It always bugged me that you couldn’t save the scientists in Half-Life. You’d be trundling through some grey corridor in the bowels of Black Mesa, with one or two or maybe even three lab coat wearing boffins behind you, when they’d suddenly stop for no obvious reason, announcing: “This is as far as I go!”…
Fight night. The weekend is finally upon us, so it’s time for another edition of What Are You Playing! We thought that things might slow down a little after last week’s Galaxy Movie extravaganza, but nooo. We got a new Pokémon game in the shape of Pokémon Champions (complete with bugs and unusual resolution quirks),…
“Finish first by any means necessary”. If you enjoy golf video games but would like them to be a bit more chaotic, Super Battle Golf by Brimstone Games might be worth checking out when it launches for the Switch 2 and multiple other consoles. It will hit the green in “Summer 2026” and offers up…
Here’s what the critics think. The new “free-to-start” battle game Pokémon Champions launched for the Switch this week and critics have now had their say. Starting with our own review here on Nintendo Life, we said this new title was the most accessible but flawed competitive Pokémon has ever been, awarding it five out of…
Including standard and Immortal Editions. In case you missed it, Ubisoft’s 2D roguelite The Rogue Prince of Persia gets a physical release on Switch 1 and 2 this week. The standard edition is available for $34.99 USD (or your regional equivalent) and the Immortal Edition (including a copy of the game, SteelBook, a poster and…
If there’s one thing that the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling was known for in the 1990s, it was wasting absolutely colossal amounts of billionaire Ted Turner’s cash. You could say that the media mogul could afford it, but WCW’s spendthrift ways were because it was always something of a vanity project: Turner made his name…
Get to know Clint (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Birthday: Winter 26Occupation: BlacksmithLocation: Pelican Town SmithyLoves: Artichoke Dip, rare gemsDislikes: Unrefined Ore, Flowers Clint is one of two new marriage candidates planned for the next big Stardew Valley update, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait to befriend Pelican Town’s resident blacksmith. He’s available to visit…
In the 2026 edition of his yearly games industry report, market analyst Matthew Ball shared a sobering statistic: Since 2021, Roblox has been responsible for over 60% of the games industry’s net growth in consumer spending outside of China. Evidently, Roblox thinks those are rookie numbers. Today, Roblox announced Roblox Plus, a new subscription plan…
The US government is once again posting videos targeting gamers, but in a surprising twist it’s not using them to promote wars of aggression or gutter racism. Instead, it’s hoping to convince them to sign up to become air traffic controllers. “YOU can be the future of air traffic control,” US secretary of transportation Sean…
For an awful lot of years, Pete Hines was the face of Bethesda Softworks: For game journalists first, as the company’s marketing and PR guy, and later the public at large, when Bethesda started holding its own standalone showcases at E3. In terms of public awareness, he was pretty much the number-two guy behind Todd…