Image: Nintendo Life Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Alana fears for Square Enix’s smaller-budget titles and is worried about the rest of the industry as a result. What on earth is going on with Square Enix? I
Month: May 2024
Developer Bohemia Interactive announced DayZ’s upcoming Frostline expansion. Releasing for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in late 2024, the new map takes players to the frigid Sakhal Archipelago. While not based on any specific location, the map was inspired by the sub-arctic Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Russia. DayZ: Frostline DLC adds new Siberian Sakhal map Bohemia
Lightforge Games is indefinitely pausing work on its upcoming RPG Project O.R.C.S. The team has been reduced to a skeleton crew as the few remaining staff members look to determine their next course of action. In a message posted to the game’s website and social media channels yesterday, Lightforge cites a lack of publisher funding
Assassin’s Creed Infinity may come with a monthly subscription and a focus on microtransactions if the latest rumors are to be believed. The project, which will seemingly be a multiplayer hub rather than a game, is hoped to be a “single entry point” for the franchise where players can access games, DLC, and exclusive content.
Do you know the feeling of moving to a new city for a new job all by yourself? In Fishbowl, our main character Alo is doing just that. You experience a slice of Alo’s ordinary life, at home. Set in urban India at the onset of the pandemic, Fishbowl serves as a vignette of that
Ah, it feels like only yesterday that Microsoft shut down Tango Gameworks, creators of Hi-Fi Rush, and now here’s Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, telling Microsoft staff at an internal townhall meeting that “we need smaller games that give us prestige and awards” – a sentence we might plausibly lengthen to “…like Hi-Fi
Warner Bros. Games has released a new MultiVersus cinematic trailer revealing The Joker as the latest playable character to join the upcoming free-to-play platform fighter. The character will be voiced by actor Mark Hamill, who previously played the iconic madman in the Batman: Arkham video game series and Batman: The Animated Series before retiring from
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, PS VR, and free-to-play games topped the download charts last month. April’s PS5 list saw a healthy addition of newcomers with Stellar Blade and Sea of Thieves entering the top 5 of most downloads in the US and EU regions. The PS VR2 list welcomed an
Jump back in comes to Compact Mode In November, we introduced Compact Mode, a feature available via the Xbox app on PC that enhances your gaming experience by providing a more intuitive user interface on smaller screens, including Windows handhelds. We’re excited to announce that the Jump back in feature and enhancements to the Friends
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has explained to Japanese magazine Famitsu that video game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated in the future and that mergers and acquisitions could be one way to address this. Nintendo isn’t the only company to say that video game development is becoming longer, more costly, and
When can we play Phantom Blade Zero? (Image credit: Cruelman Studio) There’s a demo for Phantom Blade Zero on the way. So far, we only know that it’ll release sometime in 2024, but that’ll be our first chance to get our hands on it. Stay tuned for further updates, as we narrow down exactly when
A pair of new reports claim that Microsoft is considering releasing Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 on the PS5, and that more Xbox layoffs are on the way. Xbox-owned Bethesda recently underwent devastating cuts, resulting in Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin being shut down. But it looks like Microsoft isn’t done. Does Hellblade 2 need the
Amanda the Adventurer is coming to console Over the course of the last year, Amanda the Adventurer has gone viral, as the short horror experience has captivated audiences and PC players. But soon that horror will be dropped onto consoles and mobile – are you ready for the unsettling story it holds? Already on Steam
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube766k Japan often gets different game bundles, and it seems this trend is set to continue with the upcoming Switch release, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. It’s been revealed the ‘special’ Famicom Edition actually comes packaged with two Famicom wireless controllers. These appear to be the same ones available
Looks like Game Pass subscribers will be able to play Lords of the Fallen and Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 at some point this year. News of the entries comes from developer and publisher CI Games. Check out Lords of the Fallen.Watch on YouTube The agreement to bring both games to Microsoft’s service was signed
The PlayStation Store is holding a big sale on 1,792 games, bundles, and add-ons. The “Big Games, Big Deals” sale runs until Wednesday, May 22, giving PlayStation users two weeks to save big on a wide range of games. PlayStation Store offering massive Big Games, Big Deals sale The nearly 1,800 deals include discounts on
MultiVersus makes its grand return on May 28, and a new trailer reveals that the Joker is joining the roster. Even better, Mark Hamill is voicing the Clown Prince of Crime once more. Though we don’t see gameplay, a cinematic trailer sets up a dramatic confrontation (and likely emotional reunion for fans) between Batman, voiced
A recent update for procgen whodunnit sim Shadows of Doubt added “Sharpshooter Assassins” with high-powered rifles to the game’s glowering alternate-1980s cities, with players having to work out the killer’s vantage point by deducing a bullet’s trajectory, before proceeding to a secondary crime scene to search for a murder weapon and witnesses. The prospect of
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