Buy up the galaxy. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie goes beyond the cinema with merchandise and much more. Now, to add to the new movie’s launch, Monopoly is back with a new Galaxy-themed board. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Real life is terribad right now. What better way to cope than shedding this reality in favour of becoming worryingly invested in the lives of fake videogame people, watching them cock up a grilled cheese as I ignore the fact I haven’t eaten anything for several hours? Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known…
A standing desk for the rest of us It doesn’t matter where you believe humans came from or what your stance is on evolution, one thing we should all be able to agree on is that we were never meant to sit on our rumps all day long. Studies have shown it’s not healthy, yet…
Stellaris’s recent 4.0 update, which launched alongside the (pretty unpopular) BioGenesis expansion on May 5, finally introduced the concept of babies. Their lack of inclusion previously made plenty of sense, of course. Babies are useless. Especially when it comes to giant space empires. But they are here now, which means a fun new bug has…
Director Paul W. S. Anderson didn’t pioneer the videogame movie adaptation, but in the bad old days he was one of the very few to make decent (and commercially successful) movies out of adapting our blessed medium. I’m not going to say that stuff like Mortal Kombat (1995) or Resident Evil (2002) are high art,…
It’s been three years and 11 months since a Battlefield game came out, and if you ask me, that’s the sweet spot. It was long enough that DICE’s last entry, Battlefield 2042, had time to live up to its potential (eventually), and not so short a gap that the coming of a new Battlefield is…
Alien Isolation has finally launched on the Nintendo Switch and the 2014 original on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One certainly received its fair share of praise from horror fans. Digital Foundry has recently gone hands-on with the newly released Switch version (which is available right now on the eShop) and have come away impressed…
Slippery slope. Gosh, you can really feel Nintendo’s distinct lack of output at the moment, huh? With the Switch 2 on the horizon and nothing of particular significance now until Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on 20th March, the UK Charts is mostly comprised of evergreen titles. Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is hanging in…
Following a slight delay. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for the Nintendo Switch will be getting their next update tomorrow on 1st February 2024. The release date of Version 3.0.1 was confirmed in a brief post on social media by the official Pokémon account. It was meant to be distributed in “late January”, so this is…
Prepare for launch. Shmup fans, rejoice! Konami flew into today’s Nintendo Direct showcase to reveal Gradius Origins, an upcoming shoot ’em up collection that will be blasting onto Switch on 7th August. The Origins bundle gathers together some of the biggest names in the Gradius series, with the original Gradius trilogy, the Salamander duo and…