Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun: Words of Vengeance originally launched as a stopgap/marketing gimmick to coincide with the announcement of Boltgun 2. But it appears to have gone down swimmingly with the Boltgun playerbase in its own right, having accrued a ‘Very Positive’ Steam rating out of 1,700 reviews. The 2.5D blaster’s free-to-play spinoff swaps out clicking…
When I first saw that city-builder Surviving Mars is getting a remaster, my first thought was “Isn’t that a bit soon? It only launched recently.” It turns out ‘recently’ was seven flipping years ago. That’s a shorter period than between the original Resident Evil and its 2002 HD edition. Truly, my ability to measure the…
Issue #29 – October 2025. We’re deep into October now, which means it’s time to open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox and see what word-based packages you’ve been sending our way this month. Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Each month we’ll…
While by no means the longest-running early access project on Steam (that honour belongs to the perennial alpha juggernaut that is Project Zomboid) top-down survival RPG Necesse has been in development for quite some time. Fair Games’ pixel-y fantasy romp first stepped onto the road back in 2019, and only revealed it was prepping for…
Techland has released its post-launch roadmap for its free-running, zombie-dropkicking spinoff Dying Light: The Beast. As gaming roadmaps go, it’s closer to what you’d scribble on the back of a packet of ciggies than the cartographical masterpieces produced by Ordnance Survey, with Techland’s plans stretching over just 11 weeks. But this pencil-scrawl to your local…
Pika-who? Welcome back, one and all, to this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl! It was the NSO newbie Fatal Fury Special that got put under the microscope last time, as we matched up two covers for this SNES brawler. Overall, it was a pretty one-sided fight. The colourful Japanese variant walked away with 68%…
Sega celebrated the ‘Year of Shadow’ in 2024. Last year, Sega ran a year-long campaign for Shadow the Hedgehog that lined up with the release of Sonic X Shadow Generations and the introduction of the “Ultimate Lifeform” in the live-action Sonic movies. This was generally well-received by Sonic fans, and it’s now led to some…
Anything is possible after Virtual Boy’s revival. The Switch Online service has already been expanded with GameCube games this year, and the Virtual Boy library will be making a comeback early next year. Now, a new Nintendo patent filed in April and published this week has ignited rumours about Nintendo DS games potentially returning in…
You’ve got a green letter just where you want it. A few yellows waiting to be shuffled into the right spots. And you’ve got some idea of what to do with them. Brilliant—if you had the rows spare to poke around the entirety of the English language. This is where we come in, our clues…
“Elevating authenticity to truly global heights”. The Football Manager series has announced it has signed a “multi-year partnership” with the global football governing body FIFA. This deal will bring official licenses from FIFA’s competitions to the long-running football management series by Sports Interactive. This will include the upcoming FIFA World Cup 26, which will be…