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Image: D-Pad Studio With yet another trailer dropping for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, an Indie World showcase and the Nintendo financial report getting released, it has been quite the week here at Nintendo Life! We covered all of the great indie titles that will be heading to Switch in the coming months – including sitting

Digital Foundry‘s latest project is the recently released Sonic Frontiers which looks pretty good fun. The video game tech enthusiasts have said that it is very impressive that Sonic Team got the game running on the Nintendo Switch, but the cut backs are noticeable. They ultimately advise purchasing it on another platform, if you can,

Image: The Pokémon Company Well folks, it finally happened. After 25 years, the protagonist of the Pokémon TV series, Ash Ketchum, has finally achieved his dream of becoming a Pokémon World Champion. Since the very beginning of the series back in 1997, our lovable trainer has tried countless times to become the very best, but

Nintendo is taking the wraps off a season of incredible fun just in time for the holidays! The opening of the “Wishlist Wonderland with Nintendo Switch” experience at 15 malls across the country gives consumers a fun, hands-on opportunity to learn about the Nintendo Switch family of systems and build their own personal holiday wishlist from a

Image: ZA/UM In a significant escalation of the legal battle between Disco Elysium‘s ousted creators and the development studio ZA/UM, both parties have presented conflicting statements regarding the dismissal of Robert Kurvitz, Aleksander Rostov, and Helen Hindpere. In an online message posted by Kurvitz and Rostov, the pair allege that they – along with Hindpere

Today, Nintendo released a new Indie World showcase, revealing a diverse lineup of more than 20 upcoming indie games headed to the Nintendo Switch system in 2022 and beyond. The presentation included the announcement that the much-anticipated sports RPG Sports Story will touchdown on Nintendo Switch this December. It also revealed the news that Rogue Legacy 2, the acclaimed sequel

Image: Nintendo Life Yesterday we got our peepers on the Nintendo financial report covering Q2 of the fiscal year ending March, 2023, and there was a lot to unpack. If the highest-selling Switch games, digital download data and upcoming release dates weren’t enough to wet your whistle, however, then fear not as we have even

Animal Crossing New Horizons is well over 2 years old now. Ever since its release, the game has proven time and time again to be a major sales success for Nintendo. In fact, there has been a new example of this, courtesy of Japan. Game Data Library has released a tweet showing sales data that

Image: Nintendo Alongside its quarterly earnings release, Nintendo has announced its intention to partner with DeNA and establish a joint venture company in April next year. Nintendo has been working with the mobile firm since 2015, partnering to develop systems integrated into its mobile software (such as Super Mario Run and Mario Kart Tour) and

The Pokemon Company is ready to unleash another new trailer for Pokemon Scarlet & Violet tomorrow as the release date is drawing nearer. The new trailer for the Pokemon games will be available to watch on the official Pokemon YouTube channel on Tuesday, 8th November at 6am PT / 2pm UK time. It is not clear

Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is fast approaching its release date of May 12th, 2023 (yes, it’ll be here a lot sooner that you think!), so it’s likely that Nintendo is currently in the final stages of development for the game and ironing out any igregious bugs that might still

As we head ever closer towards the all-important holiday season the new releases on Nintendo Switch have started to increase so it will be interesting looking at the eShop charts which Nintendo publish going forward. The best-selling game on the eShop at the moment is unsurprisingly Bayonetta 3, which received rave reviews from a number

Image: SEGA Sonic Frontiers on the Switch might not be truly “next-gen” but according to Takashi Iizuka, there’s nothing to worry about. Speaking to Gamereactor, the Sonic Team boss mentioned how Sega wanted to provide Switch fans with the “same experience” as players on other platforms including “high-end” PC. The Hedgehog Engine the game is

Kinda Funny Games journalist, Imran Khan, has stated that Platinum Games latest opus Bayonetta 3 was originally planned as a semi-open world game, but the idea was scrapped as it fell apart due to pacing and the limitations of Nintendo’s hardware. Khan also said that Nintendo asked Platinum Games to scale back on that particular

Image: Humble Games Remember, remember the 5th November, gunpowder, treason and gaming. It’s something along those lines, right? While we can’t really comment on the first two of these, we have had a week filled with the third here at Nintendo Life. The week kicked off with Halloween, and we got into the spirit by

