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Japanese sales tracker Famitsu has published the top ten charts for the best-selling physical video games of September 2022 and there is no surprise which game claimed the lucrative No.1 spot. That game as you rightly guessed is Nintendo’s very own Splatoon 3 which shifted 2.7 million physical copies. Games Industry reports that 3.9 million boxed

Image: Nintendo Life One of the most important aspects of any game, in this writer’s opinion, is the music. We’ve all been there: you might be stepping onto a new island in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker or floating through ‘Space Junk Galaxy’ in Super Mario Galaxy when a new music score plays

By now, it’s very likely that you’ve been playing Splatoon 3. However, even though Nintendo’s game has been available for a little while now, Nintendo has yet to release the Splatoon 3 amiibo that the company had announced earlier this year. Well, that is about to change. Nintendo has announced that the Splatoon 3 amiibo

Image: Square Enix While we are still a few months away from Octopath Traveler II‘s Switch release on February 24th, 2023, that hasn’t stopped the team over at Square Enix from sharing a good helping of content – the game is supposedly 90% complete, after all. The latest of these updates, posted by the game’s

We learned earlier this week that the next Nintendo 64 game for subscribers of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack is the glorious Pilotwings 64, which is arguably one of the best games on Nintendo’s legacy system. YouTube channel GameXPlain has produced a comparison video of the recent trailer for the Nintendo Switch Online +

It’s been an absolutely huge week for Super Mario, with Illumination and Nintendo giving the world its very first look at The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Although the longtime video game voice of Mario Charles Martinet isn’t leading this project, he hasn’t been forgotten about. Fellow voice actor Tara Strong (The Powerpuff Girls, My Little

For the first time in 3 years, Nintendo will be holding a Nintendo Live concert in Tokyo, Japan. The event, which begins today and continues tomorrow, will feature musical performances by Animal Crossing’s K.K. Slider and Splatoon 3‘s Deep Cut. Splatoon 3 isn’t just being represented at Nintendo Live either. The game itself is also

Image: Nintendo Life From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, my gaming experience was all about learning to become a gentleman. This was a central topic which ran throughout the Professor Layton series. If Professor Hershel Layton wore a trench coat, I wore a trench coat; if he drank fruity tea, I drank fruity tea;

You may recall that, earlier today, it was announced that there would be an Overwatch 2 animated short that features Kiriko coming later today. In fact, the animated short has been scheduled to debut at TwitchCon sometime this evening. Well, as promised, animated short debuted at TwitchCon. It didn’t take long before it was also

Image: The Pokémon Company Alright, you know the drill. The Pokémon Center Japan has just announced a new life-size Pokémon plush, and this one’s really cute. Everyone get in line, and start emptying out your pockets. The newest addition to the giganto-plush line is Altaria, the Gen 3 fluff-bird that is literally described as being

You may recall that, back in the Nintendo Direct that had been held last month, Nintendo confirmed some more Nintendo 64 games would be coming to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. It included 3 more games that would be added this year. One of those games was Pilotwings 64, and it seems that the

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube On top of the many new features that were revealed in the latest Pokémon Scarlet and Violet trailer, one that we didn’t expect was the ability to have a picnic with your monster team – but that’s exactly what we’re getting! As seen in the timestamped video above,

Physical games tracker GfK Entertainment has released the latest UK sales charts. This time, the GfK Top 10 is for the week ending October 1st, 2022. The biggest news from these charts is that Splatoon 3 has been dethroned from the top spot after being at #1 for 3 weeks. Nintendo has no reason to

Image: EA Sports The latest UK boxed charts data is here (after a short delay) and as expected, EA’s FIFA 23 has taken the top spot, knocking Splatoon 3 down a peg after several weeks at number one. This first place securement can’t really be attributed to Switch, mind, with the Nintendo console only making

Today marks the beginning of a new era for Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning franchise: Overwatch 2 is live now and free to play worldwide with cross-platform play and progression for all players on Windows PC via Battle.net, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch consoles. Setting the stage for years to come, Overwatch 2 will receive

Image: Nintendo Nintendo has announced a special Nintendo Direct presentation focused on the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie from production company Illumination. The presentation will take place on October 6th at 1:05pm PT / 21:05pm BST and introduce the world premiere trailer for the film. Nintendo also notes, of course, that no game information will

The popular rogue like deck-building game Inscryption has now been rated in Europe for the Nintendo Switch. The game received a 16 rating from Pan-European Game Information otherwise known as PEGI. Developer Digital has yet to announce the game for Switch so it is bound to be unveiled in the coming days. Inscryption launched in 2021

Image: Hello Games We are but a few short days away from No Man’s Sky‘s inaugural flight to Switch on October 7th and we are buckling in to see how this massive game plays on Nintendo’s comparatively tiny console. In order to put some of our fears to rest, we recently got the chance to