I’m as guilty as anyone for hammering the skip button when a videogame’s credits begin to roll, but I acknowledge that a scrolling list of names is an important part of the game. At a time when layoffs abound, projects are cancelled at a moment’s notice, and work in the games industry is more difficult…
If you’re new to PCs, you may have wondered at some point why your Windows desktop wallpaper is just so static. After all, since it’s being displayed by the GPU, then surely it could be animated in some way? Well, wonder no more, because after first offering the functionality in 2007, before promptly removing it…
Remedy’s imaginative yet muddled shooter FBC: Firebreak is spooling up for a major update in September, one which will add a new mission to the game and plans several much-needed mechanical adjustments. But in the meantime, the cooperative Control spinoff has released one last quality-of-life patch to set the stage for next month. Patch 1.5…
Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team’s next step after a successful Silent Hill 2 remake, and it’s all on them this time. While there may be no original source material to work off, the devs aren’t straying too far. Cronos is set to be a survival horror game; an incredibly gruelling one by the…
Textures & models from the Xbox version are now being imported. It’s not been that long since a group of Dreamcast fan developers, led by SKMP, banded together to produce unofficial ports of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. But already, it appears that someone has begun releasing new mods for…
“I am a huge Katsuhiro Otomo fan”. If you’ve played the cult classic Neo Geo shooter Last Resort, then you’ll almost certainly have noticed that the opening level’s cityscape is very similar to the one seen in Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal 1988 anime, Akira. It’s one of the many instances where popular media has inspired video…
WE HAVE EXPANDED TO A MASSIVE 100,000 SQ FT SHOW FLOOR FOR THIS YEAR’S EVENT!! The Pinball Expo will be expanding its show floor to 100,000 sq. ft. and celebrating its 40th year as the longest running pinball show. The event, which takes place Oct. 17-19th, will be combining forces with Video Game Summit, which…
The Monster Hunter series is hitting new heights – literally! – with MONSTER HUNTER RISE, a new entry in the storied series, headed to the Nintendo Switch system on March 26, 2021. In this new game, players will possess the ability to rise above the world, using special creatures to scale cliffs and vault high…
Is that… Wart? You thought that the barrage of posters we’ve already had for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was probably enough, didn’t you? Well, surprise! Nintendo and Illumination have got another one for us! Yes, accompanying the announcement of next week’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct (which we’re pretty sure just means ‘another trailer…
Here’s what the critics think. Nintendo is launching its Virtual Boy- Nintendo Classics digital library for the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service later this month, and the previews are now in. First up are our own impressions from Nintendo Life staff writer Ollie Reynolds: Read the full article on nintendolife.com