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Image: Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has previously mentioned how he planned to wrap up his YouTube channel, and now he’s shared another update about this on social media. According to a rough translation, he’s now finished recording the final episode. Just don’t expect to see it any time

It is an interesting time for fans of the Pokemon Trading Card Game. There is currently a Pokemon Trading Card Game illustration contest going on. Entries for the 2024 contest are no longer being accepted, so the process has begun to officially narrow down the amount of entrants to see who is going to progress

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube769k As part of Shovel Knight‘s 10th anniversary celebrations, Yacht Club Games will be going back to where it started, with the original game Shovel of Hope – only this time it’s getting the ‘DX’ treatment! You might remember a few titles of yesteryear getting the same treatment after

Yacht Club Games officially premiered a new presentation earlier today, which was heavily focused on Shovel Knight to celebrate the franchise’s 10th anniversary. Many things were announced, including an enhanced version of the original Shovel Knight, but the final announcement of the presentation was the biggest one of all. Yacht Club Games ended the presentation

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) The debate about which is the best football video game is one that has raged on for decades. Until now, there hasn’t really been much of a choice on Switch. There’s EA Sports FC (which thankfully, finally, is worth getting now), but with Konami’s eFootball (formerly PES) nowhere in sight,

Alright, let’s get it on! As part of the SEGA Pass DLC, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble will welcome the crazy taxi driver Axel from the to the roster as a playable character! Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble launches exclusively for the Nintendo Switch family of systems June 25, 2024. Race and roll with Axel as he joins AiAi

Image: Nintendo Life Summer Game Fest is over for another year, and it was a pretty jam-packed event. There are still plenty of stuff to come out of the show over the coming weeks, but what did we get up to while we were in Downtown Los Angeles for a week? Well, we’ll spare you

Grasshopper Manufacture is a studio known for being the ones behind the No More Heroes games. The company has moved on from No More Heroes entirely following the third game’s release back in 2021, but there’s a bunch of other games they do. For example, Killer7 was an action game that released on the GameCube

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube768k Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Deadnight Games have revealed Tenjustu, a stylish roguelike beat ’em up from Dead Cells designer Sébastien Benard. We don’t have a release date for this one just yet and it hasn’t even been confirmed for the Switch at the time of writing, but

It may be a busy news month for game announcements, but that isn’t stopping Capcom from revealing the results of a fan survey they had been doing for a few months now. One of the more interesting parts of the survey, however, is that they asked their fans what their favorite Capcom video gaming franchises

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube768k Five years after its initial release, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has just received its final content update in the form of ‘Classic II: Dominique’s Curse’, available now for $9.99 / €9.99 / £7.99. Building upon the first Classic mode (which essentially arranges the game’s environments into a

Nintendo hasn’t really been doing much with the Switch’s firmware lately. The last few updates, including the version 17.0.0 and 18.0.0 ones, contained very little new additions. In fact, at least a third of the Switch updates that have been released in the past 12 months have been “rebootless” updates. Well, Nintendo has released a

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life After Nintendo of America announced its ‘Mega Extreme Fun’ sale last week, we had a sneaking suspicion that it wouldn’t be long before the European eShop was treated to one of its own. Well, here it is! The ‘Summer Sale’ (a groundbreaking title if we’ve ever seen one) has

One feature that has been a favorite among a significant portion of Sonic fans is the Chao Gardens, where players are able to take care of Chao and raise them to participate in events like races and karate tournaments. Chao Gardens haven’t returned in almost 20 years, and it has been confirmed that Sonic X

Image: Sega Back in 2011, Sonic Generations felt like an attempt to win back long-time Sonic fans. Whether they grew up with 2D Sonic or the 3D adventures, both sides of the fanbase were becoming frustrated with the attempts at experimentation, and the supposed abandonment of what made Sonic great – fast, frantic, flowing action.

Now that Summer Game Fest Play Days is underway, it is time for attendees to play the games available and for developers to participate in interviews. For example, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka was interviewed by IGN earlier today to discuss Sonic X Shadow Generations. There was only a handful of questions asked, but one

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube768k Announced as part of the Future of Play Direct, turn-based combat dater Nova Hearts is confirmed to be coming to Switch along with other platforms something this year. Coming from developer Lightbulb Crew (Othercide), Nova Hearts blends genres with dating sim elements paired with turn-based battles and a

Balatro has been one of the highlights of the year for some gamers. Despite a temporarily hiccup where some regions were not able to purchase the game from the Nintendo Switch eShop, the rogue-like card game has shifted over a million copies as of March. However, it has only been available digitally. Well, that is