It seems as though Pokemon GO players are due to get a brand new Pokemon which hasn’t been seen in any of the previous games. The Pokemon was discovered by dataminers and as you can see from the tweet below from @poke_miners it appears to be a Steel/Bug Pokemon. Pokemon GO has only had one

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube There have been a number of battle royale games released on the Nintendo Switch, but one of the more surprising releases was Pac-Man 99 last April. This game had players trying to outlast their online competitors to be the last player standing. If you’ve downloaded it on the

Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring has announced that the Nintendo Switch has accomplished another milestone as it has now surpassed the lifetime sales of Microsoft’s Xbox One console in the United Kingdom. Dring says that Nintendo’s next target is Sony’s PlayStation 3 console. The Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 and the Xbox One launched in

Image: SEGA After a long wait, Sonic Frontiers is finally releasing on all platforms including the Nintendo Switch next week. In the lead-up to the game’s launch, Sega has been sharing more about what to expect from this all new “open-zone” Sonic the Hedgehog experience. Now, in the latest videos – the focus is on

Sonic Frontiers could be joining some of Nintendo’s first party games in taking advantage of AMDs open source FSR image upscaling technique. Several other games on the Nintendo Switch use the technology including Nintendo’s very own Nintendo Switch Sports and Splatoon 3. Square Enix’s recent Nintendo Switch port of Life is Strange: True Colours also

Image: Square Enix Square Enix’s new farming RPG Harvestella arrives on the Nintendo Switch later this week. Like many other modern games nowadays, this game will also have a day one update. The Japanese company has now detailed exactly what this update will include. As previously mentioned, it will incorporate the feedback players provided to

Readers of popular online video gaming site IGN have been busy voting for their all-time favourite horror games and there’s plenty of big names mentioned in the list. It seems as though Silent Hill 2 is the perhaps the ultimate horror games and Konami announced last month that they are working on a remake of

Image: SEGA Japanese video game giant Sega has provided an update on its “super game” in its integrated report for 2022, reaffirming the company’s commitment to the project and claiming it’ll be out by fiscal year ending March 2026. In a section of the report about the company’s “long-term targets”, it’s mentioned how Sega is

The latest edition of profile UK gaming magazine EDGE is with subscribers and there is a number of high profile reviews in Issue 378. Ubisoft Milan’s new adventure Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope scored an 8/10 which is certainly high praise indeed from the normally stringent magazine. Platinum Games Bayonetta 3 was another big

Image: Nintendo We know you all love a good top ten UK chart on a Monday morning; what better way to kickstart the week? Well, we have one for you right here – on time, no less! It’s a strong week for the Nintendo Switch, despite the gargantuan launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

The full UK charts have not been published as of yet, however Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring has revealed some of the latest data on his personal Twitter account. Dring says that Bayonetta 3‘s physical sales have been only very marginally better than Bayonetta 2, which launched on the Nintendo Switch back in 2018 as

Image: Nintendo, PlatinumGames Nintendo became an important part of the Bayonetta series’ future – helping fund the second game on Wii U, and going on to bankroll the third game. Platinum’s Hideki Kamiya has previously mentioned how thankful he is to Nintendo for stepping in to help “kick off this project” and now he’s commented

News has come through this evening that Season 3 of The Witcher on Netflix will be Henry Cavill’s last as he has decided to step down from the role he assumed back in 2019. Netflix says that Mr. Cavill will be replaced by Australian actor, Liam Hemsworth in Series 4. Netflix has provided statements from

Image: PlatinumGames After two weeks of back-and-forth drama, we are pleased that Bayonetta 3 is finally out to rave reviews. We are never going to have to talk about another VA dispute ever again, right? Yes, the gun-slinging, crowd-winning Umbra Witch is back and (not to spoil the following feature) we are excited to play.

Popular PC simulation game Factorio is now available on the Nintendo Switch family of systems via the Nintendo eShop. The game mades it debut on Steam in 2020 and has gathered a number of very positive reviews. The game tasks you with managing, building and creating automated factories, to produce items of increasing complexity set