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Image: WB 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, basic Batfan Gavin considers if Switch can handle this much Arkham… Fair warning, DC fans. I’m the quintessential ’80s kid for whom Keaton, the Burton Batmobile, and Elfman represent

There were a number of highly-anticipated games revealed during this month’s Nintendo Direct presentation including the magical Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a remake of the beloved Super Nintendo game, Super Mario RPG, revealed amongst others. The majority of the games are now available to pre-order on the Nintendo eShop and subsequently their file-sizes have

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Earlier this week during the Direct broadcast, Nintendo lifted the lid on ‘Wave 5’ of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, arriving later this summer. Apart from the brand new bathroom-themed track Squeaky Clean Sprint, it also revealed three new characters would be joining the roster:

The individual who leaked Persona 3 Reload before the game was officially announced says that the game won’t be coming to the Nintendo Switch. He also said that there is no publisher for a Switch version of the game so unless that changes, it won’t happen. He says that the same about Atlus’s new project

Image: Nintendo Microsoft is currently locked in a courtroom battle with the Federal Trade Commission over its proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and although the focus is mostly on Xbox, on day two of the proceedings, the Nintendo Switch has already been roped into the fight. The FTC has been attempting to argue

Konami has shared more information regarding the long-awaited Metal Gear Solid Master Collection and it’s not great news for Nintendo Switch owners. The physical edition will require a 31.4GB download and if you want to have the bonus video content installed then you will need to have another 30GB free. Of course, these file-sizes could

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Back in 2019, a Kickstarter was launched for a “magical” 2D platformer known as Enchanted Portals. It was accused at the time of being a Cuphead clone, and although there were a few things to overcome along the way, it hasn’t stopped developer Xixo from seeing out the

The latest boxed-video game software and hardware charts have come through from Japan for the week of 12h June, 2023 to 18th June, 2023. There’s no change at the top this week for the critically acclaimed The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which sold an additional 31,151 retail copies this week. The No.1 games

Image: Nintendo Pikmin featured quite a bit throughout the latest Direct, but one game missing from the line up was Pikmin 3 Deluxe. Surprisingly though, the same game has now received a brand new update, bumping it up to Version 1.1.1. According to the patch notes, the software icon which appears on the Switch HOME

SEGA has confirmed that there will be a brand new Sonic Central stream on Sonic the Hedgehog’s birthday, Friday, 23rd June. You can tune into the event which kicks off at 8am PT / 4pm UK time to see a sneak peek of SEGA’s upcoming Sonic projects, partnerships and events happening in 2023. Presumably this

Image: Square Enix Square Enix has announced it will host a special 5th anniversary live stream for its HD-2D RPG Octopath Traveler. This event will take place next month on 13th July at 8 pm JST and will apparently include a “memorial corner” reflecting on the history of the series, the results of a user

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has spoken with GamesIndustry about a number of topics and one of which is the latest Mario + Rabbids game, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. The game reviewed fairly well, but sales ultimately missed Ubisoft’s internal expectations. Mr. Guillemot says that in hindsight it would have been best to launch

Image: Nintendo Life / Nintendo Update [Tue 20th Jun, 2023 06:18 BST]: We’ve got some good news and some bad news – Legend of Zelda amiibo are back in stock in North America. They seem to be getting restocked in waves on websites like Best Buy and Amazon, so you might be in luck depending

The official support page for Crash Team Rumble has revealed that a Nintendo Switch version is possibly in the works. Crash Team Rumble has not been officially announced for Switch and it was surprising omission given the popularity of the platform. The multiplayer Crash Bandicoot game could be announced in a future Nintendo Direct with

Image: Koei Tecmo History fans love to ask a good ‘what if?’ question. A completely hypothetical situation to explore how small changes could impact the course of world events. Video games that explore these kinds of questions usually fall into the grand strategy genre, putting players at the head of a faction with the aim

A brand new 3D action game based on the popular anime and manga, Tokyo Revengers, is coming to the Nintendo Switch. The game will be free-to-play and feature micro transactions, as is normal for F2P games, and will launch in Japan this Winter. Gematsu reports that the Tokyo Revengers game will see players repeatedly leap

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Persona 5 Tactica is a new spin-off featuring a completely different experience (and look) to the main game. If you’re getting Persona Q vibes from the art style, you’re admittedly not alone. In a recent issue of Weekly Famitsu, P Studio general producer Kazuhisa Wada revealed that during

While Persona 3 Reload didn’t feature the Nintendo Switch logo in its debut trailer, another retailer has listed a Nintendo Switch version. This time it is the popular video game import site, Play Asia. The retailer is now the third one to list the Persona 3 remake as coming to the Switch family of systems.