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Image: Nintendo Life As we approach the end of 2023, naturally, there’s going to be a metaphorical flood of features and lists counting down the very best games of the year. We’ve already presented our picks, and you lovely lot have presented yours, but now it’s time to have a bit of fun with the

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has won multiple Game of the Year awards and it wouldn’t be proper to neglect to mention the game’s director, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, who is head of Entertainment Planning and Development at Group No.3. Popular entertainment site Variety has produced a feature praising the top five hundred entertainment

2023 hasn’t just been a banger year for quality video game releases — it’s also been a bloomin’ good year for video game music. At Nintendo Life, we usually give video game soundtracks a little shout-out in our overall lists, but this year, we want to do things a bit differently, because frankly, there’s just

Bleeping computer is reporting that Ubisoft had a data breach on 20th December and that the company’s internal software and developer tools were leaked online. The news came about as security research collective VX-Underground shared on social media screenshots of the company’s internal tools. They tweeted that the individual had access for roughly 48 hours until

Image: Nintendo Life Looking back over the last 12 months, it’s been an incredibly fruitful year for gamers, and Switch has enjoyed an excellent seventh year on store shelves. Industry-wide layoffs in the latter half of the year made for a sobering counterpoint to the glut of great games, and at times the pandemic-related backlog

The latest edition of UK gaming magazine EDGE is now available and this month’s issue contains a number of reviews including Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Black Tabby Game’s, Slay the Princess. The horror adventure game, Slay the Princess, was this month’s highest scoring game with an 8/10 from EDGE. EDGE magazine Issue 393 also

Throughout the year, we’ve seen thousands of games launch on Nintendo Switch, from the lowliest of scammy cash grabs and shovelware to some of the highest-quality video games ever conceived. Despite approaching its eighth year on shop shelves, and with some Switch ports delivering a less-than-smooth experience, many developers continue to work wonders with Nintendo’s

Splatoon 3 continues to get a lot of support from Nintendo, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. There is going to be more DLC coming soon that is part of the Expansion Pass, and the game is getting updated very regularly with new updates that adds more things, re-balances the game

Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life The Nintendo Switch eShop sales have made it across the seas. That’s right — those of you in North America can save up to 75% off a range of Nintendo Switch games on the eShop thanks to the Hits for the Holidays sale! From today until 3rd January 2024

It has been a long time since Super Mario Run received any new content from Nintendo. There has been events and distributions going on as usual, but nothing particularly special. In fact, the 2016 mobile game hasn’t had anything significant happening in multiple years. Well, that has now changed. For a limited time, players can

Image: SEGA Sega has published its Management Meeting 2023 Presentation slides, which give us a few more small details about its plans to revive some of its classic franchises (via Gematsu). The quintet of revivals — potentially new entries in classic series’ or reboots — were revealed at The Game Awards at the beginning of

Ever since the game was released following Nintendo‘s September 2023 Direct, F-Zero 99 has been receiving a slow but gradual feed of updates with additional content and various bug fixes. Most of the updates were previous announced by Nintendo, but the game now has a lot of content it didn’t have at launch. Well, it

Updated and scrubbed ready for the fiesta-friendly festive season. Enjoy! So, you’re having a party, possibly on a rooftop, dancing to the music and all that jazz, but suddenly there’s a lull. Fear not because we’ve got just the thing to get the party started again! Nintendo Switch has a whole host of crowd-pleasing co-op

Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet have been gradually seeing update after update with the purpose of improving the performance of the games, which has been a major point of criticism ever since the new generation of Pokemon games released on the Nintendo Switch. In the meantime, the Tera Raid events have been continuing ever since

Image: Ubisoft The Prince of Persia series is held near and dear to the hearts of many, whether you fell in love with the original platformers and their revolutionary rotoscope animation, The Sands of Time for its rewind mechanic and magical atmosphere, or maybe even the reboot from 2008 — which we’re sad never received

Footage has finally emerged of the early in-development multiplayer mode in the iconic Super Mario 64, which never saw the light of day. The new footage, which has been uploaded to the social media platform X, aligns with how Shigeru Miyamoto described it in an interview which was published back in 1996. As you can

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) What’s the meaning of life? Are we alone in the universe? How do you know if the fridge light goes off after you close the door? It’s questions like this that have driven humankind to explore the planet, the cosmos, and ourselves. And the kitchen. This irresistible drive of curiosity

One of the many first-party games that had been released on the Nintendo Switch this year was Detective Pikachu Returns, a sequel to the game that released on the 3DS years ago. Detective Pikachu Returns has been out for a little over 2 months now, so attention has been turning to Detective Pikachu’s future. So,