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A New Super Monkey Ball Game Just Got Rated In Australia

Rated PG Tips. Get yer ‘nanas and your monkey balls ready, because it looks like a new Super Monkey Ball might be a-rollin’ over the horizon. A Twitter account that documents the latest in Australian video game classifications just posted…

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It Looks Like Labo Is Being Put To Rest As Nintendo Takes Down The Website

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Card-bored of life. Following a tip from Twitter user @Akfamilyhome, it seems like the North American Nintendo Labo website – formerly labo.nintendo.com – has been taken down, redirecting instead to the Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit. It’s a shame,…

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Nintendo's Indie World Sale Discounts Some Cracking Games On Switch

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Including the brand new FEZ. As part of yesterday’s Indie World Showcase, Nintendo revealed that it was kicking off an Indie sale on the Switch eShop. The sale’s now live, and there are some great picks to be had. We’ve…

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Review: Stitchy in Tooki Trouble – Pretty But Painfully Average DKC-Inspired Platforming

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Sure to cause a straw man argument. A scarecrow is a creation built to deceive. A visual signifier of something greater. A simulacrum intended to impress, but when approached, the illusion shatters. Conveniently, Stitchy in Tooki Trouble is much the…

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Ubisoft Forward Event Confirmed For Day One Of E3

6 hours ago Nintendo Life

Just Dance 2022 confirmed, surely. E3 is back this year, and for many of us it’ll be the same as always – sitting in comfort with snacks at hand and watching too many livestreams. Though we won’t necessarily have the…

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Nintendo Download: 15th April (Europe)

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FEZ! Pocoyo Party! Poison Control! The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down…

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Exclusive: Writer Of Lockdown Horror Hit 'Host' Is Aiming To Revolutionise FMV Games With 'Ghosts'

6 hours ago Nintendo Life

“It’s a live show, so anything can happen”. Back in the ’90s, FMV video games were seen as a way of harnessing the amazing storage potential of CD-ROM to create immersive, life-like video games – but although cult classics like…

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Skate City Kickflips Onto Switch In May

7 hours ago Nintendo Life

Aims to share the ‘heart and soul of street skating’. This truly is the comeback generation for skateboarding games, with another promising entry in the genre now getting a firm release date on Nintendo Switch. Agens and Snowman have confirmed…

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New Infographic Shows Off The 21 Games Featured In This Week's Nintendo Indie Showcase

7 hours ago Nintendo Life

Tick off your favourites! With another Indie Showcase all wrapped up, Nintendo’s back once again with its handy infographic to remind us of all the games featured in the show. Fans are usually pretty quick to jump on these infographics…

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Strategic Deck-Builder Rise Of The Slime Scores A Spring Release On Switch

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“A unique mix of roguelike and deck-builder”. Following its recent Early Access run on Steam, strategic deck-building game Rise of the Slime is slithering onto the Switch eShop this spring. The game has you helping poor old Slime to defy…

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Japanese Charts: Monster Hunter Rise Leads In Another Dominant Week For Nintendo

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Switch takes all top ten games. Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 11th April, revealing that Monster Hunter Rise is still doing the business. The game sold another estimated 194,327 physical copies this week, comfortably…

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Nintendo Download: 15th April (North America)

9 hours ago Nintendo Life

SaGa Frontier Remastered! FEZ! The Longing! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and…

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Random: Here's Zelda: Breath Of The Wild's Tarrey Town Completely Remade Inside Minecraft

9 hours ago Nintendo Life

Bolson would be proud. We’re all probably pretty used to seeing just how creative Minecraft players can be at this point, but when a new build just so happens to feature a well-known Legend of Zelda location, it simply can’t…

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Review: FEZ – A Mind And World-Bending Puzzle Platformer That Deserves A Second Look

9 hours ago Nintendo Life

Like an oblong in a rhombus, like a cube within a cube. One of the original indie darlings in the eyes of many, FEZ is a game steeped in a whole bucket’s worth of history and intrigue. Nine years after…

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thatgamecompany's Award-Winning Sky: Children Of The Light Soars Onto Switch In June

10 hours ago Nintendo Life

Includes cross-play with mobile players. thatgamecompany is a studio that is rightly held in the highest regard, with titles like Flower and particularly Journey being stand-out releases. For a time it worked solely on PlayStation platforms, but after going its…

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After 20 Years, This Amazing Famicom Collection Is Finally Complete

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1053 games, fully boxed with instructions. The Famicom was Nintendo’s first smash-hit home system and spawned the NES in the west. The shared library of these systems is immense, especially by standards of the period – in Japan alone, over…

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New Kemco Sale Discounts Switch, 3DS And Wii U Games For A Limited Time

11 hours ago Nintendo Life

14 games on offer. Kemco has kickstarted yet another sale across Nintendo Switch, 3DS and Wii U, this time discounting 14 games in total. The deals listed below can be found on the North American, European and Australian Nintendo eShop…

