Before you jump down my throat, no, Dominion wasn’t the first tabletop game with deckbuilding in it, with predecessors like StarCraft: The Board Game. Dominion was, however, the first to build an entire game around the mechanic, giving birth to the genre that would hop to PC with Dream Quest, Slay the Spire, Monster Train,…
When Alan Wake 2’s PC requirements were announced last Friday they caused quite the stir amongst the PC gaming community, with some decrying a perceived lack of optimisation and unrealistic hardware expectations as a sign of a troubled release to come. However, those of you running an Nvidia RTX 10-series GPU or even a more…
Top Deal: If you routinely have to call the fire department to come and cool down your rig, it’s time to reevaluate things. The good news is, you don’t need to spend a fortune getting adequate cooling, nor do you have to dabble in liquid if you don’t want to. Just check out today’s top…
A look back at a glittering catalogue. 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! Takashi Tezuka seems like a good laugh, the kind of chap who knows how to have fun. Read the full article on…
“This is obscenely well made”. Starteam’s Sonic Galactic is a fan-made Sonic game which compares very favourably to Sonic Mania, and its latest demo has recently become available for download. As noted by Digital Foundry’s John Linneman, the new demo is astonishingly polished – so much so that you could tell us this was a…
Monster Hunter Wilds hasn’t been out for even a day yet, and already the character customisation is being manipulated in ways I didn’t expect so soon. It was only a matter of time before we saw recreations of characters from TV shows, other games, or even memes and pop culture icons like Ronald McDonald. As…
The leadup to the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows was dogged by a relentless campaign of outrage driven by aggrieved gamers angered over the presence of a Black samurai in Japan. The potential impact of that campaign ahead of the game’s launch was a big question—but then the launch actually happened and by all indications,…
Yes, I know: more AI. Love it or hate it, that’s the way things are going. For us gamers, it started with upscaling, then frame gen, then Multi Frame Gen, and soon, it seems, fully AI-generated frames. At GDC today Nvidia announced that “neural shading support will come to DirectX preview in April, unlocking the…
Diablo 4’s leap to Steam—alongside other games like Overwatch 2—is welcome news to gamers wanting to keep their rigs launcher-slim. Adam Fletcher, the game’s Global Community Development Director, has fully confirmed on Twitter that the game will be coming Steam Deck verified next Tuesday. (Image credit: @PezRadar on Twitter/X) Regrettably, it looks like there won’t…
Download it now from SegaXtreme. A Japanese-exclusive Mobile Suit Gundam game that was originally released all the way back in 1995 has just got a new fan translation after a year and a half of work, as reported by Sega Saturn, Shiro!. Initially developed by CRI and published by Bandai, Mobile Suit Gundam for the…