Kirby Air Riders Direct Revealed for Tomorrow, 19th August 2025
Hold on—how many minutes!?
- penned by Jim Norman
Plot twist! Nintendo has revealed that a dedicated Kirby Air Riders Direct is scheduled for 19th August 2025—yes, tomorrow.
The news arrived through the Nintendo Today! app, where we discovered the presentation begins at 2pm BST / 6am PDT…
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Shenmue III Is Finally Confirmed For ‘Nintendo Platforms’
Improved version scheduled to appear at Gamescom
The long-rumoured has at last materialised — ININ Games has confirmed Shenmue III Enhanced will hit Nintendo systems. No launch day or timeframe was offered; all eyes now turn to Gamescom 2025, which opens its doors tomorrow (19th August)…
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Bandai Namco To Announce New ‘Tales’ Remaster Tomorrow
Follow-up: After letting the cat out of the bag prematurely
Update : Surprise, surprise— the official Tales series YouTube channel has now set a premiere date for tomorrow, 19 August 2025.
This follows Bandai Namco Europe mistakenly pinning the very same clip to launch…
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Annapurna’s Delightfully Weird Creature Collecting Roguelite Scores Switch Release Date
Mouse in the house
Annapurna Interactive has today announced that Furcula’s weird roguelike-meets-creature collector Morsels will be landing on Switch on 18th November.
This one briefly popped up in the August 2024 Indie World showcase, where it was accompanied by a ‘February 2025’ release date. That wasn’t meant to be (obviously), but…
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Team Returns With A New Multiplayer Action RPG
Refresh: All character announcements to date
Update #2 : GameMill Entertainment keeps unwrapping new fighters for the upcoming action role-playing adventure, Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny.
The newest preview spotlights three boss characters—Azula, Ember, and Angelica—plus additional never-before-seen gameplay moments. Scroll…
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GungHo’s Switch Free-To-Play ‘Ninjala’ Looks To Be Winding Down Major Support
“Season twenty-one is set to continue without end”
GungHo Online’s complimentary multiplayer adventure Ninjala has reached its fifth anniversary, and the studio appears ready to taper off sizeable new content once Season 21 wraps.
With the most recent patch—labeled Version 21.0—an official statement clarifies that Season…
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Poll: Box Art Brawl
Greetings, and welcome to another round of Box Art Brawl! Previously we examined WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ on GBA—an undisputed gem and a personal favorite inside NL Towers. North America paired up with Europe to take on Japan and, well… Oh, Japan, we feel…
Review: Discounty (Switch)
Ask anyone who’s clocked shifts behind a till and they’ll tell you retail feels anything…
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Mailbox: Game-Key Cards, Slacker Sakurai, Shapes & Beats
Greetings, crew, as we pull up a chair and leaf through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It’s been a handful of months since Switch 2 arrived – honestly, time has flown. This marks the third monthly mailbag since launch, and the takes are bubbling over like neon margaritas at…
Guide: Donkey Kong Bananza: Walkthrough
Your definitive Donkey Kong Bananza hub
- penned by Jim Norman
Donkey Kong Bananza overflows with activities to tackle and sights to see. Lucky for you, the Nintendo Life crew has assembled the definitive Donkey Kong Bananza Guide.
Below, we’re covering every angle…
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Anniversary: n-Space & Nintendo’s M-Rated GameCube Gem Is 20 Years Old
We’d all swear that we’ve scribbled some clandestine catalogues—one for every machine we’ve ever hooked to a television—listing oddball or boundary-pushing titles we keep meaning to try. Occasionally you tick one off, more often you don’t. You get the idea. On the GameCube, my private picks start with Cubivore,…
Round Up: The First “Hands On” Impressions Of The Pokémon Legends: Z-A Demo Are In
Accessible on-site at the World Championships
Pokémon Legends: Z-A has an October street date, yet attendees of the 2025 Pokémon World Championships can sample a Switch 2 demo this very weekend.
First-hand accounts are beginning to surface, so we’ve collected the highlights so far — kicking off with our senior video producer…
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Sonic Mania 2 Prototype Artwork Revealed By Christian Whitehead
“The project that never came to be”
Sonic Mania ranks among the finest entries in the franchise, and although fans crossed their fingers for a direct follow-up, it emerged a while back that SEGA aimed to leave pixel art…
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (16th August)
To the stars!
The long-awaited freakin’ break has arrived, and our backlog awaits! Before we load up save files, though, here’s a swift recap of the week.
Things were surprisingly hushed in Nintendo Land—no hint of a Direct, which feels odd after the trio…
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Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Has Been Updated, Here Are The Patch Notes
Aspyr has released a new update for Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered on Switch, adding in a boatload of improvements and fixes, while also introducing optional golden pistols to The Last Revelation And Tomb Raider Chronicles. Unfortunately for The Angel of Darkness fans (are you out there?), the…
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Borderlands 4 On Switch 2 Won’t Support Split-Screen Couch Co-Op
But it will have “full crossplay”
Since the announcement of Borderlands 4 for the Switch 2, we’ve had a number of updates from Randy Pitchford and the team at Gearbox Software about what exactly fans can expect.
