Guide Best Nintendo Switch Football Games
We mean Soccer, not that 'other' football
The first update for the Switch version has arrived
Random Super Mario 64 GBA Project Adds Stars And "Wider" Limbs For Mario
"They're easier to see at low resolution"
News Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Kick Off Four Seasonal Events This Week
Tera raids and mass outbreaks galore
News - 2024, Week 28
TodayFri, 12th Jul 2024
News Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library With Three More Titles
"Starfy dives onto the Nintendo Switch"
Breaking: Nintendo has added three more classic games to the Switch Online Game Boy Advance library. They include Densetsu no Starfy 1,2 and 3. Enjoy! Densetsu no Starfy – No sleep ’til Pufftop! A sudden storm has caused Starfy, prince of the floating sky kingdom Pufftop, to plummet from his lofty home...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons 'Tom Nook' First 4 Figures Statue Revealed, Pre-Orders Now Live
K.K. Slider is also on the way
Update [Fri 12th Jul, 2024 01:30 BST]: Following last week's announcement, pre-orders for First 4 Figures' Tom Nook Animal Crossing: New Horizons statue are now officially live. There's an early bird offer of $98.99 USD (instead of the regular price of $115.49 USD) for the exclusive edition of this statue, which ends...
Random Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Overtakes NES Lifetime Sales
Nintendo's best-selling Switch game breaks another record
The 2017 release Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been an absolute juggernaut for Nintendo during the Switch generation and if you needed a reminder about just how successful it's been, here's a little fun fact. The 61.97 million units shifted as of March 2024 actually means this single game has now...
YesterdayThu, 11th Jul 2024
News Switch Is Now Nintendo's Longest-Serving Flagship Home Console
The Famicom's crown has been taken
The Switch is now Nintendo's longest-serving home console - with some caveats to consider. This revelation comes thanks to peerless research from our friends over at VGC, who have determined that the Switch has surpassed the Famicom in terms of time on the market before the arrival of a successor. Switch launched...
News Sega And KessCo Team Up For Sonic Adventure 2-Inspired Card Game
Shuffle, Sonic
Toy company KessCo has announced a brand new Sonic the Hedgehog tabletop game — Sonic Speed Battle. Yes, it involves cards, but don't worry, it's no Sonic Shuffle. In fact, Kass has said that the card game in specifically inspired by Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, the GameCube release of the Dreamcast favourite. Sonic Speed Battle will...
Talking Point The Switch eShop Could Be Great With These Few Tweaks
Get with the times
If you head onto the Switch eShop now, chances are you probably won’t have a good time. Unless you go into it knowing what you want to buy ahead of time, the significant slowdown and copious shovelware making up the majority of the ‘Recent Releases’ section will likely be enough to scare you off long before you discover...
News Retailer GAME Is Reportedly Ending In-Store Pre-Orders
GAME Wallet is also ending
UK retailer GAME is reportedly ending in-store pre-orders in what feels like yet another baffling move as it further integrates itself into the wider Fraser Group. As originally reported by TechRadar Gaming (thanks, Eurogamer), existing pre-orders or deposits for products due to release before the end of January 2025 will...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Football Games
We mean Soccer, not that 'other' football
Hang on. England's in the final?!? 58 years of hurt had kinda stopped us dreaming, to be honest. Crazy times. As we head into the loft to dig out our Italia '90 squad poster and copy of Striker: Skills and Tactics ahead of Sunday's Euro 2024 final, here's a recap of some of the finest footy picks on Switch...
Japanese Charts Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Holds Firmly Onto Top Spot
It's anything but dark
Famitsu's weekly physical sales charts have arrived, and it paints a very familiar picture. Luigi's Mansion 2 HD continues to suck up the rest of the competition, shifting 33,828 copies in the week of 1st to 7th July. In fact, the top three is exactly the same as last week — Animal Crossing: New Horizons shifted 10,965...
News Obscure '90s Mascot Platformer 'Aero The Acro-Bat' Makes Surprise Return
Coming to Switch in August
It seems like we're in the age of weird, oft-forgotten platforming mascots making a return. We say that because today, Ratalaika Games announced that "the bat is back!" No, not that bat — Aero the Acro-Bat. The circus performer will be making his grand return on Switch (and all other consoles) on 2nd August 2024...
Nintendo Download 11th July (North America)
Princess Maker 2! Darkest Dungeon II! Let's School!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's a pretty quiet one! But don't worry, we've got a list of new games that have arrived on the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week...
News Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Looks Stunning In New Gameplay Footage
Plus, Square Enix reveals new character art
Just when we thought we couldn't be any more excited for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Square Enix comes along and pushes our hype levels into overdrive. The remake's official Japanese site has today been updated with new information and screenshots and several Japanese outlets have published extended...
Video Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Gets A New Overview Trailer
Update: Now available in English
Update [Thu 11th Jul, 2024 14:30 BST]: Nintendo has now revealed an English-language version of the overview trailer for Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition. Original Article [Fri 28th Jun, 2024 03:35 BST]: The Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition arrives on the Switch next month and to help promote this...
News TMNT: Mutants Unleashed Comes Out Of Its Shell This October
New trailer finally reveals some gameplay
Today is a big day for those who have been following Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed since it was announced last September. Firstly, we now have a release date: 18th October 2024. Secondly, we finally have a trailer. Publisher Outright Games has today given us our first proper loo
News NES Remix Dev Is Reportedly Involved With Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
Makes sense!
Nintendo World Championships: NES Editon is just around the corner, scheduled to launch on the Switch on 18th July 2024. Now, according to dataminer Yakumono over on social media, the developers of the game are none other than Nintendo itself and indieszero. If you're unfamiliar, the latter has collaborated with Nintendo on multiple...
Review Princess Maker 2 Regeneration (Switch) - A Solid Return For Simulator Royalty
Needs more dad jokes
Before Super Mario Maker, there was Princess Maker. Yes, these two series have absolutely nothing in common beyond a shared naming convention and we’re definitely being more than a bit cheeky, but it’s technically a true statement. Back in the early ‘90s, Neon Genesis Evangelion anime studio Gainax took its biggest swing...
Random Nintendo's Mature Horror 'Emio' Is Already Getting Lots Of Fan Art
Baghead
Nintendo recently revealed a short, spooky teaser for some sort of Switch game known as Emio. Details are pretty scarce at the moment, so naturally, fans worldwide have begun to analyse the trailer and speculate what it might actually be. Is it a new IP or an entry in an existing franchise? Is it being developed by Nintendo, or is a...
Feature Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Lands On Switch Today In A Port Two Years In The Making
Smoke me a kipper
Originally launching nearly five years after Ace Combat: Infinity and four years after the 3DS release Assault Horizon Legacy+, 2019's Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown was the first game in the mainline series for over a decade and brought the series back to Strangereal, the franchise's fictionalised Earth stand-in. Now, five years...
News Build-A-Bear's New Pokémon Is Fuecoco
Another Scarlet & Violet starter joins the line up
The Build-A-Bear Pokémon plush line has continued to expand and following the arrival of Pokémon like Sprigatito from the Scarlet and Violet games, the Paldea Fire-Type Fuecoco has now been confirmed. This new plush is available now in an online bundle containing a sound device, shirt, and...
News Riot Games Reportedly Cancels Smash Bros. Style Fighter Codenamed 'Pool Party'
"A platform fighter in the vein of Super Smash Bros. Melee"
The Super Smash Bros. series is the king of brawlers and many other companies have attempted to recreate this magic with certain other franchises over the years. With this in mind, Riot Games (the same team behind League of Legends) has apparently cancelled its own "unannounced" Super...
News 'Emio' Includes A Lot Of Horrific Mature Themes, According To Its Rating
The Nintendo project will contain disturbingly "strong" content
Nintendo yesterday revealed a disturbing new project simply titled 'Emio' and although no information has been shared about it just yet, new ratings spotted within a Nintendo Australia YouTube trailer upload seem to have shed some light on just how horrific this experience will be...
News Switch Online's Missions & Rewards Adds Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Icons
Wave 3 now available
Update #2 [Thu 11th Jul, 2024 02:55 BST]: It's a new week and that means a new batch of Luigi's Mansion 2 HD icons are now available to Switch Online subscribers. This lot are available for one week - so get them while you can. They'll be followed by the fourth and final wave next week. Here's a look at the third wave,...
News Horror Dev Bloober Team Says It's Working On A New Project For Nintendo Platforms
Codenamed 'Project M'
Polish horror game developer Bloober Team, known for series like Layers of Fear, The Medium and Konami's upcoming release Silent Hill 2, has announced it's working on a new project for Nintendo platforms. In an interview earli
Wednesday10th Jul 2024
The first update for the Switch version has arrived
Following the release of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Switch in May, Nintendo has now rolled out the very first update for the game. As this game is a revival of the GameCube classic, this update is focused exclusively on fixes. It resolves all sorts of errors and issues you may or...
