Category: Nintendo

Physical release also confirmed.

Classic JRPG fans, rejoice. The Lunar Remastered Collection will be coming to Nintendo Switch on 18th April 2025. Plus, it’s confirmed that the collection will be getting a physical release.

Launching digitally on the eShop for $49.99 USD / €49.99 EUR — with physical releases coming in at $54.99 USD (on Amazon.com) and €54.99 EUR (at Clear River Games), Lunar Remastered Collection enhances two of the most beloved turn-based RPGs from the ’90s.

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Alongside Amnesia: Rebirth and Amnesia: The Bunker.

Abylight Studios has announced that it’s bringing three of Frictional Games’ horror titles to the Switch in 2025.

SOMA, Amnesia Rebirth, and Amnesia: The Bunker will all be getting digital and physical releases later this year. This means all Amnesia games will at last be on Switch, alongside the critically acclaimed Soma.

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A decade of Mr Olney.

Sure, 2025 might be home to some pretty big gaming anniversaries, but you want to know the biggest of them all? This week marks 10 years since the wonderful Mr Alex Olney published his first video on the Nintendo Life YouTube channel. That’s right, it has been a decade of “Heeeeello there lovely peeeople”.

To mark the occasion, Alex has released a big old thank-you video on the channel, shouting out a whole bunch of people who have helped him over the past 10 years, and sharing a sizzle reel of some of the decade’s biggest moments. If you needed a reminder of what Mr Olney looked like sans beard, this is your chance.

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As you would hope.

Following last week’s supposed ‘Switch 2’ hardware leaks, more hints about the software lineup are now circulating online.

Apart from “more than half a dozen Ubisoft games” expected, Nate the Hate has claimed on his latest podcast Nintendo’s new system could also be getting Konami’s next Metal Gear Solid game. Here’s what he had to say:

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“Richter Belmont is done running”.

If you’ve been following Netflix’s animated Castlevania series, here’s your reminder that the second season of Castlevania: Nocturne is out this week on 16th January 2025.

The legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont and their band of vampire hunters race against time to stop the “invincible Vampire Messiah” Erzsebet Báthory, who seeks to plunge the world into complete darkness. Here’s some “key art” to go with this new season, courtesy of the director Samuel Deats and you can check out the trailer above.

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It’s a wild word out there.

This year marks five years since the last mainline Animal Crossing game launched. Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out at the perfect time and made an absolutely huge splash worldwide. But with its fifth anniversary fast approaching, we’re sure lots of fans are champing at the bit for a new game.

So, if you were browsing the PlayStation Store over the weekend and thought you spotted an Animal Crossing gamer, no, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. As our friends over at Good Vibes Gaming have pointed out, there’s a game that looks an awful lot like Animal Crossing on there.

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Hitting snooze.

Nintendo has announced that it is delaying the availability of Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo for non-Nintendo Switch Online members until early March 2025.

This marks a delay of nearly two months after the firm initially confirmed that NSO exclusivity would remain in place until mid-January 2025. Furthermore, its availability in the UK and Ireland will be limited to the ‘My Nintendo Store’ website, while European customers may be able to pick it up at select retailers.

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2025 off to a predictably sleepy start.

The latest UK charts are in and, with only one new release to speak of, the list is much as you might expect.

Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana was the only new entry to the chart this week, just sneaking into the top 40 to land in 38th in its debut week (with a 53%/47% console split for PS5 and Switch, respectively).

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Please sir, can I have some Mordor?

The year is 2025 and Lord of the Rings feels very much like it’s “a thing” again. We’re not sure that it ever really went away, to be honest, but we’ve got The Rings of Power on TV (and it’s actually rather good now), the War of the Rohirrim hit cinemas, a ‘Hunt for Gollum‘ movie is planned, and, perhaps most importantly for us, more Middle Earth games are on the horizon.

Gollum launched on multiple consoles in 2023 — though the Switch version is still in limbo (something we’re sure you were all devastated about) after Daedalic shut down its internal development team. But Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game — surely a shoo-in for 2025’s Clunkiest Title Award — is right around the corner, bringing a slice of Hobbit life to Switch in March. And, with Embracer Group now legally behind the IP’s wheel, we’d be surprised if things are stopping there.

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Long live the Empire.

Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl, folks!

Last week, we took a look at Crash Nitro Kart for the GameCube, a sequel to Crash Team Racing that never quite managed to step out of its predecessor’s shadow. North America sealed the deal this time with 53% of the vote, while EU managed 30% and Japan just 17% (bit awkward – we like the Japanese variant). Well done, North America!

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