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The Nintendo Switch firmware has been getting lots of updates this year. The last major update occurred in September, when Nintendo added Bluetooth audio support. Since then, a smaller firmware update was released in late-October. Nintendo likes to release a firmware update every month or two, so it has been only a matter of time

Remember XEL, the Zelda-inspired action-adventure game that was announced for Switch this summer? Well, developer Tiny Roar has shared new details on its gameplay and development in a series of behind-the-scenes videos. In the three clips below, Game Director Maurice Hagelstein and Game Designer Tom Erenstein give us an insight into the game’s character creation

A new Super Smash Bros Ultimate update is coming soon which will bring Nintendo’s popular brawler to Version 13.0.1. It is not clear what changes the update will bring, but all will be revealed as soon as the patch notes are published by Nintendo. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is available now on the Nintendo Switch

Regular sales have become a welcome fixture on the Nintendo Switch eShop and there are huge numbers of cheap and discounted Switch games available at any given time. With so much choice it can be tough to know exactly is worth your hard-earned cash and precious time. Never fear — Nintendo Life is here to

SEGA and Atlus has confirmed that the acclaimed sci-fi adventure from Vanillaware, Sentinels Aegis Rim, is heading to the Nintendo Switch system in April 2022. To celebrate the game’s announcement for the Switch, the team at Vanillaware has put together a rather spectacular trailer which you can view below. 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim originally launched

Boxing games live or die by their gameplay. You can make the visuals look as beautiful as possible, down to the rippling biceps and beads of sweat, but if the punches don’t land right, then the whole experience will suffer as a result. Unfortunately, Real Boxing 2 comes up short with both its visuals and

A new Mystery Gift is available in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl and it gives you new colour statues that you can use in your Secret Base in the Grand Underground in the new Pokemon games. Once claimed you will get three colour statues of Piplup, Chimchar, and Turtwig. All you need to

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) In recent years fans of the 2D shooter form have had to adjust their expectation of what a port can be, largely thanks to the sublime M2 ShotTriggers series. Indeed, we’ve been rather spoiled by that particular run of games. A long-established convention across gaming’s history states that console ports

Pokemon cards have been a thing for more than 20 years, and one thing that has not changed at all has been the sheer lengths that some people have done to obtain them. Sometimes, this can even involve making fake counterfeit Pokemon cards. This, combined with Pokemon card popularity levels that have been higher than

New Switch-exclusive Shin Megami Tensei V will soon be treated to its first post-launch update, Atlus has announced. A date for the update hasn’t yet been revealed, but the company has shared the patch notes ahead of time (Japanese). You can check them out for yourself below, with thanks to Final Weapon for the translation:

The latest Japanese boxed-software and hardware charts have come in and it is Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl at No.1 for the week of 15th November, 2021 to 21st November, 2021 selling an incredible 1,395,642 retail copies. The best-selling hardware was once again the Nintendo Switch family of systems which shifted a spectacular

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 21st November, revealing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have absolutely destroyed the competition with a cracking opening weekend. As was actually revealed early this morning, the games managed to sell a combined total of 1,395,642 physical copies in their first three days

4 months ago, Square Enix released NEO: The World Ends With You. The game is a sequel to The World Ends With You, which had released in 2007. NEO: The World Ends With You is available on PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Unfortunately, Square Enix has suggested that the game hasn’t done that well

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) It feels like the world of Runeterra has just entered the first stages of a great expansion. After being mostly confined to the MOBA for years, things like the new Arcane show, an impending MMO, and some spinoff games are starting to bring this rich universe to audiences that aren’t

Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King released on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC a couple of years ago. It included the SNES, SEGA Genesis and Game Boy versions of The Lion King, as well as the SEGA Genesis version of Aladdin. And now, you can get even more. You

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Despite all the innovation that frequently takes place in the indie space, there’s an awful lot of games that are content to just do what’s already been done. It can be easy to become jaded, then, when a lot of these copycat games turn out to be worse than their

By now, you’re very likely aware of what has been going on with Activision-Blizzard. Lots of accounts and reports of discrimination, abuse and harassment have been occurring for months now. Last week, it was reported that Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick had been involved with or had been aware of various cases of harassment and discrimination

Image: Activision Blizzard Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has said he would be open to quitting his role at the head of the company if the firm’s ongoing issues cannot be solved “with speed”. Kotick’s comments came during a meeting with Activision Blizzard executives late last week, the Wall St Journal reports. Kotick was involved