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Last week, we asked you harness the power of the sun and moon and share moments from Sea of Stars using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:  ppeter_gee shares Valere and Zale overlooking the port town of Brisk manoloo_o shares a band of pirates playing at the local tavern Lme3guazUS shares Elder Mist floating

AMD’s Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT graphics cards have proven surprisingly popular even into 2023, as new price drops (and relatively modest gen-on-gen performance increases for newer models) has left them as competitive options in terms of value for money. Today we’ve got a deal on the RX 6800 non-XT, with an MSI model

Epic Games chief creative officer Donald Mustard is retiring this month after seven years with the company. He announced this today on Twitter, stating that after working in the games industry for nearly 25 years, he is retiring to spend time with his wife and family.  Most notably, Mustard served as the head of Fortnite,

Netherealm Studios has finally given us a look at how Jean-Claude Van Damme will appear as the fighter Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 1. This version of Johnny Cage even pulls off Van Damme’s famous splits move as seen in his films Time Cop, Black Eagle, Kickboxer, Bloodsport, Double Impact, and others. After 30 years,

Image: Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Wonder will continue the trend of simultaneous multiplayer platforming in the world of Super Mario and this time it’s rolling with quite possibly the biggest roster ever, made up of not only Mario and co, but also a number of extras. Nintendo recently asked fans on social media what character

The release date for Mortal Kombat 1 is drawing ever closer and the team at accomplished studio NetherRealm have lifted the lid on the appearance of Belgian actor and martial artist Jean Claude Van Damme and he looks lethal as a character skin for Johnny Cage. The game, which invites fans to a reborn Mortal

Whitestone merges a host of ideas We’d not heard of Whitestone from Hailstorm Games prior to release on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. But we’re super intrigued by the inspiration. How does a game that takes ideas from Persona, Dark Souls and Dead Space suit you? That’s what you’re getting with Whitestone on Xbox, PlayStation and

Developer and publisher CI Games has acknowledged the influx of Soulslike games but is keen to differentiate its Lords of the Fallen series. Lords of the Fallen sequel isn’t the only upcoming game inspired by the Soulslike genre, with Lies of P vying for players’ time on September 19. CI Games thinks its approach to

Hi Eternights fans! Jae here, creator of Eternights. I’m hyped to show you a deep dive into the gameplay of one of my favorite bosses… The Infected Hacker. Spoilers ahead. For some context, The Infected Hacker is a monster that has hacked Yuna’s social media (our popstar companion) and used it to lure thousands of

Some would say the best way to wind down after a rough day down the Content Reactors isn’t to play a grotty occult horror game, but I caught a trailer for Tenebris Somnia earlier, and couldn’t help myself. In this foetid offering from Argentinian devs Andrés Borghi and Tobías Rusjan of Saibot Studios, you play

Mortal Kombat 1’s roster already has a few returning names from the series’ 3D era in the forms of Ashrah and Havik, and another long-lost favorite joins the fight. Nitara is making her long-awaited return, and it’s such a big homecoming that NetherRealm has enlisted actress Megan Fox to voice her. Nitara is a vampire

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about MachineGames’ Indiana Jones game, but Bethesda’s Todd Howard says we’ll still need to wait a bit longer. The currently unnamed Indiana Jones game is currently in development at Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, but there’s nary been a word on it since it was announced back in January

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We were promised a “big year” for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night back in December 2022. And it’s been a bit of a wait, but, developer ArtPlay has released a new blog update on Kickstarter along with a video to tease the future of the Metroidvania. First up,

In a recent interview with VGC, Toshihiro Nagoshi, the producer of F-Zero GX, expressed his openness to returning to work on the beloved Nintendo series. The conversation revolved around his experience with the GameCube classic, which recently marked its 20th anniversary. Nagoshi shared his fond memories of working on the game and mentioned his willingness

Free tickets on offer to WASD x IGN WASD x IGN is a gaming event due to take place in London – and we’ve a number of tickets to give away. Fancy trying to win one? Running between 14th-16th September at The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, London, UK, WASD x IGN is the next

