Category: Nintendo

Don’t talk to strangers.

Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren’t able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we’ve now managed to catch up with Onion Games’ latest…

Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, claiming to know you. Stray Children just chucks you straight into things with barely a title screen – but perhaps that sort of stylistic confidence is unsurprising coming from people behind Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. Yoshihiro Kimura and Onion Games have delivered a compact, auteur-driven project, heading off on adventures into emotional storytelling rather than into sophisticated mechanics. And it uncovers some impressive treasures on its quest.

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Please help me.

It was the Christmas of 1992. Mr Blobby was the funniest thing on television (according to your parents), and Whitney Houston had been tricked into singing a love song about everyone’s favourite sentient cardigan, Kevin Costner (I feel like I’m having a war flashback now).

And me? Well, I was having a great time despite all of this, actually. Because Santa had done me a massive solid.

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So here it is…

And here we are once more! It’s Yule! Navidad! Xmas! Chrimbo! Rudolphtide! Grinchtingle! Erm… Richard Curtistime? Hmm. Merry Christmas, everyone.

It’s been a big year for Nintendo fans and the wider gaming industry, with new hardware, a load of new games, even more new versions of old games, plus plenty of challenges, with life’s regular ups and downs accompanied by many more on a global scale.

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Wake up, Sleeper.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors from 2025. This article was originally published in January. Enjoy!

Citizen Sleeper was, coincidentally, one of 2022’s sleeper hits. With its combination of top-tier writing and decision-based gameplay, this table-top-inspired RPG and space adventure pulled us into its airlock and wouldn’t let us out until we had played through the emotional damage of witnessing every possible outcome (and yes, that includes the three DLC packs).

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Get your Switch GOTYs here.

2025 was filled with brilliant games, large and small, launching every single month. It’s the year that both Switch 2 and Silksong finally came out. Wowzers.

The quality has been exceptionally high for both the original Switch and the newer console. Below we present the top 50 best games of the year for Switch 1 and 2 combined.

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Welcome to Snoozaland.

At last, after assuring fan’s that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time‘s free DLC would be out “around Christmas”, Level-5 has delivered the goods right on time.

Version 2.0.0 is available to download now on Switch 1 & 2 and it includes The Sinister Broker Bazario’s Schemes, an open-world roguelike DLC expansion that adds a new area to the game, Snoozaland. This is available from Chapter 3 onwards in-game.

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With a new entry due in 2026.

Publisher Spike Chunsoft has announced that the Danganronpa series has now shipped over 10 million copies worldwide.

Beginning on 25th November, 2010 with the Japanese release of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc on the PSP, the series has since spawned three mainline entries on multiple platforms (including localised ports of the original) and two spin-off titles.

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After a bug almost cancelled Christmas!

Although it seems to be the end of the road for the development of Kirby Air Riders, in-game events will still be taking place over the next year.

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Nintendo is feeling jolly.

When the Switch 2 was announced, many Nintendo fans were already calling for themes to be added to the HOME Menu.

While there have been no developments on this front, there is something else that at least some fans are excited about. From the system HOME Menu, if you navigate to the ‘Nintendo Switch Online’ icon, you’ll be presented with a “Happy Holidays” theme featuring Mario and the rest of the crew.

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Following the recent Switch 2 game upgrade.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 originally sailed onto the Switch in 2020 and last month got a Switch 2 Edition upgrade.

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