But what about my backlog? Super Mario 64 is one of those classic sorts of games that, almost 30 since its release, is still giving up delightful little secrets. This time around, and as reported by GamesRadar, it’s a hidden sound effect that’s gonna take an insane snack budget to settle into listening out for….
“What. Is. THAT?” At Remedy HQ, me and two other writers getting a first hands-on with the forthcoming FBC: Firebreak have hit a problem. Namely, a strange, ever-changing black-grey mass, aimlessly and unnervingly stuttering around the Quarry we’re currently exploring. We have no idea what it is until we get close enough to recognize it—an…
Plenty of new Switch (2) offerings. PAX East 2025 just finished up this past weekend, and Nintendo Life was there sampling lots of juicy upcoming Switch releases. Yes, there’s plenty to look forward to with the old Switch, even as the new Switch looms in the distance. So we’re sharing our hands-on impressions of some…
Just before the Christmas break, I capped off 2024 with a news piece about GSC’s surprise announcement that it would be putting out gleaming “next-gen patches” for the original Stalker trilogy—Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat—on PC. The studio was maddeningly vague about what the heck that actually meant, though, so I…
Category: Games May 14, 2025 FBC: Firebreak is A High-Octane, Hilarious Shooter Built For Any Skill Level Danielle Partis As we suffered an untimely demise at the business end of approximately two billion sticky notes, me and my two FBC: Firebreak squad members felt more than a little humbled. In our hubris, we’d decided to…
A fantasy score? Level-5’s long-awaited new Fantasy Life game, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, is just over a week away, and the first review for the upcoming game has just dropped. Japanese publication Famitsu has scored the “slow-life RPG” an impressive 9/9/9/9, totalling 36/40, and according to the reviewers, it will take…
“We have unlocked a secret sound effect no one else has heard before”. Super Mario 64 is a solid-gold classic, and for that reason, fans have spent the past few decades digging into the game to find as many secrets as possible. Amazingly, despite the time that has passed since it launched on the N64,…
Name a better duo. On today’s edition of ‘Collaborations We Didn’t Expect,’ Square Enix has announced that it is teaming up with the Japanese TV network TBS Television to develop a brand-new game IP (thanks, Gematsu). TBS Television, not the one that our friends in the US will likely be familiar with, is a Tokyo-based…
Wolf Team’s Final Zone is well worth a look. Shopping for Japanese import games was a little more challenging in the ’90s. We didn’t have the internet then, so all you had to base your purchasing decision on was the game’s cover and, if you were really lucky, a small review in a recent issue…
John Mulaney will play Trip Hawkins. Amazon MGM’s upcoming movie on the life of NFL legend John Madden will also cover the creation of the best-selling series of Madden video games. Directed by David O. Russell—who is a somewhat troubling figure in Hollywood these days—the movie stars Nicolas Cage as John Madden, the American professional…