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Image: Nintendo It’s now been three years since the development of Metroid Prime 4 was scrapped and restarted, so what exactly is going on behind the scenes? If you have been wondering, well… we’ve got a small update, and it seems the team at Retro Studios is still busy hiring. In a new message on

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp keeps chugging along and making money for Nintendo and today marks the day when the smartphone game receives another large and substantial update. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has now been updated to Version 5.0 which brings with it more animals and villagers for your campsite, a new smart device widget, plus

Download it today by Liam Doolan 44 mins ago Image: Capcom We’re getting closer to the one-year mark of Monster Hunter Rise and Capcom’s still showing strong support for the title. Just a few weeks ago it released the PC version of the game on Steam, and more recently it’s announced the title has shipped

Famous actor and wrestling star The Rock has shared that he will be appearing in a blockbuster video game franchise movie which is set to be announced later this year. The Rock shared the news in a new interview with The Men’s Journal. Talking to the publication he said he is staring in a new

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Were you feeling a little woeful about the somewhat-sparse February 2022 game lineup? Then wrap your face around this: About An Elf is a surreal, “point-and-click-ish, rpg-ish, visual-novel-ish game” that’s due out in February, and it’s… well, it’s a lot of things. We’re not sure what any of

Nintendo of America has confirmed this morning that the hugely popular Switch game Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be undergoing online maintenance today. The maintenance is scheduled to happen from 4.30pm PT until 9pm PT which is 12.30am to 5am UK time. During this extended maintenance you will be unable to play any of the

Image: The Pokémon Company / Nintendo Well, it was bound to happen – after Pokémon Legends: Arceus was leaked, datamined and streamed last week, a handful of Pokémon-themed accounts on social media have now spent enough time playing the new entry to complete the entire game. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have apparently been going

Each week Famitsu readers are polled to find out which games they are looking forward to the most and each week it seems to be the next mainline Final Fantasy game from Square Enix which is, Final Fantasy XVI, for the PlayStation 5 console with the biggest lead. It should be mentioned that Kirby and

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update [Mon 24th Jan, 2022 00:00 GMT]: There’s one week remaining on this offer – so grab it while you can if you are eligible. One more week left! Get a free 7-day trial of #NintendoSwitchOnline without using any My Nintendo Platinum Points! Offer ends 1/30 at 11:59PM

The legendary Nintendo 64 3D platformer from Rare, Banjo Kazooie, which was released to acclaim in 1998 is currently available for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members. Now the Microsoft owned studio, which is part of Xbox Game Studios, have published a new article on their official blog by Rare designer Leigh Loveday who

Updated with Cotton Rock ‘n’ Roll (or Cotton Fantasy as it’ll be known once it launches in the West). Enjoy! The humble shoot ‘em up has been a staple genre ever since the very beginning of video games when Spacewar! laid down the basic groundwork in 1962. No, that is not a typo; in the

SEGA and the Sonic Team have a huge year planned for the company’s iconic mascot Sonic the Hedgehog. The company have just coined a new marketing slogan to kickstart the 2022 celebrations of the Sonic franchise and it is titled Project Sonic 22. The biggest draw for Sonic fans this year is undoubtedly the next

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If you cast your minds back to the launch of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, it was a time of great joy as Nintendo fans around the world linked arms and sang the Mario theme. Well, actually, the conversation was about emulation standards, wonky button mapping and

 Launching today, experience a magical adventure with an unlikely duo when the Nintendo 64™ game Banjo-Kazooie Beak Bombs its way onto Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online library – available to everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Packmembership. Join a honey bear named Banjo and a breegull named Kazooie as they fly, swim and fire

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Whether you love or hate roguelike deckbuilders, you’re going to have to get used to them being around. Between games like Slay The Spire, Hand of Fate, Inscryption and Dicey Dungeons, games that combine strategy card games and dungeon-crawling are the hottest place to be right now. This

The Microsoft Store database has revealed that the eagerly anticipated LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga could well be arriving on gaming platforms on the 5th April. This date ties in with the Nvidia leak from last year. The LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will allow gamers to play through all nine Star Wars saga

Waiting for the Nintendo Switch OLED to get a little cheaper before you spend your hard-earned coins on it? Now might be your chance, as it’s dropped to just under £300 at UK online game store The Game Collection. This deal is not without its caveats — it’s only available “while stocks last”, and only

The latest edition of Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu is now with subscribers in the land of the rising sun and there’s a smattering of reviews this week. The highest scoring game in Issue 1729 is Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2, which is the latest Gunvolt game from the talented team at Inti Creates. The