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Sonic Frontiers will soon be getting some Sonic Adventure 2-themed free downloadable content in the form of some special shoes for the spiky blue hedgehog to wear in his latest adventure. Fans can get a code for the Soap Shoes via the official Sonic the Hedgehog fan newsletter which you can receive in your inbox

Image: Nintendo, PlatinumGames After an incredibly long wait, this month Switch owners will finally get their hands on PlatinumGames’ new title, Bayonetta 3. Ahead of the game’s launch on October 28th, Nintendo has shared a news post on its website introducing players to the main cast of characters in the game. There’s the main Umbra

The popular rogue like deck-building game Inscryption has now been rated in Europe for the Nintendo Switch. The game received a 16 rating from Pan-European Game Information otherwise known as PEGI. Developer Digital has yet to announce the game for Switch so it is bound to be unveiled in the coming days. Inscryption launched in 2021

Image: Nintendo Life If you’re a Paper Mario fan, then there’s one key thing that you probably share with all other Paper Mario fans: Disappointment. Unfortunately for all of us who love the antics of Intelligent Systems’ two-dimensional plumber, the Paper Mario series has been slowly declining in quality, taking the things we loved about

The newly created Nintendo Pictures is rolling full steam ahead with their first movie, the Super Mario Movie, which is due to be released on 7th April, 2023. Today, the company’s flashy new website has gone live and although it is currently in Japanese only, it gives fans a little more information about Nintendo Picture’s

Image: Square Enix, PlatinumGames, We’re back once again with another review round-up and this time it’s for NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition, which is arriving on the Switch next week. This action RPG first made its debut back in 2017 on PS4 and Steam. This latest version of the action RPG gives players access

You may recall that, back in September, Did You Know Gaming? had revealed that, 15 years ago, Retro Studios had pitched a spin-off Zelda game to Nintendo that was called Heroes of Hyrule. Unfortunately, the game was ultimately cancelled. Well, Did You Know Gaming? is back with a video that talks more about what this

Image: Nintendo Life We’re sorry, when did it become October? Well, we suppose it’s time to look back at September for our monthly dose of eShop Selects! It’s autumn (or fall depending on what term you like to use for the crispy leaves season). The nights are drawing in. The temperature is dropping. And the

No Man’s Sky is one ambitious Nintendo Switch port everyone is eager to see done well. The original game, which launched in 2016, didn’t run particularly great on the PlayStation 4 at the time, due to it being a such a large game giving players the chance to explore hundreds of procedurally created planets, full

Image: Universal Pictures Splatoon 3 channels all sorts of young and hip themes, but it seems the third entry has also taken some inspiration from a number of popular movies from the 1980s. Warning: potential spoilers ahead! As noticed by a number of Inklings and Octolings across multiple social media platforms, the latest outing has

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted just about everything in the video gaming industry. It had even impacted The Game Awards. Although the pandemic was never able to force The Game Awards to skip a year, it did manage to close off audience attendance for a few years. Well, that is about to change. Geoff Keighley

Image: Nintendo Life Today marks the 15th anniversary of NBA Live 08 on the Wii. Quite why there wasn’t a national holiday and organised street parades for this excellent game is beyond us. Except, of course, it isn’t excellent at all. The game was, for all intents and purposes, objectively bad, and yet there is

The Embracer Group and Crystal Dynamics have started to survey players to find out more about their interest in the acclaimed Legacy of Kain series. While nothing has been confirmed regarding a new entry it seems a dead cert that the classic franchise will be revived now that The Embrace Group holds the key to

Image: Nintendo One of the returning characters in the upcoming release Fire Emblem Engage is Marth. This character originally debuted in 1990 and has made multiple appearances since then even outside of the series. In the new mainline Fire Emblem, Marth returns as a legendary hero. In the lead-up to the game’s Switch release earlier

