Category: Nintendo

Pre-orders open this week.

Super Rare Games has announced that the foundations are set for a SteamWorld Build physical edition on Switch. What’s more, this one will be springing up quickly, with pre-orders opening on 9th January and shipping expected in March 2025.

This is a Super Rare Games joint, so naturally, there are a handful of goodies thrown in with each purchase. The boxed copy will retail for £37.20 (or your regional equivalent), including interior art, a full-colour manual, an exclusive sticker, and three trading cards featuring some of the game’s characters. And yes, the full game is included on the cartridge, so don’t expect any of that ‘code in a box’ nonsense.

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Fire at Will.

As a mischievous omnipotent being once said, Star Trek isn’t about mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. The voyages of the starships Enterprise et al. are journeys of self-discovery. It’s about the people we meet on those strange new worlds and what they teach us about ourselves. It’s not about taking turns to phaser each other in the face. Despite issues elsewhere, that’s where Star Trek: Legends really fails.

It’s not all bad, though. Emerald City Games’ turn-based trawl, published here by Qubic Games, debuted on Apple Arcade back in 2021 and though some may baulk at its mobile-first design, it translates fairly well to Switch. The UI is well-proportioned and the touchscreen integration functions as you’d hope.

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Ys Memoire! Rivenaar’s Grove! Uh… That’s it!

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 comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – New Releases

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana (Marvelous (XSEED), 7th Jan) – Originally conceived as a reimagining of the 16-bit console classic Ys III: Wanderers From Ys, this fan-favorite entry returns, newly remastered for the Nintendo Switch™ system as Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana. Nearly 15 years after its previous release, longtime fans can look forward to numerous improvements and upgrades, including an all-new voiceover for legendary protagonist, Adol Christin. With remastered high-definition visuals and music, the epic adventure has never looked or sounded better.

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Chips ahoy.

Well folks, part of us had hoped that 2025 would mark the end of leaks and rumours regarding the upcoming ‘Switch 2’, but apparently not. Ahead of Nintendo’s expected announcement before the end of March, new images have appeared online that seem to reveal the successor’s motherboard.

Posted on Reddit by MHN1994 (who has since stated that they are not the original leaker and had actually found the images on Facebook), the post’s legitimacy is certainly up for debate (though many have rightly pointed out the comparisons to a previous leak showcasing alleged prototype components of the Switch 2), but the internet has gone wild with speculation on what this means for the upcoming console regardless.

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Back from the dead this March.

The Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild Switch eShop release Graveyard Keeper appears to be finally getting a physical release on Nintendo’s hybrid platform.

According to some new listings on sites like Amazon, the Stardew-style and graveyard management sim title will score a hard copy release in March 2025 with Atari seemingly handling the publishing. It also happens to be the ‘Undead Edition’ including the ‘Breaking Dead’, ‘Game of Crone’ and ‘Stranger Sins’ DLC packs.

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Hideki Kamiya chimes in with a New Year message.

Capcom delivered some huge news at the Game Awards last year – announcing a sequel to the legendary action-adventure game Okami was in development.

It’s being helmed by the original game’s director Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta) and while he’s already shared a message, he’s now released another one as we enter 2025 – touching on the establishment of the new studio (Clovers) and sequel project.

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Including what it’s making for Nintendo’s new hardware.

Ahead of the Switch “successor” reveal, a bunch of video game accessory companies have reportedly been sharing all sorts of details about this next-generation hardware.

With this in mind, accessory maker Genki (which has released multiple products during the Switch generation) has announced it’s apparently happy to discuss “any Switch 2 info” at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, including the products it’s making for the new system.

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A chat with Simogo.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in November. Enjoy!

You walk into a poorly lit, seemingly empty hotel. In desperate need of someone to speak to, you hesitantly wander just a single room farther from the entrance, down a serene walkway. You are funnelled into a similarly poorly lit library. You’re second-guessing why you are in this hotel, and why it even has a library, yet your eye is strangely caught by a particular book among the busy shelves.

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57 games with big birthdays this year.

Throughout 2025, many of gaming’s most treasured gems will be celebrating a significant birthday and to remind you of some of the biggest (and of just how old you are!), we’ve compiled this list of nearly 60 gaming dates for your calendars.

What do we mean by ‘significant’ birthdays? Anything that ends in a five or a zero – fairly standard stuff. 10 years is the minimum for the list below (and believe us, compiling this list had us gawping in disbelief multiple times at five-year-old games which feel like they launched six months ago – Hades cannot be five this year!) and you’ll see a few games that will be heading into their fifth decade sometime in 2025.

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A sit-down with the creator of My Summer Vacation & Attack of the Friday Monsters.

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in September. Enjoy!

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, summer has come to an end. Fortunately, through the magic of video games — and the video games created by one man in particular — it’s never too late to take a little summer holiday…

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