H2Oh no. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. Enjoy! Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim is reliving a…
Prefer the Red Team over the Green Team? We’ve got your back There was a time when a dozen different companies were selling video cards and vying for your hard-earned cash. But, at least when it comes to gaming, the field has narrowed to just two: Nvidia and AMD. If you’re just doing spreadsheets, surfing…
There’s a scene in Andor—the show that asks what if Star Wars read Gramsci—where the main character observes of the imperial ruling class that all you need is “a uniform, some dirty hands, and an imperial toolkit” to slip beneath the notice of the world’s most powerful people. “They’re so proud of themselves, they don’t…
(Blaze & Blade) Bustin’ makes me feel good. It’s fair to say that Blaze & Blade: Eternal Quest didn’t exactly set the gaming world alight when it launched back in 1998. The reception to this multiplayer action RPG was muted, and NextGen magazine even went as far as to call the PC version “crap in…
Extreme sports sim Descenders Next looked primed to be an impressive follow-up to Ragesquid’s 2019 hit, taking the fundamentals which made Descenders’ downhill biking such a thrill and applying them to snowboarding and mountain-boarding. PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott took it for a spin last year and came away delighted, stating the sequel” adopts all of…
For over two decades, ASRock has been designing and manufacturing motherboards for desktop PCs, workstations, and servers. The first use of the model name Taichi appeared in 2016 with the X99 Taichi, and since then, every new chipset released has been given the Taichi treatment. As part of ASRock’s motherboard range for Intel Core Ultra…
One fun side effect of every live-service FPS updating on similar seasonal schedules is that a few times a year they all decide to go big at the same time. The last big convergence of shooters happened in March, but October is poised to make March look like hot garbage. No matter what form of…
Here at PC Gamer we’re all busy sharing our Steam Replays with each other in Slack, comparing how many games we’ve played, how many ‘cheevos we’ve earned, and how many of us have the word ‘Dwarf’ in our spider graphs—which is at least five of us. The Dwarf genre had a strong 2024! It’s fun…
Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin, the upcoming real-time strategy game with big Dawn of War 2 vibes, will launch with four factions. We’ve already seen the heavily armored Stormcast Eternals, swamp-dwelling Orruk Kruleboyz, and undead Nighthaunt, and now developers Frontier have revealed the mutated and magical Disciples of Tzeentch will round out the…
“A brand new, completely rewritten port”. Published in 1993 for the Sega CD, Vay was one of the few JRPGs for the console to get a Western localisation, and, as a result, it has become something of a cult classic with Sega fans (ourselves included). Developed by Hertz and published by SIMS in Japan, it…