[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Think you can clear up space for another racing game on the Switch? If so, then you might be interested in checking out Disney Speedstorm – a new free-to-play racer “coming soon” to Nintendo’s hybrid system and multiple other platforms. It will feature a “legendary roster” of characters
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Ubisoft recently released the Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection which contains the entertaining Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. The team at Digital Foundry have put the Nintendo Switch collection through its paces and have both good news and bad news for fans of the long-running series. The games first appeared
Image: Nintendo Back in 2020, a Famitsu column suggested Masahiro Sakurai and his team considered rollback netcode for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but apparently, it didn’t work out due to adverse side effects. While we have seen rollback support in other fighting games on the Switch, there’s one software engineer out there, known as ‘DShad’
The visually impressive 2D action game F.I.S.T Forged in Shadow Torch has recently been rated for the Nintendo Switch platform by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. The game launched last year on the Playstation 4, PlayStation 5 and Steam. A Nintendo Switch version of F.I.S.T Forged in Shadow Torch hasn’t been officially confirmed for
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Paramount Pictures and Sega have just teased a new trailer for the upcoming movie Sonic the Hedgehog 2, due out in cinemas late March/early April, depending on your location. If you slow the trailer down on YouTube, you’ll be able to see a series of new never-before-seen footage
Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has been celebrating the Nintendo Switch’s fifth anniversary in its latest issue and has revealed the best-selling software in Japan since the March 2017 launch. The best-selling Nintendo Switch game so far is Animal Crossing: New Horizon which was not only a great game, but something fun to play during
Image: Pokémon It seems Pokémon’s 25th anniversary celebrations haven’t ended just yet – with the animated series Pokémon Journeys announcing it will be airing a one-hour special in Japan on April 1st. This special will be comprised of two brand new episodes. The first one titled “Ash & Clemont! Special Friendship Training” sees Ash travel
The latest winners have been announced for the annual Famitsu Game Awards 2021. Super Smash Bros creator and all round good guy Masahiro Sakurai walked away with the award for Most Valuable Game Creator. Capcom’s Nintendo Switch console exclusive Monster Hunter Rise won two awards for Best Action Game and also won the coveted Game
Good news, Waifu lovers…Eastasiasoft’s vertical shoot ’em up Waifu Discovered 2: Medieval Fantasy will be receiving a physical release. The catch is, it appears to only be for Europe (at least for now). Eastasiasoft has teamed up with Funbox Media. The game will set you back £34.99 and pre-orders are now live. If you do
Square Enix has tweeted this afternoon that they have heard the fan outcry regarding the prize level settings in Chocobo GP. Square Enix says that they have been monitoring the situation and have adjusted the prize level settings to make the Chocobo Racing GP mode more forgiving. As an apology for the situation the company
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Even if Banjo-Kazooie is now Microsoft-owned, the bear and bird duo will always have a special place in the hearts of Nintendo gamers around the world. And although Rare re-released an improved version of the original title during the Xbox 360 generation, many fans are still left wondering
With many iconic franchises under their belt such as the likes of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Chrono Trigger and Bravely Default, as well as the more recently released Octopath Traveler, Square Enix is arguably known as the crowning jewel of JRPG development. Triangle Strategy further proves the beloved Japanese studio’s capability for innovation,
Image: Nintendo Metacritic has released its annual publisher rankings for 2021 to find out how all the major gaming companies performed on average based on critic reviews. Nintendo has placed 14th on a list of 43 publishers. Its average score was 76.0. At the top was Microsoft with an average score of 87.4, followed by
Nintendo of America has tweeted this afternoon that they have decided to postpone the release of Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp which was due to be released next month. Nintendo says the delay is due to “recent world events” which is clearly a reference to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces. The
Square Enix, the company behind video game classics such as the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Chrono Trigger, has opened a new YouTube channel which is exclusively for its various video game soundtracks. The channel is named Square Enix Music and features around 5500 Square Enix songs, special mood mixes, live performance videos, and more.
Image: Mokuzai Studio Heard of a game called Wordle? It’s the little web-browser game that could, bringing daily word puzzles to millions of players across the world. Naturally, such a phenomenon is bound to inspire a few clones to pop up here, there, and everywhere (even a Pokémon one!), one of which being the rather
To say that LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has had quite a journey in being released would be an understatement. It was originally supposed to release in 2020, only to be delayed multiple times. However, that pattern is finally about to come to an end. On April 5th, less than a month from now,
Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Switch Online App has been updated to version 2.0.0 this morning, bringing with it a whole slew of changes that are absolutely for the best. This is the biggest overhaul of the app since its release back in 2017, and follows the recent Missions and Rewards updates to Nintendo Switch Online.