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Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Zion speaks about his feelings after attending The Game Awards 2023, and why the show needs to do better at celebrating game developers. When you first

The latest boxed-video game charts are now in from the biggest gaming market in Europe, the United Kingdom. This week sees one new game crack the top ten and it is Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora which entered the charts at No.5. Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder continues to impress on the sales front as

There should be a word in the English language for games like Born of Bread. It’s so much easier to catalogue its flaws – and by golly it has a bread bin full of them – than it is to capture its joys. But it manages to be so endearing that we spent most of

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the

Hello Games is giving players who missed this year’s No Man’s Sky Expeditions another chance to enjoy the free add-ons, with all three being rerun for a limited time over the coming weeks. For gamers who missed out on these Expeditions when they first appeared in No Man’s Sky earlier this year, this is a

32 inches. That’s what I’m looking for in a gaming monitor, but normally screens of this size are just expensive. As you may have guessed from the title though, you can pick up a 32-inch LG gaming monitor for just $187 today, nearly half its original price. That’s a wicked deal for the LG 32GN600,

The Game Awards 2023 was full of announcements big and small, so if you’re having trouble keeping track of them all, we’ve gathered up all our stories here in one place. You can also check out the full list of award winners here. Let us know which announcement excited you most in the comments! Brothers:

A new batch of Nintendo 64 games has been added to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion library. The games are 1080° Snowboarding, Jet Force Gemini, and Harvest Moon 64. Nintendo 64 – December 2023 Game Updates In Harvest Moon 64, you’ve inherited your grandfather’s farm near Flower Bud village. As the new farmer in

Although Nintendo doesn’t appear to be adding any new content to Super Mario Bros. Wonder any time soon, certain mods out there have been adding all sorts of weird and wonderful things to the new Switch entry. One mod, in particular, as highlighted by Nintendo Everything is a new “Women of Wonder” mod created by

Now that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of Kingdom has been out for a fair while, all speculation is turning to what’s next for the critically acclaimed series. In a new Game Informer interview, series producer Eiji Aonuma made it fairly clear that whatever form the next game takes, it’s unlikely to be a direct

Just look at the screenshot we have provided here. This looks like exactly the kind of person you don’t want to play a particular word-based board game against. Their lexicon is excellent, to the point of annoying, and they have a penchant for playing individual letters in corners where two other words meet. Good job

At The Game Awards 2023, The First Descendant revealed a Summer 2024 launch through a new cinematic trailer with the appearance of a new character. The First Descendant’s recent Crossplay Open Beta started on September 19 and lasted a week. The test supported cross-platform play, including the Xbox Series, and was available to players from

Activision announced on Thursday that Crash Team Rumble Season 3 will feature Spyro the Dragon and Elora and is now available for players to check out. The third season of content for the online multiplayer game will feature both Spyro and Elora (a character who appears in Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage!) as new playable characters.

Last month some of the biggest series received new entries in their libraries, along with some new franchises making their debut. Who takes top honors according to PlayStation players? How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that

Influential British developer Jeff Minter, whose four-decade career spans the likes of Tempest 2000, Polybius, Space Giraffe and Revenge of the Mutant Camels, will be the focus of the next interactive documentary from the folks behind the roundly excellent Making of Karateka and Atari 50.

Mortal Kombat 1 launched back in September and became one of our favorite games of the year – read why in Game Informer’s Mortal Kombat 1 review here. Since its release, developer NetherRealm Studios has released additional characters, like Invincible’s Omni-Man, while teasing other new fighters like Quan Chi and DC’s Peacemaker. Now, Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has

Alongside the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5: Season 1, Epic Games revealed Lego Fortnite, a new experience that takes the familiarity of Fortnite and mashes it together with Lego for a new survival adventure experience. Today, Epic Games and Lego released a cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite that reveals crafting, combat, multiplayer team-ups, a massive

Bethesda has dropped an update for Skyrim Special Edition which adds a new paid mods page called Creations, among other things. With the update, Bethesda has done away with Creation Club, as Creations combines Skyrim’s existing mods, Creation Club items, and new creations under a single menu available. Skyrim Special Ediion This is an evolution

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube After a Direct announcement earlier this year, Batman: Arkham Trilogy is finally available on Switch. We are still hard at work on our review of the collection (keep your eyes peeled for that one), but in the meantime, the experts over at Digital Foundry have shared their technical

Nintendo has announced that the long-awaited Donkey Kong Country attraction will be up and running at Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in Spring 2024. The attraction has been in the works for a while, so it is good to have a release window for when park attendees will be able to sample it.

HOONIGAN drifts into The Crew Motorfest Is The Crew Motorfest the best racer of 2023? We think it’s right up there with the likes of Forza Motorsport. Whatever your whip though, we know that with Season 2 of The Crew Motorfest things are ramping up once more as the HOONIGAN team comes in, mostly sideways… 

Hi, Xbox Wire readers! Whitethorn Games has some fantastic news to share with you about Balloon Studios’ upcoming plant-puzzle adventure game, Botany Manor. Today, we’re extremely excited to announce that the game is set to release in Spring 2024 on Xbox Series X|S and will be available on day one with Xbox Game Pass! Botany

In just a few days, Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.1 will introduce a fully functioning NCART metro system for players to use. Today’s REDstreams show from developer CD Projekt Red also delved into several other new features that are coming soon, including radioport, replayable car races, boss fight improvements, and accessibility features, The Cyberpunk 2077 metro

Procedurally generated dungeon crawler Ancient Dungeon VR has a release date and is coming to PSVR2 next week. Ancient Dungeon VR Release Date Ancient Dungeon VR comes to PlayStation VR2 on December 8th as the PlayStation headset ends the year with a flurry of new titles, including Five Nights at Freddy’s Help Wanted 2 and

Ahead of today’s Fortnite Chapter 4 Big Bang Season finale event, Epic Games has released the trailer for Fortnite Chapter 5, Season 1. The trailer confirms the previously leaked image was accurate as Family Guy’s Peter Griffin, and Metal Gear Solid’s Solid are involved. Interestingly there’s a train running through the new map, and vehicles

Last week, we asked you to tap into the gaming moments that made you feel something powerful using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Simon0aVp shares Kratos growling and thrusting his body forward in God of War Ragnarök mr_normandie shares Jill weeping in Final Fantasy XVI jester1489246 shares a somber graveyard scene from Metal

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the RPS Advent Calender 2023! Each day reveals a new favourite game from this year, leading up to our GOTY. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Time to open the second door on our advent calendar. No doubt some of you will argue

Alongside a new trailer showing what Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will sound like in English, Sega also confirmed Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name’s English dub will release for free this month. The new trailer shows scenes that will be familiar to anyone who watched the Japanese trailer back in

Tom’s back by popular demand, but also to answer for his crimes against a previous guest: James Batchelor, author of The Best Non-Violent Video Games. For weeks following James’ deserved win, Tom and Conner said some Very Mean things about him and his book, and even implied that virtuous host Jim Trinca (who is fair

We’ve finally made it to the end of another year, and whilst December and January are always quieter than your average month for new releases, there are a fair few titles launching soon that are sure to pique your interest. We’ve been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail in the