Playing Soulslikes is a pretty standard experience for FromSoftware fans at this point. You spend your first few hours puzzling out the new names for the Estus Flask, Bonfires, Boss Souls, Titanite, and all the well-known mechanics you’ve come to expect from a familiar genre. But perhaps due to the fact that their formula is…
Point taken. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! The Sensor Bar. Flimsy little plastic box with the world’s longest, spindliest cable. An irritation to every Wii owner who has ever had to move their console. What was it…
An upcoming city builder asks the hard, important questions we all like to ask sometimes: What if penguins built a city? Wouldn’t that be cool? United Penguin Kingdom says that yes, in fact, that would be pretty cool. You can try it for free, today, via a demo version on Steam called United Penguin Kingdom:…
Hello there, lovely characters. Back in the day when consoles had fewer bits than humans have fingers, games could mostly get away with providing solid gameplay above all else. Gameplay is still king, of course, but games these days often need to demonstrate other qualities, such as striking visuals, an engaging story, and strong characters….
Several games had to call 2023 their final year as they shut down for good. Some games survived a few years, while others didn’t even make it to one. It’s already hard enough to release a game and now many are expected to be sustainable for several years. But online games don’t last forever, and…
One of my favourite desktop additions over the years has been my high-end audio setup. It’s reasonably high-end, anyways, which I only mention because you can spend about as much money as you would like/can afford to on high-end audio equipment. I’m sure that £50,000 speaker is accurate down to an infinitesimally minute level, but…
A bloomin’ marvellous bit of marketing. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“Machines were considered boys’ stuff and they wanted to bring girls in”. It’s hard to imagine a time before Barbie was a multi-media megastar, but at the start of the ’90s, she had only appeared in one game that had ultimately failed to live up to the expectations of its publisher, Epyx: Barbie (1984) for…
Before you scroll down in a flurry of mouse-wheeling to see if Cities: Skylines 2 is on this list… it’s not. Believe me, it feels weird to say that considering how excited I was to play it, and I’m still optimistic that patches and improvements will make it the game we all hoped it would…
The defining mood of this era of gaming is definitely FOMO. Who’s got the time to play all these games? You don’t have to be a professional writer-about-games to feel it: we are bombarded by new releases and meaningful updates. Even years-old games stage meaningful comebacks. The market isn’t saturated, it’s a broken dam flooding…