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The critically acclaimed co-op adventure It Takes Two could be coming soon to the Nintendo Switch family of systems. The information was teased by prominent video game leaker, The Snitch, over on his Discord channel. It Takes Two from EA and Hazelight received fantastic reviews when it launched last year and the cooperative adventure game

Venture Beat journalist Jeff Grubb has appeared on the Nintendo Shack channel to chat about some of what will be shown during the rumoured September Nintendo Direct presentation. He previously mentioned that The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess enhanced Wii U ports for the Switch will be

Image: Blaze Entertainment / Nintendo Life Initially announced back in May, Blaze Entertainment’s Evercade EXP looks like a natural progression of its original Evercade handheld, showcasing a streamlined design with a solid glass-covered 800×480 pixel 4.3-inch IPS screen and built-in Wi-Fi for firmware updates, along with a USB-C port and improved 1.5Ghz chipset. Our friends

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) These days, it feels like deckbuilding elements are finding their way into all kinds of roguelikes, but it’s not too often that you see new releases purely built around card games. City Wars: Tokyo Reign is one of those rare releases, and we’re pleased to report that it presents an

Image: Nintendo Splatoon 3 is just around the corner – no really, literally just around the corner, as in next Friday – and Nintendo has reconfirmed something pretty cool that you may have missed first time around. That’s right, it’s been reiterated that Splatoon 3’s ‘Salmon Run’ mode will be available 24/7, so if you’re

Image: Corecell Team Update [Fri 2nd Sep, 2022 15:00 BST]: PQube has responded to our request for comment with the following statement disputing Corecell’s account and outlining its side of the story: “We enjoyed working with Corecell on our first project together and Corecell were very happy with the success of this. We were pleased

8BitDo have been praised for their simple but extremely customisable controllers and the company is now taking a stab at the more expensive Pro controller market. The latest product is the 8BitDo Ultimate Controller which is available in a wireless or wired option with the bluetooth version and 2.4g versions including a special charging dock.

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Microids has revealed that New Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja, a remake of the 1991 Super Nintendo classic, will be wheeling its way onto Switch this November. A remake from the team behind Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All (Mr Nutz Studio), we’ll be travelling back in time

Image: Nintendo Life / Damien McFerran Remember the ‘exploded’ Game Boy consoles we showed you a while back? Well, the company behind them, GRID Studio, is back with a more up-to-date example: Nintendo Switch Joy-Con. While we’d argue that getting Nintendo to repair your Joy-Con is a more sensible course of action when they finally

After nearly a week of game announcements, new trailers and playable video game demos on the show floor, Gamescom 2022 has officially come to an end. With the event itself now just a memory, there’s only one thing left to do. Every year, Gamescom awards take place. These awards, with various categories, are given to

Graphic adventures can’t seem to settle themselves. Most new games seem to have to start at first principles and decide on their own verbs, loops, control scheme, puzzle types, difficulty, hint system… and it feels like there are more misses than hits. Which makes it all the more impressive that developer Happy Juice Games has

Image: Nintendo Life / Joe Merrick It has been three years since the last Pokémon World Championships, so the excitement for the 2022 event had been building for a long while. For the first time ever, the Pokémon World Championships were held outside of North America, taking place in the UK at the ExCeL London

Sonic Frontiers has been one of the biggest playable games this year at Gamescom with fans, and those who have gown up with the spiky blue hedgehog in their youth, all eager to see whether or not we are finally guaranteed a good new Sonic the Hedgehog 3D platformer. Sonic Frontiers has been one of

Image: Embracer Group Following news that Embracer Group would be acquiring a number of Square Enix’s western studios and IPs back in May, the company has today announced that it has completed the purchase. This means Embracer now officially owns Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, and Square Enix Montréal, and holds the rights to franchises such as

Image: Bandai Namco Bandai Namco is apparently making this summer one for PlayStation platforming remakes! Pac-Man World: Re-Pac is out today on Switch, and — following on from Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series — shows the Japanese developer is acknowledging and showing a little bit of love to some of our childhood favourites. Early reviews have

Image: Nintnedo Tomorrow is World Rock Paper Scissors Day — which also means that Splatoon 3‘s first-ever Splatfest begins! Thanks to the Splatfest World Premiere Demo, you can join in on the game’s first Splatfest a few weeks before we officially get to paint the town blue, yellow, and red. But before you get started

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Video gaming has to be one of the more expensive hobbies out there, right? Other than, like, yacht collecting or space travel, of course, but out of the normal hobbies, it’s up there. Games themselves tend to cost anywhere from $20 to 80, and that’s before you get