As major US tariffs are starting to disrupt manufacturers, Samsung managed to get a small boon as customers bought its memory and phones for fear of tariffs bringing prices up. According to a report by Reuters, Samsung made an estimated operating profit of 6.6 trillion won ($4.47 billion) for the January to March period this…
I like to think I’m a relatively smart person; I can often remember most of my ABCs and it only takes me around five seconds to add seven to something. But one thing will remain forever beyond me: mahjong, the Chinese tile-based game that I mostly know as ‘that one Yakuza minigame I simply don’t…
The Road to Greatness tour is back for 2015, hitting music festivals and live events across the United States with the latest PlayStation experiences. We’re kicking the tour off at Stagecoach again this year and hitting a new location almost every week through November. Take a look at the first few confirmed stops: Event Date…
Valve, we have a problem Some patient PC gamers who waited this long to finally experience Grand Theft Auto V on their platform of choice (Windows PCs) are being asked to wait a little longer, jump through some installation hoops, or receive a refund and move on. At issue is a bug that’s preventing GTA…
Game developer veterans from RPG companies like Obsidian and Bioware say that the temporary death of the CRPG in the early 2000s was down to retailer meddling, as outlined in a series of tweets made just before the holidays. As spotted by GamesRadar, a conversation between Nathaniel Chapman and Josh Sawyer began to discuss the…
Issue #28 – September 2025. And here we are again, entering the last third of the year, kicking furiously to keep our head above the water as the deluge of big new video games washes in. What’s that floating like a flotsam-y life raft on the surface? Why, it’s the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Grab on!…
Resident Evil Requiem developers have made it abundantly clear that this game will be terrifying; no punches have been pulled. Taking its inspiration from Resident Evil 2, Requiem will put players in the unenviable blood-soaked shoes of Grace Ashcroft, but it wasn’t always meant to be like this. The first hint that Requiem was first…
EA has laid off hundreds of employees—reportedly around 300 to 400—across its studios, including around 100 at Respawn Entertainment, developers of Titanfall and Apex Legends. Among the many developers left scrambling in an industry where this has become shockingly routine, one in particular leapt out. Heather Woodward, a now-former narrative designer at Respawn, was laid…
A few weeks ago, I was granted an opportunity one does not pass up: a one-on-one interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki. The famed director of Dark Souls and Bloodborne set aside an hour on the final day of E3 to answer my questions about Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the mysterious new PS4 project currently in development….
Several months ago, Maximum PC ran a story in the January 2015 issue that was called “Maximum PC, Minimum Effort: The lazy guy’s alternative guide to being a tech guru” It was supposed to be a cheeky article about PC maintenance with the occasional satirical twist, but sadly, it didn’t work. What we ended up…