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Image: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon GO Fest reaches its finale tomorrow (August 28th) with a number of one-day events ensuring that the celebrations go out with a bang. Perhaps the biggest of these events will be the arrival of four Ultra Beast Pokémon who will be making their way into five-star raid battles over

You may recall that, last night, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai released his final daily screenshot of the game on Twitter. You may also recall that, simultaneously, he teased an announcement that would be coming sometime today. Well, it came somewhat late, but Sakurai has made his announcement. He says that he’s “decided

The Gamescom 2022 Opening Game Night Live presentation didn’t really have any first-party news for Nintendo fans, but that doesn’t mean that the Nintendo Switch didn’t get any attention. For example, there was an interesting announcement in regards to Dorfromantik. A new trailer for Dorfromantik premiered in the presentation. Even though the game had already

Image: Sanei Boeki Here at Nintendo Life, we love Pokémon merchandise. There was the life-sized Lucario plushie that we were fawning over this month and who can forget the giant Snorlax bed? What we struggle to get over, however, is when these adorable collectables are available only in Japan (please, TPC, we need them). As

Image: Nintendo Life If you’re a long-time Nintendo Life reader, or a devout Kirby fan, then you might remember that time Nintendo opened a small chain of Kirby-themed pop-up restaurants across Japan – christened Kirby Café, appropriately enough – in 2016. Beginning with its first temporary location in Osaka, that was quickly followed by two

SEGA has recently confirmed that we are indeed getting the Mega Drive Mini 2 here in Europe and that it will arrive on the very same day as it does in North America. You will be able to get your hands on the retro themed mini console on 27th October, 2022. If you missed it,

Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an amazing game and we probably could keep playing it forever, but as you might recall, it’s now been well over five years since this latest entry in the series was released (and next March will mark six). Yes, we’re talking about brand new

By now, you’re likely very aware of the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive Mini 2. SEGA has been gradually revealing the games that will be included in it. This time, there is going to be some games included that originally released on the SEGA CD/Mega CD. That said, today saw the confirmation of the last bunch of

The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie has launched in Japanese cinemas and before the movie started fans were greeted with a short new trailer for Sonic Frontiers. The trailer shows Sonic running through the game’s open world and it clearly states once again that Sonic’s new 3D adventure is on track to launch towards the

Image: Nintendo Life Disclaimer: We are not lawyers and some of the wording here may not be 100% correct. Apologies in advance! If you’re at all tuned in to gaming news, you’ll probably have noticed the seemingly-endless and slightly-worrying number of news posts about acquisitions over the past few years — and that one of

Reddit may be known for a lot of unsavoury things, but it’s also a repository for some of the most entertaining stories and peeks into other people’s lives, largely in the form of AITA (Am I The Asshole) and relationship advice posts. These usually unfold with the poster detailing some egregiously horrible/hilarious issue that they’re

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If Cult of the Lamb has been whetting your appetite for cutesy-meets-creepy, then wrap your peepers around Beacon Pines, an upcoming storybook-like game about a small town with an unfolding mystery. Does that sound like Twin Peaks/Night in the Woods/Life is Strange/[insert Netflix TV show here] to you?

The UK physical video game software charts are now here for the week ending 13th August. There was a new No.1 this week, well a re-entry, for the PlayStation game, Horizon Forbidden West, which shot to No.1 due to some new PlayStation 5 hardware bundles arriving at retailers. There was one new entry in the

The workplace environment at Nintendo of America has been recently getting a lot of flack, mainly due to the company’s attempts to keep employees from unionizing. Unfortunately, Kotaku has released a report that it is not just union-busting that Nintendo of America has allegedly been doing. This time, it relates to the company’s game testers.

You may recall that, last year, McDonalds had some Happy Meal Pokemon items available in various regions, such as the UK and United States. They weren’t around for very long, but they were still really successful. Not only did they keep selling out in the United States, but when the Happy Meal Pokemon content arrived

The official Life is Strange Twitter account has announced that both Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm will arrive on the Nintendo Switch family of systems this September. These are the remastered versions and they will be available as part of the Arcadia Bay Collection which will have both physical and

Image: Nintendo Life In case you didn’t know, tomorrow (Monday, August 15th) marks the 35th Anniversary of Metroid‘s NES launch in North America. That’s insane, right? 35 years! Do you feel old yet? In the years and decades since its debut in 1987 (’86 in Japan), the Metroid franchise has gone on to become one

The Kirby 30th anniversary concert has just taken place in Japan and the team had a special announcement to share. The recently announced multiplayer game, Kirby Dream Buffet, will launch on the Nintendo Switch eShop on Wednesday, 17th August and will cost 1500 yen. A release date hasn’t been announced as of yet for the