Switch

It’s Saturday, which means that it is that time of the week again where fans and industry analysts can get some insight on how well digital releases of video games are doing on the Nintendo Switch eShop. The latest Nintendo eShop charts have arrived. For the most part, this week’s charts remain the same. 8

If you have some amiibo figures hanging around and you are planning to purchase the forthcoming Fire Emblem Engage then you are in luck as Nintendo has confirmed that you can use them in-game to obtain some goodies. Players can use their amino figures to get different costumes for some of the summoned emblems who

Image: Nintendo It has been yet another fun-filled week here at Nintendo Life and we are ready to once again hit the ol’ games this weekend. In the past seven days we have had The Game Awards (and the absence of any Tears of the Kingdom news thereof), a brand new wave of courses and

Image: Square Enix Apart from all those announcements at the Game Awards yesterday, there were also some new games released on the Nintendo Switch this week. One, in particular, that perhaps deserves just a little more attention is the new Dragon Quest spin-off, Dragon Quest Treasures. We’ve already shared our own Nintendo Life review –

Download it today by Liam Doolan 6 hours ago Image: Nintendo It’s been a busy week on the Nintendo week, with the company launching its third wave of DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and also announcing an expansion pass for the upcoming Fire Emblem game. In case you missed it, Splatoon 3 also got

The Sonic Frontiers soundtrack, which by all accounts is rather good, is now available on music streaming services Apple Music and Spotify. The lengthy album is titled Sonic Frontiers: Stillness & Motion and consists of six discs worth of music totalling 6 hours and 36 minutes (according to Apple Music) SEGA has thankfully embraced music

Netflix’s new animated Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic Prime, is set to make its debut on the streaming service on Thursday, 15th December. To whet Sonic fans appetites, the company has released a new three minute trailer chock-full of classic Sonic humour and some lovely animated visuals. Sonic Prime is a joint venture between SEGA

Nintendo is back with another wave of eight courses for the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass, bringing us to the halfway point of its overall road map. Now we’re up to a total of 24 new tracks over six unique cups, but so far, the output has been a bit mixed: we’ve had

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope came out a little over a month ago now and was instantly met by high praise indeed (scoring 8/10 in our review). If the first game in the series is anything to go by, then we can see this sequel being something

Image: Nintendo The Zelda franchise has seen its central hero take on many different forms. There’s the sideburns and long-johns of The Adventure of Link, the long body and pointed features of Ocarina of Time, the eyeliner and fringe of Twilight Princess (‘it’s not just a phase Muuuum‘) and then shaggy wild explorer of Breath

Image: Mojang/Microsoft There is only one piece of written narrative in Minecraft. It happens right at the end, after you’ve beaten the Ender Dragon. It is about 8 minutes long — almost as long as the entirety of the world record speedrun of the game — and it consists of a scrolling text poem written

Sonic Frontiers game director Morio Kishimoto, lead designer Jyunpei Ootsu, producer Sachiko Kawamura, and lead programmer Hiroki Tokunaga have appeared in an interview on the official Sonic YouTube channel and one of the elements of the game which was discussed is the game’s all-important combat features. The team revealed that the 3D platforms combat system was

Image: Nintendo Life It’s technically the last eShop Selects of the year. Yep, the next time we do this, it’ll be 2023, even if we’ll be looking back at December’s games. But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves yet! We’ve got November to look back on — a month dominated by Pokémon, but

The Nintendo Switch Online app was recently updated bringing the software to Version 2.4.0. The app is very slowly improving, though not quite at the pace that some would like in comparison to the functionality that the rival PS App and the Xbox App include. However, the newest version now includes widgets for X-Battles in

Update [Sat 3rd Dec, 2022 00:30 GMT]: This event is currently underway, so if you haven’t already joined in on the fun, do it while you still can. This Tera Raid Battle will run until the 4th of December and will take place again on 15th – 18th of December. Charizard with the Mightiest Mark

The latest edition of EDGE magazine has arrived with subscribers and there’s plenty of game reviews in Issue 379. EDGE is known for being incredibly stringent with its review scores and this issue has some controversial scores to say the least. God of War Ragnarok was awarded 7/10 by the British gaming publication and Sonic

UPDATE: Since writing this review, the first post-launch patch Version 1.1.0. has been released, and it fixes some of the problems I go on to discuss. There is still a lot of work to be done, but it’s definitely a decent improvement. Over the last few years, the Pokémon series has teased us with the

Following the special “Eevee Spotlight”, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are now hosting their second Tera Raid Battle event. This time it features the mighty Charizard. This first event runs from 1st – 4th December and will then run once again between 15th – 18th December. Charizard apparently isn’t native to the Paldea region, so this