LocalThunk, the developer behind Balatro, decided to start off this new year by calling out all his 2024 highlights, with the biggest award of all going to Billy Basso for his wonderful pixel art metroidvania Animal Well. “My very prestigious Golden Thunk award for Game of the Year 2024 goes to Animal Well,” LocalThunk says…
Squid Game has only been in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 for a few days now, and despite my initial thoughts that players would appreciate a new batch of cool skins, it seems that some people aren’t that happy. “Anyone else sick of these damn skins,” Call of Duty player btrosCuPoJoE says. “Not to…
Sunshine, lollipops and chainsaws everywhere. Cutting a bloody swathe through an army of the undead, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP joins Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered on Switch. Both games complement each other as flawed but enjoyable examples of Grasshopper Studios’ beloved catalogue. An idiosyncratic collaboration between Suda 51 and filmmaker James Gunn, Lollipop Chainsaw highlights…
Imagine the possibilities. This past weekend brought us one of the most convincing leaks yet with a pair of photos depicting what appears to be the left Joy-Con from the upcoming ‘Switch 2’. At first glance, it looks pretty much how we’d expected: larger yet with a familiar design, and a new magnetic rail that…
Coming to the Amiga 1200 this year. Like many popular arcade games of the ’80s, Sega’s OutRun was ported to many home platforms, including the Mega Drive, Master System, PC Engine, ZX Spectrum, C64 and more. It was also ported to the Commodore Amiga in 1989, a system which was more than capable of handling…
The 64Pi lets you build your own N64 Mini. Following the release of the NES Classic Edition and the SNES Classic Edition, many fans were hoping to see Nintendo give the same treatment to some of their other classic machines, with the N64 proving to be a particularly popular request. However, in the years since,…
The Best Negev Skins in CS2 The Negev machine gun in CS2, known for its heavy firepower and sustained rate of fire, has been a fan favorite for players who enjoy controlling the battlefield with brute force. Though this weapon may be daunting for new players, it is a powerhouse in the right hands. The…
And the LocalThunk Award goes to… Balatro was one of our games of 2024 and the vast majority of us at Nintendo Life Towers have poured more hours into its poker roguelike gameplay loop than we care to admit. But what were the games that caught the attention of its developer, LocalThunk? With 2025 finally…
While Intel’s latest Core Ultra 200S series of processors hasn’t been setting records for gaming performance, they were the first chips on the block to support the newest tech in the RAM world, CUDIMMs. And now Corsair has released its first clock driver RAM sticks, with speeds of up to 9,600 MT/s. If you’re wondering…
As loyal PC Gamer readers will know, Tamriel Rebuilt is the noble Morrowind modding effort to create every region of the game that Bethesda didn’t get to. Even after nearly a quarter-century, there’s still plenty of the province to get to, and the project’s current “optimistic” ETA is 2035. You might think, then, that its…