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Last week, we asked you to embark on a journey to record the past in Season: A letter to the future using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: shimo_ps shares Estelle riding her bike up an inclining road MrNeverNeverman shares a portrait of Estelle with her headphones on Sarokeye shares Estelle sitting in a

The Atelier series and its mixture of potion-crafting and JRPG combat has only recently found success out west, but the series began in 1997 with the release of Atelier Marie in Japan. Now that first game is being remade with new graphics and released outside of Japan for the first time. It’ll arrive on Steam

2 Player Productions, the film crew behind the acclaimed Double Fine Adventure! series chronicling the making of Double Fine Productions’ Broken Age, has suddenly released a new documentary series following the development of Psychonauts 2. Best of all, you can watch every episode right now.  The series, called PsychOdyssey, consists of a whopping 32 episodes, all of

Electronic Arts has signed a new deal with the English Premier League, solidifying the relationship between the two. According to a Sky News report, EA Sports is ready to sign a six-year deal with the Premier League that sits around the £488 million ($522 million) mark. The extension is said to be worth more than

Image: Nintendo Life The February Nintendo Direct Showcase gave us our first look at Wave 4 of the upcoming Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, which will not only bring the all-new Yoshi’s Island course our way but will also add Birdo to the roster of playable characters. This Wave will be the first of its

2023 is slated to be a big year for Sonic Frontiers, even though the game released last year. Three major updates are planned for the game this year. However, SEGA has yet to confirm a release date for when the first update will be available. Well, we may be able to find that soon. Sonic

Seen as a follow-up to the 2021 launch of Little Kite – although you don’t need to have played that to enjoy this – Repentant releases on Xbox.  Available to purchase and download from the Xbox Store right now, playable on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S, Repentant from Anate Studio and Restless Corp is

Game details Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover fantastic beasts, customize your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and become the wizard you want to

Hello all, I’m Jae Yoo, Game Director of Eternights and Founder of Studio Sai. Since our reveal last year, we’ve been putting in a lot of hard work and have much to share with you. As you may know, Eternights is a unique blend of dating and action where players can explore a post-apocalyptic world

Katharine and I were lamenting earlier today that Square Enix seem inconsistent when it comes to releasing demos of their games on Steam. Forspoken’s demo only came to PC months after its console release, and Harvestella’s demo remains exclusive to Switch. Likewise, the Octopath Traveler 2 demo which was released on console yesterday was nowhere

Nintendo has responded to our inquiries with the following comments. On the reasoning for the $69.99 price tag for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom:“We determine the suggested retail price for any Nintendo product on a case-by-case basis.” On if this is the trend for Nintendo titles going forward:“No. We determine the suggested retail

Image: Nintendo After months – heck, possibly years – of rumours, Metroid Prime Remastered is finally out on the Nintendo Switch as a digital download, with a physical edition available later this month on February 22nd. While many folks seem overjoyed at the remastered visuals in the game, one original Retro Studios’ developer has expressed

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In a new Nintendo Direct video presentation transmitted to terminals across the planet today, Metroid Prime Remastered, an HD remaster of the first Metroid Prime game, which originally debuted on the Nintendo GameCube system, was announced for the Nintendo Switch system. A digital version of Metroid Prime Remastered launches on Nintendo Switch later

Rockstar Games plans to release Grand Theft Auto 6 sometime in 2024 or 2025, according to Bloomberg. Rockstar is yet to provide an exact release date for the widely expected video game, though. It also hasn’t revealed many details about the upcoming title. However, it’s been fighting hard to erase a viral video that purportedly

Minecraft Legends, the upcoming game from Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive is “not your normal strategy game,” according to Principal Design Director, Craig Leigh. Appearing on the Xbox Podcast last week, Leigh dove into multiple ways the new title (coming on April 18 for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC (Steam & Windows), Nintendo Switch,

Each week Sony brings PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, and PlayStation Plus owners new content, add-ons, games, and more. Here is the complete global PlayStation Store update. PlayStation LifeStyle catalogs the PlayStation Store updates for the major regions across the globe. Check back every Tuesday to keep up to date with each week’s PlayStation

After a brief interlude, the Players’ Choice polls are back! January has passed by in the blink of an eye, but with it came some unforgettable games. Which new release will take the Players’ Choice crown? The polls are open now, place your vote below to help decide!  How does it work? At the end

Steam Next Fest is back with a veritable truck ton of fresh game demos to sample, and we’ve been plunging our eager little mitts into the latest batch of indie delights to unearth some handy recommendations for you to hit first. Running from now until February 13th, there are always oodles of demos to try

After spending a couple of years coming together in early access, Darkest Dungeon II is ready to go 1.0 this May. Those who haven’t been keeping up can sample the finished version by downloading a free demo today. Darkest Dungeon II arrives on PC on May 8. The game first entered early access in 2021 and,

It sounds like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will make traversal a bit quicker, as it has fast travel and rideable creatures. The first game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, only let you hop back and forth between planets, but according to Play Magazine (via GamesRadar), its sequel Survivor will let you hop around the place

Don’t you get so tired of being the hero all the time? Do you ever look at Bowser and think, “man, King Koopa’s got it all figured out”? Does your life philosophy tend to lean more towards “nice guys finish last”? So if you’re itching to do crimes and evil deeds, then here are the

Not every Nintendo game is released. In fact, it’s not unusual for a Nintendo game to be cancelled behind-the-scenes, without the public even knowing that the game was even a thing. However, they tend to be revealed eventually, years after the cancellation had happened. More often than not, it’s Did You Know Gaming that takes

We could probably count the games that have made us laugh consistently on one hand. Maybe on two fingers. It is so, so difficult, not only because humour is wildly subjective, but comedic timing is incredibly hard when the player has control over that timing. It’s a wonder that funny games even exist.  Albacete Warrior

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Peachy Boy – February 8

We’ve written at length about PlayStation Store‘s easy Platinum games (shovelware, rather) that often plague the storefront’s “New Releases” section and has become a hotly debated topic among players and trophy hunters. But just how well do these games sell? Here’s an idea, courtesy of an indie developer behind such games. Easy Platinum games are

Derek Jeter’s back in MLB The Show! The 14x All-Star, 5x World Series Champion, 5x Silver Slugger, 2000 World Series MVP is your MLB The Show 23 collector’s edition cover athlete. Derek’s had one of the best careers in baseball history and we’re elated for him to join the collector’s edition cover athlete club.     Play

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. When Duke Nukem 3D burst onto the FPS scene in the Nineties, young CJ was a bit confused. This Duke wasn’t the purple-shirted acrobat I’d known from Apogee Software’s pair of platformers earlier that decade. He

Earlier this week, we saw a new teaser trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The teaser gave us a glimpse of Cat Mario’s appearance in the film, as well as Donkey Kong’s reaction. Today, Universal, Illumination, and Nintendo released the official movie poster for the Super Mario Bros. Movie. In this new poster, we

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Well, this is a new one! Developer and publisher Pat Naoum has revealed that The Master’s Pupil will be heading to the Switch later this year. It’s a hand-painted puzzler that’s actually set within artist Claude Monet’s eyeball – yum. You’ll need to solve various puzzles in order

There has been news on a lot of video gaming movie adaptation news lately. However, one film that you might have forgotten about is a sequel to the 2019 movie Pokemon: Detective Pikachu. In fact, the sequel had been announced before the first film had even released in theaters. Well, 4 years have passed since