There’s still plenty of life left in Nintendo’s hybrid system. The Switch has smashed all sorts of records but one thing it hasn’t done just yet is surpassed the lifetime sales of the PlayStation 2. While it was assumed at one point the hybrid system only needed to shift another 15 million units to surpass…
Sublime Switch combat. Scroll through the eShop any week, and under the new releases section, you are bound to find a Metroidvania, if not several. The genre is packed with so many games that few manage to break out. However, Red Candle Games’ Nine Sols did manage to make a name for itself earlier this…
Join the club. The My Nintendo loyalty program is pretty good, right? If you head on over to the rewards section of the service right now, you’ll find a host of interesting goodies to claim should you possess the required number of coins. These include a Nintendo Switch Online 2025 Calendar, a set of Super…
Dededelicious. Everyone’s favourite pink puffball, Kirby, is teaming up with Heinz (you know, the tomato ketchup guys) for a new range of sauces in Japan. Well, that’s not a sentence we thought we’d be writing today, but we can’t say we’re surprised. Shared by the official Heinz Twitter account, the Kirby range will be launching…
Tencent pulls the plug. Tencent Nintendo Switch has announced that online services for the Switch will come to an end in China in 2026. In a statement released online (thanks, Chinese Nintendo), the company states that eShop purchases will cease on 31st March 2026. Following this, code redemptions will then be shut down on 15th…
Happy Holodays. In celebration of the latest Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Trading Card Game expansion, Surging Sparks, The Pokémon Company has set a new Guinness World Record with a mammoth 24-hour livestream. With the assistance of 30 Pokémon content creators, the stream is now officially the longest unboxing livestream to date (previously held by Lucasfilm’s…
Trust in your allies, Yuto! The toughest April Fools’ jokes to swallow are the ones that genuinely get our hopes up, only for it all to come crashing down when reality sets in. April Fools’ Day 2024 saw plenty of enticing fake announcements, but there was one smaller prank nestled among the big hitters that…
“my vision has been less aligned with the team”. Omar Cornut, one of the co-founders of developer Lizardcube, has announced his departure from the company after his own aspirations and vision became less aligned with the wider team. Lizarcube is known for its work on Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap and Streets of Rage 4,…
We’re not crying, YOU’RE crying. Nintendo’s free mobile app, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, is shutting up shop on 28th November 2024 at 3pm BST / 7am PT / 10am ET. We knew this end date was on the horizon and we told ourselves that it would all be okay with Pocket Camp Complete landing on…
Nintendo confirms. The Zelda timeline has ignited all sorts of debates and theories over the years, and now it seems Nintendo has officially added the newest entry Echoes of Wisdom. Read the full article on nintendolife.com