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After the commercial success of Paper Mario: The Origami King (2019), which has since become the second best-selling game in the franchise (following closely behind Super Paper Mario), the Nintendo Switch is now seeing the release of another Paper Mario game, and it’s one you might already be familiar with. Despite selling less than two

Update #2 [Tue 21st May, 2024 03:00 BST]: In a last-minute update, Idea Factory International has announced the Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth trilogy will no longer arrive on the Switch eShop here in the West on 21st May 2024 (aka today). The game has been “postponed until further notice” and more details will be shared at

The latest readers most wanted video games have been published in Famitsu and there’s no change at the top for the long-awaited remake Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door received 832 votes, putting it above Capcom’s highly-anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds at 758 votes. All

The Switch has a lot of platformers, and a lot of puzzle games, and that extends to puzzle platformers. If you’re raising your eyebrows and saying, “What are you on about, you can’t just combine them like they’re ice cream flavours,” then stick with us. It’s a thing, we promise. Rather than games focused purely

You may remember that a rumour was doing the rounds that Nintendo or a third party is working on a The Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo Switch which features Princess Zelda as the main playable character. Today, PapaGeno has given a small update on this project, stating that he will most likely provide more

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube767k Last year, it was revealed Taito Milestones 3 was on the way to the Switch and it’s now been confirmed it will be arriving locally on the eShop in Winter 2024. The third retro collection will feature “over seven classic Taito games” between the late 1980s and early

Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, the creator behind the marvellous Stardew Valley, has participated in an interview with Aftermath in which he discusses a number of things including both Stardew Valley and his next project, Haunted Chocolatier. Barone admitted to the site that once he gets to work on Stardew Valley he has a really hard time

Image: Nintendo Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has opened a new student-taught class which delves into the game design of the Fire Emblem series. Yes, Fire Emblem. At university. And there we were thinking that ‘Film Studies’ sounded cool. ‘Fire Emblem Design and Analysis‘ will be getting underway at Carnegie Mellon in the Fall

SEGA leaker Midori is back with more information on Sonic x Shadow Generations and it turns out that the game’s development is finally complete. The game is now being picked through with a fine comb for bug testing and QA and the marketing team is currently getting ready to promote Sonic’s latest adventure. A release

Image: Nintendo Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is out on the Switch next week and there are new reports of pre-orders being cancelled at Walmart in the US. It’s not known how “widespread” this is, but according to multiple stories, customers have received emails mentioning how this particular Switch release will only be offered “in

Hollywood actor Danny DeVito has chatted with YouTube channel The Movie Dweeb and one of the topics of conversation which came up was whether Mr. DeVito would be interested in appearing in the sequel to the popular Super Mario Bros. Movie possibly as the voice actor behind Wario. Danny DeVito replied by saying that “I’m

Image: Nintendo Wario hasn’t been introduced to Mario’s cinematic universe (at least yet), but one Hollywood movie star who is apparently “up for” the role on the big screen is Danny DeVito. When asked about the possibility of voicing Mario’s archrival in the sequel, DeVito mentioned how he was “ready to do a lot of

The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has revealed that Square Enix executive officer, NieR series producer Yosuke Saito, NieR series director Yoko Taro and series composer Keiichi Okabe, are all working on a new project. It is not clear whether this is the long-awaited follow up to the acclaimed NieR Automata or a spin-off or mobile-based game. Here’s what was said:  “I’ve

Earlier this year we found out the Mortal Kombat 2 movie had officially wrapped filming, and now in a new update from Variety, it’s been revealed it will launch in cinemas (including IMAX) on 24th October 2025. This new movie has been written by Jeremy Slater (Moon Knight), the same director (Simon McQuoid) returns and

Capcom has announced that it has shifted a gargantuan 100 million copies of the Monster Hunter series thus far as the beloved Japanese franchise celebrates its 20th Anniversary. Monster Hunter World and its Iceborn expansion remain the most successful games in the series selling over one million units each year in the seven years since its

Image: Nintendo Life Throughout the lifespan of the Nintendo Switch, there has been all sorts of controversy surrounding Joy-Con controller drift. As the generation winds down, it looks like “5 years of efforts” to sue Nintendo over “Joy-Con drift” issues have now come to an end. As highlighted by Game File reporter Stephen Totilo, the

Shin Megami Tensei V has been available to play on the Nintendo Switch for a few years now. Nevertheless, an enhanced version of the game will be releasing on June 14th. This version will come with all of the DLC that the original game had, along with some new DLC that fans will have to

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube766k Update [Sun 12th May, 2024 15:00 BST]: In a new “release date trailer” earlier this week, Bandai Namco revealed Gundam Breaker 4 will be launching locally on 29th August 2024. In the latest trailer, you can get the rundown on how to break, build and battle “like never