When I look at the trajectory of the Yakuza series over the last decade I feel dizzy. Yakuza 0 released 10 years ago and is arguably the game that catapulted the series from cult awareness to mainstream success in the west. The following year, in 2016, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio released Yakuza 6, which was…
March is going to be an exciting month. Nintendo is gearing up for a massive year with the upcoming ‘Switch 2 Direct broadcast’ but as we keep saying here on Nintendo Life, it’s not done with its original hybrid system just yet. It seems we’ll be getting a solid list of offerings throughout 2025 and…
Warhorse Studios is auctioning off a trio of autographed Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 collector’s editions for charity—one each for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S—and if you’re interested I hope your wallet is fat, because bidding has already exceeded $3,500. The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 CE is pretty sweet in its own right. It…
Like just about everything MrBeast does, his show on Prime Video, Beast Games, was big. The Squid Game-like show in which 1,000 contestants competed for $10 million became Amazon’s most watched unscripted series ever, with 50 million viewers in the month it began streaming. That $10 million cash prize was the biggest in game show…
Announced in October 2024, Pathologic 3 promises to blend the notorious weirdness of the Pathologic series with a new twist: Time travel, enabling players to “revisit key events and alter them” in hopes that things will turn out slightly less awful than they did the first time around. We still don’t have a release date,…
The opening hours of Monster Hunter Wilds are a shotgun blast of new information for returning hunters. Before I had even a handful of hunts under my belt, Capcom had dazzled me with cool quality-of-life upgrades like Seikrets, base camps, weapon holsters, makeshift camps, and seamless quest creation. “This is so much faster,” I thought….
Back in July 2024, former Piranha Bytes creative director Björn Pankratz and his wife, game designer Jennifer Pankratz, launched a new indie outfit called Pithead Studio, which they said would enable them to “keep doing what we love.” Today we got our first look at what that is, and I am—with all appropriate caution engaged—very…
Just a month after Warner Bros. Games chief David Haddad announced that he’s stepping down after 12 years in the role, the company is closing its Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego studios, and cancelling the Wonder Woman game first revealed in 2021. The closures, first reported by Bloomberg, were confirmed by…
I enjoy The Sims most when it’s ruining my day with random events and today The Sims 4 is bringing back one of the greats: the burglar. After a not-so-sneaky teaser this week The Sims 4 has dropped a base game update which, among a list of bug fixes, also adds a unique new thief…