Wii like, wii like to party.
We’re nearly done with 2025, and in the final update for 2025, Nintendo Music has this week added the Wii Party soundtrack.
This party game originally debuted on the Wii in 2010 and the soundtrack comes loaded with 105 tracks and has a run time of 2 hours of 21 minutes. It’s got some smooth and funky tracks in it like “Menu Screen” or you could dance about to “Party Games: Results Time”.
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He was 55.
Infinity Ward co-founder and Respawn Entertainment head Vince Zampella has died in a fatal car crash, NBC4 Los Angeles reports. He was 55 years old.
The crash was reported to have happened yesterday, 21st December 2025, in along Southern California’s Angeles Crest Highway, at around 12:45pm local time.
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Our personal picks for the best Switch (2) games of the year.
Every year in December, Team Nintendo Life puts our heads together and we combine our personal Top 5s into an uber, unranked GOTY list encompassing all the Switch games that got us hottest under the collar throughout the year.
2025 brought us Switch 2, of course, but it’s been a very strong year across the board, with exceptional games of all sizes on all platforms – and an absolute ton of them. Perhaps the knock-on effects of layoffs taking out huge swathes of the industry haven’t quite hit the pipeline, but this year we’ve once again had more brilliant games than time to play them all.
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Mario Kart once again appears twice in the top ten.
The latest UK Charts data is in, and there’s honestly very little change in the top ten this week, with EA SPORTS FC 26 once again claiming the top spot.
In fact, the top eight games have all played a bit of a switcheroo, while the latter two spots in the top ten are taken up by Battlefield 6 and Just Dance 2026 Edition. Meanwhile, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond continues its descent down the charts to land at number 17, though with sales skewed heavily in favour of the Switch 2, this perhaps suggests that the hardcore crowd are still picking it up in droves.
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Mega Gyarados and Charizard Y join the fray.
A major game update for the free-to-play Switch and mobile title Pokémon Unite was released earlier this month.
Now, before we get to the end of the year, the development team has added Mega Charizard Y. This follows Mega Gyarados, which joined the fray earlier this month. Before this, trainers got Mega Charizard X and Mega Lucario.
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It’s now sold over six million copies.
Square Enix released the HD-2D RPG Octopath Traveler 0 on the Switch and Switch 2 earlier this month.
Now, following this, it has provided an update about the lifetime sales of the series – revealing it has now sold over six million copies worldwide. This follows a sales update in December last year, when it hit the five million mark.
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A String Between Worlds.
When you start up a top-down Zelda game, you usually know how things will start. You’ll get some scrolling exposition text setting up the events of the game, and you’ll either be plonked in the middle of a room or a field, ready to save the princess, or wake up after a dream or a shipwreck or something. I’m generalising, but there’s something intimately familiar about how an old-school Zelda game often stands out. It’s cosy, it gets you asking questions, and it’s very fantasy.
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo doesn’t do all of that. After your obligatory context dump, protagonist Pippit is sitting in the back of a taxi, yapping away at the driver. He’s talking about his family – whom he’s going to visit – and his yoyo skills. And he really loves his yoyo. He’s confident, chatty, but far away from your typical hero with an attitude and a lack of direction.
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‘Tis the season.
Ho, ho, ho, everyone! Welcome to a particularly festive edition of Box Art Brawl!
Last week saw two covers for Mega Man 6 going head-to-head, and it was a little closer than we expected. The yellow Japanese variant (this writer’s favourite) just clinched it, however, taking 54% of the vote and leaving the North American design with the remaining 46%.
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Must resist…
Skyrim didn’t exactly launch in the best state when it got shadow-dropped on the Switch 2 earlier this month, and Bethesda has this week released a patch to address input latency issues.
If you are considering giving the game a look (or a second chance) now that this update has been rolled out, there’s currently a sale taking place in the UK, Europe and some other locations around the globe such as Australia and New Zealand.
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