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Japanese Twitter users have brought to attention (via Siliconera) some of the cheating which has been going on in Splatoon 3 even getting the term チーター (“Cheater”) trending on the social network. The issue revolves around a small number of players who have been continuously firing specials without having to wait for their special weapon

Image: Nintendo Life Planets aligned a few weeks ago – with Nintendo announcing the N64 classic GoldenEye 007 would be getting a re-release on modern platforms. It’s kind of a miracle, considering how long the game has been stuck in licensing hell. Rare’s boss Craig Duncan has now shed some light on the situation behind

Warner Bros Japan and Square Enix is readying the release of the Legend of Mana Teardrop TV anime and have shared the beautiful new opening theme ahead of the show’s debut on 7th October. Obviously the anime is based in part on the classic Legend of Mana video game with Saori Hayami handling the opening theme which

Image: Yacht Club Games / Nintendo Life Since the initial launch of Shovel Knight back in 2014, Yacht Club Games’ 2D adventure title has since blossomed into a bonafide franchise thanks to the inclusion of spin-off titles Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon and Shovel Knight Dig. The latter is the latest release from the franchise and

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is less than a month from releasing on the Nintendo Switch, so marketing for the game is in full swing. A lot of information about the game has been shared, but there has still been questions about how much Ubisoft Connect, Ubisoft‘s successor to Uplay, would be involved with

Image: HORI Accessory-maker Hori has revealed it’s teaming up with The Pokémon Company to release Pokémon-themed Split Pad Fit. In case you missed it, these Joy-Con-like controllers are a follow-up to Hori’s Switch Split Pad Pro, and are officially releasing here in the west as the Switch Split Pad Compact. They’ll be available here in

Yacht Club Games, the team behind the acclaimed Shovel Knight series, has quietly been working on an unannounced 3D game for the past five or six years. The news was revealed in a recent Ars Technica interview with Yacht Club Games, Alec Faulkner. Speaking about the teams latest project, Mina the Hollower, Alec stated that

Image: Nintendo Newsflash — Splatoon 3 is still inking all over the charts in Japan (and everywhere, really!). Following last week’s bumper sales, this week’s Famitsu Japanese charts reveal that, despite an expected drop in sales, the third mollusc-based shooter has still managed to shift an incredible 506,610 physical units. That means physical sales for

You may recall during the recent Nintendo Direct that Mario Strikers Battle League would be receiving a new update sometime this month. It was confirmed that a new stadium would be added, along with new gears. Pauline and Diddy Kong were also going to be added as playable characters. Well, Nintendo has decided to release

Ready for release by Liam Doolan 5 hours ago Image: Ubisoft / Nintendo Next month is shaping up to be something special with quite a number of exciting Nintendo Switch releases. One of these games happens to be the Ubisoft title Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. If you’re looking forward to this, you’ll be

For a good while now, Re-Logic have been preparing Terraria fans for the game’s upcoming update by gradually confirming details about the update’s contents. The update is version 1.4.4 of the game, also known as the “Labor of Love” update. It adds new features, items, weapons, pets, NPCs and much more. Earlier today, it was

A cat-like child named Niko wakes up in a decrepit house, locked in a room with a bookshelf, a password-locked computer, and a TV remote control on the floor. It’s too dark to read the books and there’s no sign of a password anywhere – it’s up to you to find a way out. Not

The Overwatch franchise has recently been dealt a blow before the launch of Overwatch 2 next month as the lead hero designer, known for his work on creating the original batch of heroes in the first Overwatch game and the new heroes in Overwatch 2, has left Activision-Blizzard. Geoff Goodman created classic Overwatch characters such

Image: via CoroCoro As part of the Splatoon 3 rollout, the manga series has returned to cover the third game, out now on Nintendo Switch. The first chapter was featured in the September 15 issue of Coro Coro Comics magazine. Manga artist Sankichi Hidenoya is once again doing the art, but story details haven’t been

