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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Metroid mania.
Nintendo has been marketing and promoting the recent release Metroid Prime 4: Beyond in all sorts of ways, and in case you missed it, it released a few extra offerings recently.
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Update: Digital Foundry investigates.
As the holiday celebrations get underway, Atlus has this week delivered a new update for Persona 3 Reload on the Switch 2.
We noted in our review here on Nintendo Life how the “biggest drawback” of P3R when it launched in October on the new hybrid system was the 30fps performance. Thankfully, the latest update (Version 1.03) comes with some performance improvements.
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The upgrade is available now in the US.
Stardew Valley – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition got a surprise release on Christmas Day, but has admittedly experienced some teething issues. The creator Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone was quick to acknowledge this, mentioning how fixes would be rolled out as soon as possible, and he’s now shared another update.
For fans located outside of the US that can’t even see the Switch 2 Edition of the game on their local eShop, there’s no need to worry, as it’s on the way. Barone notes how he’s holding off on the release of the Switch 2 Edition in other locations until the next patch is ready. This update is apparently “coming soon” and will resolve a crafting issue, and includes mouse control improvements.
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Who runs the world? Girl(bug)s!
If you haven’t yet made it to the end of Hollow Knight: Silksong — one of our favourite games of 2025 — then be warned, there are major spoilers for the entirety of the game below…
Many insects are matriarchal creatures. For termites, honey bees, praying mantises, ants, and spiders (shh, I know they’re arachnids), their colonies and societies are led by females or defined by female-controlled structures. They range from groups driven by female workers to matriarchs responsible for breeding and raising the entire colony.
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Take a guess.
Like other iconic Nintendo series, Metroid has a timeline documenting Samus’ space adventures from past to present. Although the newest outing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is very much its own thing, it is still part of the Prime series as a new chapter.
Outside of the first-person entries, it’s now apparently been mentioned by Nintendo how this game fits within the entire history of the Metroid series. Speaking to Famitsu recently, Nintendo’s development team reportedly told the famous Japanese gaming outlet how the latest Switch and Switch 2 outing is set after Super Metroid on the Super Nintendo and before Metroid Fusion on the Game Boy Advance (thanks, Nintendo Everything).
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“Switch required a great deal of effort”.
Arc System Works finally delivered the long-awaited Switch update for Guilty Gear Strive earlier this month.
Now, in a new development update, it has addressed the future of this particular version of the game. It mentions how the Switch version has required “a great deal of effort and ingenuity” and as a result, the team is currently examining what exact form future updates “beyond Version 2.0” could take.
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Antiquities, the Greek God of Old Vases.
If you think more games should be about giving cursed skulls to weird strangers, then I’m here to tell you that you’re fine, you’re normal, you’re right, and you should play Strange Antiquities.
You may have already played Bad Viking’s first game in the ‘Strange’ series, Strange Horticulture, a gothically-tinged tale of running a plant shop, but with more than a touch of Lovecraftian business lurking in the shadows. As someone who’s a little bored of the more toothless cosy games on the market, I’m always delighted to find something with sinister undercurrents and supernatural goings-on. Also, ritual murder! Not enough cosy games feature ritual murder.
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Mario Kart cleans up (again) while Metroid drops.
The last full week of 2025 UK charts data is in, and for the most part, it’s a minor reshuffle of the usual suspects, with EA SPORTS FC 26 sitting pretty at #1 and Mario Kart cleaning up twice over and first-party Nintendo (published) games taking up more than a quarter of entries in the all-formats chart.
Ghost of Yotei and Just Dance 2026 slipped out of the top 10 (the latter out of the top 40 completely) to make room for Nintendo Switch Sports and GTA5, both of which were hovering just outside last week.
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Scoot over, Ness.
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 May. Enjoy!
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