“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…
We’re sticklers for tradition at PC Gamer so as a new year dawns, it’s time for us all to set ourselves ambitious goals, born from inspired dreams: Yes, we’re making resolutions and we’re determined to get them done! For some, it might be time to do that full PC upgrade we’ve been putting off for…
“We die alone, but we live among men”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The very best Switch games ever. Welcome to our master list of the top 50 best games ever released on Nintendo Switch, as ranked by you, now updated for 2024. As you can see, it offers a clear answer to the question ‘Which is best, BOTW or TOTK?’ Enjoy — and Happy New Year to…
“The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge”. Let me tell you a true story, readers: I was a staff writer at Imagine Publishing circa 2006, and we had to make some sort of short list of Game Boy games, a Top 6 or something, for either GamesTM or…
What’s that one with the plumber and the mushrooms 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! Read the full article on nintendolife.com