thracia, has been added to Special Maps in Fire Emblem Heroes. Originally from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, the King of Thracia can now serve as your ally in the mobile game. Meanwhile, 5★ Heroes who appeared before the start of Book II are appearing as

Last year we let our imaginations run wild and picked 30 third-party ports we’d like to see come to Switch. Despite our wishes, Cuphead still surprised us when it arrived on Switch with Microsoft’s blessing (along with Ori And The Blind Forest later in the year), but there are still a large number of games

Established video game developer WayForward has a Nintendo Switch exclusive in the works and it is due as soon as next month. The game is titled Vitamin Connection, which is a bizarre and colourful adventure which is sure to keep players entertained. Vitamin Connection is due out on the Nintendo Switch eShop on 20th February

[embedded content] Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Although Pokémon Sword and Shield stole most of the headlines earlier this week when the Pokémon Direct aired, there was some other news at the start about the original Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games being remade for the Nintendo Switch. While we already shared the date of the

SEGA has had its own announcement to make this afternoon and that’s that SEGA AGES Shinobi and SEGA AGES Fantasy Zone now have release dates here in the west. You will be able to purchase both titles via the Nintendo Switch eShop on 23rd January. Now all we need to know is what’s next from

It wasn’t just Japan that released some Switch sales data today. France also had some good Switch hardware sales news to report. Japan’s sales data was for the Switch Lite, but France’s data is for the older Nintendo Switch model that has been available worldwide for almost a few years now. According to Le Figaro,

The Nintendo Switch Lite released on September 20th, 2019, and it seems that Japanese gamers love it. According to some Famitsu sales rankings for the week ending December 29tth, 2019, the Switch Lite has had a lifetime sales total in Japan of 1,045,383 units. So, just before 2019 came to a close, the Switch Lite’s

You still see some people writing off Pokemon GO but it’s still incredibly successful and according to data obtained by Sensor Tower, the augmented reality title had its best year ever last year. The Pokemon mobile title generated an estimated $894 million in gross player spending. Previously the best year was its launch year back

IGN’s Nintendo Podcast, which is titled Nintendo Voice Chat, may have revealed one of the two Wii U ports which Emily Rogers said were arriving on the Nintendo Switch in the near future. Judging from what was said by Peer Schneider, who is the co-founder of IGN, it sounds like Pikmin 3 will be one

As many of you will know, UK centric video game retailer GAME has constantly been in financial trouble over the last few years. Today, things aren’t looking much better for the firm. The UK high-street is changing and the majority of people are shopping for their games online at places such as Amazon UK or

One game we haven’t seen too much of, but one to look forward to, is Monolith Soft’s Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. We haven’t seen much of the revamped Nintendo Switch version but it’s scheduled to be released this year. Danish retailer Cool Shop has listed the game with a 29th May 2020 release date which

Video game developer Arc System Works has announced a new IP in the action platforming genre and it is titled, Code Shifter. The game features some rather funky 8-bit models of characters from some of the company’s acclaimed franchises including BlazBlue and Guilty Gear. Here’s what you need to know about the upcoming Code Shifter:

Emily Rogers got everyone talking earlier this week when she mentioned that Nintendo is currently preparing two Wii U ports for the Nintendo Switch system. We were all left guessing what games they could be. Super Mario 3D World seems likely and now IGN has hinted that one could be Pikmin 3. Digital Foundry has

Nintendo of America is busy preparing their first release of 2020 on the Nintendo Switch which is a remastered version of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. We recently wrote an extensive preview for Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore on the Nintendo Switch so have a read here if you haven’t already done so. For now check

Nintendo Switch is already home to multiple entries in The Legend of Zelda series, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and – more recently – The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. According to Nintendo of America, if you loved the former title, you’ll also thoroughly enjoy the latter. The publisher has created

Originally planned for release back in August on Switch, Decay of Logos was delayed by its developers in order to fix some issues with the game on Nintendo’s platform. We played this original version back at the time and found it seriously lacking, suffering from a crushing number of gameplay bugs, some terribly muddy graphics

The Pokemon Company has filed a lawsuit in a Seattle court that accuses 3 people of leaking Pokemon Sword and Shield information prior to the game’s release by posting photos from the official Pokemon Sword and shield strategy guide, which was also unreleased at the time. The photos, which leaked earlier this month, included images