Fortunately, Nintendo has now rolled out an update addressing this issue. It bumps the demo up to Version 1.0.1 and also makes other adjustments and corrections to improve the overall gameplay experience.
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream – Ver. 1.0.1 (Released 31st March 2026)
Fixed Issues
Fixed an issue where an error would occur and the software would close if a player played to the end of the demo, then attempted to start the software or resume from sleep mode when the system time was between 9:00 PM and 10:00 AM.
Other adjustments and corrections were made to improve the game play experience.
You can find out more about this exact issue with the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo in our original post below.
Original Story:[Thu 26th Mar, 2026 14:45 GMT]:
Plenty of readers (and beyond) have been enjoying the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream‘Welcome Version’ demo over the past 24 hours. But for some diving in this morning, they’ve been greeted by a rather unpleasant surprise: a crash.
It turns out that Nintendo has identified a bug with the demo, which causes it to crash when you wake the console from sleep mode between 9pm and 10am, if you’ve cleared the main content. Thanks to OatmealDome for the translation!
Fortunately, this bug doesn’t seem to affect transferring your save data to the full game, so that’s a relief. Nintendo is looking into the issue and will provide an update when it can.
As it turns out, a few people on the tomodachilife subreddit have been encountering this issue today, with some suggesting closing and reopening the demo, and others saying they needed to reinstall the whole thing. Turning your internal clock back to 25th March also may fix the problem.
Besides this, early response to the demo has been extremely positive, and has resulted in some hilarious moments online already. Fans have already discovered that there’s basically no filter, meaning the Miis can swear freely and colourfully.
Have you experienced any issues with the Tomodachi Life demon on Switch? Let us know in the comments.
Miyamoto has spoken on many occasions about his love of Pikmin and how there is effectively no restriction on where they can appear.
We’ve seen them pop up in Mario Wonder, on the back of football shirts, and even at Nintendo’s theme parks, and their global expansion is set to continue. Speaking to IGN recently, Miyamoto has reiterated how it’s his “mission” to try and get Pikmin in any kind of Nintendo product he can.
Shigeru Miyamoto: “I’m on a mission to try to include Pikmin in any kind of Nintendo product we put up. And obviously Pikmin can be appearing anywhere”
Pikmin will also surface in…spoiler alert…Mario’s new cinematic outing, and Miyamoto’s reasoning here is that the “setting of Galaxy really lends itself to having Pikmin be there as part of the world”. The same movie will also include some other Nintendo characters.
Miyamoto has previously labelled Pikmin as Nintendo’s “most global characters” and considers “video games to be just one of the worlds in which Pikmin live”. We’ve even seen entire shorts dedicated to these tiny little creatures over the past year.
How do you feel about the possibility of Pikmin showing up in any Nintendo product? Give us your thoughts below.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie goes beyond the Mushroom Kingdom and introduces a whole new cast of characters. As we now know, there’ll also be some faces that aren’t even from this particular Nintendo universe.
It’s led to discussion once again about a possible “Smash Bros.-style Nintendo Cinematic Universe” movie, so what are the chances of it actually happening?
Polygon asked Shigeru Miyamoto about this recently, and while he’s willing to make exceptions for his beloved Pikmin and some other characters in Mario’s new outing, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s building up to an all-star event led by the iconic Nintendo mascot:
Shigeru Miyamoto: “I don’t think you’ll have a situation [where] all Nintendo characters would be joining [together in one film]. As you know, my rule is that Pikmin can appear in any [Nintendo] series.”
For now, the focus is on Mario’s universe and rather than opening the door to every Nintendo series, the team simply wants to “spice” things up by including “secret cameos here and there”, so they’ve got characters that slot into Mario’s world, and also fit the Galaxy movie’s space theme.
Illumination’s CEO Chris Meledandri elaborated on Miyamoto’s comments in the same interview, mentioning how the crossovers in the Galaxy movie are more incidental than strategic. According to Meledandri, Nintendo and Illumination focus on the project at hand, and the ideas come about based on what might be fun or may fit a certain scene.
