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Image: Nintendo / Illumination Earlier today, Geoff Keighley announced the nominations for The Game Awards 2023, including the hotly-contested Game of the Year — where both The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder are in contention. But perhaps more impressive is that Nintendo has secured the most nominations of

It has now been almost 2 months since Mortal Kombat 1 officially released on multiple platforms, including the Nintendo Switch. Since then, the game has entered its post-launch phase, with updates releasing regularly and the first DLC character and Kameo fighter releasing this past week. There are still DLC fighters to come, however. One of

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The latest Sonic platformer Sonic Superstars made its debut on the Switch and multiple other platforms last month. Digital Foundry has now uploaded a tech review, seeing how the Nintendo version of the game compares to the rest. All versions except the Nintendo Switch “largely share the same

It appears that the reason the computer-generated cutscenes and movies in the Smash Bros franchise stopped is because the team feared leaks. The news was revealed by series creator Masahiro Sakurai in a new episode of his YouTube show, which gives gamers a glimpse behind the scenes of game development. Sakurai says he was all

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Netflix this week has lifted the lid on its new animated Witcher film, Sirens of the Deep. Perhaps what’s most exciting about this upcoming project airing in “late 2024” is that it will see the return of Doug Cockle. If you weren’t already aware, Cockle is the famous

Nightdive Studios has announced that the release date for their remaster of the Nintendo 64 game Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion has slipped and will now be coming at the end of the month. Fans can now expect to get their hands on the game on 30th November across multiple platforms. Nightdive Studios thanked fans

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life As we approach 2024, we’re naturally getting increasingly keen to learn more about Nintendo’s next major piece of hardware, affectionately dubbed the ‘Switch 2’, for now. After all, although the current line-up of upcoming Switch games is certainly nothing to sneer at, there’s no denying that Nintendo is leaning

LEVEL-5 has a range of games which are currently in active development and have yet to receive official release dates such as DECAPolice, Professor Layton, and Fantasy Life. The Japanese company announced earlier today that it will be holding a special event on the 29th of November during which they will presumably unveil the release

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update [Thu 9th Nov, 2023 18:30 GMT]: Nintendo of America has now shared an English version of the overview trailer for Super Mario RPG, which launches on Nintendo Switch on 17th November, 2023. The five-minute trailer goes over all of the game’s features, cast, and new additions. Check

You may recall that, last week, Nintendo had officially announced that the 6th and final wave of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass would be releasing on November 9th. Of course, when the release of a new wave of DLC occurs, it usually coincides with an update to the base game. Well, Nintendo

Everyone loves a good mystery, and even more so if they’re the one who gets to solve it. The detective genre has evolved a great deal since its point-and-click adventure game roots, and this list proves how much things have changed. In fact, the games that we’re including in this list range from typical noir

The Sonic modding community is extremely committed and has done some fantastic work on a variety of levels. So much so that Sonic Frontiers producer has said in a recent interview that the Sonic Team sees the modding community as competition simply because they have been so successful in bringing additional content to the Sonic

Image: Nintendo Nintendo has announced that it is working on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie with producer Avi Arad and director Wes Ball. Following the immense success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Illumination, the Zelda project will this time be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Avi Arad seems to be

Nintendo has provided updated sales figures this morning for their best-selling video games for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains the best-selling decide of software for the popular hybrid games system and its followed by Animal Crossing: New Horizons which was a sure fire hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. The

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Fairy tales are never really what they seem. Growing up, we’re all exposed to these moral stories – often based on fable and myth – which have been adapted multiple times and, in many cases, softened too, whether it’s through a beautifully drawn picture book or a sanitised Disney adaptation.

The latest UK boxed-video game software charts have come through and there’s no removing Super Mario Bros. Wonder from the top of the charts this week as the game continues to sell extremely well. It is doing so well that it is fending off EA Sports FC 24 from the top spot, which is certainly

Admittedly, we never dug the original Alien Hominid. First released on consoles in 2004, it had its fanbase, sure, but the Newgrounds art style, slack animation response, and aggravating rather than enjoyable difficulty curve just turned us off. Enter Alien Hominid: Invasion, a 2023 sequel that blasted out of nowhere, ready to appeal to existing

Legendary video game composer Koji Kondo has sat down with NHK to discuss what it was like making the music for the original Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System, specifically the Ground Theme. Kondo said that his first attempt was scrapped. This was due to the fact that when he saw the actual