News Nintendo Reveals Disturbing 'Emio' Teaser, And Fans Are Baffled
Who is Emio?
Nintendo has revealed a rather ominous 15-second teaser trailer on its various YouTube channels, simply titled Emio. It's pretty spooky stuff for The Big N, and at the moment, nobody really has any idea what it's all about. The video description asks (in hashtag form) 'who is Emio', and y'know what... we don't know! Do you? A Japanese...
News It's Official, Roguelike 'TMNT: Splintered Fate' Will Feature 4-Player Couch Co-Op
Cowabunga!
Just before its release on 17th July, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate developer Super Evil Megacorp has today confirmed that the radical roguelike will feature four-player couch co-op. The Turtles' Apple Arcade adventure has been billed as a "bodacious TMNT co-op experience" since it was first announced for Switch at the...
Feature Nintendo Switch Sports Basketball - A Slam Dunk Or A Missed Shot?
Sixth man
It's been almost two years since Nintendo Switch Sports' last major update with the addition of Golf. The patch left us feeling decidedly "whelmed" — it was a nice add-on, but nothing special after having played Wii Sports and its Resort follow-up. With Basketball, the latest sport to join the roster, we expected more of the same. And,...
News Bullet-Hell Shmup 'Mushihimesama' To Be Delisted From The Switch eShop
Grab it while you can
The fantastic bullet-hell shmup Mushihimesama is set to be delisted from the Switch eShop on 10th August 2024. Announced by publisher Live Wire, the reasoning provided for the delisting is that the licensing agreement for the Switch version has expired. It seems that rather than attempt to renew the agreement, the best course...
Review Fading Afternoon (Switch) - An Ambitious, Absorbing 'Yakuza' In Kunio-kun's Clothing
The gang's all here
Technos’ Kunio-kun titles, a 42-strong series dabbling in various genres, began in 1986 as a simple arena brawler. Its most popular entries, however, were those that incorporated non-linear role-playing elements based around soap operatic high school thuggery. Anyone familiar with those titles, specifically on Famicom, Super...
News Here's Your First Look At Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings
Update: Sega shares the official prologue teaser
Update [Wed 10th Jul, 2024 03:30 BST]: Sega has now shared the full video on its official Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel. Here's a bit more about this upcoming prologue series, which is arriving in Fall 2024. "Take a sneak peek at the upcoming prologue animation SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS: Dark...
News Nintendo Switch Sports Free Basketball Update Now Live, Here's What's Included
Shoot some hoops today
After revealing Basketball would be coming to Nintendo Switch Sports recently, Nintendo has now officially released this free court sport update. As already revealed, it comes with a trio of different game modes including two-on-two matches, a solo three-point contest, and a 'Five Streak Battle'. Included with this is local...
News Nintendo Switch Sports Basketball Update Worked On By Eighting
Known for fighting games and Pikmin
Developer Eighting, which is most well-known for developing licensed fighting games on Japanese tokusatsu shows and anime has revealed it led the development of the Basketball update for Nintendo Switch Sports. A post on the developer's website revealed that it was "in charge of planning and developing the free...
News Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Datamine Supposedly Uncovers Evidence Of New DLC
Spoiler alert
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot recently celebrated eight million downloads since its original release, so what's next for this ever-growing experience? According to a new datamine, Goku and friends might be getting some DLC based on...spoiler...Dragon Ball Daima. If you're not familiar with Dragon Ball Daima, it's the new series coming out...
News Gorgeous GBA-Style RPG 'Tako no Himitsu' Launches Kickstarter
Includes music from Golden Sun and Terranigma composers
Deneos Games, the developer behind Save Me Mr Tako, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its GBA-inspired RPG Tako no Himitsu: Oceans of Secrets, which is currently slated to launch in 2026. Boasting music from Motoi Sakuraba (Golden Sun) and Masanori Hikichi (Terranigma), the game mi
News Transformers Collab Announced For Blizzard's F2P Shooter Overwatch 2
Roll out today, squad
Blizzard's free-to-play hero shooter Overwatch 2 has announced it's teaming up with Transformers in a new collaboration.This new update, which is now available, will bring new skins, rewards and some "fan-favourite ways to play" as players join an epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons. "Calling all TRANSFORMERS...
