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Nintendo’s official Indie World Twitter account has taken a look at the best-selling indie games on the Nintendo Switch platform during 2020 and featured them in a new video. There have been a wealth of creative and innovative games which have helped push the boundaries of storytelling and gameplay at affordable prices. The titles chosen

The alpha of a game is always an interesting thing to see. It’s sort of like looking at a painting from far away. You can vaguely make out what it’s supposed to be but those small details haven’t come into frame yet. You assume they mean very little for the overall perception of the painting

Hello, Xbox fans! The end of the year is upon us and the Countdown Sale is here to offer you great deals on a wide variety of exciting Electronic Arts games. To make this deal even better, from December 23 to 28, we have a special gift for you: Purchase any edition of Madden NFL

Goodbye Volcano High might not look like a graphically-intensive game, but its visual effects and art do put a strain on older hardware, which developer KO_OP is glad is not the case with the PlayStation 5. Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine (via GamesRadar), Creative Director Saleem Dabbous revealed that the PS5’s hardware allows developers to

Hey Pilots! The time is finally here to enter the arena and start your journey to the top in Override 2: Super Mech League. At Modus Games, we’re extremely excited to welcome returning fans and newcomers to the series with today’s launch.  Play Video The 3D competitive arena brawler returns with 20 distinctly devastating mechs,

We’ve told you what we think are the best PC games of 2020 (well, as many as we could fit), but what about cold, hard business? For folks who want metrics and money, Valve have revealed the best-selling games on Steam of 2020. They’re a bit vague about it, mind. Valve avoid giving numbers or

Yakuza is a longstanding franchise that has always featured Kazuma Kiryu front and center, but Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio decided to take an entirely different approach to the future of the franchise with a new hero. While Yakuza: Like a Dragon absolutely stays true to the heart of the series, balancing heavy themes and hilarious

By Tom Orry, Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:50 GMT That’s your lot from VG247 this year. Have a good holiday, everyone. Image credit: funny.pho.to It’s that special time of the year when work stops. Team VG247 is signing off for the rest of 2020 as we all take a well-earned holiday. We’ll return on January

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A new gaming laptop has leaked via a German electronics retailer. That in and of itself is not unusual, but the specs of the leaked computer are interesting. The new variant of Acer’s Nitro 5 has an AMD Ryzen 7

Over the holiday season we’ll be republishing a series of Nintendo Life articles, interviews and other features from the previous twelve months that we consider to be our Best of 2020. Hopefully, this will give you a chance to catch up on pieces you missed, or simply enjoy looking back on a year which did

Nintendo has announced this morning that the next stop in Mario Kart Tour will be the New Year 2021 Tour. The event will begin on Tuesday, 29th December at 10pm PT / 6am UK time. The company has announced that flying Koopa Lakitu will be present in the New Year’s 2021 Tour and you can

What’s better than enjoying your favourite sport being brought to life in a game? Indulging in three sports at once, of course, which is a possibility created by Super Sports Blast bringing three arcade style offerings packaged together for a launch on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch. So, grab a racket,

This holiday season, the action-adventure film “Wonder Woman 1984” is teaming up with Xbox and Gamers Outreach to create 10 unique Gamers Outreach (GO) Karts, featuring the new Xbox Series S along with two custom Xbox Wireless Controllers inspired by the movie. Each of these GO Karts will be placed in children’s hospitals across the

CD Projekt RED has rolled out another Cyberpunk 2077 hotfix ahead of Christmas, which should make the game crash less on consoles. Full patch notes are as follows: Quests Dum Dum will no longer go missing from Totentanz entrance during Second Conflict. Console-specific Improved memory management and stability, resulting in fewer crashes. PC-specific Removed the 8

Hello everyone! PS5 has arrived and with it, an amazing slate of launch titles. I’ve been hopping back and forth between games like Demon’s Souls, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and of course wonderful indie titles like The Pathless and Bugsnax. It’s an embarrassment of riches, an overwhelming feeling that there are way more great games

The huge new 1.5 update to beloved farming town simulation Stardew Valley surprise launched this week. I already told you about on Wednesday, but I’ve played a good several hours of it now so I’m going to tell you more about it because gosh it’s so good. The new beach farm is worth starting a

In an investor report released today by CD Projekt Red, it was disclosed that Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over thirteen million copies of the game as of December 20. The figure tracks both physical and digital sales across all platforms where the game is available. The number also factors in some of the refunds for

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 18:06 GMT Gaben is coming for your wallet.  The Steam Winter Sale has finally gone live. Though you’ll probably struggle to get on Valve’s storefront right now, users can expect huge savings on a variety of games from across the platform’s library. It’s normally the case that Steam’s

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Gamers around the world spend eight years waiting for CD Projekt Red to release Cyberpunk 2077. CDPR is coming off a massive success with The Witcher 3, and the Cyberpunk trailers made the game look incredible. No game could live

The long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.5 update is now available for PC players and the game’s creator, Concerned Ape, has announced that it will be coming to the Nintendo Switch early next year. In an informative blog post on the game’s official website, Concerned Ape says that the 1.5 update is the biggest update yet for

It’s previously launched on Nintendo Switch and it’s had a good old outing on PlayStation 4. Now though Spirit of the North is coming to Xbox Series X|S with an Enhanced Edition due to drop in early 2021.  A casual third person adventure that plays with some stunning visuals, Spirit of the North: Enhanced Edition

The Holidays are upon us and World of Warships: Legends is bringing a bunch of events and the legendary battleship Massachusetts just in time for the occasion. There’s plenty of things to get stuck into, including a new season of Ranked Battles, a special Bureau Project, and more. The highlight of the update is undoubtably

When my wife first saw me playing Monster Train she thought I’d gotten hooked on Slay The Spire again and she’d have to put up with another stretch of me playing it incessantly. I had good news and bad news for her: the good news is that, despite also being a colorful and cartoony game

Lawyers in CD Projekt RED’s home country Poland are considering filing a class-action lawsuit against the developer for “misrepresentation” of Cyberpunk 2077 “in order to receive financial benefits.” An article published in The New York Times first revealed that lawyers as well as investors unhappy with the situation are considering their legal options, and things are

Sometimes, video game music transcends its original purpose as a soundtrack. A quick glance at the numbers on any music streaming service is testament that certain scores haunt players long after they have finished a game. In my case, Nier achieved the opposite. I was enthralled by its soundtrack before I’d even played the game.

This is the RPS Advent Calendar, in which we reveal one of our favourite PC games of 2020 on each day. Head back to the calendar to open another door. To open the twentieth door on the RPS Advent Calendar you’re going to need to squad up with some of your best buddies, strap on

We’ve been waiting a long time to see what Nintendo and Universal Studios Japan has in store for fans when Super Nintendo World opens its doors in 2021, and during a special Nintendo Direct video, we got a glimpse at the soon-to-open theme park area. In the video below, you can join legendary game designer

I thought Astro’s Playroom was going to be a throwaway pack-in title. I was wrong. Given that the PS5 had big hitters Spider-Man Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls arrive alongside it, Astro’s Playroom being my favorite launch game is hugely surprising. I figured it would be a gimmick-fest: a few bleeps and bloops out of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has added another exclusive to its own stable of games. Ark II, the sequel to the hottest bug simulator of the 2010s and starring Vin Diesel, will apparently debut as an Xbox exclusive, though it’s probably time-limited as opposed