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Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Dominates As Kirby Holds Strong

Image: Nintendo The latest Japanese charts are in and thanks to ‘Golden Week’, today’s figures cover two weeks’ worth of sales, from April 25th to May 8th. This means, of course, that’s it’s the debut entry of Nintendo Switch Sports, which storms to the top of the pile with 304,588 units sold. Kirby and the […]

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Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope Still On Track For 2022 Release

Image: Nintendo, Ubisoft In July last year, Ubisoft and Nintendo revealed Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope – a sequel to the 2017 tactical turn-based Switch release Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Last we heard, the game was “coming 2022”, and it seems it’s still on track. In the French company’s latest earnings report, Sparks […]

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Nintendo Says It Wants To Avoid A Repeat Of Wii U With Switch’s Successor

Image: Nintendo Since Nintendo announced its financial results yesterday — where it revealed that the Switch has now sold more than 107 million units worldwide, and predicted that profits would again drop in the next financial year — there’s been an awful lot of chatter about a Switch successor, hasn isn’t there? In a Japanese […]

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Team Cherry (Kind Of) Shares Update About Development Status Of Hollow Knight: Silksong

Image: Team Cherry If there’s one indie game Nintendo Switch fans are absolutely dying to get their hands on, it’s got to be Hollow Knight: Silk Song. For those of you who are eager for a bit of an update on this follow-up to original release, it seems we’ve finally got one. At the end […]

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FIFA Will Work With Other Developers To Launch Brand New Football Games

Image: Electronic Arts, FIFA One headline sending shockwaves through the video game industry (and football world) today is EA’s split with FIFA. As we’ve already heard, Electronic Arts will be dropping the FIFA branding from its name in favor of ‘EA Sports FC’. It’s touted as the “future of interactive football”, but it seems FIFA […]

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Meet The Switch Controller That Promises ‘No Drifting, Ever’

Image: Nintendo Life A new third-party ‘Pro Controller’ from accessories company GuliKit is aiming high, promising no analogue stick drifting thanks to its ‘Electromagnetic Stick’ technology. Costing a surprisingly reasonable $70, the GuliKit KingKong Pro 2 controller also features an ‘FPS Mode’ which is set to boast no dead zone whatsoever. Also included is the […]

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As Switch Hardware Sales Slow, How Long Can Nintendo Delay ‘Switch 2’?

Image: Nintendo Life / Zion Grassl Nintendo’s report for the 2021/22 financial year dropped today, and while Switch continues to sell well and software sales are looking healthy, signs that enthusiasm for the five-year-old system is beginning to ebb are also apparent. To be clear, the results present a far from gloomy outlook for the […]

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Random: Switch Console Sales Outstrip The Poor Wii U’s Total Software Sales

Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo’s latest financial results demonstrate strong sales for the Switch, despite a 20% drop YoY as a result of semiconductor shortages. With a total of 107.65 million Switch units sold, the console is inching ever closer to the lifetime sales of the Game Boy and the Nintendo DS. Just to highlight its […]

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Nintendo Indie World Showcase To Air This Week

Image: Nintendo We’ve been due some form of Nintendo broadcast, so the happy news is that we have an Indie World this weekit’ll air on May 11th (tomorrow!). The show will kick off at 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST and will feature “roughly 20 minutes of information on upcoming […]