Developed with clear affection for old-school titles like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Spindle marries pixel-perfect visuals with a surprisingly thoughtful narrative about mortality and meaning. But this isn’t your typical grim reaper tale. Here, Death wakes up in a broken world where no one can die, stripped of memory and…
Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: getting stuck into Battlefield 6, testing out weapons and all the new maps in the launch version. This week I’ve been: trying to unlock every weapon in Battlefield 6 before Season 1. It’s been almost four years since the last Battlefield game, 2042, and…
The worst thing I’ve ever read was this: “Just make sure you turn the music off before you start.” It was a throwaway forum post around the launch of Nightdive’s System Shock 2 remaster—advice given to a new player asking for tips before their first playthrough. Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member…
Celebrated Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu did not mince words when asked about his stance on using generative AI to make music in a recent interview with JASRAC Magazine. The technology’s experimental use in the arts has already seen the advent of AI “musicians” like The Velvet Sundown, and you might wonder whether a veteran…
Despite the success of Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online hasn’t quite lived up to its potential since bolting from the bounds of beta in mid-2019. That’s not to say it isn’t a good game. With the right mix of players on any populated server, Rockstar’s multiplayer cowboy crime sim is still up there…
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…