Get it downloaded.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds fans will have a very Merry Christmas this year, as Sega will be launching the free ‘NiGHTS DLC Pack’ this week on Christmas Eve – that’s 24th December 2025, just to make it crystal clear.
The pack will include NiGHTS as a playable character, the Dream Sleeper vehicle, and new emotes and sounds.
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Cover up.
When the Switch generation was in full swing, there were stories about games being censored in some way or form, and even blocked from being published on the eShop.
With this in mind, it seems fans of the “superhero comedy” Dispatch have spotted a potential cover up on Nintendo’s digital storefront in the US. The banner for the “Dispatch Art and Comics Pack” DLC is showing much less skin compared to the listings in other locations (and even on other digital marketplaces such as the PlayStation Store).
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Fans of Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil and more will “feel at home”.
Bloober Team has recently been busy with the Switch 2 versions of Cronos: The New Dawn and Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition, but did you know it’s got one other mysterious Nintendo release in the pipeline?
In case you missed it, in July last year, the Polish-based horror developer teased it was working on a new project specifically for Nintendo platforms known as ‘Project M‘. Now, in a new interview with Nintendo Insider, the studio’s CEO Piotr Babieno has revealed that the first details about this title could be shared “very soon”.
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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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