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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

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