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe may be getting some new DLC on the Nintendo Switch, but that doesn’t mean that Nintendo is moving on from Mario Kart Tour, their Mario Kart title that can be currently found on mobile devices. In fact, even now they are still supporting it with more content. The latest example of

Image: Nintendo Life Most video games are either two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Most… but not all. Today, we’re celebrating the games that dip their toes into the underappreciated and underexplored fourth dimension: Time. Unfortunately for us 3D peasants, we are forced to experience time in a linear fashion, going from Tuesday to Wednesday like utter plebs,

The latest Japanese boxed video game software sales and hardware charts for the week of 19th September, 2022 to 25th September, 2022 have come through via sales tracker Famitsu. The best-selling game was Splatoon 3, which shifted an additional 301,845 physical copies with the Nintendo Switch family of systems selling an extra 86,572 units, Bandai

Image: Crema Games More games are having a shot are recreating a Pokémon-style experience nowadays, and one of the more successful titles is Temtem by the Spanish studio Crema Games. The developer finally released the game on the Nintendo Switch earlier this month, and now just weeks later has announced it’s surpassed one million players.

The Pokémon Company International and Warner Music Group today debuted “Celestial”, a Pokémon-inspired song by music superstar Ed Sheeran. “Celestial” features a day in the life of Ed with special appearances from some of Ed’s favorite Pokémon characters, including Pikachu, Squirtle, Machamp, Snorlax, and more. “I’ve played Pokémon since I was in primary school. Me and

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is out very, very soon — it’s nearly October, after all! And in preparation, we’ve got a brand new trailer that shows off some of the game’s gorgeous visuals, but in cutscenes and in gameplay. Who are “the galaxy’s greatest heroes”

Nintendo’s popular smartphone title Mario Kart Tour has just been updated to Version 3.0.0 in preparation for the upcoming Battle Mode, which is a long overdue addition to the iOS and Android game. There are also a couple of quality of life updates which will come as welcome news to fans. Mario Kart Tour is

Image: Re-Logic, 505 Games Although Re-Logic issued its ‘Journey’s End’ update for Terraria on the Nintendo Switch earlier this year, it’s not done with the game just yet. The team behind this 2D crafting, survival and exploration experience has now released a brand new ‘Labor of Love’ update. It bumps the game up to Version

Yacht Club Games is very well known for being the developers of Shovel Knight. However, you might surprised to learn that Shovel Knight is the only IP that they have. They are planning to change that with a new action-adventure game called Mina The Hollower. Although the game is not supposed to release for a

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If you’ve ever wanted to see how the cards for the Pokémon Trading Card Game are made, then PokéBeach‘s latest discovery will make you extremely happy. And even if you don’t, this is one of the most satisfying videos we’ve ever seen (thanks, Kotaku!). The fansite has secured

The latest issue of Japanese video game magazine Weekly Famitsu is now available in Japan and this Issue 1765 contains three reviews. The one which you are most likely to be interested in is their score for Splatoon 3 which was awarded a near-perfect 39/40 by the four reviewers who delved into the game. Three

When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.

It has been a busy year for Square Enix. They have been celebrating the 20th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts, as well as the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII. There have also been many new game announcements from the company, including Kingdom Hearts 4, Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core Reunion and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Known for its range of appealing yet eye-wateringly expensive collectables, First 4 Figures is setting about expanding its Kirby range with two new King Dedede statues (thanks, Nintendo Everything!). Coming in either classic or masked appearance, the figures are available as both Standard ($509.99) and Exclusive ($515.99) editions

The latest boxed UK video game software charts have come through and as mentioned in this post, Splatoon 3 is No.1 for a third week for the week ending 24th September. There were a couple of reasonably big new releases in the charts and they were the physical edition of PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4

Image: The Pokémon Company Pokémon Unite‘s roster is set to expand in the near future, with a public test website for the game confirming Clefable, Zoroark and Sableye will all be made “available to play”. There’s been no major announcement of these Pokémon just yet, but a dataminer has revealed some of the artwork for