Microsoft’s recent appetite for studio acquisitions means there’s an enormous number of games we could see at Sunday’s Xbox showcase. Will Activision debut this year’s Call of Duty? Probably. We might also see Gears of War: E-Day, the new Perfect Dark game, more of inXile’s Clockwork Revolution, the new Fable game, State of Decay 3,…
T-blocks keep fallin’ on my head. We’re making this a trend now, huh? It’s never long before Puyo Puyo Tetris makes its way onto the scene. Such was the case back in 2017 with the launch of the original Switch, when a worldwide release of 2014’s Puyo Puyo Tetris (which released on Wii U and…
Ark: Survival Evolved is 10 years old this month, a fact that makes me feel like a dinosaur. Studio Wildcard’s dino-themed survival sim first appeared in the primordial soup of Steam early access in June 2015, though it didn’t see a full release until two years later. In any case, to mark the occasion, Studio…
I’ve generally avoided Bennet Foddy’s games, given they are essentially purpose-built frustration generators. But there’s something that intrigues me about Baby Steps. Maybe it’s the inherent slapstick comedy built into the concept of a schlub trying to walk up a mountain with physics-empowered feet. Maybe it’s the fact it’s been co-developed by Gabe Cuzzillo and…
Museum peace. Altogether now! “This should have been a pack-in.” Or, if that simply wasn’t on the table, free for the first year. Or free with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. It’s painfully obvious to everybody but Nintendo that paywalling this specific software further behind the already-pricey console is a mistake. Read the full article…
Atavistic survival sim Rust recently added a whole new area to get brutally murdered in while running around naked—a rainforest. Not only is this Rust’s snazziest biome, it’s also by far the busiest from an environmental perspective, far thicker in vegetation than the game’s other areas, as you would expect from a jungle. This makes…
Miyamoto doesn’t even get a “special thanks”. Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most famous video game designers the world has ever seen and is responsible for giving us classic franchises such as Super Mario, Zelda, Pikmin and Star Fox. One of his most critically and commercially successful creations is Mario Kart, a series that…
I was disappointed by Amazon’s decision to cancel its TV adaptation of The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan’s long, winding, and endearingly extra series of fantasy novels. After a rocky debut in 2021, the show demonstrably improved in season 2, while season 3 delivered one of the best episodes of TV I’ve seen in years….
It’s a wobbly life. Editor’s note: What’s this? A non-Switch 2 game?!? Variety, my friends, is the spice of Nintendo Life… A goofy life sim set in a physics-based sandbox, Wobbly Life by RubberBandGames is an entertaining amalgam of open-world adventure and indie party games. With its cartoonish tone and compulsive gameplay, it’s clearly targeting…
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted is coming to all major formats. Irem’s R-Type series is one of the most iconic in shmup history, and almost all of the games in its lineage are worth a look—but there’s one title which stands out as a clear favourite with many fans, and that’s 1998’s R-Type Delta, released initially…