Nintendo has announced that it is joining Capcom to celebrate the iconic Street Fighter series 35th Anniversary which takes place this year. As you already know, both Ryu and Ken are featured in the brilliant Super Smash Bros Ultimate which was a momentous occasion when first revealed. To celebrate the fighting series 35th Anniversary a
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The LEGO Overwatch 2 “Titan” set pictured above was scheduled to come out next month, but The LEGO Group has decided to postpone the release following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and misconduct at the California-based offices of Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard, the video game giant responsible for Overwatch, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty, was
Nintendo of America has invited all Mario Kart fans in North America and Mexico to participate in the upcoming Mario Kart North American Open, which will kick off on 21st January. The event will determine the best players at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the top eight players from each day of the tournament will
Image: LEGO Ideas / BrickGallery It’s not the first time that Zelda’s Hyrule Castle has made it to the final stage of LEGO’s fan-created and crowdsourced IDEAS platform, and it certainly won’t be the last — anything to do with Nintendo usually gets summarily dismissed, after all. But this latest Hyrule Castle design, based on
JAKKS Pacific has announced a partnership with Sega of America for the upcoming animated Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic Prime, maintaining JAKKS as one of the franchise’s global merchandise partners. Under this partnership, JAKKS will produce action figures, playsets, vehicles, plush and other collectibles associated with the upcoming new show. Additionally, JAKKS also named Disguis. as
Image: The Pokémon Company / Nintendo Later this month sees the arrival of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on the Nintendo Switch. To fill in some time between now and then, Nintendo has shared another batch of screenshots on its Japanese website. It gives trainers a look at the game’s environments, some of the Pokémon you can
An old year has ended and a new year has begun, which means that GamesIndustry’s panel of various gaming industry analysts are back to review last year’s predictions for the gaming industry and make some new ones. We’ve already reported about the Mario Kart remarks made by Dr. Serkan Toto of Kantan Games, but that’s
Image: The Pokémon Company Soapbox articles give our team a chance to share some personal perspectives; today it’s the turn of Tom Whitehead to make a confession. We all have our hidden shames and gaming gaps, and it’s time to share one of mine. Despite writing words about Nintendo for nearly 8 years I’ve always
Square Enix’s promising upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive strategy game, Triangle Strategy, has now been rated by the ESRB and has been given a Teen Rating. The game is currently scheduled to be released worldwide on the Switch family of systems on 4th March, so we haven’t got long to wait until we can get our
Twitch Plays Pokémon has a lot to answer for. What began with a goofy experiment to see if the hivemind could actually play an old game has blossomed into an entire genre of gameplay: Playing Pokémon in weird ways, the latest of which is Pokémon inside of a Twitter avatar. If things keep going this
The Pokemon Company has unleashed a new six-minute overview trailer for the next step in the incredibly popular Pokemon franchise, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. The video gives you a look at some of the key mechanics in the exploration-based Pokemon game as well as some of the areas you
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Chanteuse, mother, and Dirrty singer Christina Aguilera has done another trailer for the Nintendo Switch OLED after her last one — which showcased a bunch of family games — and although her kids still feature prominently in this one, the games are a little more exciting. First, Ms
Terraria players have been able to enjoy the “Journey’s End” update on PC since May of 2020. Since then, the update has been gradually rolled out for other platforms. In fact, the Nintendo Switch version of the game had been the only platform that had not received the update yet. As of yesterday, that has
Image: GoodSmile 2022 might be the year of the good video game Nendoroids: We’ve got Ace Attorney, Doki Doki Literature Club, Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin, and now Among Us, too. In three colours, no less! Although the actual game has 18 colours of crewmate, the three colours available — Red, Black, and Cyan —
Koei Tecmo has announced that its latest musou game built upon The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, has now shifted over four million copies worldwide. The game was bound to be a success as its storyline was a prequel to the best-selling Zelda game for Nintendo Switch and
Image: Warner Bros. Entertainment The original Mortal Kombat and its successors will always have a key role in video game history, with the gore and violence of the arcade original famously being toned down in its Super Nintendo port. The early arcades and assorted ports are classics, and an upcoming Arcade1Up release looks like it’ll
Games Radar and Retro Gamer magazine have had the chance to chat with Mario voice actor Charles Martinet about his job of voicing Mario over the years. Mr. Martinet first started voicing Mario in the groundbreaking 3D entry of the franchise, Super Mario 64, for the Nintendo 64. In the wide ranging interview he was
Image: SEGA Over the holidays we’re republishing some of our best features, interviews, opinion pieces and talking points from the previous 12 months from staff and contributors alike — articles that we feel represent our best of 2021. In them you’ll find our usual mix of thoughtfulness, frivolity, retro expertise, gaming nostalgia, and — of