I was initially attracted to Endlight, a weird indie game about getting hoops, by its intense, almost overwhelming trailer, but what hooked me were the less obvious but very clever bits lying beneath its sensory onslaught: Levels are punctuated by odd, sometimes very funny chunks of text that made me feel as though developer Jim…
Just as Path of Exile 2 is struggling to get its servers working today, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 couldn’t get off the ground on launch day back in November. Despite running tests that simulated 200,000 users, MSFS 2024 devs admitted they “completely underestimated” how many players wanted to dive into the sim on day one,…
Look, intellectually I’m a great believer in surprise and being challenged, not trying to optimize the fun out of everything. But when the rubber hits the road, I’m looking up guides to help me with games. In Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, though, there’s an in-game hint system that is genuinely more streamlined and…
The possibility of some sort of major shakeup at Ubisoft grew a little more distinct today as Reuters reports that company shareholders are now looking at how to structure a buyout of the company that, ironically, would leave the founding Guillemot family in control. The possibility of a buyout was first reported in October, although…
Umm…YES? ININ Games announced last week that it has officially gained the publishing rights to Shenmue III, the long-awaited third entry in the cult Dreamcast series. Of course, here at Nintendo Life, that got us thinking about the future of the series — particularly given than none of the games have appeared on Switch. And…
Marvel Rivals—the NetEase free-to-play hero shooter featuring a wide roster of Avengers and various other Marvel figures who probably wish they were—released yesterday, and it hasn’t had any trouble finding interested players. At time of writing, there are currently more than 300,000 people playing Marvel Rivals on Steam alone. Some of those players, however, have…
You know NetEase has managed to make a competent hero shooter in Marvel Rivals when the number one complaint among players feels like a repeat of 2016 Overwatch discourse: Not enough players are picking healers, and teams are suffering for it. Less than a day after launch, the Marvel Rivals subreddit is abuzz with discussion…
Update: A last minute delay slipped by. Published Tue 5th Nov, 2024 17:30 GMT Publisher Clear River Games and developer City Connection have today announced that the arcade shoot ’em up Under Defeat will be flying onto Switch on 5th December. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“We believe that a little more time is needed”. Argonaut Games has made the tough decision to delay the upcoming Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster to Q1 2025. In a statement shared on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Argonaut said the decision to delay the game from its projected December 2024 release date…
Grinding Gear Games warned us that Path of Exile 2‘s early access launch might be rocky. The developer hadn’t expected more than a million players, but pre-sales of the action RPG surpassed that. “There are probably going to be some queues during the launch weekend,” said game director Jonathan Rogers. “Before the launch, when we…