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Want to get the best value gamepad for PC? Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Controller is down to £39 at Amazon UK, a great price for a controller that is widely supported in PC games, with Bluetooth, 2.4GHz Xbox wireless and USB-C connectivity. These controllers also work on Xbox Series and One consoles, and plenty of phones

PlayStation and developer Naughty Dog have revealed The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and it hits PlayStation 5 exclusively on January 19, 2024. It includes all the visual and performance upgrades you’d expect, like 4K resolution and an unlocked frame rate option for TVs that support variable refresh rate, as well as a new

How many other releases do you think inspired your favourite video game of all time? One, two, ten? Believe it or not, creative works are usually a swarm of different experiences and references pulled from all over the place. This is true for everything ranging from articles written on video game websites to Bloodborne Kart,

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Following Minecraft Live last month, Mojang has now shown off the new “Trial Chambers” as well as the new hostile mob known as “The Breeze”. The Trial Chambers are a new procedurally generated structure, crafting different challenges each time you enter. Each room contains something helpful or hostile.

Sonic Frontiers was a success for SEGA and the Sonic Team, not only in terms of sales, but also in creating and securing the template for 3D Sonic games in the future. The Sonic Team spoke to Famitsu about the decision to release free content updates for Sonic Frontiers, which was a first for a

There are few games as unassuming as Lily in Puzzle World. It could have been drawn in an exercise book. The graphical fidelity is about the level of one of the 79p games that crop up on the Xbox Store from time to time. There’s no story. It’s chopped up into fifty levels, each fitting

Accessible on-rails arcade fun just in time for the holidays Blast countless zombie hordes, either alone or with a friend Preorder Railbreak today Hello Survivors! I’m Evan Wolbach, co-founder of Dead Drop Studios. We’re excited to share explosive details about our upcoming on-rails arcade shooter, Railbreak!  This is our first ever game built in Unreal

Development on Star Wars: KOTOR Remake has seemingly ground to a halt at all of Embracer Group’s studios. This likely spells cancellation, according to the latest reports. The rumors are fueled by Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors’ refusal to talk about the game during the company’s latest financial earnings investor call. Star Wars: KOTOR Remake is

It’s a good day for small form factor PC case deals, apparently, as you can now pick up Fractal Design’s gorgeous wood-adorned Terra case in Jade or Silver for $150 after a rare $30 discount for Black Friday. This case has attracted rave reviews from hardware journalists and users alike, and just looks completely unlike

Earlier this month, we launched a documentary called “Violence Is Inevitable: The Making of Humanity.” And then, in a bit of a meta twist, we hung out with Humanity co-developer and publisher Enhance and discussed how we made our making-of documentary. Even cooler, we made a Game Informer level within Humanity – and you can

Feeling frustrated with the experience currently on offer in EAFC 24? Well, if you’re interested, EA is looking for volunteers to provide it with feedback on teams and players. The roles the publisher is advertising come with the swanky title of Data Reviewer at the rather ominously-named EA Sports FC Data Collective. The main duties

Image: Nintendo Just last week, Nintendo announced Super Mario Bros. Wonder was officially the “fastest-selling” Super Mario game ever released. It’s also had an outstanding start in a number of different countries, with success in locations like Japan and the UK. Now, to add to this, Circana (formerly NPD) industry analyst Mat Piscatella has shared

Netflix and The Pokemon Company have given fans a closer look at the wonderfully animated Pokemon adventure Pokemon Concierge. Netflix says that the show takes place on a southern island and is set around a new concierge named Haru, who gradually discovers herself as she and her fellow staff members scramble to attend to the

Teardown is on Xbox and PlayStation Over the course of the last 18 months, Teardown has picked up a crazy amount of Overwelmingly Positive reviews on Steam. In fact, it’s gone a bit viral, as the ‘destroy anything, smash everything, pull off the most daring of heists’ styled gameplay has been fed to the masses.

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Beta 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

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios, fresh off its critically acclaimed and award-winning title, teased its next big game. Larian Studios posted to X (formerly Twitter) about its eight nominations for The Game Awards, including Game of the Year. Ultimately, it tied with Alan Wake 2 for most nominations, with Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 close behind

Last month featured creepy crawlies, ghosts, and things that hide in the dark. Whether you’re all about spooky games or not – which game earns top marks? 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 month. Soon

Sometimes, all you need is a wireless keyboard and touchpad mouse to get things done. Whether it’s selecting the next movie on your living room media PC, changing settings on your racing rig or getting your Steam Deck set up just the way you want it, having a convenient, all-in-one wireless option can be just

Amazon is laying off 180 jobs in its games division, hopping on the tragically overcrowded bandwagon of layoffs in the game industry this year. The news comes via Aftermath, which reports that the layoffs are focused in two areas – the Crown Twitch channel, which will reportedly be eliminated altogether, and the game growth teams. Employees were

If there’s one thing Baldur’s Gate 3 has been good for since its release, aside from swallowing up players’ lives, it’s been bizarre speedruns, with the long-awaited Bear% category now being an actual thing. Yes, that’s right, some members of BG3’s dedicated running community have finally managed to put together a fairly rapid route through

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The latest Sonic platformer Sonic Superstars made its debut on the Switch and multiple other platforms last month. Digital Foundry has now uploaded a tech review, seeing how the Nintendo version of the game compares to the rest. All versions except the Nintendo Switch “largely share the same

Patricia Summersett, who is the voice behind Princess Zelda in the acclaimed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, has said that she would love to play the role of Princess Zelda in the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie. Speaking to Games Radar she

If you’re going to pick a game to be your reference point, then you could choose something a lot worse than Super Mario World. We’re not sure there’s ever been a better expression of pure platforming as that SNES classic. Amabilly knows it can’t beat it, but hangs back and copies some of its moves.

Yong Yea, the voice actor and YouTuber who will be portraying the English version of Kiryu in Sega’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, showed off some of the work he’d done on the character and faced some criticism online in the process. Yea recently took to Twitter to share a brief comparison video of the

It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, PS VR, and free-to-play games topped the download charts this month. The newly released Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swung to the top of October’s PS5 list. For PS VR2, Beat Saber rocked to the top of the list. Check out the full listings below. What titles are

What is a birthday but a celebration that, despite all your struggles, you survived? It has been almost a year since the release of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, meaning it’s been now a full year of apologies, paused expansions, and transformative patches. And yet it lives. The co-op shooter now seems on firmer ground, and to

If you’ve seen Netflix’s Arcane League of Legends animated series, there’s a high probability you really like it – the show’s great, even for non-League of Legends fans. It tells the heartwrenching story of sisters Vi and Jinx and their struggle to come to terms with each other in the high-tech (and magical) utopian city of Piltover

If you’ve ever wondered what Halo might look like if its typical FPS action was swapped out for the turn-based combat of a RPG, an interesting mod might be worth checking out. The project in question is being made using Halo Infinite Forge by a game developer who goes by the handle RedNomster. They’re developing

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update [Fri 10th Nov, 2023 04:45 GMT]: Unfortunately, Level-5 has now officially confirmed the delay of Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. It will now arrive on the Switch at some point in 2024. Here’s an official statement, explaining the developer wants to deliver a “better

In a little over a week from now, Hogwarts Legacy will be releasing on the Nintendo Switch. The game has already been released on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X earlier this year. The Switch version was originally supposed to release in July, but the date had been changed to