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Round Up: All The Games From The Nintendo Indie World Showcase – April 2021

11 hours ago Nintendo Life

Each and every title featured in the show! Yesterday, we were treated to a brand new Nintendo Indie World Showcase, giving us a glimpse at some of the brightest indie games set to launch on Switch. More than 20 games…

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You May Get Lost In Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective This Spring

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Finding its way to the eShop. Nintendo’s Indie Showcase included a range of intriguing titles, and pleasingly there was creativity on show not just in concepts but in visual styles. Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective was definitely eye-catching, and…

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Please Forgive Us, But We Can't Get Enough Of This Shameless Game Boy Micro Clone

13 hours ago Nintendo Life

Say hello to the Waveshare GPM280. Chinese-made handheld emulation devices aren’t a new thing by any means, and each year countless new variants appear on the scene which do pretty much the same thing: play ROMs via emulation using cheap…

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The Forgotten City, A Midas-Touched Time-Loop Mystery, Comes To Switch This Summer

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Such a cold finger. Previously announced for Xbox and PC release (and originally scheduled to launch last year), developer Modern Storyteller’s The Forgotten City is now lined up to launch on Switch and other consoles in Summer 2021. A Roman…

Capcom Is Closing Down Its Online Store In The US

18 hours ago Nintendo Life

Will accept orders until the start of next month. Capcom has announced on Twitter that it will be closing down its official online store in America. The last day to place orders will be next month on 1st May, and…

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Pokémon GO Hosting Special Event To Celebrate Release Of New Pokémon Snap

19 hours ago Nintendo Life

Shiny Smeargle will make its GO debut. To promote the upcoming Nintendo Switch release New Pokémon Snap, Niantic’s augmented reality mobile game Pokémon GO will be hosting a special event inspired by the photography-focused game set in the Lental region.…

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PowerA's Pro-Grade Switch Controller Is Now Available For Pre-Order

21 hours ago Nintendo Life

Take your game to the next level. If you want to take your Nintendo gaming sessions to the next level, then you might want to check out PowerA’s new Fusion Pro Wireless Controller for the Switch. It puts “premium materials…

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PowerA Reveals Its Pro-Grade Switch Controller, Now Available For Pre-Order

21 hours ago Nintendo Life

Take your game to the next level – with paddles! If you want to take your Nintendo gaming sessions to the next level, then you might want to check out PowerA’s new Fusion Pro Wireless Controller for the Switch. It…

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Super Mario Maker 2's Final Ninji Speedrun Event Has Arrived

22 hours ago Nintendo Life

Game over, Mario. If you thought Nintendo was done with Super Mario, think again! He’s still got some unfinished business with Bowser in the form of one final Super Mario Maker 2 Ninji Speedrun event. Yes, that’s right – the…

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Super Mario Maker 2's Final Ninji Speedrun Event Is Now Live

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Retro Recruits Dreamworks Talent As A Lighting Artist For Metroid Prime 4

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Has also worked with Disney and Sony’s God of War studio. Over the past year, Retro Studios has been on a mass hiring spree for its highly anticipated release Metroid Prime 4. While this important process seems to have slowed…

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Metroid Prime 4 Developer Hires DreamWorks Talent As A Lighting Artist

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Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remaster Finally Returns To Australian eShop, Seven Months After Its Removal

23 hours ago Nintendo Life

Fans have been waiting a long time. Quite frankly, this has been a long time coming, but Square Enix has revealed that Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition has finally returned to the Switch eShop in Australia and New Zealand.…

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Skul: The Hero Slayer Is Getting A Switch Release This Summer

1 day ago Nintendo Life

A bone-a-fide Metroidvania to test your skulls. What do you get when you fuse elements of Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, and Hades? Probably a game that’s too hard for any human to ever complete, but also, you get Skul: The…

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The Latest Super Mario Bros. Speedrun WR Is A Definitive Breakthrough

1 day ago Nintendo Life

4:54.948 may be the last time a second barrier is broken. If you follow the retro gaming scene on Twitch, it’s likely you spend a decent amount of time watching speedrunners. It can be fascinating to see how older titles…

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Random: The Low-Poly Animals Twitter Account Is A Must-Follow

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Why is Ditto shaped like a T-shirt. The low-poly days are far behind us, but many of us still have a soft spot for the work that artists and modellers had to do back when consoles couldn’t handle curves. Low-Poly…

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Minecraft's Caves And Cliffs Update Gets Split Into Two Parts

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Part One will include the Axolotl, don’t worry. What do Twilight, Harry Potter, and Minecraft have in common? No, it’s not that people want to make out with all the monsters – they’ve all eventually had parts of them split…

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Konami Is Bringing GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon To Switch In 2022

