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The latest UK boxed video game software charts are now in and there’s a re-entry at No.1 for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 game, Horizon: Forbidden West. This week sees three Nintendo first party Switch games in the top five which are Mario Strikers: Battle League Football, Nintendo Switch Sports and Mario Kart 8

Fire Emblem has become an extremely important IP for Nintendo in recent years, so it’s no surprise to see them collaborate with Koei Tecmo once again for a brand new Musou action-RPG. It’s not often when we see a new project attempt to be a successor to two different games simultaneously, but that’s exactly what

Illumination founder and CEO, Chris Meledandri, has spoken a little about the company’s untitled animated Super Mario movie which will be hitting theatres next year and features Chris Pratt as Mario himself. Mr. Meledandri said that the Super Mario movie is now around 75 percent and that they have been truly impressed with his performance

Pokémon: Hisuian Snow, the three-episode web series that The Pokemon Company has been doing for the past month, had the release of its second episode just a couple of weeks ago. That means that there has only been one episode to go. Well, the last episode was released earlier today. This episode is called “Two

In a new Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Direct video presentation today, Nintendo unveiled 25 minutes of new footage featuring monstrous foes, intriguing personalities and sweeping locales from the upcoming game.  Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launches for Nintendo Switch on 29th July, but today, it’s possible to catch an early glimpse at the chain of events that sends Noah, Mio and their fellow soldiers

Pokémon Trainers from across the globe are set to compete in the 2022 Pokémon North America International Championships in Columbus, Ohio, June 24 – 26. Tune in to the official Pokémon and Pokémon TCG Twitch channels beginning this Friday, June 24 to catch exciting match-ups for the Pokémon TCG, Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield video games, Pokémon GO, and Pokkén Tournament DX. Pokémon Trading

The latest edition of Weekly Famitsu has arrived with subscribers in Japan and contains a couple of reviews. Fire Emblem fans will be pleased to see another high score for Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes with the four Famitsu reviewers giving the game a 9/10 which gives it a grand total of 36/40. We published

IGN has taken to Twitter to inform SEGA fans that they are set to reveal a world premiere exclusive game today via the IGN Summer of Gaming stream. People have naturally been trying to guess what the game will be with people leaning towards a classic franchise. You can catch the stream today at 10am

For SEGA and Sonic Team, a lot of the focus this month has been on Sonic Frontiers. However, there is just a couple of days until the release of Sonic Origins. Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic CD, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles are all included in the collection, but other 2D titles are not. Takashi

SEGA has unleashed a new epidote of their Sonic Speed Strats series giving gamers a glimpse of some of the features found in the upcoming Sonic Origins which finally releases tomorrow on the Nintendo Switch eShop. This particular video takes us through the original Sonic the Hedgehog game and goes through a few features that

Image: Nintendo Unless you’re been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll be aware that the biggest news in gaming at present surrounds Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard, the publisher of franchises like Call of Duty, Warcraft, Skylanders and Crash Bandicoot. The $68.7 billion acquisition has predictably caused people to start guessing who’s

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Originally released on the Sega Dreamcast back in 2013, Sturmwind EX has since seen a digital release on the Switch eShop – and now, thanks to publisher Pix’n Love, it’s getting a physical version that comes with loads of goodies. The limited edition – of which only 2000

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It was way back in the more innocent times of late 2019 that we wrote about Underworld Dreams, a Lovecraftian psychological horror game coming to Switch. Developer Drop of Pixel had initial plans to release in 2020, but instead the project has had an extended development and picked

With just a week left to go before Pokémon Legends: Arceus launches on Nintendo Switch, Japanese media have had the opportunity to go hands-on with the game. We’ll still have to wait a little while before full reviews are shared online, but these early impressions are certainly sounding promising. Famitsu highlighted the game’s new take

Japanese fans will soon be treated to a new Pokémon distribution following the upcoming launch of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on Nintendo Switch. The special Pokémon in question is Piplup, with owners of both the new Legends: Arceus game and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl being offered the chance to claim one. As reported by

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Accessory maker Plenbo has taken to Kickstarter to secure funding for the G-Case, an “All-In-One” case solution for the Nintendo Switch and Switch OLED model. The case really does seem to have it all; not only does it provide protection for your console when you’re on the move,

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s a match made in hell: The surprisingly creepy Banjo-Kazooie, a game in which you have to fight a witch and all her minions in order to save your sister from… getting very ugly; and the very creepy Luigi’s Mansion, a game in which you have to fight

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube This generation has seen a steady run of retro games getting spruced up for remasters, and another is on the way this Spring on Switch. This time around Deadly Dozen Reloaded is delivering an updated take on a 2001 tactical shooter in which you lead a group of

Nintendo has revealed that the physical edition of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition for Switch will hit retail stores on 11th February. The news was shared today with fans on social media, with tweets confirming the release date and giving us a good look at the official box art. The 11th

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Once upon a time in an unfortunate culinary incident, this writer managed to accidentally create a bowl of literally flavorless Jell-O. The Jell-O (that’s jelly to you UK folk) was cold, completely clear, chewy, and somehow managed to leave a massive impression, solely because of how its flavor left absolutely

Physical games tracker GfK Entertainment has released the latest UK sales charts. This time, the GfK Top 10 is for the week ending September 25th, 2021. Once again, it was another impressive showing for Nintendo. Out of the 10 games that made it onto the charts, 5 of them are Nintendo Switch exclusives. The highest

Image: Nintendo Nintendo’s new tier for the Switch Online service has raised some concerns about future support for the SNES and NES libraries. Will games continue to be added to this service, or is Nintendo done with these older retro libraries for good? It seems there’s no need to worry. Axios writer, Stephen Totilo, has

Unfortunately, Yuji Naka‘s last video game project, Balan Wonderworld, didn’t do that well. The game released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC earlier this year, in March. Since then, he is no longer a part of Square Enix. However, he’s not done making games yet. Late

Image: via Nintendo Baldo: The Guardian Owls got off to a rough start when it arrived on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. We ended up delaying our review and waiting until a hotfix was released. Unfortunately, even after the first patch – we still encountered quite a lot of problems. The Italian developer

The possibility for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl to have additional DLC fighters has been a huge topic of discussion amongst fans since the game’s initial reveal, and many have been campaigning and holding out hope for their favorite Nick characters to join the battle. Fortunately, we now have a definitive statement confirming that more are on

Image: PlatinumGames Bayonetta 3 has been making headlines once again over the past week, and while PlatinumGames has said everything is fine on its end, there’s a new development that’s got some fans worried. In an exchange on Twitter, the character’s voice actor, Hellena Taylor, told one of her “lovely” followers that they might have

To say that there has been plenty of announcements for Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania would be an understatement. Every day, there has been some kind of announcement for content that you can experience in the game. And today, it was confirmed that you can play as the SEGA Game Gear, Saturn, and Dreamcast. A

The Switch generation has seen Nintendo call on emulation for games such as the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection, but long before this, there was apparently an official emulator that could run Super Nintendo titles. Starting out life as ‘Mirage’, project ‘Silhouette’ was a SNES emulator for MacOS and Power PC that supposedly got “leaked”

Last week, Kit and Krysta stated at the end of their Nintendo Minute episode that they would be playing some more WarioWare: Get It Together in the next episode. Well, that next episode arrived earlier tonight. And, as promised, the episode features the duo playing some more WarioWare: Get It Together. The pair said in

Get ready to rumble by Liam Doolan 12 mins ago Less than a week after finding out CatDog and April O’Neil would be joining the battle in the upcoming fighter, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, the game’s release date and file size for the Nintendo Switch hasve now seemingly been revealed. According to a North America eShop