Category: Nintendo

Guide: 65 Switch 1 & 2 Games To Check Out In Nintendo’s Holiday eShop Sale (Europe)

Update: Some fresh titles have been added for 2026.

Update: As of 31st December 2025, a bunch of games previously included in this guide have now returned to their usual price. To compensate for this, newly-discounted games have been added and will remain on sale until 11th January. The full list has decreased from 100 to 65, but there’s still plenty to check out here.

Nintendo has launched its latest eShop sale in the UK, discounting a bunch of titles for the Christmas season. (The US has a similar sale going, too, though that one finishes on 4th January.)

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PSA: Make Sure You’ve Enabled These Opt-In Settings If You Want Your Nintendo 2025 ‘Year In Review’

When it eventually drops.

Back in December, Nintendo announced that the 2025 edition of its annual ‘Year in Review’ — where your play stats for the year are collected and displayed in a fun little round-up — wouldn’t be arriving until January this time. We’re still waiting for further word, although at this stage we’d imagine it’ll be coming next week.

One thing worth noting beforehand, however, is that you’ll need to have the appropriate settings turned on for your Nintendo Account in order to receive the round-up. This writer missed out on last year’s review, but a New Year’s email from Nintendo highlighted a couple of opt-ins that needed tweaking.

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A Pokémon-Inspired RPG More Than 20 Years In The Making Is Finally Heading To The Switch

Better late than never.

If you’re a fan of pixel art RPGs with a hint of Pokémon in its gameplay, then you’ll want to keep an eye out for Navinosuke – The Yo-kai Buster – on the Switch. Originally developed in the early 2000s but never officially released, it’s now been updated with improved UI and gameplay for modern audiences. Developer KOHACHI STUDIO announced the revival back in June 2025, but renewed interest online in recent days has compelled us to highlight it (and the release of a certain Nintendo hardware might have overshadowed it back in June).

Scheduled for release in early 2026, Navinosuke sees you explore a fictional version of ancient Japan as you work to solve a series of mysterious disturbances caused by Yo-Kai (supernatural entities). There are more than 150 unique Yo-Kai to discover on your journey, some of which will befriend you, and others you’ll need to battle.

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Back Page: I Was The Louvre Heist Thief, But I Was Just Trying To Steal Their 3DSes

C’est tout un gros malentendu!

Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors from 2025. This article was originally published in October. Enjoy!

In the magazine business, the back page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”.

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Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Games & Accessories For January & February 2026

Old horizons.

The new year is here, and with it comes the promise of video games. After a slow and steady start, native Switch 2 releases are coming in fast and there’s loads to look forward to in 2026 already – and that’s not counting any inevitable surprises that crop up in the next 12 months.

The first two games of the year from Nintendo see a return for an old favourite with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, followed by Mario Tennis Fever. But Capcom is bringing one of the year’s biggest multiplatform games to Switch 2 day-and-date with other platforms, and we’re very excited to see Resident Evil return at the end of February.

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Editorial: Happy New Year From Nintendo Life

’26 mix.

Good news, everyone! No need to bother with all that GOTY rigmarole next year, as it’s already wrapped and bagged. Commiserations to the losers, and congratulations to Rhythm Heaven Groove! Catch you all again in ’27…

Okay, okay. That’s a little premature, but the fact that we’re getting a brand new Rhythm Heaven/Paradise game puts 2026 ahead of every year since 2016 (which brought us Megamix on 3DS), so anything else on the calendar is just gravy, really.

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Opinion: Wishlisting Games On Switch eShop Is A Game In Itself

Thumbnail and I.

I love browsing the eShop, and the clicky sounds as you scroll across it.

The pleasing crispness of the chick! sound goes so well with the Joy-Con button feel. There’s that camera shutter snap! if you scroll across a game’s gallery in quick succession, and on Switch 2 there’s a thumb-cheek pop! when you hover over a 2-wide box. Genuinely, big fan.

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