Every now and then, Nintendo Switch Online members get an extra treat. Sometimes, Nintendo will make a game available for Nintendo Switch Online members to try for free. This free game trial is only temporary, but it does give players a chance to try out a game before deciding on buying it separately. Well, another
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Image: Nintendo Life Missed out on the glorious Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch? Well, it looks like you might be in luck. Nintendo Australia has announced that a new shipment of the special console is coming later this month, arriving at “selected retailers” on 26th November. Stock has only been confirmed for Australia/New Zealand so far,
The official Japanese Monster Hunter Rise Twitter account has announced that the Sonic the Hedgehog collaboration will be happening sometime this month. Details of the event have yet to be disclosed by Capcom and SEGA, but the event will celebrate the famous spiky blue hedgehog’s 30th anniversary. It will be interesting to see how Sonic
Image: Nintendo As reported yesterday, it seems some Switch owners have already got hold of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Since our initial post, the floodgates have now well and truly opened – and there’s quite a lot of previously unseen footage of the remakes circulating across sites like YouTube and Twitter. You can
SEGA has already talked about creating a new major global game and the Japanese company is prepared to spend a lot of cash on its creation and infrastructure. The company says it has the potential to spend $882 million on it, but this would cover investments in its own in-house development teams, marketing and merchandise
Image: Nintendo Life Another week down in the inexorable march towards 2021’s holiday season, and it’s been a busy one Nintendo-wise. The platform holder released its quarterly financial results — profits are down but on track, with industry-wide production issues being a particular thorn in Nintendo’s side at present — and the release dates of
Last month, along with its Halloween festivities and slew of new game releases, has come and gone. The eShop sales data for October has been properly analyzed internally, and Nintendo of Europe has revealed the top 15 most downloaded Nintendo Switch eShop games for the month overall. Unsurprisingly, Metroid Dread, which launched alongside the Nintendo
Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo’s extensive financial results briefing has plenty of information in various areas, and right at the back is the company’s renewed commitment to its ‘ESG’ Initiatives – Environment, Social and Governance. It reiterates some information seen in the most recent corporate social responsibility report, but is perhaps worth another focus. In terms
The free-to-play Pokémon TCG Live smartphone app has had its beta delayed until next year. It was set to have a soft mobile launch in Canada this year and a global open beta for desktop users, but The Pokemon Company has decided that it is not quite ready yet, which is disappointing news for Pokemon
Nintendo has provided updated sales figures for its best-selling games on Switch, although the list is very familiar indeed. In fact, since the last update provided a few months ago, the entire top ten order has remained exactly the same with no newcomers squeezing their way in. Of course, each game’s sales have increased, however,
Promising new Marvel game Marvel’s Midnight Suns which was unveiled earlier this year has today had its release date pushed back until the second half of next year. In message published on the game’s official Twitter account the developers at Firaxis Games have outlined why they have decided to delay the tactical card-based game. The
Image: Sega Sega and Nintendo are best buddies these days, but it wasn’t always that way. Once upon a time, the two companies were battling for domination of the living room via their respective range of home systems, and their mascots – Mario and Sonic – were bitter enemies that wouldn’t be seen dead in
Nicalis has tweeted with some good news for fans of The Binding of Isaac series as the Binding of Isaac: Repentance will be launching in North America on 4th November and will be available as DLC for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 for $19.99. Those of you wanting to buy for Xbox Series X|S
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube One of the major Switch exclusives arriving this month is the Atlus RPG Shin Megami Tensei V. It’s looking rather promising and ahead of the game’s launch next week, there’ll be an official live stream taking place. In fact, it’ll be airing the night before the game’s release,
The release date for the Chibi-styled Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl remakes for the Nintendo Switch is fast approaching. We have just a few weeks to go until Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl are released and to celebrate and advertise the upcoming games, Nintendo of America has shared a new TV commercial which
This review originally went live in 2010, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of N64 games on Nintendo Switch Online. When Mario Golf was released back in 1999, it was already known that Camelot was working on another Mario sports title for the N64, and following a decent title released for
It’s finally Halloween today so it is fitting that Nintendo of America has unveiled some spooky new Luigi’s Mansion-themed LEGO sets which are listed by the company as coming soon. There are three LEGO Luigi’s Mansion-themed sets which you will hopefully be able to get your hands on complete with an amusingly scared-out-of-his-living-daylights, Luigi. There’s
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Mighty Goose – a game inspired by series such as SNK’s Metal Slug – appears to be getting some free content in the future. This information was shared by Blastmode’s creator, Richard Lems, via an update on Twitter. Here it is in full: New Mighty Goose content coming