Chris Meledandri: “If we agree that it’s a fun idea, then we look to Miyamoto-san to just make his own judgment about whether or not it feels right to him.”
So, there you go – according to Miyamoto we probably shouldn’t expect a Smash Bros. movie to happen, at least any time soon.
Would you like to see a Smash Bros. movie one day? Do you still think it might happen at some point now that Nintendo has entered the movie business? Let us know in the comments.
Pokémon Pokopia only just arrived on the Switch 2, but it’s already dishing out plenty of free goodies for trainers to claim.
In case you missed it, the latest distribution is now available, allowing you to receive a free Chansey Plant. Here’s a look at this large plant, which can also be used to craft a Chansey resting area habitat. And here’s the code required: P0K0P1AGARDENS
Image: Nintendo Life
You have until 7th October 2026 to redeem this code. Fortunately, this is not an exclusive item, and you can still craft it and the habitat after this date.
To redeem this Mystery Gift, you’ll need to access a Pokémon Center terminal and then navigate to the ‘Mystery Gift’ option in the menu. From there, you select ‘Get with Code/Password’ and you can then punch in the above code to receive this item in your bag.
Pokémon Pokopia is also hosting a special event today, giving players a chance to claim an inflatable Sudowoodo! You can see all of the Mystery Gifts released for Pokémon Pokopia in our full guide.
Will you be redeeming this latest Mystery Gift item in Pokémon Pokopia? Let us know in the comments.
Last year, as part of its 10th anniversary, physical distributor Limited Run Games announced a new partnership with Capcom.
This was followed with a bunch of physical announcements, and in an update, a new physical Switch version of Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium has now been revealed. This follows pre-orders for the first Capcom Arcade Stadium going live earlier this year.
The second collection will also be available in five different covers. This includes the standard cover, Darkstalkers cover, Mega Man: The Power Fighters covers, Street Fighter Alpha cover and Super Puzzle Fighter II cover.
It’s priced at $44.99 and pre-orders will open later this week on 3rd April 2026, with the product estimated to ship between 1st September 2026 and 31st October 2026.
Image: Capcom
Here’s a reminder of the games included via LRG and you can find out more about this collection in our Nintendo Life review:
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium – Games List:
1943 Kai (1987)
A.K.A Block Block (1991)
A.K.A The King of Dragons (1991)
A.K.A Knights of the Round (1991)
A.K.A. Magic Sword (1990)
A.K.A Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (1997)
Avenger (1987)
Black Tiger (1987)
Capcom Sports Club (1997)
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (1994)
Eco Fighters (1994)
Gun.Smoke (1985)
Hyper Dyne Side Arms (1986)
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (2003)
Last Duel (1988)
Mega Man: The Power Battle (1995)
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters (1996)
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge (1995)
Pnickies (1994)
Rally 2011: LED Storm (1989)
Saturday Night Slam Masters (1993)
Savage Bees (1985)
SonSon (1984)
Street Fighter (1987)
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors’ Dreams (1995)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1998)
Super Gem Fighter (1997)
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (1996)
The Speed Rumbler (1986)
Three Wonders (1991)
Tiger Road (1987)
Will you be adding this to your Switch collection? Let us know in the comments.
If you’ve been wondering when Pokémon Legends: Z-A will be getting connectivity with the storage and trading cloud service app Pokémon Home, we’ve got some news.
The Pokémon Company has officially announced Home on Switch and mobile devices will undergo maintenance at 9:00am JST on 2nd April 2026, adding support for Pokémon Legends: Z-A.
Once the update has gone live, trainers will need to update their software to Version 4.0.0 to access the latest version of Home. Of course, there will be some restrictions in place when it comes to transfers:
Pokémon cannot be transferred from Pokémon Legends: Z-A to previous titles in the Pokémon video game series.
If you transfer a Pokémon from a previous title to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, you will no longer be able to transfer it to previous video games in the Pokémon series.
The Pokémon you’ll be able to transfer to each game via Pokémon HOME are limited to Pokémon that can appear in those games. Please look forward to finding out which Pokémon will be available in Pokémon Legends: Z-A!