Following the news last month the game would run at “mostly”…
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We Might Be Getting An Update About Sakurai’s New Kirby Game Soon
He’s aware fans haven’t even seen gameplay yet
One of the many surprises during the Switch 2 reveal in April was the new game Kirby Air Riders, a sequel to the GameCube outing.
It’s scheduled to arrive later this year, so what’s the latest? Game director Masahiro Sakurai…
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Pokémon Scalpers Set Their Sights On World Championships Merch
Exclusive items are already being resold online
Scalpers are reportedly at it again, and this time they’re targeting exclusive merch available at the 2025 Pokémon World Championships.
As highlighted by Kotaku, there are already eBay listings popping up for the commemorative Pikachu plush, themed TCG playmats, card…
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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet 2025 Pokémon World Championships Distribution Live
If you happen to be heading to the 2025 Pokémon World Championships in Anaheim, California this weekend, you can receive a special Pokémon Scarlet and Violet distribution. When you enter the badge pickup zone at the venue, you’ll receive a unique code for a Toedscool. It’s…
Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Switch) -Based Brawler Blend
A few times in 2024 I quietly wished the barrage of TMNT titles would ease up. We received three fresh adventures, and even though some doubled down on daring mechanics, the sheer oversaturation wore thin —…
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R-Type Delta: HD Boosted Gets A Western Launch Date On Switch
Spoiler: the Western release lines up exactly with Japan!
- authored by Ollie Reynolds
Clear River Games has confirmed that R-Type Delta: HD Boosted will touch down on the Switch in the West on 20th November 2025—the very same day it lands in Japan.
Produced by City Connection…
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Annapurna Is Bringing This Cute Co-op LEGO Game To Switch In September
Turns out September is prime season for LEGO titles
- words by Alana Hagues
Annapurna Interactive has revealed that LEGO Voyagers — Light Box Studios’ two-player co-operative romp (the same outfit behind LEGO Builder’s Journey) — is docking on Switch 15th September 2025 (cheers, IGN).
First…
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Fast & Furious: Arcade Port Cruises Onto Switch This October
Created by the crew that brought you Cruis’n Blast
Lovers of coin-op circuit racers have a fresh spectacle to anticipate before the year ends, as GameMill Entertainment confirms Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition will land on Switch—and several other systems—on 24th October, 2025.
Those sensing a Cruis’n Blast flavor aren’t mistaken; studio…
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The Next 3D Arcade Archives Release Is Available Today On Switch And Switch 2
Feel like cutting through some surf on a high-speed run?
Could This Mysterious Super Mario 40th Anniversary X Account Be Legit?
Aaaaaaaaa I’m not sure
- penned by Ollie Reynolds
Gamers have lately been mulling over an enigmatic X/Twitter profile that appears to give a nod—if a quiet one—to Super Mario’s looming 40th celebration.
As The Gamer highlighted, the X handle @supermario40th…
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Nintendo Partners With Interstate Scholastic Esports Alliance For Competitive Events
Stronger in cooperation
- authored by Ollie Reynolds
Nintendo of America and the Interstate Scholastic Esports Alliance (ISEA) have unveiled a collaboration intended “to transform esports into a more social, inclusive, and fulfilling activity.”
Beginning before the year is out, sanctioned campus…
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Guide: Best Pixel Art Nintendo Switch Games
Refreshed this guide with the stellar Until Then and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound!
Across the kaleidoscope of video-game aesthetics, no look clings tighter to the hearts of makers and audiences than the modest square. From ultra-precise contemporary takes on what tiny tiles can achieve…
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Nintendo Expands Switch 2’s GameCube Library Next Week
Chibi-Robo Makes a Comeback
Nintendo revealed today that Chibi-Robo will land on the Switch 2’s GameCube collection next Tuesday 21st August, 2025.
The pint-sized platformer was one of the initial titles revealed alongside the GameCube vault for the Switch Online service. First released in 2005/06 on the purple cube and crafted by…
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Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Appears To Now Have A Proper Physical Switch Release
The intrusive “download mandatory” strip is finally missing
Ever since Game-Key Cards debuted for the Switch 2, chatter about third-party cartridges versus codes hasn’t slowed. Even back on the original Switch, plenty of so-called “disc” editions left owners with nothing more than a redemption…
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Mad BMX Skills 2 Supermans Onto Switch Later This Week
Fancy launching into the weekend?
- penned by PJ O’Reilly
Don’t you just have a soft spot for side-scrolling BMX and motorbike games? They dangle ridiculous wipe-outs, instantly readable skill-focused play, brutal face-plants from mid-air heights, outrageous tricks, agonising crashes, and—well, yeah—endless tumbles and floppy rag-doll carnage.
We’ve already…
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