Steam Deck the halls, it’s festive season once again. Thankfully, dragging yourself into social situations for the holidays has gotten a little easier over 2023 with the release of so many great gaming handhelds. This year, we got an update from Valve in the form of the Steam Deck OLED, so now’s a great time…
I deliver chainsaw death to the demon horde, all the while dodging incessant gun fire, balls of fire and flying, shrieking, flaming skulls. Oh, and did I mention I’m doing this in hell, with lava and poison-filled pits left, right and centre? This is John Romero’s SIGIL II, the hard-as-nails unofficial sixth episode for Doom,…
“A delayed game is eventually good,” Nintendo legend Shigeru Miaymoto is falsely claimed to have said, “a bad game is bad forever.” What about a game that I really liked but had some serious issues on launch, so nobody else liked it, but it gradually improved over the course of three years and now everybody…
Thanks to its delightful sandbox traversal, Tchia became our favourite open world game of the year. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 hub. Chris Livingston, Senior Editor: I love open world games, but such a familiar formula has been established that so many of them wind up feeling predictable. Collection…
The Year of Mario? Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Richard looks back on a year when Nintendo let Mario get a little loose… If 2013 was the Year of Luigi, 2023 may as well have been the…
I had doubts about Atomic Heart when it was first revealed in 2018. I love me a good, janky Eastern European shooter—somebody really should remaster Cryostasis—but it looked a little too good, especially for a debut game from an unknown studio. I needn’t have worried though, because boy, it delivers: It’s a frantic, funny game,…
Sam Barlow talks for the first time about the doomed sequel. “This is one of the most troubled franchises in history,” says Sam Barlow of the Legacy of Kain series. “I think every single entry, even if they launched, launched in a cut, curtailed, broken state. This was a franchise that has never gone to…
We’ve grumbled a few times about the engorgement of PC games—100GB is the new normal—but these days it’s not even the first install you have to worry about. This year, we saw 30GB and larger updates become commonplace. We lost the battle against file sizes years ago, and now we’re just being slapped around. I…
Let’s-a snow, let’s-a snow, let’s-a snow. With just two sleeps to go before the big day, we are unwrapping a present early here at Nintendo Life. It’s a festive edition of What Are You Playing! Something about ‘What Are You Sleighing‘ sounded a little too sinister… Before we sledge into our gaming plans over the…
Looking for some weekend Wordle help? There’s a hint for today’s puzzle waiting just below, ready to offer a clear path through the grey letter fog. Need something a little more direct on the weekend? You’ve got it. The answer to the December 23 (917) Wordle is only a quick click away. A win in…