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Today’s PlayStation State of Play concluded with an in-depth look at Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League by Rocksteady Games. Set five years after Batman: Arkham Knight, the adventure centers on the villains turned government-mandated saviors trying to stop a global invasion by Brainiac, who has hijacked the minds of Earth’s greatest heroes. Metropolis serves as

A new Genshin Impact teaser trailer for Dehya has a select few among the community making obvious, but admittedly hilarious Skyrim gags. After all, both have a long carriage journey at the start. It was inevitable. This new teaser trailer comes ahead of the Genshin Impact early next week. In this update Dehya will of

Image: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom release is fast approaching and while we won’t be publishing any major spoilers or leaks here on Nintendo Life, we are still sharing officially released materials. The latest one comes in the form of a translated Nintendo ad in the latest issue of Japanese publication

No Man’s Sky originally came out in 2016, and was released on the Nintendo Switch more than 4 months ago. The game may be old, but that doesn’t mean that No Man’s Sky has been forgotten. It is still getting updates regularly, and the latest one may interest some of you. Hello Games founder Sean

You may think that this week is all about the launch of PSVR2. And you’d be right – even as Xbox gamers we’re excited to see that land. But there are some games bucking the trend, breaking out of the VR scene to launch on Xbox and Nintendo Switch. One of those is Intruders: Hide

We’re always looking for ways to offer players more choice and value in how they discover and experience games with their friends and family. Beginning today, Xbox players in Chile, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sweden will be able to join a plan that enables up to five friends and family members to

Games Done Quick (GDQ), the organization that holds speedrun marathons that raise money for a variety of charities, has updated its banned game list to include Hogwarts Legacy and all Harry Potter titles. However, the company has also said this ban will be “subject to further review in the future.” Why were the Harry Potter

Time is flying by a little too fast in 2023, although it’s not all bad news as a new month means new Game Pass additions. Microsoft have announced the next four games hitting the service before March 3rd, alongside Atomic Heart which releases today. I was interested in the steely Soviet shooter until I read

The release of the Pinocchio-inspired Soulslike Lies of P has been narrowed down to this August. A new story trailer introduces a seemingly villainous character, Simon, while highlighting some of the dangerous monstrosities waiting to dismantle players.  Lies of P unfolds in the fictional, Belle Époque-era French city of Krat as players control Pinocchio, a mechanoid puppet

I think Wild Hearts is a terribly unbalanced game. I think some of the monsters you fight are too bland, and I think some of them are far, far too spicy. I think the gameplay loop is fattier and chewier than it is in genre rival Monster Hunter, and I think the vast majority of

Image: Nintendo Over the weekend, images from the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art book leaked online revealing unannounced details about the most anticipated launch on this year’s gaming calendar. With the 12th May release date still many weeks away, we thought it would be a good idea to make plain our approach to Zelda

There is a lot of hype and excitement for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Nintendo has been rather picky with saying much about the game and even showing some footage. However, there’s something that happened today that you need to know.

Ever wanted to play Hole In The Wall in real life? Ever wondered why the man in the Exit signs always looks in such a hurry? Introducing ExitMan Deluxe, a fun little game that’ll keep you playing as long as you can keep your focus on the main gameplay.  The main premise of ExitMan Deluxe

The Diablo IV open beta and early access weekends have officially been announced! Prepare yourself for the first venture into Sanctuary with an opportunity to dive-in early. The open beta will be available to everyone from March 24 to 26, but those who pre-order Diablo IV on the Xbox Store will get early access to

Avalanche Software has some bad news for those who’ve been hoping for Hogwarts Legacy DLC. The studio says it currently has no plans to release additional content, but the good news is, it doesn’t look like DLC is completely out of question. Hogwarts Legacy DLC might eventually be released “We’ve been really heads down bringing

Last week, we asked you share the love, by highlighting romance in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s romantic shares: Comput_ART shares Aloy making a heart with her hands in Horizon Forbidden West ForgottenJasmin shares Cloud and Tifa embracing in Final Fantasy VII Remake. Mur4dQ shares Cody and May

Ultimate Audio Bang is RPS’ fortnightly podcast that looks at everything happening in online shooters. On this week’s episode of the Ultimate Audio Bang, we get an update on Hayden’s knees and the various ways in which he’s attempting to save them. We also take a gander at fantasy FPS Dark And Darker, Steam’s most

Jake Solomon, the director of Marvel’s Midnight Suns and the modern XCOM games, has announced his departure from Firaxis.  Solomon has worked at Firaxis for 23 years and is best known as the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the director of XCOM 2, including its War of the Chosen expansion. He most recently

Age of Empires 4: Anniversary Edition is free to play on Steam this weekend, and you really should give it a go. You can play it for free until February 20 and experience everything the strategy game has to offer. If you like what you played, you can grab the game for 40% off now

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Conradical Games, the developer behing the Paper Mario-inspired RPG The Outbound Ghost, has escalated its legal battle with the game’s console publisher, Digerati, by issuing a copyright strike on its own game via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. In a video posted online via YouTube and Twitter (which

Believe it or not, Ninjala has been available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch for almost a couple of years now. Since then, the multiplayer free-to-play action game has been receiving additional content on occasion, including collaborations with other franchises. Well, the latest example of this has been announced. The official Ninjala Twitter account has announced

Remember when big AAA franchises had more than one entry per console generation? A time when gameplay and UI’s weren’t polished to the nth degree? Games were a bit more rough and ready but arguably more enjoyable compared to the live-service-always-online-updates-every-two-weeks-with-time-limited-events-free-to-play-battle-pass-season-pass we seem to have nowadays? I certainly do, and it seems the developers of

Summary Six years of work come to fruition in a new genre of adventure I call “Punch & Click” Brok is inspired by early ’90s cartoons, but with deep characters and an emotional plot How do you stand out in such an overcrowded indie market? Such is the question I asked myself when I left

The Legend of Dragoon and Wild Arms 2 are coming to PS Classics later this month. These two classic RPGs launched toward the end of the PS1’s lifespan and represent a culmination of that generation’s game design. It’s been over a decade since the two received a re-release on PSN (which isn’t easy to access

2022’s God of War Ragnarök hosted some of the year’s most thrilling fights and emotional peaks in gaming. While the main story had its own highs, its Favors (a.k.a. side quests) contained some of its most memorable character moments. Implementing these optional adventures, however, invited challenges to the game’s development. Developer Santa Monica Studio set

2021’s Before We Leave was a chill, planet-hopping city builder with the occasional space whale who might hoover up your world’s hexagonal tiles. Now developer Balancing Monkey is back for another go at spacefaring management, but this time your city is built on top of a space whale, rather than being terrorised by one. Their

Illumination has taken its promotion of The Super Mario Bros. Movie to the next level by launching a website and commercial promoting the brothers’ New York City plumbing business, and it’s actually pretty cool.  You can visit the website here, which features a commercial promoting the Mario Bros. business. Older fans will likely recognize the

Dambuster Studios has announced its long-awaited zombie slaying sequel, Dead Island 2, will be released one week earlier than previously announced. The game will now be released on Friday, April 21 after originally set for February before it was delayed to April 28. Dead Island gameplay trailer Announced last year, the game is set in

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Looking back on Wales Interactive’s Five Dates in 2023, more than two years after its debut, reveals a fascinating glimpse into what life was like during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a game that leans heavily into the idea that the dating world has migrated online, forcing singletons

You may recall that, last week, Nintendo had confirmed in their latest Nintendo Direct that there would be a Collector’s Edition of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Collector’s Edition contains the game, an art book, a pin set and much more. Well, Nintendo may have unintentionally confirmed something else. It wasn’t