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[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube771k NIS America has announced that The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II will be making its way to the Switch in ‘early 2025’. The news comes as the first instalment launches, at the time of writing… today! Crikey, NIS doesn’t hang about, does it? It’s part of

The latest Japanese physical video game software and hardware charts have come through from Famitsu and there’s a new No.1 this week in the form of Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD for the Nintendo Switch. The game made its boxed debut with a very respectable 88,425 copies sold. Talking of the Switch, the Nintendo Switch family

Image: Sega Sonic X Shadow Generations is already gracing us with the return of Shadow the Hedgehog, but according to a page on the official Japanese website for the game, it seems that there may be a secret fourth playable character that has yet to be announced. As spotted by Tails’ Channel on social media

The official Japanese Sonic x Shadow Generations website has teased that a new character might be playable in the upcoming game. The site features a look at the playable characters in Sonic x Shadow Generations, which naturally include Classic Sonic, Modern Sonic, Shadow and also a mysterious undisclosed character. You can see the images from

Image: Nightdive Studios 2002’s The Thing is widely regarded as one of the best horror games based on an existing media franchise. Many licensed horror games are sadly relegated to genres that require a specific setup, such as asymmetrical multiplayer or short VR experiences, but The Thing — a third-person squad-based shooter — dared to

It is an understatement to say that Nintendo has been engaging in a war on piracy. There are now 2 new examples of the company’s latest attempts to put an end to piracy. One of them, Nintendo says, is a Nintendo Switch modder enabling piracy. Another is the moderator of a Nintendo piracy Reddit group.

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Tsukihime is responsible for a lot of things. Back in 2000, Type-Moon’s classic visual novel captivated audiences with a story crammed full of occult mystery, thrilling action, and heart-pounding character drama. Like jagged lines splintering out of a unified core, its success spread out in many different directions: adaptations across

When Nintendo normally releases an update for the Nintendo Switch‘s firmware, it results in a version number change and, at the very least, a handful of changes that had been made confirmed via patch notes. For these updates to finish, the console is required to reboot itself. However, this isn’t always the case for updates.

Image: Nintendo Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is out now, offering fans of the original a new way to experience the game with cleaner visuals, better controls, and strong use of the Switch’s motion controls and HD rumble. The wonderful PJ O’Reilly took the game for a spin for our official review and came away feeling

Crazy Taxi series producer Kenji Kanno has revealed a few official details regarding the company’s long-awaited reboot of the fast-paced Dreamcast title. Kanno says that the game is being billed as a “completely new” open world Crazy Taxi title that can be played by many players at once and will feature brand new mechanics. The Crazy

Image: Nihon Falcom It seems another game localisation announcement may have been accidentally revealed ahead of Anime Expo 2024. This time it’s for the action role-playing game Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana, which is already available on the Nintendo Switch in Japan. In a now-deleted post on social media, XSEED Games shared an image

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD finally launched this week on the Nintendo Switch to good reviews and data miners have already been searching high and low through the game files to see if there’s anything of interest. One data miner has discovered that the Nintendo Switch version of Luigi’s Mansion 2 has the exact same file

Since 2017, we’ve seen a huge number of ports come to Switch, many of which seemed like impossibilities beforehand. Surprises like Doom (2016), which turned up in the system’s launch year, and 2019’s Witcher 3 showed that while clever optimisation was required, Nintendo’s console could deliver perfectly playable and utterly absorbing portable versions of some

You may recall that, last month, Nintendo had nominated 4 people to join the company’s board of directors following a busy financial results meeting. They are Yusuke Beppu, Miyoko Demay, Eiko Osawa and Keiko Akashi. However, to actually join the board of directors for the company that made the Switch, the nominees had to be

Image: Nintendo Life Megami Tensei — also known as Shin Megami Tensei — is one of the longest-running RPG franchises in the world. But most of us wouldn’t know it. Making its debut in 1987 on the Famicom, it wouldn’t be until the Virtual Boy that Nintendo gamers (well, a few of them) would find

Senior Managing Executive Officer and Corporate Director at Nintendo, Shinya Takahashi, is reported to have had a huge smile on his face as he presented shareholders with the first look at the long-awaited Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Metroid Prime 4 was first announced in 2017 and was under development by Bandai Namco. However, this version was scrapped

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Considering the lengthy ongoing development of Beyond Good & Evil 2 and the subsequent grilling from eager fans that Ubisoft has brought upon itself over the years, it’s easy to forget just how darn good the original game is. First released on PS2, Xbox, and GameCube at the end of

Nintendo held its 84th annual shareholders meeting earlier and one of the questions which came up at the event was how Nintendo’s generational handover is going considering that the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto is now 72. Mr. Miyamoto replied by saying that “I consider (Nintendo’s) generational handover to be progressing smoothly. We have developers that are young and