The seas have been choppy of late for live services games looking to make a name for themselves, with most of them sinking forlornly to the bottom of the Steam charts. Skull and Bones is one such game that seems to be heading in that direction. It’s not that it’s bad exactly, as corroborated by…
Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks was part of a set of sweeping layoffs that shocked the industry earlier this year, least of all because the studio’s last game, Hi-Fi Rush, was pretty much a success by most metrics, winning awards, a “breakout hit by all key measurements and expectations”, according to Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg. Cue…
Go gold in 2025. We’ll let you in on a little secret. Here at Nintendo Life, and indeed the wider Hookshot family, we often wish one another a happy ‘Curry Friday’ at the end of the working week. Y’see, we bloomin’ love curry. Do we love it enough to play a game in which you…
“I always believed that games can record people’s life and spread love”. Losing a loved one is a hard experience and an event that everyone deals with in a different way. For developer Zhou Yichen, the best way to deal with that grief was to create a Game Boy title which pays tribute to his…
Stalker 2’s landing on PC last month probably went about as expected. The game has been through more than a decade of development hell, exacerbated by the all-too real hell of war in its home country. Combine that with the Stalker series’ track record of brilliant yet bug-filled games, and Stalker 2 wound up, in…
The Metroidvania is available now on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC. Elden Pixels, the developer of the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC Metroidvania Alwa’s Legacy, has expressed an interest in bringing the game to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis in a recent post on social media. Previously, the company has already created an 8-bit…
Balatro has been hit with an 18+ rating by PEGI, a European age rating system that’s used in more than 35 countries, over its allusions to real-world gambling. The game’s developer, LocalThunk, spoke out about the decision earlier this week—and has since contacted PEGI over the choice to lay down the law on a funny…
Well I Neva. Neva, the poetic platformer from GRIS developer Nomada Studio, has landed a “major” accessibility update that adds a boatload of new features to spread the game’s appeal even further. Naturally, accessibility appears to be the key focus here, with Nomada tweaking some platforming sections, making the game’s three chase sequences completely skippable,…
Undecided on your gaming plans for the holidays? Let PlayStation Store help with a sleigh-full of discounted delights! We’re rounding off 2024 with one of the biggest promotions of the year, featuring numerous games and DLC, all reduced for a limited time*. That includes the likes of EA Sports FC 25, Call of Duty: Black…