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Image: Nintendo / Illumination At last week’s The Game Awards show, Nintendo and Illumination unveiled a new clip from the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie, showcasing the main guy himself exploring Mushroom Kingdom alongside Keegan-Michael Key’s character, Toad. Something that long-time fans of Mario will have immediately noticed was the lovely background music, which was

The store listings for the recently unveiled Bayonetta spin-off game Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon has revealed its file-size. The Nintendo UK eShop has the game listed as weighing in at a mere 3.5GB, though this could change nearer release with a day-one update etc. The game, which is developed by Platinum Games

When it comes to modern video games, there are few more polarising terms than ‘roguelike’. That divisive descriptor draws some players like moths to a flame, while others run a mile at the mere whisper of it. These days, it often feels like ‘roguelike’–which refers to dungeon crawler Rogue from 1980–is attached to every other

If you have some amiibo figures hanging around and you are planning to purchase the forthcoming Fire Emblem Engage then you are in luck as Nintendo has confirmed that you can use them in-game to obtain some goodies. Players can use their amino figures to get different costumes for some of the summoned emblems who

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) The world wasn’t ready for Romancing SaGa when it was first released back in 1992. It wasn’t until the PS2 remake in 2005 that the title would make its way to western shores, where it quickly gained a passionate following among fans of its non-linear storytelling, expressive characters, and multiple-choice

The latest US video game software and hardware data is in from the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales throughout the United States, for the month of November. The best-selling hardware was Sony’s PlayStation 5 console with the Nintendo Switch the second best-selling system and Xbox Series X|S in third. The best-selling video game

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Developer Light Games has launched a brand new Kickstarter project for its Game Boy Color title Last Crown Warriors, which features top-down gameplay inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and is said to be the console’s first ever ‘Action-Tactics’ game. At the time of writing, the

Awards were handed out, games were announced, and many speeches were made. However, eventually, all things must come to an end. The Game Awards has officially concluded for another year, which means that we now know who got to take home awards. It isn’t surprising, but God of War Ragnarok took home a lot of

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Wales Interactive, known for its extensive work in the FMV genre, has announced Ten Dates, a sequel to the lockdown dating sim Five Dates, which was released back in November 2020. Due for release on February 14th, 2023 (yep, Valentine’s Day), the game doubles the number of potential

By now, you have more than likely heard the news that the third wave of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass went live earlier today. The third wave adds the Rock Cup and the Moon Cup to the game, along with 8 more tracks. Well, the new DLC has also come with a

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope came out a little over a month ago now and was instantly met by high praise indeed (scoring 8/10 in our review). If the first game in the series is anything to go by, then we can see this sequel being something

There has been a lot of speculation and opinions from fans and industry analysts on what the Microsoft’s purchase of Blizzard-Activision will mean for the latter’s various IPs being released on non-Microsoft platforms, such as the Nintendo Switch. Well, the matter has been somewhat addressed by Xbox head Phil Spencer. However, it only applies to

Image: Nintendo / Illumination We’re fast approaching the launch of The Super Mario Bros. Movie on April 7th, 2023 (yes, it’ll be here before you know it!) and we’ve already seen a boatload of characters from the first two trailers, including the likes of Peach, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Funky Kong, and more. It seems Nintendo

Video game movies have been seeing a huge resurgence in recent years, with the Sonic movies and The Super Mario Bros. Movie being the biggest of examples of this. The list is about to get even longer, due to the announcement of another franchise that will be getting a movie. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting

Image: The Pokémon Company It was back at the start of November that The Pokémon Company announced the first contenders in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s Tera Raid Battles, and now it looks like we know who is going to be turning all crystal-y next. Following on from Eevee and Charizard, the next ‘mon to be

The premiere of The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still 4 months away, as well as what will likely be a major advertising campaign for the movie. It’s also likely that plenty of merchandise is also on the way. However, in Japan, there’s something happening that may interest you. You see, Japan is already getting

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube At ArcRevo Japan 2022 this weekend, the fighting game DNF Duel was announced for the Nintendo Switch. It’ll be getting ported to the hybrid system in Spring 2023. This title, co-developed by the talented team at Arc System Works and Eighting, was originally released on PlayStation and PC

The Nintendo Switch Online app was recently updated bringing the software to Version 2.4.0. The app is very slowly improving, though not quite at the pace that some would like in comparison to the functionality that the rival PS App and the Xbox App include. However, the newest version now includes widgets for X-Battles in

Super Kiwi 64 feels like it’s up to something. There’s a tricksy energy about it that’s impossible to ignore. Players of Siactro’s earlier games might be expecting that, but this isn’t just more of the same. Super Kiwi 64 is weird in its own special way, presenting a fresh guided tour of this indie developer’s

It hasn’t even been a day since Splatoon 3 was updated to version 2.0.0., and unfortunately, it has been discovered that there is an issue in the update that is rather serious. In certain situations, Roller and Brush weapons types don’t work. Well, Nintendo has confirmed on Twitter that they are aware of the problem,

Image: Conradical Games We have been hotly anticipating the release of The Outbound Ghost for a good few months now. A 2.5D Paper Mario tribute with an adorable little ghosty as the main character? What’s not to like! Unfortunately, it seems that the game which was released on Switch yesterday is not the version that

You may recall that, yesterday, Nintendo announced that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet would be receiving an update sometime today. The update also came with an apology for performance issues and glitches that fans and media outlets have been reporting on since the games released. Well, as promised, the update has been released. Once you update

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Publisher The Arcade Crew and devleoper Joymasher have announced that the upcoming pixel art action-platformer Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider will launch on the Nintendo Switch on January 12th, 2023. It wasn’t long ago that 2023 still felt like an age away, but the game’s release is now only a

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have been out for a little while now, but it became clear rather quickly that the quality of the newest generation of Pokemon games depends on who you’re talking to. Nevertheless, one thing that has been heavily criticized has been performance issues and bugs. Well, it seems that Nintendo has heard

Image: Nintendo Life Update: Here’s a friendly reminder that our Black Friday sale ends today. If you’re wanting to stock up on discounted Switch eShop credit or pick up some digital games, use code ‘BLACKFRIDAY’ on the deals below before the sale ends! November usually means two things: the weather’s turning absolutely miserable (blergh), and

You may recall that, last night, the announcement of the Super Mario Bros. Movie Direct was followed by a leak of some movie posters. Since then, the Direct has aired, and a brand new trailer for the movie has released, but that’s not all that Nintendo and Illumination had to share. Some more Mario movie

Image: Nintendo We are but a few short days away from the release of Splatoon 3‘s Chill Season 2022 update on 1st December (or 30th November for America), and Nintendo has started to reveal when we can expect the season’s events to kick off. While there is no word on anything Splatfest related as of

A week ago, you may recall that Nintendo had announced that Golf would be coming to Nintendo Switch Sports via a new update on November 28th. A Japanese commercial for the game had already suggested the update would arrive this month, but it wasn’t until last week that a more specific date was confirmed. Well,

Image: The Pokémon Company These Pokémon Scarlet and Violet glitches have really been something, right? At their best: hilarious, at their worst: game-breaking. But the one reaction that these bugs haven’t tapped into is making us go ‘awww‘. That is, until now. Indeed, it seems that some players have discovered a way to share the

Christopher Dring has shared some more information regarding Black Friday 2022 and physical video games sales in the United Kingdom. Dring says sales of Sonic Frontiers went through the roof due to some substantial discounts at a number of online retailers during the Black Friday 2022 sales period with total sales increasing by a staggering