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Image: Coatsink Fans of 2D platformers in the Metroidvania mould aren’t exactly lacking for excellent examples of the genre. It feels like every other game launching at the moment is either a roguelite deckbuilder or an explorative action platformer. It’s a brave developer who dips a toe into this particular genre pool; with so many

Square Enix has confirmed today the release date for their upcoming RPG extravaganza SaGA Emerald Beyond. Nintendo Switch owners can get their hands on it the same day as other platforms, which is 25th April. 2024 is looking like a great year for fans of RPGs and the addition of saGA Emerald Beyond is the icing

Image: PlatinumGames Earlier this year, Hideki Kamiya shocked his fans by announcing that he would leave PlatinumGames. Now unemployed, he’s spent much of his time watching streaming content and creating YouTube videos, but after sitting down with IGN, we now have a clearer picture of why he left the company. He’s touched on this before,

You may recall that, back in September, Nintendo had confirmed in their Nintendo Direct presentation that Another Code: Recollection, a pair of remakes of Another Code: Two Memories and Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories, would be releasing on January 19th, 2024. Well, Nintendo has released some new information about the collection.

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We hope you’re ready to hop to the beach, as Fae Farm‘s free DLC pack — Coasts of Croakia — is available to download today on Switch. The update will take you to the Archi-pal-igo Park, which you can access by using a brand new tool which you

The sun is setting on the life of the Nintendo Switch. Nevertheless, Nintendo‘s hybrid console is still selling rather well. Even as speculation on the Switch’s successor has continued to increase in intensity and the rumor mill continues to churn, the Switch is still reaching sales milestones. For example, a major milestone has been reached

Image: Nintendo It’s that time — the annual tradition of seeing just how much time you’ve spent playing your Nintendo Switch! That’s right, Nintendo has dropped its Nintendo Switch 2023 Year In Review. This year’s edition breaks things down by how many games you’ve played this year, how many hours in total, what your top

Believe it or not, this coming Sunday will mark exactly one month since Nintendo officially released Super Mario RPG on the Nintendo Switch. Since then, Nintendo has marketed the game somewhat, but the company hasn’t released a single update for Super Mario RPG. Well, as of tonight, that has now changed. A brand new update

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube You know that the holiday season is well and truly upon us when publisher No Gravity Games rolls out its annual free game giveaway, and 2023 is no exception. The ‘Switchmas Wonderland’ Christmas giveaway begins today (11th December) and will run through until 21st December with one game

A few weeks ago, you may recall that Nintendo announced a pair of Maximus Cups that would taking place in Tetris 99. The first one, which was a WarioWare: Move It Maximus Cup, has already come and gone. However, the second one, which is for Super Mario Bros. Wonder, is taking place this weekend. There

Image: Sega We’ll admit it, we are more than a little excited to see what SEGA is cooking up. During last week’s Game Awards, the studio announced that it would be reimaging and expanding on a bunch of its fan-favourite franchises, with Jet Set Radio being but one of the series to receive the ‘surge’

One of the biggest announcements from The Game Awards this past week was SEGA‘s reveal of multiple IP revivals. Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Streets of Rage were all confirmed to be getting new games, and SEGA even showed a little bit of gameplay for all of them. However, you may

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s finally here — Outer Wilds has finally landed on Nintendo Switch, two years after it was originally meant to crash onto the system. And we’ve been champing at the bit to try out this indie darling. Incredibly immersive and visually arresting, Outer Wilds was critically acclaimed when

Epic Games is presumably celebrating and breaking out the champagne at the moment as it has emerged that the popular free-to-play game achieved a record-breaking 6.6 million live players yesterday. There were 2.3 million+ players playing the recently released LEGO Fortnite game mode alone, which is staggering. The game also saw the introduction of Rocket

This review originally went live in 2016, and we’re updating and republishing it to celebrate the game’s arrival in Switch’s N64 library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. Originally released for the Nintendo 64 in 1998, 1080° Snowboarding was Nintendo’s attempt to bring the snowboarding experience to its home console. And the company did

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been available on the Nintendo Switch for months now. Interest in the game has never waned, but there is also curiosity in what the future holds for the franchise. That future also includes the question of whether Zelda herself will be playable in a game someday,

Image: Nintendo In recent years, The Legend of Zelda fans have grown increasingly vocal in their desire to play as the titular character in mainline Zelda games. Many thought that this might finally happen in Tears of the Kingdom, but alas – spoilers – it didn’t. In an interview with IGN before The Game Awards,

You may recall that, earlier this week, SEGA was teasing a major announcement that would be happening at The Game Awards. All we knew is that there would be a “new era” and “new energy”. There has been a lot of speculation, but at last, the wait is over. Needless to say, the announcement is