Mobile data analytics firm Sensor Tower has announced that Pikmin Bloom which launched on 27th October 2021 has now been downloaded 2 million times by curious smartphone gamers. Nearly half that number of downloads came from Japanese gamers with North America in second and the United Kingdom in third. Sensor Tower also says that Pikmin
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The release of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker may have ‘ended’ Star Wars as we’ve known it for the past four-and-a-half decades, but all it really did was tie a bow on the cinematic tales of the Skywalker clan and the nine-film saga which began way back in 1977. After all, Star
Nihon Falcom is best known for being the developers of the Ys, The Legend of Heroes, and Trails video gaming franchises. And the Nintendo Switch era has made them very busy. In fact, the company published their financial report for the fiscal year ending September 2021, where a couple of those franchises got some attention.
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Super Impossible Road, a multiplayer racer that’ll have you hurtling through space, will launch on Nintendo Switch next month before its arrival on other consoles, it’s been confirmed. Rogue Games’ “lightning-paced” title will hit the Switch eShop on 9th December, priced at $19.99. The game offers a career
It’s almost here. Tomorrow, Shin Megami Tensei V will be releasing on the Nintendo Switch. So, with the game’s release just about here, the Shin Megami Tensei V development team sent fans a special message via Twitter. They say that “a global release like this is a first for Atlus, and we faced numerous, unexpected
Image: Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy is one of the most eagerly-awaited releases of 2021, but those who have managed to get their hands on it early are reporting that not everything is as ‘definitive’ as it should be. As reported by our friends over at Push Square, Rockstar has made some rather
Next month, The Game Awards will be taking place. The Game Awards 2021 is also going to be return to having a live event in the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. Last year, The Game Awards was a virtual event. However, the audience will be wearing masks, required to be vaccinated, and the live
Image: Nintendo Life / Zion Grassl We’ve had some feisty conversations in NL Towers over the years on the topic of Nintendo’s Switch Joy-Con controllers. They have cool HD rumble, accurate motion sensors, they’re brilliant and clever in their usage either clipped onto the Switch or as wireless controllers. But, they’re also arguably flimsy and
Kingdoms of Amular, which was originally released in 2012, was recently re-released on the Nintendo Switch along with other platforms and is now scheduled to get some brand new downloadable content after all these years which is titled the Fatesworn Expansion. The team who have been working on the DLC have provided an update on its development
Image: The Pokémon Company / The Pokémon Company / Baccarat Spoiler warning: While we’ll avoid displaying any information here that might be considered ‘spoilerific’, we recommend exercising caution when clicking a link that takes you away from the site. As is common these days, the next big release on many a gamer’s calendar — Pokémon
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
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