For an awful lot of years, Pete Hines was the face of Bethesda Softworks: For game journalists first, as the company’s marketing and PR guy, and later the public at large, when Bethesda started holding its own standalone showcases at E3. In terms of public awareness, he was pretty much the number-two guy behind Todd…
In late February, Helldivers 2 players suffered their greatest defeat so far in the game’s simulated Galactic War, as the community’s favourite planet Malevelon Creek fell to synthetic armies of the Automaton faction. Now, players are flocking back to the celestial heart of the game, as a new Major Order demands democracy be returned to…
The latest game from Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield is coming to early access on March 11, says development studio The Tea Division. Vanguard Exiles is a collaboration between Garfield and the studio, an autobattler that it says is “revolutionary” in the genre and will be “a competitive strategy gameplay experience unlike any other,…
Although CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Badowski says it’s all a front, the grumpiness of Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski is legendary. This is the guy whose advice to novice writers was “Learn something that is worth doing. For example, repairing computers. That makes money. Forget about writing, it’s [a] hard business.” And as for his…
According to the Financial Times, Nvidia and AMD have joined together in an unprecedented trade agreement that will see them pay the US government 15% of revenue from their chip sales in China. In return, the two tech giants will gain the export licenses they need to sell semiconductors in the Chinese Market. It’s specifically…
Let’s use the Lens of Truth. He’s waiting for his chance We were fortunate enough to have spent the past few days at Epic Universe, a brand-new Universal theme park located in Orlando, Florida. There’s no surprise that Super Nintendo World is the portion that had our full attention, and we’re happy to report it…
Are You Sold? On the eve of Nintendo Switch 2’s global launch (OK, technically it’s already the 5th in some locations), there is one burning question we have for you, the Nintendo Life audience: Will you be buying a Nintendo Switch 2? It’s fair to say that Nintendo Switch 2 seems about the “safest” console…
In the midst of the AI feeding frenzy, have you ever looked upon the fluctuating stock charts of big tech’s major players and thought, “Yo, I bet that would be a sick dirt bike track,”? Really, just me? Well, I know for a fact this is not a wholly original brain wave as StonkRider exists….
Capcom has revealed when we’ll finally be able to take on our first Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter Wilds during this week’s State of Play Japan, though I’m more interested in the mysterious performance improvements the developer is promising will arrive along with it. Gogmazios was teased back during September’s Tokyo Game Show, in what’s…
The two developers behind Dead Cells are making the next Castlevania, so of course it’s going to be a roguelike, right? Actually, no. Despite Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s pedigree, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is going to be a bit more traditional in that it’s a 2D action-exploration romp without roguelike mechanics. This was confirmed by…