1 day ago Nintendo Life

A remake developed by indie studio GuruGuru. And you thought Konami didn’t make games any more! GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon is being developed primarily by indie studio GuruGuru ‘alongside’ Konami Digital Entertainment, and it turns out it’s a remake of a…

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Art Of Rally Drifts Onto Switch In The Summer

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Includes all updates + upcoming Kenya content. Art of Rally has been a rather charming hit on PC over recent months, drawing in a happy audience of rally fans with its soothing but also faithful top-down recreation of the sport.…

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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension Takes You On A “Silly” Journey Through Video Game Universes

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Launching on Switch today! No Indie World Showcase would be complete without a couple of games surprise-launching right after the show, so here’s There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension to give you some fresh and immediate entertainment. While the Indie…

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Cris Tales Gets Final Release Date And Switch eShop Demo

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Not long now. Cris Tales has unsurprisingly been getting a lot of attention over the last couple of years, styled as a ‘love letter to JRPGs’ while incorporating its own modern ideas. After a delay it was recently promised for…

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Aztech Forgotten Gods Blends Mexican Storytelling With Anime-Inspired Action-Adventure

1 day ago Nintendo Life

“There’s such a rich history behind the Aztecs”. Another title revealed during today’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase, Aztech Forgotten Gods is a new “cyberstone colossus fighter” from Mexican studio, Lienzo. Launching on Switch later this year, the game follows soon-to-be…

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Annapurna Interactive Confirms Last Stop Release Date, Unveils Hindsight for Switch

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Something a bit different. Annapurna Interactive is undoubtedly one of the premier publishers in the Indie space, and it’s also been pretty supportive of Nintendo Switch. Today the publisher confirmed release details and a Switch version of Last Stop, and…

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The Longing Makes You Wait 400 Real-Life Days To See The End, Launching On Switch Today

1 day ago Nintendo Life

A point-and-click test of patience. Today’s Indie World Showcase was full of interesting new titles, but few games have a premise as instantly intriguing as The Longing. This point-and-click adventure, which first launched on PC and Mac last year, follows…

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Aerial_Knight's Never Yield Dashes Onto Switch In May

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Demo out today. The Indie World Showcase introduced us to some new developers, one of whom was Aerial_Knight, who revealed their rather intriguing debut. Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield is being published by Headup Games and looks like a particularly stylish take…

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OlliOlli World Grinds Onto Nintendo Switch This Winter

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Takes the board out into a bigger world. The OlliOlli games are certainly among the royalty of early-ish Indie games, with publisher Roll7 also showing love for Nintendo hardware over the years. You may have played the neat combination of…

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Oxenfree Gets A Surprise Sequel, Coming This Year

1 day ago Nintendo Life

This one is Oxentwo, the next one is Oxenthree. We weren’t blown away by Nintendo’s long-awaited Direct back in February, but it turns out that they were keeping a lot of their Hot News under their hat for today’s Indie…

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House Of The Dead: Remake Shoots To Switch Later This Year

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Heads up. Announced as part of Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase, Forever Entertainment is bringing Sega’s light gun horror classic to Switch in the form of The House of the Dead: Remake Described as “a remade version of the game introduced…

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Road 96 Is An Intriguing Procedurally-Generated Story Game Where You Call All The Shots

1 day ago Nintendo Life

No two roads are the same. Road 96, a new narrative game from award-winning French indie studio DigixArt, has been announced for Nintendo Switch. Opening up today’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase, Road 96 has you trying to escape from a…

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FEZ Will Bring A Cool Hat And Gameplay To Switch Today

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Because fez’s are cool. In the ancient dawn of time a few breakthrough Indie games made their name on Xbox Arcade, such as FEZ back in 2012. Just shy of a decade later it’ll make its debut on Nintendo hardware,…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Confirmed For Switch, New Trailer

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Inspired by the Turtles’ iconic 1987 design. We first heard about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge last month, but today’s Nintendo Indie World Showcase has confirmed that the game is indeed coming to Switch. Cowabunga! Developed by Scott Pilgrim…

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Watch: Nintendo Indie World Showcase April 2021 – Live!

1 day ago Nintendo Life

“Fresh and new indie games” to be revealed. Looking for more Nintendo Switch indie goodness? Well, Nintendo has you covered with a brand new Nintendo Indie World Showcase! Today’s show kicks off at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm…

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Street Fighter Characters Are Coming To Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Ryu, Chun-Li and more! In a new crossover that must surely have been concocted in a ’90s kid’s dreams at some point, Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid is teaming up with Street Fighter for a new DLC pack. nWay…

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Picross S6 Launches On Switch Next Week, And The Whole Series Is Going On Sale

1 day ago Nintendo Life

Your next puzzle fix. The next title in the Picross series is just days away from launching on Nintendo Switch, as Jupiter announces a 22nd April release date for Picross S6. Picross, Mega Picross, Color Picross, and Clip Picross modes…

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