The page has turned on another chapter of Fortnite Battle Royale, with Chapter 5 Season 1 beginning today after the conclusion of the game’s hugely successful 2018 throwback season. The new season brought not only a new map and weapons, but also a somewhat contentious revamp of the game’s movement animations. I’m just stuck on…
A new indie roguelike is taking the metagame and plot structure of Hades and fusing it with the wave survival of the horde-battling genre popularized by Vampire Survivors. Death Must Die, the Early Access sophomore game from developers Realm Archive, has you undertaking successive expeditions into the underworld and fighting Death’s minions. As fight through…
When I loaded into Baldur’s Gate 3’s new epilogue, what I found was extremely sweet, almost saccharine. After parting ways with my true companions in the OG ending, some seemingly going off to their deaths or assorted metaphysical torments, it felt like a real “the Fellowship has failed” moment. Now though? All my buds came…
Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has emerged from a month of silence to say that he has made “a ton of progress” on the upcoming 1.6 update for the beloved indie farm and life sim. “It’s (self-imposed) extreme crunch mode, nose to the grindstone,” said Barone in a post to Twitter/X. Barone also dropped…
Console yourself. If you grew up with the Amiga, then The Bitmap Brothers will need no introduction. This legendary British developer was responsible for some of the most critically acclaimed games of the ’80s and ’90s, and even today, titles like Speedball 2, Gods and The Chaos Engine remain solid-gold classics. You can see, then,…
“Widescreen mode doesn’t scale correctly”. Jet Force Gemini made its debut on the new Japanese Switch Online service 18+ app earlier this week, and apparently, the widescreen mode is “broken”. Nintendo World Report explains how the original N64 release supported a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, but activating it in this latest digital version of the…
Our picks for the best eShop games in November! 2023 is almost over, and it’s time to start talking about “that” season. Although lots of us have already been doing that… More importantly, it’s eShop Selects time here at Nintendo Life, and before the Holidays approach, we want to give you some ideas on some…
…and I bring you… The first Evercade Toaplan Arcade collection was packed with big hitters from the Japanese company’s history, including Zero Wing, Truxton, Flying Shark and Tiger Heli. While Toaplan’s back catalogue has more than enough hits to make a second pack justifiable, this follow-up isn’t quite as essential – but it remains highly…
The match-up Gotham deserves. It’s time to dive into another edition of Box Art Brawl — welcome back, everybody! Before we dive into this week’s caped covers, let’s first take a look at what happened last time. We went waaay back to compare the box art for Donkey Kong on the NES, and boy, was…
Build, race and perform. Ahead of The Game Awards next week, we’ve got some more announcements, this time for the popular battle royale Fortnite. Epic has announced it’s teaming up with LEGO for LEGO Fortnite (launching 7th December). In addition to this Rocket League developer Psyonix is releasing Rocket Racing in the game (8th December)…