“Now I own a Nintendo PlayStation!”. We all know that the PlayStation was originally supposed to be a fusion of the SNES with a CD-ROM drive, and that Sony actually got as far as creating a working prototype, which resurfaced a few years ago. However, YouTube modder James Channel has taken this concept to the…
Final Fantasy 14‘s annual fan event was in full swing yesterday, and the announcements of new features—and trailers—from the Dawntrail expansion were coming pretty fast. The new Pictomancer was on display, the mystical painter joining FF14 as a magical ranged damage job. The intelligence-based Pictomancer isn’t just pure damage, however, and has some abilities that…
We seriously dug 2022’s headbanging shooter Metal: Hellsinger, and that rhythm based FPS just got some love from its boomer shooter brethren by way of a free DLC featuring nine tracks from Andrew Hulshult’s excellent Dusk soundtrack. A musical DLC is a much bigger deal than it might sound given Metal: Hellsinger’s rhythm-based gameplay. Similar…
“I wrote the entire design, but the implementation was catastrophic”. The ‘games of the world’ are an engrossing subject, specifically when you look past the dominant geographical triumvirate of America, Japan, and Europe (actually a collection of distinct territories, unfairly homogenised into a single label). My first professional article was in GamesTM #27 covering the…
“Here’s Toby!”. In 2023, the names ‘Charlie Brooker‘ and ‘CeX‘ will perhaps prompt two very different emotions from many people. The former is the acclaimed English presenter, author, producer and satirist who created the wonderfully dark and thought-provoking sci-fi drama series Black Mirror, while the latter is an international second-hand retailer which specialises in buying-in…
Our favourite eShop games in from December! Happy New Year lovely readers! It’s 2024, and with another fantastic year of Switch (and maybe Switch 2?) gaming ahead of us, we need to stop, think, and have one last look back at 2023 with eShop Selects this month! December is usually a quiet month for game…
“We extend our gratitude to all players who have enjoyed the game”. Back in April 2021, Japanese studio PlatinumGames released World of Demons via Apple Arcade, an action title with gorgeous visuals. It now looks as if the game will join the long list of digital titles no longer legally available, as PlatinumGames has revealed…
“It’s like clothes. If you find something you like, you just put it on”. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, many western players would have been quite familiar with composer Yuzo Koshiro – after all, his name can be seen right on the title screens of games like Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of…
Who gets the Birdie? Hi folks, and welcome back to Box Art Brawl! Looking back on last week, Tetris Attack on the Game Boy entered the ring for a classic duel, with North America and Europe going head-to-head against Japan. Rather expectedly, including Nintendo’s characters gave Japan a significant advantage, and the region won comfortably…
“We would like to express our deepest sympathies”. The Pokémon Company has donated 50 million yen (about USD 345,770) to Japan’s Red Cross Society after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s Noto Peninsula earlier this week. Read the full article on nintendolife.com