Nintendo‘s fandom isn’t limited to just Europe, Japan and North America. Nintendo’s reach is obviously worldwide, so there are Nintendo fans in just about every region you can think of. So, it has become increasingly necessary for companies to have social media accounts in various languages. For example, Nintendo of America has announced the debut

Image: Spike Chunsoft One of the biggest surprises and standouts during the 13th September Nintendo Direct was the reveal of Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE, a brand new mystery game from Kazutaka Kodaka, the creator of the Danganronpa series. Set in a rainy city full of bright lights, and embracing a more dark fantasy style

We were all treated to a look at the brand new Fire Emblem adventure Fire Emblem Engage during the latest Nintendo Direct presentation and it admittedly looks lovely. Those of you wondering how much space Fire Emblem Engage will take up if you purchase the game digitally via the eShop should expect the game to

Image: Rare We often laud Rare’s incredible library of games on the N64, and while the focus has recently been on its seminal movie tie-in shooter GoldenEye 007 over the past week, we want to turn your attention to Perfect Dark for just a few minutes. Footage of one of the game’s cut features from

Square Enix finally gave fans a proper glimpse of the Dragon Quest spin-off, Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, at the Tokyo Game Show and it looks as though it is shaping up quite nicely. The game features two modes Story Mode and Temple of Memories in which Gematsu goes into a little

Image: Nintendo Life If you take even a quick glance at a release schedule for the next six months, you’ll see that there are a heck of a lot of games coming out. Look a little closer, though, and you’ll spot that maybe 50 of them are from Square Enix. And that’s just on the

Sonic Frontiers director Morio Kishimoto has informed IGN today that some of the game’s bosses can not be beaten by Sonic unless he transforms into Super Sonic, leading to speculation that some of the later bosses could pose to be quite a handful for players to defeat. To become Super Sonic in Sonic Frontiers, players will

Image: Sega Sega’s ‘open-zone’ Sonic Frontiers is racing toward its launch on November 8th and we’ve now got a bit more context around boss battles and how Super Sonic will factor into them. In speaking with IGN, Sonic Frontiers director Morio Kishimoto states that Super Sonic will be mandatory in order to defeat certain bosses

One of the exciting projects coming up on the Nintendo Switch this year is the release of NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition. The original has been out for quite some time, but it will probably be the first time Switch only gamers will have the chance to play through Platinum Games classic fast-paced adventure.

Image: Nintendo Life Contra is one of a handful of franchises that have become completely synonymous with gaming; indeed, chances are if you haven’t played any Contra games, then you’ll have at least heard of them. Konami’s shoot-em-up behemoth may have lost a lot of its lustre in recent years (pretty much par for the

Before the September Nintendo Direct journalist Jeff Grubb claimed that we would be seeing Wii U ports of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD along with the rumoured Metroid Prime remaster which was apparently scheduled to this holiday season. However, none of these games were announced

Image: D3PUBLISHER Last month, D3 publisher announced it would be bringing the school girl ninja hack ‘n slash Samurai Maiden to the Nintendo Switch this Winter. Now, in line with the Tokyo Game Show, it’s locked-in a release date. The game will be arriving in Japan (physically and digitally) on 1st December and will follow

It is not uncommon for various gaming media outlets to release some lists that reveal their most favorite or least favorite gaming-related things. However, every once in a while, there is a list that appears that relates to the world of Nintendo. This is no exception. IGN released a list of their top 25 best

Nintendo’s Switch has become home to an almost overwhelming number of fantastic games since launching back in 2017. A great deal of them have appeared on other platforms — whether celebrated indie titles or huge AAA releases getting a second wind on Nintendo’s handheld hybrid — but the console is also home to a clutch

Sonic Frontiers is playable in Asia for the first time and series fans and newcomers at The Tokyo Game Show couldn’t wait to see what all the excitement is about. The queues for Sonic Team‘s latest 3D adventure became so long that SEGA had to close and restrict the demo booths, put up a sign,

Image: PlatinumGames *deep breath* There was a Nintendo Direct this week! And it was chock-a-block full of games. But the big news is that we, at last, know the name (and release date) of Breath of the Wild’s follow-up. RIP The Sequel to… The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a lot less