Greed Is Good: Tax Avoiders for the Atari 2600

Sometimes it’s fun to sit and try to imagine the pitch meeting for various products. Picture a group of executives and game designers sitting around a boardroom when the following conversation takes place: “So, we’ve had huge hits with Adventure and Space Invaders. Clearly people like battling aliens and searching mythic artifacts. What should we…

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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 announced, starting from $299: ‘We can work with our partners to get these out at reasonable prices, which we are doing’

If you’ve been staring po-faced at overpriced graphics cards on the internet all year and now wondering when you might be able to upgrade your ageing GTX card, here’s your first opportunity of the year. Nvidia has just announced the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060, starting from $299. Emphasis on “starting” there, for a…

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Watch: Got Questions About Switch 2? Ask Alex – Live!

Hello there, lovely peeeeople. Following the Switch 2 Direct nearly two weeks ago(!), the buzz around Nintendo’s upcoming console has been loud as games media and Switch 2 Experience ticket holders have gone hands-on with the system and its games. Following the UK-based event this weekend, the remaining bulk of the Nintendo Life team got…

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Details on Days Gone Remastered’s Speedrun, Permadeath modes and more

Welcome–or welcome back–to Days Gone,  Bend Studio’s sprawling open-world adventure-survival epic. In this PlayStation 5 remaster launching April 25, you’ll once again be able to enjoy Deacon St. John’s journey across the gorgeous natural beauty of the Oregon wilderness–provided you can deal with the mind-boggling amount of mutant Freaker monstrosities that want to shred you…

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One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age’s creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it

If you need more evidence we live in the worst of all possible worlds, how’s this: Beamdog once put Dragon Age creator David Gaider to work on a full-fat sequel to Planescape: Torment—a key inspiration for Disco Elysium, one of the best videogame narratives ever told, and the current #29 on PC Gamer’s Top 100—only…

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