With videogame budgets ballooning and competition ever intensifying there’s a huge amount riding on whether a modern videogame succeeds or fails. As such, publishers are increasingly turning to the safest bets possible, like sequels in proven series or shiny remakes of classic games. It’s the exact strategy that Xbox has said it’s falling back on…
Things haven’t looked great for Dragon Age since its latest entry, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released to a mixed critical and muted commercial response back in 2024. EA subsequently laid off dozens of BioWare’s staff, and numerous former developers have recently said they believe the series is probably dead. Yet, while there’s little hope…
“As with all games from that era, time was our enemy”. Everyone has a movie that is their guilty pleasure, and for me, it’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Much has been written about Kevin Costner’s infamous accent, the wholesale historical inaccuracies and the fact that the movie inflicted a record-breaking top-of-the-chart run for Bryan…
Can I get a Booyah? It’s easy to forget that Splatoon isn’t Nintendo’s new kid on the block any more. The series started as a bold swing on Wii U in 2015 – a brand new IP in a genre that Nintendo historically hadn’t touched, released solely on its worst-selling console since the Virtual Boy….
James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: recovering from testing Halo: Campaign Evolved and playing far too much The Binding of Isaac. I have an experiment for you. Right now, as you stare at this article on a phone, monitor, PS Vita, whatever, spin your head around. Oh, probably don’t do…
Students of first-person shooter history will likely know that the technology Half-Life runs on—GoldSrc—is a heavily modified version of the Quake engine. It’s one of many, many branches of id-tech’s ancient technological tree. Indeed, you’ll still find tiny fragments of Quake code in Valve’s modern successor to GoldSrc—Source 2. Now, nearly three decades on from…
Poké Preparations. The weekend is here, and all of us are hungry for a spot of gaming. It was a reasonably quiet week in the world of Nintendo this time. We finally got a release date for ‘Part 1’ of the Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass and our first look at ‘Part 2’, Nintendo announced Super…
It’s hard to topple a giant and make no mistake, “Wii Sports” is a monster of humongous proportions. The best selling game of all time, “Wii Sports” changed video gaming forever and seven years later on the Wii U, “Wii Sports Club” makes those classic games even better. Buyer beware however- your wallet may hurt…
Ahead of a service update next week. Following the news that two previously unreleased Virtual Boy titles would be joining the ‘Nintendo Classics’ service next week, Nintendo has now announced a limited-time discount on its cardboard headset in select locations. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Rebooting… Screamer, the arcade-style racing game set in an anime-inspired dystopian world, could be on its way to Switch 2 in the future. A rating has been spotted on the USK in Germany for a Nintendo version of the game. This “high-speed” game, which is filled with “merciless combat and a gripping storyline”, launched on…