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Nintendo reports rapid growth for Metroid, Xenoblade Chronicles and more

Nintendo reports rapid growth for Metroid, Xenoblade Chronicles and more

Image: Nintendo Nintendo is home to a ton of amazing evergreen franchises, though it’s safe to say that it’s often relied heavily on Super Mario, Zeldaand Pokémon for those big sales numbers. According to the latest company data financial briefinghowever, some of its more niche franchises have reportedly seen “dramatic sales growth” on the Nintendo ...

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What are you playing this weekend? (November 2)

What are you playing this weekend? (November 2)

Jim Norman, staff writer I really, really want to finish Astro Bot this weekend! I’m so close to that 100% mark that I can almost taste it (gross) and have to move it out of the way to make room for the big plate of Switch goodness currently staring at me from the home screen. ...

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Random: Yes, Doom is now playable on Nintendo Alarm

Random: Yes, Doom is now playable on Nintendo Alarm

Image: Nintendo Nintendo’s new music app for smartphones may have grabbed the attention of the past few days, but don’t forget about the Japanese company’s new sound clock, Alarmo. As you may recall, the person known as ‘GaryOderNichts’ on social media (who usually works on reverse engineering for the WIi U) recently figured out how ...

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Nintendo Life eShop Selects & Readers’ Choice (October 2024)

Nintendo Life eShop Selects & Readers’ Choice (October 2024)

This is our second PS1-inspired horror game, and it’s one we’ve been begging to see on Switch earlier this year. Inspired by PlayStation classics Resident Evil and Final Fantasy VII (no, you didn’t misread), Crow Country uses the polygonal visuals and angled camera perspective to its advantage. It’s not clunky and feels fresh, even amidst ...

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Box Art Brawl – Duel: Sonic X Shadow Generations

Box Art Brawl – Duel: Sonic X Shadow Generations

Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America / Europe Picture: SEGA / Amazon Okay, we’re sure you’ve all seen this Western variant before. Classic Sonic, Modern Sonic and Shadow take center stage against all sorts of red madness in the background. ...

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The latest “mature” N64 update to the Switch Online app seems to fix some of the perfect dark emulation issues

The latest “mature” N64 update to the Switch Online app seems to fix some of the perfect dark emulation issues

Image: Rare Earlier this week, Nintendo rolled out a surprise update to the “mature” N64 app Switch Online, adding Shadow Man and Turok 2. Other than this, some fixes seem to have been applied to Perfect Dark Version 1.2.0 mature N64 applications. As pointed out ‘Graslu00’ on social networksprevious problems with the “blur effect” are ...

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Mario & Luigi: Brotherhood estimated file size update

Mario & Luigi: Brotherhood estimated file size update

Set sail with Mario and Luigi next week. Nintendo’s new RPG Mario & Luigi: Brotherhood is coming to Switch next week and we now have updated information on the eShop version’s file size. According to a number of eShop sites, this new entry in the Mario & Luigi series will take up around 9.8GB (so ...