The eternal question. The term “Metroidvania” has become a fixed part of video game lexicon these days, thanks to an explosion in the number of titles that have adopted the signature format of huge, non-linear levels, RPG elements and gear-gated progress. As the name suggests, Metroidvania titles are a fusion of concepts from Metroid (specifically…
It’s no Fiorentina jersey, but it’s something. Nintendo has a long history of sponsoring professional sports teams, and one club it’s continued to support over the years is the Japanese football side, Kyoto Sanga, which currently competes in Japan’s top-flight competition known as the J-League. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
And preserve your save data, too. The Analogue Pocket is an FPGA-based handheld which allows you to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges – as well as Lynx, PC Engine, Neo Geo Pocket and Game Gear titles, provided you have the correct adapter. Thanks to Analogue’s OpenFPGA system, you can…
“I can’t really play it now though”. Hideo Kojima has rightly cemented himself as a legend in the games industry, having created iconic titles such as Metal Gear Solid, P.T., and Death Stranding. Although it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise, however, Kojima cites Super Mario Bros. as the reason he started making games in…
Mega Gyarados and Charizard Y join the fray. A major game update for the free-to-play Switch and mobile title Pokémon Unite was released earlier this month. Now, before we get to the end of the year, the development team has added Mega Charizard Y. This follows Mega Gyarados, which joined the fray earlier this month….
It’s now sold over six million copies. Square Enix released the HD-2D RPG Octopath Traveler 0 on the Switch and Switch 2 earlier this month. Now, following this, it has provided an update about the lifetime sales of the series – revealing it has now sold over six million copies worldwide. This follows a sales…
Download it now. Nintendo has released a new update for Donkey Kong Bananza on the Switch 2, bumping it up to Version 3.0.0. This is the first update since October. This one adds Thai as a supported language and you now also have the ability to set the camera’s automatic tracking to ‘on’ or ‘off’…
“According to an internal GameStop memo”. If you’ve got your eyes on the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, you might want to get it sooner rather than later, as it’s not going to be around forever. Following a reminder from Nintendo earlier this month that it’s still only available in “limited quantities”, a GameStop…
“Season ruined,” Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Fallout: New Vegas) declared on BlueSky alongside a clip from Stranger Things’ recently released fifth season. In the video, Finn Wolfhard’s Mike Wheeler expounds on the power of Dungeons & Dragons’ Cleric class—specifically AD&D 1st Edition’s Cleric. “Even cooler, she can cast a Dimension Door,” Wheeler…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…