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Battlefield 6 is about to receive a new update. Version 1.1.3.0 is set to arrive tomorrow, December 9 to kick off the third and final phase of the game’s first season. Winter Offensive brings some holiday-themed new content to the game, but it’s not the most interesting part of the patch. That honour goes to

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Nintendo may have originated the concept of the cross D-Pad, but the company has practically abandoned this control method on both the Switch and Switch 2 (although thankfully not on the Switch Lite and Pro Controller), leaving some old-school players feeling a little left out. One of those people

Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has written a lengthy message on social network X about a viral post that has been doing the rounds on the platform. Hino said that a lot of developers are currently using AI for efficiency and not just Level-5, they simply just don’t publicise it. Level-5 isn’t using AI for 90%

As a teenager, I watched my grandma fight and defeat breast cancer. For over a decade, my family smiled through every milestone, whether it was a birthday, an anniversary, or something else, happy my grandma could be a part of it.  My wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby girl into this world earlier this

Zenless Zone Zero brought some hot new information and a first look at its next major faction as part of The Game Awards 2025 ceremony. As part of the showcase, we got a glimpse of Ye Shunguang and Zhao – two upcoming Agents. The segment also teased the new Angels of Delusion faction, though details

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren’t able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we’ve now managed to catch up with Onion Games’ latest… Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, claiming to

The latest Japanese video game hardware and physical software sales charts are through thanks to the team at Famitsu. The Nintendo Switch 2 has had a fantastic week in the run up to Christmas selling 221,033 units making it by far the best-selling system this week. The best-selling video game was Mario Kart World which

The long-awaited Ark 2 was announced in 2020, and after a lengthy wait with minimal updates and a few delays, it finally has a new release window. Unfortunately, it’s still a few years away, but we now have a better idea as to why and what to expect from the upcoming sequel. In an interview

Arc Raiders is kicking off its last major event of the year. The Cold Snap update arrives moments from now, and it’s perhaps the game’s biggest since its momentous launch in late October. We’ve known about the existence of Cold Snap for a while, of course, but we finally have a solid idea about what

While other studios were riffing on the formula with dinosaurs, corpses, slimes, witches, and queer relationships, Marvelous faltered, releasing mid-tier Doraemon tie-ins, remakes of Friends of Mineral Town and A Wonderful Life (which were admittedly good, but a little geriatric compared to modern farming games), and the only original release, the empty grind-fest that was

SEGA has announced that the next Festival in the entertaining Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is the Nights Festival. The Nights Festival begins tomorrow, which as you know is Christmas Day. Nights is available today as a downloadable character in the fast and furious game. The Nights festival will contain plenty of handy Donpa Tickets and you

2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year in video games, and one of the earliest scheduled releases, 007 First Light, was set to be one of the biggest games of next March. Unfortunately, IO Interactive has announced the game will be taking just a little bit longer, formally delaying it to Wednesday, May

Vince Zampella, known for co-creating the Call of Duty series, among many other roles, has died. Zampella, 55, died in a car crash in Los Angeles on Sunday. The fatal crash killed him, along with the occupant of his car. According to NBC, Zampella’s Ferrari hit a concrete barrier after leaving a tunnel in the

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

One of the main gripes of Persona 3 Reload on the Nintendo Switch 2 was the fact that it ran at 30fps, compared to 60fps on other platforms. Now, thanks to a new update, the developers behind the JRPG, Atlus, have added a performance mode which delivers 60fps when the game is played on the

Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment co-founder and the head of EA’s Battlefield series, has died at age 55. NBC Los Angeles reports that Zampella was killed in a car crash on Sunday, December 21, on Southern California’s Angeles Crest Highway.  Game Informer The driver was pronounced dead on the scene, and the passenger later died in

Heartopia developer XD Games has delivered the news anyone who tried out the life sim game had been waiting for. The Animal Crossing-like cozy multiplayer game will finally arrive on January 7 across Android, iOS, and PC – with one caveat. The Steam version won’t actually launch on that date, and will instead go live

Image: Square Enix 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

Nintendo’s first published game for the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026 is the fiendishly addictive Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The game will receive a Nintendo Switch 2 version on 15th January, so naturally Japanese retail stores are capitalising on what’s sure to be a highly sought after product. You can check out the display box

Snow is falling, the chimney fire is blazing, and hot cocoa is brewing. Maybe that’s happening for real in your life, or maybe you live in Florida like me and have to imagine these nice Winter scenarios because they don’t exist here. Nonetheless, it’s Winter here in the U.S., and that means it’s time for

Zenless Zone Zero’s latest Special Program has delivered the good news on Version 2.5, To Be Fuel for the Night. This chapter is a big deal for a few reasons, not least of which because it brings an end to Season 2. To start with, Version 2.5 arrives on December 30, making it the game’s

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Just a reminder that we’ll be publishing our 2025 GOTYs soon — both yours and ours! If you haven’t rated the Switch 1 & 2 games you’ve played yet (or if you’ve played something new in the last couple of weeks), feel free to read on and have your

It is all systems go at Epic Games, the developer for Fortnite, as two new collaborations have come to the free-to-play shooter. Firstly, the long-awaited SpongeBob SquarePants is now live bringing all sorts of joy to the battlefield starting from today. Secondly, the acclaimed Bleach anime and manga series will be getting in on the

The incredible team over at Six One Indie held its inaugural awards-only ceremony, The Indie Game Awards, last year, and the team returned to do the same last night! Game Informer was on the jury for its various awards, and after an awesome ceremony last night celebrating the year’s best indies, we have a list

EA Sports has revealed 3 new Heroes coming to FC 26 Ultimate Team as part of Team 1 of the Winter Wildcards promo: Ivan Zamorano, Claudio Pizarro and Jill Scott. The Bayern and Werder Bremen legend Claudio Pizarro is famously the Bundesliga’s oldest ever player, after turning out well past 40 years of age –

Update: The final day of No Gravity Games’ ‘Switchmas Giveaway’ is finally upon us, with three new Switch freebies for all those who have followed the chain up until this point. You’ll find the complete list of every game in this year’s giveaway, and all the info on how to get involved, in our original

In the run up to the all-important Christmas shopping season Nintendo has decided to hold a special festive sale which will includes thousands of Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 games at discounted prices. Some highlights from the sale include Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, Hades, and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Though truth be told

Update: 12/17/25 – Following its appearance on the Australian Nintendo eShop this morning (read the original version of this story below for more details), it’s been confirmed that Dispatch is indeed making the jump to Switch 2 and Switch on January 28.  Developer AdHoc Studio announced the news on social media, and the US eShop

Circan’s November 2025 video game sales report has easily been one of the most anticipated. For one, November is always one of the most lucrative for the games industry, but this year in particular has seen several major hits – including new entries in two rival series. We’re talking, of course, about Battlefield 6, and

Since the launch of the Switch 2 in June, developers have been rolling out all sorts of upgrades for existing titles. With this in mind, the latest one announced is for Beyblade X: Evobattle. Beyblade X: EVOBATTLE – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition arrives in Japan today on 18th December 2025. It is a 1,000 yen