New Limited-Time Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Distribution Now Available

Get it while you can.

The Pokémon Company is currently running a new limited-time distribution for the latest Switch titles Scarlet and Violet.

This time it’s a special Gift Distribution for a Flutter Mane based on a Pokémon used in last year’s Korean Trainers Cup stream. It will be available until 7th May 2024. Here are the details courtesy of Serebii.net, along with the code:

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Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects & Readers’ Choice (April 2024)

Our picks for the best eShop games in April.

It’s that time — welcome back to our monthly eShop Selects feature! This time, we’re covering April — somehow, we’re already in May.

As mentioned last month, we’ve made another change to the piece. Now you’ll be voting for your favourite hidden gem for the current month within this piece, rather than separately. Phew. So much change!

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Video: Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD For Switch Gets A New Trailer

Spooky surprise.

Next month, Nintendo is reviving the 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion 2 on the Nintendo Switch. In the lead up to Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, it’s now uploaded a new trailer for the game titled ‘Rude Awakening’.

In this “visually enhanced” adventure for the Siwtch, Professor E.Gadd calls on Luigi after the Dark Moon is shattered:

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Star Wars Day Switch eShop Sale, Up To 75% Off Multiple Games

“A galaxy of savings”.

As part of this year’s Star Wars Day celebrations, there’s currently a sale taking place on the Switch eShop in select regions. So if you’re looking for a Star Wars game to play this weekend, here’s a list of games you can currently grab on sale:

“You can score a discount on several Star Wars games right now! We hope you enjoy your adventures in a galaxy far, far away!”

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Guide: Best SaGa Games Of All Time – Switch And Nintendo Systems

Every SaGa game, ranked by you.

Square Enix has a plethora of RPG series under its belt, but of all of them, SaGa is certainly its most experimental, unique, and the hardest to crack into.

Starting life on the Game Boy, and initially marketed as a Final Fantasy spin-off in the West, the SaGa series is known for ditching traditional levelling mechanics and storytelling for something a bit more open. While earlier games have you selecting characters and classes as blank-slates, later entries had a set cast with their own individual storylines.

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Guide: Best Star Wars Video Games, Ranked – Switch And Nintendo Systems

You sort the padawans from the poodoo.

In honour of ‘Star Wars Day’, as May 4th has come to be known, we’re republishing this reader-ranked list of all the Star Wars games on Switch and other Nintendo consoles. As they say in Britain, Fourth of May be wi—hang on…


The release of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker back in 2019 may have ‘ended’ Star Wars as we’d known it for the previous four-and-a-bit decades, but all it really did was tie a bow on the cinematic tales of the Skywalker clan and the nine-film saga which began in 1977. After all, Star Wars is never really gone.

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Zelda Live-Action Movie Director Confident “Fans Are Gonna Be Happy”

It’s a franchise close to his heart, like Star Wars.

Movie director Wes Ball has recently been doing press rounds to promote his new Planet of the Apes movie and he’s once again been asked about his upcoming live-action Zelda movie.

Although he can’t say much, during a chat with The Direct, The Legend of Zelda movie director reassured fans about his love of the series and how it has been “one of the most important things ever” in his life. He went as far as comparing it to his love of Star Wars from childhood through to adulthood and is seemingly confident “fans are gonna be happy” with the end product.

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Nintendo Has Filed Two New Trademarks

Could Kirby and Mallo be returning?

It’s already been quite an interesting week on the Nintendo front, and now to add to this, it’s been discovered some new trademarks were recently registered by the video game giant in Australia.

As highlighted by Vooks, trademarks have been registered for the 2015 Wii U title Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush (Kirby and the Rainbow Curse) and 2015 3DS release Fullblox (also known as Stretchmo).

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