I’ve changed my routine. Before now, my universal approach to combat in a no-guns GTA 5 Story Mode run was pretty straightforward. With the odds invariably weighed in my opponent’s favour – simply because, you know, they have firearms and I don’t – putting obstacles between myself and their line of fire was a given….
69 outstanding video games. Last November, Nintendo Life turned 20 and since then we’ve been looking back over two decades-worth of Nintendo coverage. In that time, we’ve built up an enormous repository of reviews and today we’re going to look back on every single game we’ve awarded an NL 10 since the site began. There’s…
Birmingham (that’s the city in England, not the Alabama one) went through the ultimate crossover episode two weeks ago when three conventions descended upon a single venue: DreamHack ventured across the channel for its UK debut, MegaCon returned for all things anime and pop culture, and bodybuilding show Arnold Sports Festival served as the unintentional…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall, founder of New Zealand-based studio RocketWerkz, first…
Liquid Swords has been open about the development difficulties it has encountered with Samson, its newly released open-world crime game that adds a roguelike spin to Grand Theft Auto’s loop of driving and fighting. The studio led by Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg “laid off half the team” last year, forcing them to rework Samson…
Far Cry 2 review – PC Gamer issue #193 (UK, November 2008) Need to know What is it? A beautiful, free-roaming, utterly absorbing FPS Release date: October 24, 2008 Expect to pay: $50/£30 Developer: Ubisoft Publisher: Ubisoft Reviewed on: An old computer Steam Deck: Playable Link: Official site By Tim Edwards The key to Far…
Ubisoft has revealed that city-building sequel Anno 117: Pax Romana will get its first DLC later this month. Prophecies of Ash will add the largest island featured in the series yet, one that happens to be loomed over by a massive volcano. Because why bother building a Roman city without the risk of a natural…
The Planet Crafter is a survival game that goes way beyond the traditional remit of the genre. You’re not trying to stay alive by building campfires and hunting animals and smashing together a rock and a stick to make a pickaxe appear in your inventory. Rather than bending to suit the world, you bend the…
A lot has happened in the world of Soulmask in the last week. The survival game where you oversee a tribe of independently minded individuals released out of early access with an update that developer CampFire Studio says represents “a complete reinvention of the game.” This launch coincided with the release of an Ancient Egypt-themed…
Getting Game Freaky. We hope you’re ready for another clash of covers, because it’s time for this week’s Box Art Brawl! Last time, thanks to a certain Super Mario Galaxy Movie appearance, we took a look at Star Fox: Assault for the GameCube. While the grey Japanese cover put up a good fight, it was…