Konami has been selling Castlevania-themed NFTs (Image: Konami) If there’s a topic that’s led to consistent debate and occasional toxicity in online gaming discourse over the past few months, it’s NFTs. Non-fungible tokens aren’t actually particularly new to early adopters of blockchain technologies, but 2021 was the year when they broke into mainstream media and
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A new rumour has appeared which suggests that Atlus is busy porting the excellent JRPG Persona 4 Golden to the Nintendo Switch family of systems and the PlayStation 4. There have been rumours of this happening ever since Persona 4 Golden received a re-release on PC gaming platform Steam. The rumour comes from the fairly reliable,
Image: KFC / Pokémon Southern Fried Torchic. Blaziken And Waffles. Combusken Nuggets. Don’t tell us that at least one of those didn’t make your mouth water. We know that there are some Pokémon that you wouldn’t hesitate to eat, as long as they were prepared well, and there’s no shame in that. Anyway, all this
Platinum Games now has a new CEO and it is the former vice president, Atsushi Inaba, who has risen up the ranks at the development studio to become the company’s new CEO. The company’s former CEO Kenichi Sato stepped down at the end of December 2021. Mr. Inaba has been with the company for a
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube NIS America’s beautiful storybook game, The Cruel King and the Great Hero, is due out at the start of March — the 1st in North America, and the 4th in Europe — and to hype up the game, they’ve just released a new music video for the track
Nintendo has announced that it is joining Capcom to celebrate the iconic Street Fighter series 35th Anniversary which takes place this year. As you already know, both Ryu and Ken are featured in the brilliant Super Smash Bros Ultimate which was a momentous occasion when first revealed. To celebrate the fighting series 35th Anniversary a
The LEGO Overwatch 2 “Titan” set pictured above was scheduled to come out next month, but The LEGO Group has decided to postpone the release following accusations of harassment, discrimination, and misconduct at the California-based offices of Activision Blizzard. Activision Blizzard, the video game giant responsible for Overwatch, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty, was
Nintendo of America has invited all Mario Kart fans in North America and Mexico to participate in the upcoming Mario Kart North American Open, which will kick off on 21st January. The event will determine the best players at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the top eight players from each day of the tournament will
Image: LEGO Ideas / BrickGallery It’s not the first time that Zelda’s Hyrule Castle has made it to the final stage of LEGO’s fan-created and crowdsourced IDEAS platform, and it certainly won’t be the last — anything to do with Nintendo usually gets summarily dismissed, after all. But this latest Hyrule Castle design, based on
JAKKS Pacific has announced a partnership with Sega of America for the upcoming animated Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic Prime, maintaining JAKKS as one of the franchise’s global merchandise partners. Under this partnership, JAKKS will produce action figures, playsets, vehicles, plush and other collectibles associated with the upcoming new show. Additionally, JAKKS also named Disguis. as
Image: The Pokémon Company / Nintendo Later this month sees the arrival of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on the Nintendo Switch. To fill in some time between now and then, Nintendo has shared another batch of screenshots on its Japanese website. It gives trainers a look at the game’s environments, some of the Pokémon you can
An old year has ended and a new year has begun, which means that GamesIndustry’s panel of various gaming industry analysts are back to review last year’s predictions for the gaming industry and make some new ones. We’ve already reported about the Mario Kart remarks made by Dr. Serkan Toto of Kantan Games, but that’s
Image: The Pokémon Company Soapbox articles give our team a chance to share some personal perspectives; today it’s the turn of Tom Whitehead to make a confession. We all have our hidden shames and gaming gaps, and it’s time to share one of mine. Despite writing words about Nintendo for nearly 8 years I’ve always
Square Enix’s promising upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive strategy game, Triangle Strategy, has now been rated by the ESRB and has been given a Teen Rating. The game is currently scheduled to be released worldwide on the Switch family of systems on 4th March, so we haven’t got long to wait until we can get our
Twitch Plays Pokémon has a lot to answer for. What began with a goofy experiment to see if the hivemind could actually play an old game has blossomed into an entire genre of gameplay: Playing Pokémon in weird ways, the latest of which is Pokémon inside of a Twitter avatar. If things keep going this
The Pokemon Company has unleashed a new six-minute overview trailer for the next step in the incredibly popular Pokemon franchise, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. The video gives you a look at some of the key mechanics in the exploration-based Pokemon game as well as some of the areas you
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Chanteuse, mother, and Dirrty singer Christina Aguilera has done another trailer for the Nintendo Switch OLED after her last one — which showcased a bunch of family games — and although her kids still feature prominently in this one, the games are a little more exciting. First, Ms
Terraria players have been able to enjoy the “Journey’s End” update on PC since May of 2020. Since then, the update has been gradually rolled out for other platforms. In fact, the Nintendo Switch version of the game had been the only platform that had not received the update yet. As of yesterday, that has