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It has been a busy year for Square Enix. They have been celebrating the 20th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts, as well as the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII. There have also been many new game announcements from the company, including Kingdom Hearts 4, Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core Reunion and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

Update [Tue 27th Sep, 2022 12:45 BST]: Folks, it’s official — the big ol’ Spheal plush which was previously exclusive to Japan is now available in America! The company revealed via the official @Pokemon Twitter that the much-admired Spheal plushie can now be purchased on the Pokémon Center US store for a whopping $449.99 –

We all thought that E3 was pretty much defunct due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in streaming with software and hardware companies doing their own presentations online. However, Reedpop which hosts events, partners with gaming websites and video channels, has teamed up with the Entertainment Software Association to revitalise it. E3 2023 will

Image: Konami Rumours of a Silent Hill revival from Konami have been doing the rounds for quite some time now and it looks like it’s all-but-confirmed thanks to a new rating from The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea (cheers, Gematsu). Titled, Silent Hill: The Short Message, the rating comes from UNIANA, a company

Onimusha games have been released by Capcom for roughly 20 years now, with a couple of them seeing a release on a Nintendo console. In fact, the original was remastered a few years ago, and that released on the Nintendo Switch. The other was Onimusha Tactics, which released on the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

Image: Nintendo Life Hi everyone; welcome to another edition of ‘Box Art Brawl’! We hope you’ve all had a fun and productive week since our last battle. Last time, we took a look at a GameCube classic with Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life to celebrate the recent announcement of its remake, Story of Seasons: A

By now, you’re more than likely aware of the news that GoldenEye 007 would be added to the Nintendo 64 retro library that is currently available on Nintendo Switch Online. However, thanks to remarks by Rare studio head Craig Duncan, we now know more info on how this happened. According to Duncan, they originally tried

Image: Hiding Spot After last week’s Nintendo Direct extravaganza, this week has seemed a little more relaxed by comparison. As we have prepared ourselves for the weekend’s coming Splatfest (go Team Fun!) we have taken our time recuperating from what is already shaping up to be an amazing slate of upcoming games. In the Direct’s

Warner Bros Japan and Square Enix is readying the release of the Legend of Mana Teardrop TV anime and have shared the beautiful new opening theme ahead of the show’s debut on 7th October. Obviously the anime is based in part on the classic Legend of Mana video game with Saori Hayami handling the opening theme which

Image: Square Enix Square Enix has been gradually trickling new information for its upcoming RPG Dragon Quest Treasures, which is due to launch on December 9th, 2022. We’ve previously been given a deep dive into monster recruitment and how these factor into your treasure-hunting endeavors, while an earlier update shed some more light on the

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope is less than a month from releasing on the Nintendo Switch, so marketing for the game is in full swing. A lot of information about the game has been shared, but there has still been questions about how much Ubisoft Connect, Ubisoft‘s successor to Uplay, would be involved with

Image: kids room We’ve been poking fun at the Switch clock app AAA Clock for a little while now. But it won’t be the only time-telling application in town very soon, as publisher kids room has announced Clock Maker: My Clock – ver. digital (with timer). How many seconds do you think it takes to

For a good while now, Re-Logic have been preparing Terraria fans for the game’s upcoming update by gradually confirming details about the update’s contents. The update is version 1.4.4 of the game, also known as the “Labor of Love” update. It adds new features, items, weapons, pets, NPCs and much more. Earlier today, it was

Image: Nintendo Life Update [Wed 21st Sep, 2022 10:26 BST]: In a statement mimicking its response to Joe Merrick, The Pokémon Company has doubled down on its stance regarding Nuzlocke runs, stating to Eurogamer that “The Pokémon Company International does not have any issues with fans or creators playing the video games with Nuzlocke rules”.

Nintendo‘s fandom isn’t limited to just Europe, Japan and North America. Nintendo’s reach is obviously worldwide, so there are Nintendo fans in just about every region you can think of. So, it has become increasingly necessary for companies to have social media accounts in various languages. For example, Nintendo of America has announced the debut

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube XSEED Games recently announced that it would be bringing SIEG Games’ time-travel, emotion-driven AI RPG Loop8: Summer of Gods to Switch in 2023! This beautiful-looking game might be another coming-of-age story set in a Japanese school, but it has an all-star development team and a heavy focus on

Square Enix finally gave fans a proper glimpse of the Dragon Quest spin-off, Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, at the Tokyo Game Show and it looks as though it is shaping up quite nicely. The game features two modes Story Mode and Temple of Memories in which Gematsu goes into a little

Image: Nintendo Life Well then, here’s your ‘Bizarre News Story of the Week™’. In a clip posted on Twitter via the latest episode of the Kit and Krysta podcast, the ex-Nintendo employees received a question from one of their Patreon supporters on whether they had ever played a ‘Nuzlocke run’ of Pokémon. This prompted the