Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects (June 2025)

Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch 2. Well well well — one month with the Switch 2, and we’re still swimming in eShop games. Yep, it’s time for eShop Selects for June 2025! Who needs Mario Kart World when you’ve got backwards compatibility, eh? Just because we have a new console, doesn’t…

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Warren Spector was so desperate to make Deus Ex that it almost became a Command & Conquer RPG: ‘I was going to find a way to make it one way or another, even if it meant making another damn sci-fi game!’

Deus Ex recently celebrated its 25th birthday. But in a parallel universe, PC gamers with eight arms and two heads are commemorating the 25th anniversary of a first-person Command & Conquer game to blow C&C Renegade out of the water. That’s because Warren Spector’s platonic ideal of the immersive sim very nearly became part of…

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Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is gearing up for launch, literally—adding a fully-fledged gear system when it hits 1.0 in September

Dwarfish bullet-heaven spinoff Deep Rock Galactic Survivor is already more hotly sought after than legendary-tier beard oil, having sailed past a million copies sold despite still being deep in the early access mines. Now, Survivor is finally planning to breach the surface of a 1.0 launch, and as detailed by developer Funday Games in a…

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Preservationists discover a ‘nearly complete’ build of a lost Animaniacs game 22 years after it was cancelled, and you can play it right now

Gaming preservation group Hidden Palace has discovered a “nearly complete” prototype of a cancelled game based on Animaniacs, the beloved 90s animated show created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Steven Spielberg. Animaniacs: Hollywood Hypnotics was being developed by UK studio Full Fat Productions, which was also a frequent collaborator with Maxis on series like…

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Rust’s developer is overhauling the survival sim’s mission system so it can create in-game quests faster and more easily: ‘The process to create new missions internally is quite cumbersome and error prone’

Rust’s latest patch may not be as dramatic as its recent jungle update, which added a huge rainforest biome to explore, but it nonetheless makes some important changes to Facepunch’s survival sim. The headline update is a party system allowing players to join servers as a group. This makes playing with your friends slightly easier,…

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