Pokémon Home connectivity has also been confirmed for the new “free-to-start” title Pokémon Champions, which is arriving on the Switch next week.
When the Pokémon Home update for Legends: Z-A goes live, we’ll let you know.
Critic reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have just dropped ahead of the film’s theatrical release tomorrow, 1st April 2026.
And, folks, it looks like it’s another mixed bag if early reviews are to go by. We haven’t had a chance to watch the movie early, and we’ll have our verdict in asap, so for now, let’s see what the rest of the industry has to say.
Note that some of these reviews do contain spoilers for the film, so if that’s something you care about, be careful clicking on the links.
Let’s start off with Variety‘s Owen Gleiberman, who was a fan of the first movie. He came away from the sequel disappointed, calling the Mario Galaxy movie “one of the worst [animated movies]”
“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” is frenetic in such an impersonal way that it feels like the entire film should be put on Ritalin. Yet it may well be that as a commercial enterprise, this more-is-more Easter-egg hunt of a movie will clean up exactly as it’s designed to.”
Robbie Collin at The Telegraph gave the sequel a slightly higher score than the first film at two out of five stars, but that doesn’t mean he was particularly enamoured with the movie:
“Reader, I have honestly felt less advertised at while watching actual adverts. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie must be the most cravenly corporate film of any type since its 2023 predecessor: in terms of the sheer fang-baring zeal of its product placement, it makes A Minecraft Movie look like something Michael Haneke took to Cannes in 1998.”
In her review for The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey also gave the movie two out of five stars, calling it “the first film intentionally made so it can be divided into parts and uploaded to TikTok with the caption “prime mario aura farming [flame emoji]”:
“You really get a sense in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie of how homogenous our sense of nostalgia has become, to the point that a generation of kids are being robbed of art that encourages curiosity and imagination, in order for adults to be reassured that the passions of their lost childhoods were very cool and very important.”
Total Film‘s Bradley Russell is a bit more positive, awarding the sequel three stars out of five, noting that while it doesn’t reach “Galaxy’s gravity-defying game heights”, the newcomers shine and the references are the stars (again, there are minor spoilers in this review):
“While kids are likely going to revel in the bright lights and even brighter colors as Mario and company leap through constellations onto their next destination, long-time fans will feast on the smorgasbord of nods, references, and surprise tributes to Mario and Nintendo’s past.”
Soren Andersen at The Seattle Times feels similarly in another three out of five review, and is one of the few reviews to praise the plot, while also recognising that this is a movie for those who love the games:
“Watching it is akin being inside the 2007 Super Mario Galaxy game itself. Which is why it needs to be seen on the big screen. Seeing it on a phone or a laptop wouldn’t do it justice.”
Back to the more negative, and The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw does not hold back in his one out of five star review — a lower score than he gave the first — calling it a “bland screensaver of a movie”:
“The last film gave us a concerted attempt to spoof the game’s 2D graphics and its left-to-right gameplay movement, with all the running and jumping, making a comic virtue of how absurd it looks. There’s little or nothing of that now, just a pretty uninspired variation of the first storyline…”
Over at The Wrap, William Bibbiani is equally unimpressed, praising the visuals and respect it has for the source material, but stating that “none of these things prevent it from also being terrible.”
“So yes, this movie is very pretty. But we don’t need pretty. We already have pretty. We can access the world of “Super Mario” whenever we want, through games and cartoons and action figures. “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” has the word “movie” in the title, and that’s where it wets the bed. “
Let’s end things on a more positive note, perhaps? Clint Cage over at IGN Movies gave the film a 6/10, calling it a movie that “focuses squarely on all the stuff” while praising the action sequences:
“It’s bigger and shinier than the first, visually speaking. While it loses points for not engaging in a strong emotional core like its predecessor, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie racks up some extra lives by stuffing Easter eggs into the runtime to the point of bursting.”
There are still lots of reviews to come in, of course, but right now, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is tracking around the same (or slightly lower) as The Super Mario Bros. Movie, sitting at a 45% average on Rotten Tomatoes (after 60 reviews) and a 35 average on Metacritic (after 32 reviews).
