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It’s that time of the week again when Famitsu readers share the games that they are looking forward to the most. There’s absolutely no change at the top spot for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth which leads the pack by quite a mile with 790 votes. The most wanted Nintendo Switch game is Level-5’s cancelled horror

Image: Alan Lopez / Nintendo Life Have you ever seen an original Contra up close? What about an original Mario Kart? For Stephan Reese, organizer and showrunner for the non-profit Interactive Art Collection (and a Senior Producer at video game developer Bungie when he’s not busy doing that), it’s his life’s mission that you might

In a recent interview in Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu, Super Mario Bros. Wonder director, Shiro Mouri, revealed a little more about the character choices. When it came to the loveable Yoshi they were originally going to include the egg throwing mechanic, which Yoshi has had in previous adventures. However, they felt that this wasn’t

Image: Kit Ellis I have an idea for a video game. Actually, I’ve been making it for about six months now. My video game is a rhythm-based game. It’s also an American football game. To play it, you choose between plays, just like any sports game … but your play only succeeds if you push

The 2023 holiday season may be coming to an end very soon, and the new year arrives in just a couple of days, but that hasn’t stopped the Switch 2 rumor mill from churning at a steady pace. In fact, a new Switch 2 rumor has recently appeared online that may be very interesting to

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Image: Epic Games Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim returns to Fortnite to celebrate

The latest UK charts have come through a little later than usual, due to Christmas, for the week ending 23rd December. The best-selling game was EA’s unstoppable EA Sports FC 24 which is closely followed by the delightful Super Mario Bros. Wonder which climbed this week to No. 2. There’s six Nintendo Switch games in

Image: Nintendo Life Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Kevin remembers how Stardew Valley kept the spark alive and prepped him for living with his partner… Relationships can be hard. And when you add in long distance, that

It seems a lot of gamers received Super Mario Bros. Wonder for Christmas as the game very narrowly missed out on the No.1 spot in the UK boxed video game charts. Christopher Dring, who publishes the UK charts each week on Games Industry, says that in terms of physical releases in the United Kingdom, Super

Image: Nintendo Life The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been a critical and commercial success, garnering glowing reviews across the board (including from this here outlet) and making a lot of Switch owners very happy in the process. All that praise is thoroughly well-deserved, but with several AAA developers and publishers slowly

Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai isn’t going anywhere any time soon, as he has informed fans in his latest YouTube video on creating video games that he is “still creating games for the time being.” While this isn’t a guarantee regarding the next Smash Bros. game, it should ease some people’s minds. Sakurai has been

Image: Nintendo Basildon In the gaming industry, Nintendo sets itself apart not just with the quality of its games and its evergreen catalogue of classic characters, but also a focus on community. Whether through software that brings people of all ages together, hardware features like StreetPass, or the local multiplayer functionality baked into every single

The Famitsu Super Popular Game Awards 2023 recently took place and you will be wondering who this year’s winners are. The Famitsu Super Popular Game Awards 2023 were voted by 188 Japanese game creators and game fan celebrities. It was The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom which took the crown with the majority

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Image: Nintendo Life In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer

The team at Forever Entertainment has announced a free expansion to Front Mission 1st: Remake which sounds fairly meaty. The expansion is titled Mercenaries, and it will be arriving next year. Gematsu reports that the expansion will feature brand new single-player scenarios, a local multiplayer hot-seat mode, new mercenaries, and a new commander character, which

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