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Image: Nintendo Life The time has come for another Catch-up Crew mission, a regular assignment that sees cadets playing games for the first time – games long since played by other officers. Through their eyes, NL’s senior staff gain fresh insight and a better understanding of not only those classic games, but also ourselves. Mainly

You may recall that, yesterday, Nintendo had officially announced that Super Soccer, which was available on Nintendo Switch Online‘s SNES game library, would be removed from it on March 28th. Although it had been only confirmed to be the case in Japan, it is also available to play on Nintendo Switch Online in western regions.

Image: Nintendo After a pretty meaty delay (happy end of the week, everyone!), we finally have an updated look at the UK physical gaming charts, and it’s a relatively quiet one for Nintendo. A couple of new releases have squeezed their way into the top 40 this week, with Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in

When we relay news to you about the retro game libraries on Nintendo Switch Online, it is usually because Nintendo added more games. They have been doing that every month for a good while now, and it’s likely that it will happen again within the next week or two. Unfortunately, for the first time in

Image: Nintendo Life One year after its initial announcement, Pokémon Legends: Z-A has finally been showcased properly during the most recent Pokémon Presents, giving us a good look at the upcoming title’s gameplay and features. It wasn’t quite the deep dive many of us were hoping for, but it was certainly enough to whet our

Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, has been hard at work on supporting Stardew Valley with updates. The game is still receiving new content on all platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, even though the game originally released 9 years ago. In fact, the Switch version of the game was recently updated to version 1.6. Now

Image: Gemma Smith / Nintendo Life Davide Soliani, the creative mind behind Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Sparks of Hope, left Ubisoft last year and formed his own indie studio, Day 4 Night, with the help of Red Dead Redemption’s Christian Cantamessa and composer extraordinaire Grant Kirkhope. Now, in an interview with VGC, the

The past 5 years have been an up and down roller-coaster for the availability of gaming hardware parts. A chip shortage infamously plagued the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S during the first few years that they had been available. Nintendo had been dealing with them too, although the Switch’s age helped keep the impacts

Image: Gemma Smith / Nintendo Life With Switch entering its ninth year on 3rd March 2025, and with over 150 million units sold and more million-selling games than we’ve had hot dinners, it’s hard to remember a time when Nintendo pooling its portable and home console software teams behind a single system felt like a

By now, you’re more than likely aware of the Nintendo Music app. The app, which was randomly announced on social media around Halloween of last year, is a new method for fans to be able to listen to various soundtracks that Nintendo has released over the decades. Nintendo confirmed that more soundtracks would be added

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube797k Developer Witch Beam and publisher CULT Games have announced a release date for the lovely-looking Tempopo, a chill musical puzzle where you’re rescuing floral friends who have been thrown into disarray by a storm. Coming to Switch on 17th April, Tempopo is both the name of the game

Remember Pokémon Concierge? It is a stop-motion animation series that has been available on Netflix for over a year now. The Pokemon series doesn’t take long to watch in its entirety. In fact, there was only 4 episodes that had been released, and they can be all watched within an hour or so. It won’t

Image: NIntendo Life / Chucklefish / Nintendo And we’re back for the February edition of the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Time is moving slowly for those of us jonesing for that Switch 2 Direct, but we’ve had games like Civ 7, Laika, and Citizen Sleeper 2 to keep us busy, and we’re all looking forward to

By now, you are more than likely aware of the news that a LEGO Nintendo Game Boy set is coming to be releasing later this year. Details were few and far between, but Nintendo had released a small teaser of the LEGO set on their official social media accounts. That was over a month ago,

Image: Gemma Smith / Nintendo Life With a Pokémon Presents on the way soon, our foolish hearts have begun hoping for something a bit special. While Nintendo fans twiddle their thumbs awaiting the full reveal of Switch 2, an entire year without a Pokémon game releasing on Switch has helped us regain our appetite for

Nintendo UK has recently uploaded the intro video for the forthcoming Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition for Nintendo Switch, giving newcomers an overview of what to expect when you first boot up the expansive JRPG. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition touches down on the Nintendo Switch on 20th March. [embedded content]

Image: Gemma Smith / Nintendo Life Whip up a last-minute cake and bring out the candles because we have a big birthday on our hands, folks. HAL Laboratory, the company behind Kirby, the OG Smash Bros., EarthBound and another boatload of beauties that we’ll get to in just a moment, has turned 45 today. Yep,

The Nintendo Switch‘s library contains tons and tons of video games of all sorts of genres. Even though the console’s life is nearly done with, that doesn’t mean that Nintendo‘s hybrid console isn’t getting a steady stream of games. In fact, the latest example of this may not surprise you. Publisher Red Dunes Games and