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[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s fair to say that plenty of Switch owners are yet to be convinced of the value and viability of ‘cloud versions’ of high-end multi-platform games. Sometimes the technology can be surprisingly good, but if there are connection issues at your end or – indeed – on the

Nintendo has announced this morning that all the spirits from the beautiful Sakuna of Rice and Ruin are once again appearing to all players in the super-fun Super Smash Bros Ultimate. This means that if you missed the previous spirit event to claim them, you now have a chance of obtaining them. The original Sakuna

Image: @Sora_Sakurai Last week saw the arrival of the final fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Sora from Kingdom Hearts. As you might recall, he’s also been added to the famous mural – slotting in between Dark Samus and Ganondorf to complete the roster. While it’s one thing seeing a digital version, the game’s director

Every now and then, people that used to work on the Metroid Prime games more than a decade ago offer a little bit more insight into how the games had been developed. Most of the insight is usually small in nature, and it tends to focus on a specific aspect of the development process of

Image: Nintendo / The LEGO Group The Lego Super Mario 64 ? Block got Nintendo fans all hot under the collar when it was announced on social media. Its clever folding design in particular provides a real wow moment, as the innocuous block unfolds to reveal intricate, microscale recreations of iconic levels from Super Mario

The latest boxed UK charts have arrived and FIFA 22 remains king in the United Kingdom and most of Europe. On the Nintendo Switch side of things Mario Kart 8 Deluxe saw a 12% sales increase bumping the popular game up to No.3 this week and sadly Metroid Dread falls from No.3 with a 58%

Image: ConcernedApe ConcernedApe’s farming and lifestyle sim Stardew Valley has experienced a tremendous amount of success – shifting over 15 million copies to date, but it’s time to move on. His next game, as you might have already seen, has now been officially revealed. It’s called Haunted Chocolatier and at this stage seems to be

Crytek has released a platform-specific patch for Crysis Remastered Trilogy on Nintendo Switch, updating the first-person shooter collection to Version 1.1.0. The patch is said to “fix many of the reported issues, improving the visuals and performance which in return should help keep higher dynamic resolution in the games.” More updates for both PC and

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube This week marked five years (yikes) since the mysterious Nintendo ‘NX’ became the Switch. It was a pretty big deal and, to the relief of Nintendo, it was received well. Let’s be honest, the reaction wasn’t going to be worse than the Wii U E3 reveal, when most

It’s hard to believe but the 20th anniversary of ToeJam & Earl 3 will be upon us next year and the official ToeJam & Earl Twitter account hints that they are planning something special for the occasion. ToeJam & Earl 3: Mission to Earth launched on the original Xbox back in October 2002 and published

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The Nintendo Switch OLED has been out for a handful of weeks now, and if you haven’t already applied a screen protector – you really should. While Nintendo claims the screen is made out of glass, YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has now put the new screen to the test

Makoto Shibata, the director behind the long-running Fatal Frame games, has taken part in a recent interview with German site JPgames. The first game in the Fatal Frame series made its debut on the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox back in 2001. Koei Tecmo recently released an enhanced version of the Wii U Fatal

Image: via Nintendo Super Smash Bros. Ultimate might be the greatest crossover video game of all time, but it’s been far from easy for the game’s director Masahiro Sakurai over the years. Apart from health issues and struggles when adding certain fighters – whenever he appeared on a show, did an interview, or posted something

CD Projekt Group has announced that they have acquired the development studio behind Flame in the Flood, The Molasses Flood. The development studio is formed by video games developers behind hits such as Halo and BioShock. The press releases says that Molasses Flood will be working in close cooperation with CD Projekt Red but they

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s been quite an exciting week in the world of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with the arrival of the final fighter Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series. Now that we’ve had some time to see what this new and final addition to the game’s roster is all about,

Believe it or not, it has been over a year now since Pokemon Cafe Mix released on the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. If you don’t know what Pokemon Cafe Mix is, it’s a free-to-start puzzle game. The game was published by The Pokemon Company, but it was Genius Sonority that developed it. Well, get

SPOILER WARNING! In the following article Stuart discusses some rather whopping spoilers as he takes us on an emotional and tearful Kingdom Hearts journey. If you haven’t played the games and you’re sensitive to spoilers, we recommend coming back in a year or so once you’ve played the lot. Otherwise, be warned that certain unfortunate

Today, Trainers will be able to get their hands on special codes to receive Shiny Zamazenta in their Pokémon Sword game and Shiny Zacian in their Pokémon Shield game. Codes are available from GAME stores in the UK and GameStop stores in Ireland between 22 October and 18 November. These codes can be obtained at no cost, while supplies

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Who needs Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry when you have the all-time classic board game Monopoly. Ubisoft has announced a new take on Hasbro’s property trading game called Monopoly Madness – a title that “reinvents” the iconic board game and is launching on the Nintendo Switch

By now, you have probably heard about the news that Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, has been hard at work on creating a brand new game. If you don’t know who ConcernedApe is, he is the creator of Stardew Valley. Stardew Valley has been a very successful game that has released on many platforms,

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Capcom Arcade Stadium is a fun app on the Switch, which is free-to-download and is packed with a lot of very reasonable versions of the company’s cabinet classics. Aside from one freebie in 1943: The Battle of Midway and the option to buy the original Ghosts ‘n Goblins,

In a recently translated Famitsu column, Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai reveals how the highly requested Sora from the Kingdom Hearts franchise came to be in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. As we already know, Sora was the most requested new character in the Fighter Ballot, however, Mr. Sakurai thought it was going to be near

Image: @Sora_Sakurai After ongoing requests, Sora from Kingdom Hearts joined Super Smash Bros. Ultimate earlier this week as the final DLC fighter. For a lot of fans, it still seems too good to be true, so how exactly did it happen? In Sakurai’s latest column (translated by @PushDustIn and @KodyNOKOLO), the Smash director goes into

SUDA51 and Grasshopper Manufacture are renowned for their zany and immensely stylish video games which have proved to be fan favourites over the years. The team recently released the long-awaited final game in the No More Heroes franchise, No More Heroes 3, and talk has finally turned to what’s next for the company. Speaking in

Image: Nintendo Life There was a time when we wished every video game were never-ending. Back in the old days we’d save up all our pocket money and wisely invest in only the very finest games after weeks and months of meticulous research; consulting reviews, collating opinions and perhaps even renting or borrowing from a

The popular free-to-play Nintendo Switch and smartphone Pokemon MOBA, Pokemon UNITE, has been updated today. The new update brings Pokemon UNITE to Version 1.2.1.8 and introduces various buffs and nerfs for popular Pokemon characters such as Blastoise and Gengar, and more. The Pokemon Company also recently announced that the Halloween Festival will be kicking off

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube VTubers (known in full as Virtual YouTubers) have become incredibly popular over the past decade. While we’re used to seeing these digital characters voiced by real people playing video games, it’s not every day we see something this weird… Japanese VTuber ‘Korone‘ – who has 1.7 million subscribers

Blaster Master Zero 3 has been available for a few months now. As of today, you can get the action-adventure game on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Ever since the game launched, updates for Blaster Master Zero 3 have been releasing every now and then. Well, earlier today, an

Image: Nintendo / SEGA The announcement that Nintendo was expanding its Nintendo Switch Online library of classic games with an Expansion Pack that brings not only Nintendo 64 games to the subscription service, but also a selection of games from one-time Nintendo rival Sega’s Mega Drive / Genesis library. The games are coming to Switch

Almost a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo announced that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be the final DLC character coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and it would be released on October 18th. They also confirmed that a new update for the game would be releasing simultaneously with the launch of the DLC. Well, as