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…
Update: New demo coming soon. Update #2 (Mon 1st Jan, 2024 13:45 GMT): Looks like we’ll be getting a new version of the Mega Final Fight demo soon, which will incorporate the first three stages of the game: Update #1 (Sun 25th Dec, 2022 19:45 GMT): The demo is now available: Read the full article…
“We just make the games that we want to make”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Back when Sea of Stars — Sabotage’s follow-up to its hit genre-bending platformer The Messenger — was unveiled to the world in…
It’s 2024, the beginning of a new year, and you know what? I’m gonna finally get my gaming life in order: Tackle my backlog, tame my cluttered library, and be free from my hoard of unfinished games. Wait, stop laughing at me. I know you’ve heard it all before—from yourself, your loved ones, or your…