News NBA 2K25 Scores September Release Date And A Trio Of Cover Athletes
Tip off this September
In perhaps the least surprising news of the month, 2K has announced that NBA 2K25 is heading for Switch *gasp*. In September *double gasp*. With a confusingly large number of physical and digital editions *blacks out*. Set to come our way on 6th September, NBA 2K25 will be graced by a trio of athletes depending on which...
Tuesday9th Jul 2024
Random Super Mario 64 GBA Project Adds Stars And "Wider" Limbs For Mario
"They're easier to see at low resolution"
Last month, we covered a story here on Nintendo Life about a coder named Joshua Barretto who decided to do a custom rewrite of Super Mario 64 for Nintendo's 32-bit handheld, the Game Boy Advance. If you weren't already impressed with this technical feat, this palm-sized project has now shared a new update...
Soapbox Has Nintendo Set A Precedent That 'Switch 2' Can't Hope To Match?
The highest of bars
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Gavin ponders what 'success' looks like for systems with impossibly popular predecessors... Looking back at Nintendo's home console hardware sales over the past four decades,...
Random Homebrew Dev Acquires 'Tengen' Brand, Launches Unlicensed NES Game
Come again..?
Remember Tengen? From 1987 to 1994, it was a subsidiary of Atari Games focused on creating unlicensed titles for the NES by attempting to circumvent Nintendo's licensee restrictions. After obtaining a copy of the Nintendo lock-out program, Tengen was well on its way to creating its own NES cartridges. However, Nintendo promptly sued...
News Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Was Nintendo's "Best-Selling" Switch Game In May 2024 (US)
But Switch showed "the most significant drop" in hardware sales YoY
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door topped the charts in the UK and Japan when it arrived on the Switch in May 2024, and some new data about its release in the US has now been shared. According to Circana (formerly NPD) via industry analyst Mat Piscatella, it debuted in second...
News According To Hideki Kamiya, Ōkami's Development Team Was 'Weak'
"This team was the worst!"
Clover Studio's Ōkami was one of the most critically acclaimed games of its day when it launched on PS2 in 2006 and Wii in 2008. Despite this, Hideki Kamiya has revealed that its development team was, on the whole, pretty weak. This comes via a new video from 'UNSEEN' on YouTube in which Kamiya and Ikumi Nakamura sit...
News Sonic Team Boss Really Wants To Make A New Sonic The Hedgehog RPG
A new brotherhood?
Remember Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood? Maybe you don't for various reasons, but the DS game was the first ever Sonic the Hedgehog RPG — and the last. However, in a recent interview with Good Vibes Gaming, Sonic Team boss Takashi Iizuka spoke about his desire to make an RPG starring Sonic, admitting that he has asked...
News Pokémon Sleep Has Reportedly Made $100 Million In Its First Year
Catching Zs and catching $s
Pokémon Sleep, the sleep-tracking app where you can catch 'em all by catching Zs, has reportedly brought in an impressive $100 million in its first year (thanks, VGC). This is according to AppMagic data recently published by PocketGamer.Biz which reports that the lion's share of the revenue has come from users in Japan,...
Random After 100% Completing Zelda: TOTK, Streamer Sets Out To Collect Every Rock
No stone left unturned
It has been a little over a year since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom landed on Switch and for many of us, the adventure is over. Sure, we might drop into Hyrule to mop up a couple more quest, do some more exploring or get lost in the wonder of it all, but, generally speaking, we're done. The same cannot be said...
News Taito Milestones 3 For Switch Locks In Japanese Release, Here Are The 10 Games Included
It's arriving in "Winter 2024" locally
Following an announcement in May about Taito Milestones 3 coming to the West in "Winter 2024", Taito has now shared an update about the collection's Japanese release. It will be arriving later this year on 28th November and comes with a total of 10 titles. "The release date for the Nintendo Switch software...
News WayForward Is Reviving Its GBA Game 'Sigma Star Saga' For Modern Platforms
The "fan-favorite shmup/RPG" returns in 2025
WayForward shared some surprise news at its Anime Expo panel this year - announcing the Game Boy Advance sci-fi adventure title Sigma Star Saga would be making a return on "modern platforms" in 2025. This 2005/06 "fan-favorite shmup/RPG" will also be made available as a Game Boy Advance reproduction...
Random When They're Not Terrorising Hyrule, Zelda: TOTK's Moblins Are Certified Ballers
BOOMSHEIKALAKA
After a year and a bit, we thought we had seen just about all of the weirdness that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had to offer. But the glitches, wild builds and hidden secrets all pale in comparison to what we're dubbing the 'HBA' (Hyrule Basketball Association) because, as it turns out, TOTK's Moblin's can ball (thanks,...