A pair of new Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 photos have been released, highlighting Peter Parker and Miles Morales in action as Spider-Man. New photos showcase both Spider-Men in action The new photos come courtesy of Insomniac Games, and show both Parker and Morales mid-swing, and give fans a much more detailed look at Parker’s Advanced Suit

Greetings readers. I’m Mårten, the Game Design Director at Hadoque, a collective of creatives in Sweden. I co-created the core concept of the game and oversee the game design. We’ve been working on Ultros – our first game together – for the past few years, and today, we’re thrilled to show you the core gameplay

Diablo 4’s second season is due to kick off in just over a month, but Blizzard will find time to drop at least one more patch before the Season of Blood begins.

When Ubisoft revealed Assassin’s Creed Mirage last September, it also announced that Basim Ibn Is’haq, the master assassin who brought Eivor into the Hidden Ones order in 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, was returning. This time, however, he would the playable protagonist. His journey in Mirage takes him from street thief to Hidden Ones order initiate

Starfield hasn’t even been out for a week, and a small community of early access players are smashing though the game is record time. The sci-fi RPG – expected to last the average players dozens if not hundreds of hours – is being smashed out in less than ten hours easy. One player has even

Image: Nile Bowie / Nintendo Life Nintendo’s official Switch-compatible wireless controller Nintendo 64 was announced nearly two years ago but has been elusive to many. Supply seems to have finally caught up with demand, with the pad currently still available to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers via Nintendo’s website following a recent restock, but the coveted

The latest edition of Weekly Famitsu is now with subscribers and there’s a number of reviews in this week’s edition of the popular Japanese gaming magazine. The highest rated game is FromSoftware’s long-awaited new entry in the long-running Armoured Core franchise, Armored Core VI, which has received four nine out of tens from the Famitsu

Who’d have thought that we’d be playing games where the lion’s share of time is spent not playing. We watch, we occasionally tinker, but most of the time we’re picking lint out of our belly buttons. The spirit of idle games is everywhere, from the automated battles of Raid Shadow Legends to the skirmishes of

At IFA 2023, Lenovo introduced several new additions to Windows 11 gaming, including the Lenovo Legion Go – the company’s first Windows 11 handheld device for gamers – and its top-of-the-line Lenovo Legion 9i laptop. Businesses also got fresh options, including a new glasses-free experience with the ThinkVision 27 3D Monitor that is compatible with

The Spyro Reignited Trilogy has reached a huge sales milestone, developer Toys for Bob and publisher Activision announced on Friday. How many units has the Spyro Reignited Trilogy sold? The trilogy of games, which originally released in 2018, has officially sold 10 million units, with the big milestone coming as Spyro plans to celebrate its

Last week, we asked you suit up and share epic mech moments in Armored Core VI using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:  TheFourthFocus shares a blue shaded mech with its arm gun outstretched and smoking DotPone shares a mech blasting at an airborne enemy marka_game shares a mech flying up towards a hexagon

This week’s news that the amazing Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew will be Mimimi Games’ last hurrah has left me absolutely devastated. As the kids might say, I am shook. Besides being a bestest best in class tactics game with great characters, a witty script and deviously designed stealth puzzles to blast and backstab through,

Newcomer studio Sonka has released the first-ever gameplay trailer for its horror game, Holstin. This new trailer reveals a fun twist on the game’s shooting mechanics, too, and comes alongside word that there’s a demo now available on Steam as well.  The trailer is short, running less than a minute, but it showcases the game’s

Starfield reviews finally came in yesterday, and Todd Howard shared a lengthy letter with those that reviewed it. After a long wait, reviews for one of the biggest games of the year landed, offering a broad range of opinions on the space faring RPG. Our own Starfield review came away feeling pretty positive about it

Image: Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Wonder has a certain wacky element about it compared to your average Mario game, and while the new Elephant power up for Mario has been welcomed with open arms by fans, Mario’s creator wasn’t quite as convinced when he first saw it. As part of the latest press rounds promoting