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Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life If you’re currently knee-deep in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, then chances are you’re utterly obsessed with getting as many heart containers as possible. These are a traditional goal in all Zelda games, and with good reason – the more you have, the more punishment Link can take. In

2023 has been a busy year for Nintendo, and it isn’t just because of new games and downloadable content. Nintendo has been releasing a slow but steady stream of updates to their various games. That said, it was only a matter of time before The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom continued that trend.

Now that Spring has sprung in Series 20 of the Festival Playlist Weekly Challenges, the series of High Performance in Forza Horizon 5 is about to draw to a close. Hopefully, we should have some fun times ahead of us in the Hot Season in Mexico. Well, if there are new events to try out,

Need a reason to stay inside this weekend? Free Play Days is back with four titles to explore, plus you can celebrate all things Warhammer with two titles featured in the Warhammer Skulls Festival!  XCOM 2, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr Ultimate Edition, and Warhammer: Chaosbane Slayer Edition Xbox Series

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers have a lot to chew on in the May 2023 lineup. It can be a lot to sift through, though, as some of these games are a little on the longer side. Here are the best PS Plus May 2023 games to focus on for Extra and Premium subscribers.

We’re thrilled to announce the return of an exciting tournament for fighting game fans, FGC Arcade PlayStation Tournaments: Road to Evo on PS4. The tournament offers gamers worldwide a chance to win cash prizes, and winners across each region will get a roundtrip ticket to compete in Evo 2023. We invite all players who want

My ever-growing backlog of farmlife sims gives me a judgemental side-eye every week, as I crawl back to my scarily silent husband in Stardew Valley. That list of Stardew-likes is becoming harder and harder to ignore, though. I’m very much looking forward to Grave Seasons (aka Stardew meets murder mysteries). I was looking forward to

During a developer livestream today, Blizzard revealed its roadmap for the coming months. The roadmap, which was presented by game director Aaron Keller and executive producer Jared Neuss, details what is coming during Season 5, 6, 7, and beyond. In addition to PvP updates, the Overwatch 2 developers also gave us an idea of when

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a bunch of new abilities for you to try out and experiment with, so here’s a few cool things that Fuse can do! Spoilers ahead! Link has been tasked with a brand new adventure in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and new adventures need new powers,

Image: Nintendo Life Nintendo has made a rather lovely-looking Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom keychain available as a reward through My Nintendo. Costing 600 Platinum Points in Europe and 550 Platinum Points in North America (plus postage cost), the keychain comes in at 5cm in diameter and is made from zinc alloy. Best

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been available to play on the Nintendo Switch for a few days now. Because of this, it was only a matter of time before sales data for the game would be coming in. Sure enough, some sales data came in for the UK yesterday, and now

In order to stand out in the crowded point-and-click adventure sector, you have to come up with something that’s completely different and rather unconventional. As luck would have it for Smile For Me developers LimboLane, unconventional is at the core of their game’s DNA. But does that mean Smile For Me is going to put

The Molasses Flood, a CD Projekt RED studio working on The Witcher spin-off with multiplayer, has been hit with layoffs. A number of developers revealed on Twitter that they were let go last week, but CDPR has yet to make a statement on the matter. The Witcher multiplayer project recently underwent “re-evaluation” The Molasses Flood,

MLB The Show 23’s Season 2 Rewards Program drops today*, bringing an amazing array of new content including, but definitely not limited to, the Kaiju Series.  Inspired by the Kaiju, or “Strange Beast,” film genre, the Kaiju Series features some of the most devastatingly effective MLB Legends and Superstars of the past and present, such

Samsung’s 870 Qvo SSD is one of the best options for high-capacity solid state storage, with a simple 2.5-inch form factor that doesn’t take up a valuable M.2 or PCIe slot and a fast-enough SATA connection. While performance is good, at up to 550MB/s for reads and a little less for writes, the real benefit

We know Mortal Kombat 12 is apparently coming sometime this year, and Ed Boon is stoking the fires of excitement by seemingly teasing an impending announcement. In a Warner Bros. Discovery earnings call in February, CEO David Zaslav told investors that Mortal Kombat 12 was planned for release this year. Initially, Boon didn’t confirm or

Players are quickly demonstrating that just like in Breath of the Wild, there’s no “correct” way to play The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. One of the best parts of Breath of the Wild was that there was no one way that you had to do any particular thing. Sure, there were obvious

Image: Nintendo Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Lowell ruminates on the perfect end to a glorious Nintendo generation… When looking back at a console’s lifespan, there’s always a game that heralded The End before the successor arrived.

Details on Pikmin 4 are surprisingly light despite the game launching on the Nintendo Switch family of systems in July. Nintendo has recently sent out a survey to a select number of people asking them their thoughts on the long-running series and the survey mentions “delving into puzzle-filled caves, and carefully managing your resources until

Marvel’s Midnight Suns Blood Storm content Previously only available on PC and new-gen Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 consoles, Firaxis’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns is now compatible with older-gen consoles too, with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 folk gaining access to the base game and everything else that accompanies it, including the newly released Blood

Amnesia: The Bunker is Frictional Games’ next entry in the acclaimed horror series and was initially scheduled for March 2023. It slipped a few times after that reveal, and now the team has announced yet another Amnesia: The Bunker delay. The new Amnesia: The Bunker release date is on June 6 on PlayStation 4 (no

Luffy and the Straw Hats must uncover one final hidden mystery in the upcoming DLC, Reunion of Memories.  After their adventure on Waford, Luffy and the Straw Hats decide to enjoy a banquet where they are suddenly approached by a girl, clothed in black, bearing a striking resemblance to Lim.  She then uses the power

This is The Rally Point, a regular column where the inimitable Sin Vega delves deep into strategy gaming. The worst part about strategy games is the shuffling. I give up on most 4Xs in the midgame, because shuffling more icons around is too wearying. No Total War since Medieval has truly enraptured me, because pathfinding

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its official selection of video games nominated for the Tribeca Games Award.  This is only the third year that games have been recognized at the annual film festival. The event highlights upcoming titles, which have generally been smaller budget/indie works, that have “potential for excellence in art and storytelling

It’s no news that Mortal Kombat 12 is reportedly arriving during 2023, given that it was accidentally detailed during a Warner Bros. Discovery call to investors a few months back. Alas, it’s now become clear that it might not be Mortal Kombat 12 that we’re specifically in receipt of.It is almost time.Source, Bilbil-Kun, who has

Image: Inti Creates If you’re eager for more Gunvolt games, you might be waiting a while – with Inti Creates CEO Takuya Aizu revealing the Japanese developer will be taking a break from the series. In response to a fan asking about future Gunvolt projects, Aizu revealed the series had come to a close “for

One thing that was a major source of criticism in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was that there were no dungeons. Instead, they were replaced by the Divine Beasts. However, the final pre-launch trailer of Breath of the Wild’s sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, contained some very brief

The name alone may be enough to put many off, but if you’re looking to fight for your life through a new Souls-like affair, then Boss Rush: Mythology may just be for you.  Available right now to purchase and download on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S (optimised), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC is Boss

Even though PlayStation VR was made for PlayStation 4, it is possible to use it on a PC after some light tinkering. However, the same can’t be said for PlayStation VR2 since one of the developers looking into a PSVR2 PC driver that would enable such functionality is walking away from the project for the

The year we formed Guerrilla, 2003, was an interesting time for gaming. The PlayStation 2 had launched three years earlier to critical acclaim. People were losing their minds over the technological feats being achieved with all the power it offered (six whole GFLOPS!). Early days of development Meanwhile, we were working hard in the Netherlands