There really is no shortage of post-apocalyptic scenarios in popular culture. Massive floods, alien invasions, or the ever popular downfall due to the hubris of man are ever present. REDO! draws from the last in this sequence. Set in a world overrun by biomachines, humans are on the brink of extinction. In it, you play
Month: July 2022
Nintendo president Shuntaru Furukawa was asked a number of questions during the 82nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. One of the questions put to him was what Nintendo plans to do about potential data leaks in the future. As we know a large data leak happened with Chinese distributor iQue which was dubbed the Nintendo
Asypr has finally fixed the game-breaking bug in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II remaster for the Nintendo Switch which caused a number of headaches for those who were trying to complete the game. The bug was so problematic that users were unable to even complete the game that they had paid
Audio player loading… Nintendo finally has a solution to fixing dreaded Joy-Con drift by way of a staggeringly cheap repairs service. The new Nintendo Switch repair service, known as Wide Care (opens in new tab), covers the consoles as well as the infamously finicky Joy-Con controllers. The controllers, packed in with new Switch systems, have
Audio player loading… One solo Elden Ring player is setting an example of how to pull off the perfect invasion – and by golly, if they aren’t just the hero we need in Soulslike games. Elden Ring, like other games in the Soulsbourne series, is tough going at the best of times. Throw in invasions
The Street Fighter 6 modern controls setting “is not an easy mode,” says the game’s director, Takayuki Nakayama. Some fans in the fighting game community are concerned that the SF6 Modern Control Type setting, which simplifies inputs for special moves in similar fashion to Smash Bros. controls, will make official competitions too easy or break
It’s Monday, which means the start of a brand new week for potential PS5 restock news. What’s more, it’s Independence Day for those in the US, which can sometimes mean sales are on at retailers. Get all of the latest info in this PSLS PS5 Restock Update for July 4, 2022. Which US stores have
While writing a post about the Deus Ex randomiser mod last month, I tried to find a high-resolution clean version of the venerated immersive sim’s box art to use as a header image. I trawled through archives of official sites hoping to discover that the marketing department had released it as a wallpaper or something,
After initially releasing in Japan a literal decade ago, Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally making its way to PS4 in the west. Phantasy Star Online 2 first released on PC in Japan exactly a year ago today (July 4), but didn’t see any kind of western release until 2020. And while its first home
Mods can go well beyond putting the Teletubbies in Left 4 Dead. They can rewrite the makeup of entire games, change how they start, or create entirely new games unto themselves. Gargantuan in design, these large-scale projects can lend new life to older games or completely revisit how we play them, and this year’s Elden
A new bundle of discounted indie games on Itch.io is aiming to raise $150,000 towards reproductive rights and women’s charities following the US Supreme Court’s overturn of federal abortion rights last month. The Worthy Of Better, Stronger Together bundle is organised by streamer and musician Abbey ‘Scruncho’ Smith of horror game publisher Dread XP, and
Image: Nintendo Try not to go bananas over this, but Nintendo has filed a “new” trademark for the Donkey Kong series. This one is seemingly a little different from the usual ones. Instead of another stock-standard renewal, it actually seems to have been updated to mention “downloadable programs for portable and electronic consoles”. It’s already
Looking for new PS5 and PS4 games to play? You’ve come to the right place! Those who’ve been with PlayStation LifeStyle since its early years will remember our weekly new games and monthly new games lists. Seeing a strong demand for PlayStation only-release lists, we’ve decided to resurrect them. So what’s in store for the
Reviewed by Luke Reilly on Xbox Series X. Also available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. “With its typically deep and rich career mode and its usual class-leading spectrum of assists and difficulty options, F1 22 maintains this series’ run as the most fully-featured and accessible reproduction of a single modern motorsport
On these shores, the vocaloid Hatsune Miku is possibly best known for her rhythm action games, which makes it all the stranger that the Xbox is still waiting for its first one. Instead, we’ve been getting the side-gigs, with Miku popping up in Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S and now this, Hatsune Miku Jigsaw Puzzle,
What happens when you cross an RPG with a visual novel? An extremely small potential pool of customers? No, you cheeky scallywag, you get Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf. Visual novels tend to be an unambitious bunch. You’d be lucky to get more than a dozen choices and a couple of divergent endings
Someone has stolen King Leo’s haunch of ham, and he’s not best pleased. We feel a kinship with King Leo, as we get similarly peeved when someone steals a chip from our plate. We don’t go as far as King Leo, though: frustrated with his lack of meal, he goes on a revenge killing-spree, murdering