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Image: Super Mario Movie A new 30-second clip from the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie has just been released, and it focused on the character of Donkey Kong, voiced by Seth Rogan. In the clip, we see Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) drop into an arena filled with ‘Question Mark’ boxes. His first tussle with

Klonoa series director Tsuyoshi Kobayashi has recently spoken about the character design of Klonoa in a new interview with digital design magazine, Lost in Cult. Klonoa’s design came about as the company was working on a game based around a famous platforming IP, which he refused to name. It eventually turned out that the team could

Image: Nintendo Life Hello folks, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! For last week’s brawl, we took a look at one of a handful of Virtual Boy games (and one that many of you had forgotten even existed): Panic Bomber. It wasn’t a particularly close race for this one, with Japan winning comfortably

Don’t Nod, the French development studio behind the beloved Life is Strange series, has seemingly teased an image for Life is Strange 3. The image, published on their Twitter account, was accompanied by a link to numerous job vacancy’s on their official website with positions available for the company’s sound, game design, and animation departments. Life

You know you’ve got it made when your game is so successful that you get a spin-off — and plenty of the biggest games in the biz have done exactly that, from Musou crossovers and sports-playing alternate universes to rhythm and strategy games. And you know what? They’re usually pretty dang good. We’ve compiled a

Nintendo has quietly been tweaking their Nintendo 64 emulator software for Nintendo Switch Online bumping it to Version 2.9.0. The new update seems to have fixed the Inviso boss fight in the adorable Yoshi’s Story. Previously when players encountered the boss battle the objects in the background wouldn’t appear due to the bosses transparent nature.

Image: Nintendo Well here we are folks. It’s the final week of January and we have had our first big Nintendo release of the year. Consider 2023 to be well and truly underway! This week at Nintendo Life, we got all kinds of excited for the eventual release of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo Switch

The Pokemon Trading Card Game, for more than 20 years, has been missing a certain Pokemon. Kadabra hasn’t been seen since 2002, after illusionist Uri Geller had sued Nintendo a few years earlier. Geller felt that the Pokemon was based on his likeness. In fact, he first learned of Kadabra’s existence from the Japanese version

Image: Pacific Opera Project Mozart and Mario might sound really similar in name, but they don’t have too many other similarities — except for that one time that Mozart was in a little-known SNES/NES game called Mario’s Time Machine, but let’s not worry about that for now. Our point is that you have to be

Brandon McInnis, who is the lead voice actor for Fire Emblem Engage, has published a series of naturally frustrated tweets at North American video game retail chain, GameStop. The reason for the tweets is that Mr. McInnis had pre-ordered the special Divine Edition of Fire Emblem Engage at the popular retailer and the order was

Image: Nintendo Fire Emblem Engage has been out for one week now and it is fair to say that we loved it (it did get a 9/10 in our review, after all). While many of us who like to have our games in boxes found no issues with getting our hands on the physical edition,

2022 was a busy year for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s retro libraries, with there being a lot of games that had been added. In fact, even though it is now 2023, there are still a few Nintendo 64 games that Nintendo confirmed last fall that are slated to release this year. Well, one

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The iconic first-person shooter GoldenEye 007 returns today after a 25 year wait. If you’re not familiar with the game’s history or are just curious to know more about this legendary N64 title, don’t worry – Rare has got you covered. Back when it released its Rare Replay

Nintendo has revealed that a brand new Splatfest will be taking place in Splatoon 3 next month and the theme revolves around your favourite type of chocolate. Players will get the chance to choose between Team Dark Chocolate, Team White Chocolate or Team Milk Chocolate. The event kicks off on 11th February and 13th February

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube CyberConnect2 has revealed that it’s bringing the surprise sequel to its hit RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel to Switch on 11th May 2023 (thanks Gematsu!). Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2, and its predecessor, are part of the Little Tail Bronx series, and both games act as prequels to

You may recall that, earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed that Minecraft Legends would be featured in their Developer_Direct presentation. Well, the presentation finished a little more than an hour ago, and as promised, the game was there. It was announced that Minecraft Legends would be coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox

Out now in Japan by Kate Gray 45 mins ago Image: Marvelous Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is out now in Japan, although English-speaking players will have to wait until 27th June to get on board as well. After its Japanese eShop launch, the first patch has also been released, which fixes a number

Update: Also coming to Xbox Game Pass on same date. The iconic secret agent 007 will soon be entering the Nintendo 64 library on Nintendo Switch. Starting 27th January, GoldenEye 007 will be available for everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership as part of the Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library of games. 

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It was back in August that we last heard of Saga of Sins — the demon hunting action platformer that looks like a moving stained glass window — but publisher Just For Games has now announced that this sin-slaying cleric will be bringing his religious rebellion to Switch

It is not just Nintendo Switch Sports that has received an update tonight. Around the same time that the game was updated, Nintendo also launched a new update for Mario Strikers: Battle League. As with Nintendo Switch Sports, this update is the first one to follow a major content update that came out near the

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Ten years ago today, mythological MOBA SMITE came out in open beta on PC. To celebrate its tenth year on the MOBA circuit, the freemium game is teaming up with card battler Magic: The Gathering to create an event unlike any other. The crossover will last for three

A Fire Emblem fan has recently been looking at the internal codenames for previous entries in the series and has discovered that there is potentially another Fire Emblem game in development at Intelligent Systems that was being worked on after Fire Emblem Three Houses development was wrapped up. Fire Emblem Three Houses was known internally

Image: Subset Games After receiving a meaty update in the free Advanced Edition drop last summer, Subset Games’ Into The Breach has continued to be a mainstay of our turn-based tactics playtime. According to a recent post from the developers on the game’s Reddit forum, a new update will soon be dropping into the game,

Every now and then, Nintendo Switch Online members get an extra treat. You see, Nintendo will occasionally make a game available for Nintendo Switch Online members to try for free. This free game trial is only temporary, but it does give players a chance to try out a game before deciding on buying it separately.

Image: Nintendo We’re mere months away from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s debut on 12th May. As it is, perhaps, the biggest release on the Nintendo Switch since the console’s launch year way back, we know remarkably little about the follow-up to Breath of the Wild – a game rightly hailed as

Sonic Frontiers has been a triumph for the Sonic Team. While Sonic’s latest 3D game isn’t perfect, journalists seemed to be in agreement that it sets a good base for the next adventure from Sonic Team. Sonic Frontier’s producer, Morio Kishimoto, has been chatting with fans on Twitter and says that he would like to

Image: Nintendo Life Donkey Kong has had some fantastic animal companions over the years, and when Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze breezed onto the Wii U, and later Switch, it brought back with it a very small selection of animal companions. But in an interview published in the latest issue of Retro Gamer (via Nintendo

Years ago, in 2016, Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! was released on the Nintendo 3DS. It was created by Pokemon developer Game Freak. The other day, the game had been released on Apple Arcade. So, with the game fresh on people’s minds, it was only a matter of time before Game Freak would be asked

Image: Nintendo Life In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”.We don’t have (paper) pages on the

The latest Famitsu readers most wanted video games charts are now in and it is once again a close fought battle between the mighty The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch and Final Fantasy XVI for PlayStation 5. The Legend of Zelda took the lead this week with 795 votes compared