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Over the holidays we’re republishing some choice features from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from NL staff and contributors, you’ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and — of course — enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays! Image: Nintendo / Monolith

The latest Famitsu readers most wanted video games have been published and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom continues to lead the charge at No.1 with an impressive 742 votes by readers of the Japanese publication. However, the most interesting game to be included in the top ten this week is Level-5’s canceled

Image: Emile Holba While there are often discussions around the merits of gaming as an artform, we perhaps talk less about examples of games helping to inspire other contemporary art. Yet as years pass it’s an inevitability, as the role of games in the lives of millions has transformed since the mid- to late-’80s. We’re

Ubisoft‘s unfortunately canned 3D platformer Rayman 4 has surfaced along with the source code and the game’s editor. Rayman’s adventure was abandoned when the Wii came out and the team decided to move forward with the Rabbids franchise which became a success for the studio and Rayman was ultimately pushed aside for the pesky creatures.

Image: Nintendo Over the holidays we’re republishing some choice features from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from NL staff and contributors, you’ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and — of course — enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays! Switch is

Popular Japanese gaming magazine and website Famitsu has gathered people from the video games industry, key celebrities and others, to form a judging panel to vote for their favourite video games of 2022. This is something the team at Famitsu does every year as a special Christmas feature and it is always worth glancing at

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kate gets green fingers… Come here. Sit down. Shut up. Why haven’t you played Strange Horticulture yet? No, that was rhetorical. And also, a trap. I said shut up, didn’t I? You

Sea of Stars, which is being brought to us by the talented developers behind The Messenger, will now be coming next summer on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The turn-based RPG, which is inspired by the classics of the genre, has been delayed a few times since it was first announced in March 2020. The news

Image: Nintendo Yo-ho-ho! Following on from Nintendo’s final House of Indies, where Sports Story finally launched, the Big N is slashing prices on some of the console’s best indie titles. From now until 1st January 2023, you can get up to 50% (or more) off of some of the best independently-developed games. Or just add

Stranger Things actor, Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin Henderson in the popular Netflix show, has spoken to Variety about his plans for the Christmas period and for 2023. Henderson who is a big fan of Nintendo and has told the entertainment site that he has teamed up with the Kyoto-based company to “talk about a

Image: Dotemu / Tribute Games We’ve already had one helping of delicious pizza thanks to yesterday’s Cowabunga Collection update, but the Turtles aren’t done yet. Dotemu and Tribute Games have released a brand new patch for the outstanding beat ’em up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. In the patch — which is available to

It has only been a couple of weeks since the third wave of DLC was released for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Since then, there hasn’t been much news from Nintendo. Nevertheless, as with every major content update, there is a possibility that some bugs may have appeared in the game. Well, Nintendo has been aware

Another year has come and gone (almost) and once more we’re looking back over all the games we’ve played, along with those we wish we had played. It’s been a great year for Switch releases, with a crop of excellent first-party Nintendo games joined by some great third-party offerings (Square Enix, in particular, has been

You may recall that, back in August, Inti Creates had announced that an action game called Grim Guardians: Demon Purge was now in development. A trailer was released showcasing some gameplay, but a release date was nowhere to be seen. Well, that has changed. Inti Creates has announced that Grim Guardians: Demon Purge will be

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We had a great time with Tinykin when it was released earlier this year. A strange mash-up of Pikmin and Paper Mario, the game ticked a lot of our Nintendo-focussed boxes on Switch and now developer Splashteam and publisher tinyBuild have announced that more trials await in the

When Nintendo normally releases an update to the Nintendo Switch‘s firmware, it results in a version number change and, at the very least, a handful of changes that had been made. For these updates to finish, the console is required to reboot itself. Every once in a while, however, the company will release an update

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Nintendo has announced a new festive indie developer-focused video series called ‘Inside the House of Indies: Holiday Event’. Over the next five days, the company will be posting a short video on its YouTube channel featuring announcements and updates for indie games, starting today with the video above.

Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden remasters will be arriving next month and are sure to keep fans and newcomers throughly occupied just to their scope and size.. The file-size for both games have been published on the Nintendo Switch eShop and as expected they are fairly large. The remaster of Persona 3 Portable

Image: Nintendo Life / Square Enix Final Fantasy is now 35 years old, and that feels a little bit weird to say. While not the first RPG series to ever grace a home console or even the first Japanese-developed RPG, Final Fantasy is, arguably, the JRPG. Everyone knows it, and everyone has played at least

2022 marked the very first year of a celebration of the Digimon franchise. In February, Bandai Namco held an event called Digimon Con. Digimon Con features a variety of content from Bandai Namco, but the most interesting aspect of the event is the announcements that the company will make. Next year will be no different.

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Update: Nintendo of America’s current eShop sale comes to an end this weekend. This is your last chance to grab these savings – and don’t forget to save even more money by picking up discounted eShop credit to spend (details below). Original Article: Nintendo has launched its Critically Acclaimed

By now, you are probably aware of the news that Ash Ketchum and Pikachu’s adventure in the Pokemon anime will soon be coming to an end. You may also be aware that the final chapter of their journey will be seen through a special 11 episode series called “Aim to be a Pokémon Master”, which

Image: Nintendo Life How long did it take you to beat Pokémon Scarlet & Violet? 20 hours? 30 hours? Well, the speedrunning community is here to put us to shame, as Automaton Media has spotted that the latest Pokémon games are being completed in under five and a half hours. At the time of writing,

The first game that Nintendo has in store for fans in 2023, Fire Emblem Engage, is currently slated to release on January 20th. There’s just a little more than a month away, but if you’re still uncertain on whether to get the game, then Nintendo may have an answer for you. Earlier today, Nintendo released

Yes, it’s that time of year once again, folks! Perhaps you already managed to sort out a few Nintendo-related gaming gifts for our nearest and dearest this holiday season over Black Friday, but if you’re still looking for some last-minute presents for that special gamer in your life, we’re here to help with this Nintendo-flavoured

There aren’t that many Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighters left that haven’t received an amiibo release. In fact, you can count the number of amiibo characters remaining on just one hand. That said, the next amiibo releases are coming sooner than you think. Nintendo has announced that the Smash amiibo for Sephiroth and Kazuya will

Image: Square Enix Square Enix’s kart racing title Chocobo GP will be updated to version 1.4.0 on December 21st, introducing a sizeable amount of additions, adjustments, and fixes to the game. The main star of the show here is the brand new “Midgar” course, taking inspiration from the starting location from Final Fantasy VII. This

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has recently received its third wave of DLC on the Nintendo Switch. Meanwhile, Mario Kart 7 has, unsurprisingly, not been updated on the Nintendo 3DS in a decade. In fact, the last update was version 1.1 in May of 2012. Well, believe it or not, Nintendo has released a sudden and

Image: Nintendo Life Today marks the 20th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker’s Japanese release and after all of these years, we think that it is finally safe to say that Nintendo’s punt paid off. By ‘punt’ we don’t refer to the idea of putting Link on a boat – whatever will

Sonic Frontiers has now been available to play for a little over a month now. With the dust now settled on the game’s overall reception, attention is not only turning to the game’s post-launch content, but how well Sonic Frontiers is selling. Well, we finally have some sales data on the game. SEGA revealed on