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No Man’s Sky may be 6 years old, but that doesn’t mean that the game has been forgotten. It was released on the Xbox One in 2018, 2 years after it had been released on PC. The game was eventually released on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2020. That said, a Nintendo

If you are the kind of person that cried when the tiny Yarn Yoshi amiibo were announced, and then again when Mega Yarn Yoshi arrived, then prepare yourself for this next salvo of fluffy Yoshi content: Gelato Pique, the Japanese brand responsible for Animal Crossing slippers and soft PJ versions of Mario’s overalls, has expanded

The NPD Group which tracks software and hardware sales in the United States of America has published the most played games in the first quarter of 2022. A number of games were originally released a fairly long time ago such as The Sims 4 and Grand Theft Auto V. Nintendo will be pleased to see

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Mane6’s popular bovine beat ’em up Them’s Fightin’ Herds is finally coming to consoles! Published by Modus Games, this farmyard fighter sees a cast of cuddly hooved fighters duke it out with one another in a range of settings — all animal appropriate, of course. This announcement comes

The official The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Twitter account has now set a firm release date for the intriguing game which was pushed back to this year. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will be available at retailers on the 1st September, 2022. However, that’s only the PlayStation, Xbox and PC versions. The account

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Numskull Games has given us a sneak peek ahead of time at all of the gameplay systems coming to retro throwback Final Vendetta. From these five minutes of footage alone, it’s plain to see that this is a love letter to Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, and Final

The promising Pokemon inspired adventure Temtem finally has a release date and it is set to launch on the Nintendo Switch family of systems and other platforms in September. You can get your hands on the game on 6th September and it’s priced up digitally at £34.99 and there will also be deluxe version at

Image: Bandai Namco Pac-Man is currently celebrating its 42nd Anniversary, which is frankly insane when you really stop and think about it. As part of the celebration, Bandai Namco has teamed up with Epic Games to launch a Fortnite collaboration, due to kick off on June 2nd. That’s not all, though. An official theme song

Mario Strikers: Battle League is just 2 and a half weeks away from launching on the Nintendo Switch. Because of this, Nintendo‘s promotional and marketing campaign for the video game has been gradually picking up steam. The latest example of this is a brand new trailer that released earlier today. The trailer showcases the ability

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update [Tue 24th May, 2022 00:55 BST]: As of May 24th in the US, the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie can be streamed on Paramount+. Of course, you’ll need to have access to an account and an active subscription. Will you be watching? #SonicMovie2 is racing to #ParamountPlus!

The mysterious new JRPG which is being developed by an all-star team featuring employees who have worked on the Xenoblade, Pokemon, and the Mana series, is officially titled Trinity Trigger and is due to arrive on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation platforms in September. The news leaked early via a listing on Japanese retailer, Biccamera.

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The Switch has some rather good free-to-play options, and June will add more to the ranks. On 1st June, as a reminder, Knockout City will be going free-to-play; developer Velan Studios (also well known for Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit) will also be parting ways with EA and

The latest boxed video game charts are now in for the United Kingdom for the week ending 21st May. Nintendo Switch Sports has spent three weeks at No.1, which is a great accomplishment for Nintendo UK, however this week’s charts see the energetic multiplayer game slip to No.2 as Horizon Forbidden West climbs to No.1

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If you’re excited about the release of Klonoa Phantasie Reverie Series on the Nintendo Switch this July, you might want to read on. The game’s official Japanese website has now revealed the frame rate, resolution and file size for this particular version. In terms of the frame rate,

Bandai Namco has revealed on the official Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series website that the collection will 8GB if you are looking to purchase the game digitally on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The company also says that it is trying to target 60fps on the Nintendo Switch, which means that it is likely to be lower

It is fairly clear that Nintendo lags far behind its two major competitors when it comes to online gaming and online play. Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has spoken to GeekWire podcast about this very issue and has attempted to explain why he believes it remains the case. Reggie says that from the early

Image: Electronic Arts Microsoft’s recent acquisitions of video game companies like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard has sent the entire industry into a frenzy – with companies like Sony pulling out its wallet to acquire the Halo and Destiny developer Bungie. Now, in the latest development, a report by news website Puck reveals EA is actively

Grasshopper Manufacture has been quiet recently. Their most recent game, No More Heroes 3, released last August. And last October, Chinese publisher NetEase Games acquired Grasshopper Manufacture. So far this year, however, news has been few and far between. That said, that may not be the case for much longer. President and CEO Goichi “Suda51”

Image: Nintendo Life / Damien McFerran Update [Sat 21st May, 2022 18:05 BST]: Two months after the Wii and DSi Shop channel outages, YouTube channel GameExplain has now reached out to Nintendo to see if it could provide any more clarification about what’s going on. Unfortunately, the new statement is that it’s still got “nothing

If you own LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga you may have noticed that the popular game recently received an update. The May 2022 update brings with it a number of fixes and some new content which will please players. There’s an additional 34 Kyber Bricks to find and collect throughout the nine movies along

Image: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Trading Card Game is always introducing new types of cards and mechanics, and the latest set based on the popular mobile game Pokémon GO is no different. This new series adds a Ditto card that is actually covered up by a sticker. Have you ever been fooled by a

As you already know SEGA is pinning a lot of hope on Sonic Frontiers igniting video game sales for the Japanese company during the lucrative Christmas shopping season. Speaking to investors, Sega Sammy’s CEO Haruki Satomi and CFO Koichi Fukazawa both reiterated the importance of high review scores which the company is hoping to achieve with

Recently, I was talking to my partner about my all-time favourite niche genre of games. He’s a game developer, so we have these kinds of discussions a lot, usually trying to nail down what it is we like best about a particular game, or scene, or genre — but this time, we were trying to

The release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has seen the Nintendo 64 application for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack updated to Version 2.3.0. Nintendo is continuing to make tweaks to how some of the classic games run on the Nintendo 64 app with slight updates to Star Fox 64, Mario Golf 64 and

Switch Online’s Nintendo 64 application received an update earlier today bumping it up to Version 2.3.0. Apart from the release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, it seems Nintendo has also made some adjustments behind the scenes. Nintendo doesn’t release patch notes for app updates like this one, but there are other ways of finding

The latest physical video game software and hardware charts are now in via the team at Weekly Famitsu and it’s another week at the top of the charts for the entertaining Nintendo Switch Sports which has sold a total of 352,113 copies in the land of the rising sun since launch. The best-selling system of

Image: GameChanger Studio Announced during the Guerlilla Collective Showcase last summer, Indonesian developer GameChanger Studio’s upcoming dating sim, My Lovely Wife, now has a release date! But this is a morbid romance game with a difference. The game is a spiritual successor to My Lovely Daughter, which is an alchemy sim that tests your resolve

Headcannon previously tweeted that they were “proud to announce that we have been working with SEGA to re-create Sonic 3 & Knuckles for their upcoming Sonic Origins collection!.” However, in a series on tweets published yesterday, the company said that the Sonic Origins compilation is “purely a SEGA-developed product” and that the company didn’t work

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The upcoming open-world racing game Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown has been delayed (again). It was due to arrive in September 2022 and has now been pushed back to 2023. In addition to this, it’s also been revealed the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game

The time has finally come for the new Pokemon web series to air and you can catch it right now. Pokemon Hisuian Snow is animated by the super talented team at WIT Studio and the first episode Onto the Icy Blue doesn’t disappoint. WIT Studio is the studio behind anime hits such as Vinland Saga