Splatoon 3 News Channel Is Giving Away Free In-Game Grand Festival Gear

Squids in.

The celebrations are starting early for Splatoon 3‘s upcoming ‘Grand Festival’ as Nintendo is giving away seven pieces of in-game headgear and three event-specific banners for free!

The ‘Now or Never’ Spikes, Crown, Cap, Earrings, Barrette, Horns and Headdress and the three Splatfest banners can now be redeemed from the ‘News’ tab on the Switch home screen. We’ve laid out more detailed instructions for how to get these freebies below.

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Level-5’s ‘Vision 2024’ Showcase To Share Multiple Project Updates And Announce Brand New Title

Airing online this September.

Level-5 has finally locked in the date for its next showcase. ‘Vision 2024: To The World’s Children’ will be broadcast on YouTube this September and will feature updates about multiple Level-5 projects.

This includes a “release date and new gameplay systems” announcement for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, an update on the “release timing” for Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, and updates for DECAPOLICE and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam. In addition to this, a “brand new title” will be announced.

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Guide: Best Nintendo Switch Short Games

Blast through these games in a single sitting.

Updated with a fresh assortment of bite-sized Switch games, including the excellent Thank Goodness You’re Here. Enjoy!


The Switch is the perfect console if you travel a lot, for work or pleasure. The console’s portability makes it the perfect choice if you’re spending any time at all in planes, trains, and automobiles.

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

Our picks for the best eShop games in August.

Pinch, punch, welcome to another edition of eShop Selects, this time for the month of August!

We don’t want to admit it, but we’ll soon be tucking into warm cocoa and curling up by the fire with our Switches. That sounds nice and all, but shorter days, longer nights, and the cold? Brrrr. We’re going to need some video games to fix that, right? Thank goodness there was a Nintendo Direct Indie World & Partner Showcase to load up the next few months.

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Video: 16 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In September 2024

Zelda, Marvel vs. Capcom, Epic Mickey and much more.

September has officially arrived and it’s going to be an action-packed month on the Switch front.

Starting off early on the 6th, we’ve got games like Ace Attorney Investigations Collection to look forward. Then there’s the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection in the following week. Another highlight includes The Plucky Squire on the 17th and to go out with a bang we’ve got the new adventure The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, out 26th September alongside the new Zelda-themed Switch Lite.

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Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For September And October 2024

Zelda! Mario Party! Sonic!

Can you believe it’s September already? Blimey… At least we have plenty – and we mean plenty – of fantastic games headed our way on Nintendo Switch.

We’ve been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail over the next few weeks, including some highlights picked by us as well as lots of other games and accessories that are launching soon. Have a browse through and see if anything takes your fancy:

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Yakuza Kiwami Might Only Be A “Download Distribution” On Switch

It launches on the eShop this October.

The Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase went out with a bang earlier this week with the announcement Sega’s Yakuza Kiwami was on the way to the Switch this October.

If you were hoping for a physical version, it seems it might be digital-only eShop release. As highlighted by Nintendo Everything, a rough translation from the developer’s ‘X’ account mentions how this title is “download distribution only”.

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Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes First Story Expansion DLC Delayed

Marisa’s chapter “delayed beyond August”.

If you were wondering where the first story expansion DLC for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is, you might want to read on…

In a new Kickstarter update on the last day of the month, the developer Rabbit & Bear Studios has announced the Marisa DLC will be “delayed beyond August” with a new release date to be shared “soon”.

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Feature: 5 RPG Maker Horror Classics On Switch (And 3 We’d Love To See Ported)

Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

Being able to elicit fear with simply a sprinkling of pixels and a well-timed soundtrack is an art form.

Horror games come in all shapes and sizes, with varying levels of gore, ghouls, and grisly details. While the Switch is home to some incredibly realistic horror, the most influential scary games on the console are arguably those made in RPG Maker.

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