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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as part of our mental health coverage, I spoke to two psychologists from Take This — a non-profit dedicated to reducing the stigma of mental health in the gaming community, as well as raising awareness of the areas in which games and mental health intersect — about all

Nintendo has confirmed today that BioWare’s award-winning Star Wars: Knights of Republic 2: the Sith Lords is Nintendo Switch bound. You won’t have to wait too long to get ahold of the game either as it’s scheduled to arrive on the Switch family of systems on 8th June. The classic RPG will cost you a

If you saw a Nintendo Switch selling for just $4, you might assume that Doug Bowser had lost his mind, before buying every single one available — but perhaps unsurprisingly, in the case of unlucky South Africans seeing the deal on Facebook, it’s naught but a scam. According to a report by Cape Town Etc.,

Games Industry recently had the opportunity to chat with former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime about how Nintendo can prolong the Nintendo Switch family of systems lifecycle. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said in February this year that the Nintendo Switch is halfway through its lifecycle so he suggested ways the Kyoto-based company could continue

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Early Access games can be scary — ever heard of “too many cooks”, except all the cooks are gamers? — but they can also result in some lovingly-polished games that don’t make it to Switch until they’re really, really good. It sounds like The Hand of Merlin is

Bandai Namco has uploaded the launch trailer for the classic Pac-Man collection Pac-Man Museum+ The retro collection contains plenty of bonus content along with unlockables in one compact collection which includes fourteen Pac-Man games and spin-offs. If you purchase the game within 30 days of launch you will receive a launch bonus of five silver

If you are the kind of person that cried when the tiny Yarn Yoshi amiibo were announced, and then again when Mega Yarn Yoshi arrived, then prepare yourself for this next salvo of fluffy Yoshi content: Gelato Pique, the Japanese brand responsible for Animal Crossing slippers and soft PJ versions of Mario’s overalls, has expanded

The release date for Sonic Origins is fast approaching and naturally more information has been divulged about the collection and its contents. One of the special modes for Sonic Origins is the newly added Story Mode which lets you replay the first four sonic games as one seamless experience. There’s one big caveat to that

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Numskull Games has given us a sneak peek ahead of time at all of the gameplay systems coming to retro throwback Final Vendetta. From these five minutes of footage alone, it’s plain to see that this is a love letter to Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, and Final

US streaming service Paramount+ announced last night that the amusing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie will be streaming on the on-demand video service later today. The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie hasn’t been in theatres that long, so it’s a nice get if you’ve got a subscription to the service. The movie has achieved a

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Fancy a game on Switch that’s based on Celtic mythology? We don’t get too many of those, sorry — but you’ll enjoy Clan O’Conall and the Crown of the Stag, an action-platformer made by Canadian studio HitGrab. Based on Irish, Welsh, and English archaeology, art, and history, Clan

The Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie has been a huge success for both SEGA and Paramount with revenue now surpassing $375 million globally. The original Sonic the Hedgehog movie earned $306 million globally which puts the sequel more than $55 million ahead of its predecessor. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has earned $181 million in the United States

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube If you’re excited about the release of Klonoa Phantasie Reverie Series on the Nintendo Switch this July, you might want to read on. The game’s official Japanese website has now revealed the frame rate, resolution and file size for this particular version. In terms of the frame rate,

It is fairly clear that Nintendo lags far behind its two major competitors when it comes to online gaming and online play. Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has spoken to GeekWire podcast about this very issue and has attempted to explain why he believes it remains the case. Reggie says that from the early

Image: Nintendo Life / Damien McFerran Update [Sat 21st May, 2022 18:05 BST]: Two months after the Wii and DSi Shop channel outages, YouTube channel GameExplain has now reached out to Nintendo to see if it could provide any more clarification about what’s going on. Unfortunately, the new statement is that it’s still got “nothing

If you own LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga you may have noticed that the popular game recently received an update. The May 2022 update brings with it a number of fixes and some new content which will please players. There’s an additional 34 Kyber Bricks to find and collect throughout the nine movies along

Image: Nintendo / Mario Wiki Nintendo has been doing things behind our backs again. Well, not really — companies adjust video game character models pretty often, usually between console generations or as graphics engines improve. But people can get pretty protective of particular character models. Some people prefer Sonic’s sprite in Sonic the Hedgehog 3

The release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has seen the Nintendo 64 application for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack updated to Version 2.3.0. Nintendo is continuing to make tweaks to how some of the classic games run on the Nintendo 64 app with slight updates to Star Fox 64, Mario Golf 64 and