How would a younger me react to the concept of game seasons? “Leave me alone, please. I’m busy replaying The Suffering 2 for the sixth time to see a new 15 second cutscene that recognises which combination of morally aligned beginnings and endings I’ve picked. It reads your save from the first game and everything!”.
Month: January 2025
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube790k It’s a new year and Hamster Corporation is already back at it with more weekly ‘Arcade Archives’ releases on the Switch eShop. To kick things off, it’s released Athena’s 1989 side-scrolling action title Castle of Dragon. You’ll go forth with the “power of love” as two young kings
Sokomonster – smashing onto console and PC It’s time for a city-smashing adventure with a monstrous twist as Sokomonster invades Xbox, PlayStation and PC. The latest from Afil Games, the studio behind the likes of Kiting Cat in recent weeks, is Sokomonster, a unique puzzle game that blends strategic thinking with a healthy dose of
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle
Kinda Funny Games presenter Imran Khan has said on gaming forum Reset Era that the Punch-Out series is effectively a dead franchise at Nintendo. Khan said that he spoke to someone a while back who was involved in the last Punch-Out game from Next Level Games and asked them about a new game. The person
I come and go with the work of Ken Levine, celebrated auteurman and reported burnout-inducing manager, but I’m interested to see more of Judas, his current project at Ghost Story Games. The concept for Judas is that you’re trapped in a computer-run society housed aboard a colony ship, the Mayflower. The titular Judas has managed
Earlier this year we announced we’re giving you more options than ever before when it comes to joining console gaming with Xbox – and now is the best time yet to dive in and experience everything Xbox has to offer! Available now, you have the choice of a variety of storage and design options with
2025 is the year in which we’ll finally, finally get to see 2XKO come out. If it feels like an age since whispers about Riot’s in-house fighting game were floating around… you’re right! The developers at Radiant were aquired all the way back in 2016 – roughly 8 years ago. This year we’ll finally see
Yep, you’ve read the headline, this is serious stuff. Someone claims to have posted some images taken in a Rockstar office of GTA 6 playing on a monitor to Reddit, and it might have shown us what the developer’s bins looked like back in 2021. That’s assuming it’s actually genuine, of course. The alleged leaked
I think the last time I read an actual, original Garfield comic was in 1998. Since then, my experience of the character has been one long litany of Gar-memes and in particular, Gorefield memes. For those blissfully unaware, Gorefield is a version of Jim Davis’s otiose, lasagna-loving housecat who has broken his comic strip shackles
Implicit Conversions, the company involved in porting PlayStation classics to PS Plus and PS Store, is looking into PS3 emulation. As rumors continue to circulate that Sony is attempting to bring select PS3 games to PS5 natively, Implicit Conversions has confirmed that efforts are under way, but there’s no guarantee that they’ll bear fruit. Hawk-eyed
Brendan Greene, the modder-turned-millionaire who designed battle royale game PUBG: Battlegrounds, wants to make his studio’s next game a “metaverse”, although he says he’s wary of using the term. The project is called “Artemis” (at least for now) and you won’t be seeing it any time soon. That’s because the studio is still working on
Black Myth: Wukong developer Game Science has reiterated once again that Xbox Series S optimization issues are to blame for the game’s unintended PS5 exclusivity. A number of large publications continue to peddle a bizarre claim that Sony signed a “secret” exclusivity deal for Black Myth: Wukong — a rumor that vague Microsoft statements seemingly
Back from the dead this March by Liam Doolan 4am [embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube790k The Lazy Bear Games and tinyBuild Switch eShop release Graveyard Keeper appears to be finally getting a physical release on Nintendo’s hybrid platform. According to some new listings on sites like Amazon, the Stardew-style and graveyard management sim
We’re halfway through the 2020’s and the decade has – so far – been a phenomenal one for Xbox gamers. We’ve lost count of the number of brilliant games to have released on Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One over the first five years of this ten year period. From epic adventures and
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle
The Verge’s Tom Warren has clearly hinted that the successor to the popular Nintendo Switch won’t be on the same level as the PlayStation 4 Pro visually. It is widely expected to be visually similar to Sony’s PlayStation 4 console with the added support of image upscalers. Nintendo has yet to reveal any specific details
Each year, we like more games than we can fit in our Advent Calendar. Those honourable mentions get their due here, in 2024’s Selection Boxes. My Selection Box picks are of three games that I did not vote for in the Advent Calendar. Two of them didn’t come out this year, which is an easy