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Image: Nintendo Life Today marks exactly ten years since Animal Crossing: New Leaf was first released on 3DS. Outside Japan, we had to wait until June the following year to become mayor in our autostereoscopic 3D hamlets, although its Switch counterpart, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, would be the first game in the main series to

Nintendo has announced that it has downgraded its Switch forecast for the full fiscal year which ends March 2023. The Kyoto-based company says that they expect to sell 19 million Switch units instead of the previously stated 21 million due in part to the ongoing global semiconductor shortage. Nintendo said that will do its best

Image: Konami When discussing horror games for the Nintendo Wii, there’s one in particular that absolutely dominates the coversation thanks to its astounding impact and enduring legacy: Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition. It’s such an important game that some of the other horror titles on the Wii often get overlooked – undeservedly so, in our

This month, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are going to be releasing on the Nintendo Switch. This also means that, if you want to pre-order and haven’t done so yet, you’ll want to do it very soon. In the meantime, a little data is coming in about how pre-orders are going in Japan. Twitter user Pierre485

Image: Kate Gray / Nintendo Life You know that feeling you get when you’re driving down a highway at sunset, and the perfect song comes on the radio? All of a sudden, it feels like you’re in a music video, or that bit at the start of a ’90s teen movie, where everything is sparkling

The Pokemon franchise is not just a Nintendo IP. It’s actually owned by 3 different companies. Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and Game Freak are all involved in the development process of new Pokemon games. One of the 3 companies, Creatures Inc., has been discovered by a Reddit user to be currently hiring. They are currently looking

Image: Nintendo Update [Sat 5th Nov, 2022 20:00 GMT]: A new teaser trailer has been uploaded – revealing a release date of November 11th: Anyone who missed it, here was the first teaser trailer!https://t.co/L0gJW5VdkK— kando (@kandowontu) November 4, 2022 Original article [Fri 12th Aug, 2022 11:15 BST]: There has been no solid news of a

It seems as though Pokemon GO players are due to get a brand new Pokemon which hasn’t been seen in any of the previous games. The Pokemon was discovered by dataminers and as you can see from the tweet below from @poke_miners it appears to be a Steel/Bug Pokemon. Pokemon GO has only had one

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Cast your mind back to 2009, if you can. It was a Wii year, with Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart Wii dominating the charts, and indie games were really kicking off, with niche-but-beloved games like Flower, Canabalt, and Minecraft (okay, fine, that one’s not niche any

Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring has announced that the Nintendo Switch has accomplished another milestone as it has now surpassed the lifetime sales of Microsoft’s Xbox One console in the United Kingdom. Dring says that Nintendo’s next target is Sony’s PlayStation 3 console. The Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 and the Xbox One launched in

Image: Nintendo Life / The Pokémon Company / Build-A-Bear Pokémon and Build-A-Bear go hand in hand, but for a while, the two companies have been missing a trick. In a place called ‘Build-A-Bear’, you could not, in fact, build a bear from the Pokémon series. Until now. Italian site Farantube reports that Teddiursa, the Little

It is not just Nintendo that file trademarks. Other video gaming companies will also, from time to time, file some trademarks of their own for similar reasons. This even includes No More Heroes creator Suda51 and Deadly Premonition creator Swery65. For example, it has been discovered that Suda51’s studio, White Owls, had filed trademarks for

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Ever since Nintendo came out with the marvellous Super Mario Maker and its immediate sequel, Nintendo fans have been frankly begging for something similar for the Legend of Zelda franchise. Well, the unfortunate news is that we’re probably not going to get anything Zelda-related anytime soon – beyond

Almost 2 weeks ago, you may recall that Nintendo had officially confirmed that Mario Party and Mario Party 2 would be on the way soon for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members. In fact, it was slated to be added tonight. Well, as promised, Nintendo has just confirmed that you can now play Mario

Image: Nintendo Life It’s November. You know what that means. The nights are longer, the weather is colder and, just to top it all off, a whole bunch of people who should really know better are going to spend the next four weeks growing out a moustache to varying degrees of success for perhaps the

The Nintendo Switch has been receiving quite a few firmware updates this year, with the vast majority of them being rather small. In fact, additional features have been few and far between, despite there being so many updates that have been released. For example, Nintendo released another small firmware update tonight. Once you update your

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Video games and sports have a lot of overlap, and we’ve spent a lot of time trying to recreate our favourite stunts and moves in various sports games, but NASCAR racer Ross Chastain has done the opposite — he recreated a move he used to perform in NASCAR

The full UK charts have not been published as of yet, however Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring has revealed some of the latest data on his personal Twitter account. Dring says that Bayonetta 3‘s physical sales have been only very marginally better than Bayonetta 2, which launched on the Nintendo Switch back in 2018 as