That’s bound to change, of course, as the first movie originally started around 46% but with 288 reviews, is now around 59%.
But, let’s be honest, the reviews don’t really matter in this instance — the first movie made well over a $1 billion USD, and the sequel is on track to make over $350 million over the Easter weekend worldwide, and $175 million domestically.
Are you surprised at the consensus? Will you still be heading to the movies this week to see the sequel? Let us know in the comments.
As reported by Nintendo Everything, the 2019 Switch release is unavailable to purchase on the digital storefront in North America, Japan, and Australia. It’s still available in the UK and Europe, but it looks like these regions will follow suit.
SEGA has confirmed itself that the game is no longer available to buy on the eShop on its Japanese website. Fortunately, if you already own the game, you can redownload it whenever, and the physical version is still on sale.
Still, it’s a little bit surprising as we had no prior knowledge of the Tokyo 2020 title leaving storefronts. However, as today is the last day of the fiscal year and the Olympics games are all officially licensed, it’s most likely that those licenses expire today.
It’s a shame because this is the only game in the Mario & Sonic spin-off series available on Switch and the last one ever developed. Yep, it’s been six years since the last crossover Olympics game.
Maybe a Switch 2 game is on the horizon for 2028, but that means we still have to wait at least a year. The recent Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics would’ve been the perfect time to reignite interest, but alas.
Do you own Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020? Disappointed that it’s being delisted? Pass the finish line and comment down below.
A one-day event comes to Pokémon Pokopia on 1st April 2026, celebrating both April Fool’s Day and Sudowoodo, the imitation Pokémon.
From 5am local time on 1st April until 5am on 2nd April, you’ll be able to participate in a fun little game called the Imitation Quiz (thanks, Serebii).
To answer questions, you need to interact with your Pokémon — some of them will come prepared with an impression of another ‘mon, and you need to guess who that Pokémon is imitating.
Get three right and you can claim an Inflatable Sudowoodo, a simple but fun reward. You might already have one from getting Lost Relics or from visiting a Cloud Island and taking a photo, but it fits the theme perfectly.
The event is only on during April Fool’s, but if you forget to log on tomorrow, then don’t fret, as you can turn back your Switch 2’s internal clock, if you want.
Image: Nintendo Life
And with that method, we already know what the next event will be — one focusing on Sableye. That officially starts on 29th April, but who wants to wait all month?
Will you be betting your wobbly Sudowoodo tomorrow? Let us know in the comments.
If you’re a fan of Zelda books like Hyrule Historia, Art & Artifacts, and Creating a Champion, then good news: another is on the way!
Yes, Dark Horse is collaborating with Nintendo once again on a Zelda art book, this time focused on the world of Tears of the Kingdom. Titled Secrets of the Zonai, the book will ship to customers from October 2026 and will cost $59.99 / £46.17 for the standard edition, while a rather fetching Hero’s Edition will set you back $119.99 / £92.35.
The latter comes with the following:
“The slipcase features the lush green favored by ancient Zonai, and includes the Secrets of the Zonai art book with an exclusive cover, a map of the Depths printed on cloth, an art print of Link and the Sages, and a beautiful replica of the Secret Stone of Time.”
As for what the book will contain, we unfortunately don’t have any images just yet, but we can expect 50 pages of “beautiful illustrations, character art, and promotional images”, plus another 300 pages of “behind-the-scenes sketches, notes, rough designs, concept art, and recollections that provide an exclusive look at the development and creation of the game”.
Next, a further 80 pages will look into “Hyrule’s history that include insights into the mysterious past of the Zonai all the way up to the events of the game”, before ending with some exclusive interviews with Producer Eiji Aonuma, Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi, and Art Director Satoru Takizawa.
Sounds nice, then! Here’s a look at how each edition will look:
Image: Dark Horse Image: Dark Horse
We’ll be sure to update you on the book’s final release date as soon as we hear more.
Will you be adding this to your Zelda book collection? Let us know with a comment in the usual place.