Review SPY×ANYA: Operation Memories (Switch) - A Very Easygoing, Sometimes Awkward Anime Outing
The most adorable spy mission you'll ever play
Listen up, Spy x Family fans. Operation Strix is on and the only way to ensure world peace is to help Anya Forger with her homework. In the case of Spy x Anya: Operation Memories, that means taking her to lots of fun places and taking pictures of her while she does adorable things. It is a low-stakes,...
News The Second Unofficial Zelda Cookbook Has Already Smashed Its Kickstarter Goal
"A new culinary adventure awaits"
You've probably cooked all sorts of delights (and not-so-tasty dishes) in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and if you're interested in applying these skills to the real world, then this new "unofficial" cookbook based on The Legend of Zelda series might be for you. This is the '2nd Unofficial Legend Of...
Random Sakurai Explains How Manga Influenced Smash Ultimate's Character Designs
It's all in the mouth
Masahiro Sakurai is back with another game development video and today's lesson is all about Manga-like visuals. The legendary game designer discusses the expressive and unrealistic techniques employed by manga and anime artists to achieve the most expressive result, specifically, how a character's mouth appears in profile and...
UK Charts Luigi Runs For Cover As EA Sports FC 24 Scores Another Winner
WaaaAaAaa
The latest UK charts are in and after making its golden debut last week, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD couldn't hold onto the prize. Nintendo's latest remaster drops to third this time as the familiar faces of EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy reassume their spots at the top of the table. The rest of the chart is pretty unsurprising. Elden Ring...
Monday8th Jul 2024
News Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Kick Off Four Seasonal Events This Week
Tera raids and mass outbreaks galore
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are hosting four new seasonal events starting this week, including Tera Raids and Mass Outbreaks. The first kicks off this week on 11th July 2024 and is headlined by a black crystal Tera Raid featuring Pikachu with the Mightiest Mark. This is then supplemented by a 'Pikachu and...
Feature TMNT: Splintered Fate Dev Talks Crafting A Radical Roguelike And How Hades "Opened Our Eyes"
Divine inspiration
TMNT fans were eating well back in 2023. Shredder's Revenge landed a totally tubular DLC, Mutant Mayhem was one of the franchise's best films in decades, and completely out of the blue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate popped out of its shell on Apple Arcade. This roguelike from developer Super Evil Megacorp took the...
News New RPG From 'Rune Factory' Creator Lands On Switch Next Month
Physical launch to follow in October
Red Art Games recently announced that Elrentaros Wanderings, the new RPG from Rune Factory creator Yoshifumi Hashimoto, will be heading to the Switch digitally on 16th August 2024. Developed by Marvelous subsidiary HAKAMA, the game blends life-sim elements with action-RPG gameplay, all the while boasting...
News "A Mixed Result" - Digital Foundry Gives Its Tech Verdict For Beyond Good & Evil On Switch
Texture and reflection downgrades
Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition is out now on Switch and, by and large, it's turned out to be a successful release for Ubisoft, boasting upgraded visuals from the original alongside some meaningful bonus material. We gave the game an 8/10 in our review, and you should definitely check out our full...
News Surprise! Basketball Slams Onto Nintendo Switch Sports This Week
NBA on a Wed-nes-day
Following its announcement the June 2024 Direct, Nintendo has today revealed that basketball will be hitting the court on Nintendo Switch Sports on 10th July in Europe and on 9th July in North America (thanks to the magic of timezones). The new sport will come as a free add-on for the game, tipping off with a trio of different...
News Play Mario + Rabbids For Free In Nintendo Switch Online's New Free Game Trial
Sparking hope for our bank balance
Update: This Nintendo Switch Online Free Game Trial has now been announced for Europe too. Whether you have a North American or European NSO subscription, you can play Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope for free until 14th July. Hot off the back of Darkest Dungeon II, Nintendo has revealed its next free game trial...
News 'River Tails: Stronger Together' Is A New Co-Op Adventure About Feline And Fish Friendship
Out now!
After a new co-op adventure to while away the summer evenings? River Tails: Stronger Together might have you covered. This two-player platformer landed on the Switch eShop last week and it looks really rather sweet. Developed by Kid Onion Studio, River Tails will see you playing as either Furple the kitten or Finn the fish, navigating land...
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