A wild adventure of tropical typhoons, insane litigation, and fish testicles. Ten years ago, I was given the great privilege of living in Japan for three months to interview a diverse and eclectic range of game developers. This would produce three volumes in the The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers series (plus a DVD)….
“No one in the team expected such a warm reception”. Whatever your opinion might be on fast food outlet McDonald’s, it has been allied with some surprisingly decent video game crossovers over the years. Global Gladiators on the Genesis / Mega Drive was a fun time (and boasted a wonderful Tommy Tallarico soundtrack), and while…
Get it now… y’know, if you want. Publisher Atooi has announced — and released — a brand new roguelike dungeon hopper called Knights of the Rogue Dungeons. That’s right, you can get it from the eShop right now for the price of $9.99 / £8.99 (with a bonus 10% discount if you’re early). Showcasing voxel-based…
Predicting the future of something as volatile and changeable as videogames truly is a mug’s game. Well, fill us up with coffee because we are apparently mugs. In 2023, the most talked-about game of the year was a CRPG with turn-based combat, and the most quickly forgotten one was a new Bethesda open world. While…
Alan Wake 2 is a worthy successor to the original, and dare I say, even outdoes it in many ways. But there is one thing that Remedy’s long-awaited sequel has in abundance that I wish there were less of—or none at all—and that is the jump scares. I get it: a well-placed jump scare can…
“It didn’t quite work as a game show”. Video games and TV have always had a bit of a difficult relationship. For every success like GamesMaster, there have been countless failures that have struggled to capture what people love most about the popular pastime. So, when the BBC spent an estimated £3-4 million on a…
We’re just weeks away from the biggest tech jamboree of the year, the Consumer Electronics Show or CES. It’s expected that 130,000 attendees and 3,500 vendors will descend on the sprawling complex of exhibition centers and show floors across Las Vegas for the event, which opens on January 9. Among them will be our very…
“I want people to feel like they’re a 10-year-old kid again”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! While sauntering through the Seattle Convention Center at this year’s PAX West, we saw hundreds of developers showing off their biggest,…
“You could understand almost everything about what the system was doing”. When Sony published Polyphony’s Gran Turismo in 1997, it wasn’t just the amazing handling, realistic physics and wealth of real-world cars that so impressed critics and players alike – the game looked like it was an entire generation ahead of its PlayStation rivals at…
2 long? Another year, and here we are again — wondering if the next 12 months might deliver perhaps the most exciting thing for any Nintendo fan: new hardware. It feels like years now that we’ve been reporting on and discussing another potential Nintendo system, and that’s because it has been years. Whispers of a…