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On a spring afternoon in 2016, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles during the E3 videogame event, I crossed the stage between a packed house and a symphonic orchestra, to conduct an original theme I had written that had never been heard publicly. Even before the game’s title was revealed, the audience experienced a

Shadow Tactics is such a good real-time tactics stealth strategy game that it rejuvenated the genre. There’s a chance you already own the sneaky samurai sim, however, and much less of a chance that you own its standalone expansion, Aiko’s Choice. It’s the latter that is currently being given away for free over on the

Sony released a sneak peek of its upcoming Gran Turismo movie yesterday evening during its CES 2023 press conference, and as expected, it features a lot of fast vehicles.  Starring David Harbour (Stranger Things), Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings), and David Barnet (Never Have I Ever), and directed by

Amazon has announced the six games you will get this month through Games with Prime. The headliner for January is The Evil Within 2. If you have never played it, in the Tango Gameworks title, you star as a detective who must rely on his wits to survive the “nightmarish world” of STEM to save

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. (Photo: PCMag)The rebranded RTX 4080 12GB launches tomorrow, Jan. 5. as the RTX 4070 Ti, with $100 knocked off its price tag. Our sister site PCMag has run it through its paces, and we honestly feel like we could just

Image: Merchoid AI generated art has been gaining some serious traction over the last year or so, and much to the chargrin of real artists, the whole concept has undoubtedly improved drastically to produce some pretty convincing pieces. Then again, lots of it still has the potential to cause a few nightmares here and there,

You may recall that, last month, Did You Know Gaming‘s “Heroes of Hyrule” video was suddenly taken down due to a copyright strike. At the time, it wasn’t officially known who had been to blame for getting the video taken down, but it was highly suspected that Nintendo did it. Well, there is some good

Following on from my musings/scribblings about the murky world of arcade racing games on the Xbox, it would seem that the time is finally ripe for me to cast the net a little wider, and consider the world of sim racers. Yes, the kind of racing games where you know that if you can just

The rumored Horizon Zero Dawn remake (or remaster) for the PS5 is not being developed by Guerrilla Games, according to PlayStation insider Colin Moriarty. The game’s existence has not been officially confirmed by Sony or Guerrilla, but it was outed via a leaked internal Sony document that also mentioned the all-but-confirmed Horizon multiplayer game. Who’s developing

The polls are closed and your votes counted for the PlayStation Blog Game of the Year 2022. The winners of these awards, spanning 16 categories, have been shaped entirely by player choice. A thank you to everyone who voted and – given the strength of titles released in the past 12 months – were stuck

WD’s D10 game drive, available in a massive 12TB capacity, is on sale at the official WD UK store. To get the discounted price, use code EXTRA10 to get this refurbished WD_Black D10 Game Drive for £180 – more than £200 off its UK RRP.

Dead Island 2 was announced just a few years after the release of the first Dead Island and a little over a year after Dead Island Riptide – the forgettable and repetitive sequel that did, at least, continue the story of the first game’s survivors. Publisher Deep Silver released some spinoffs after Riptide, like Escape

Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 32 – the best game of 2023 The future is unknowable. As are the minds of our deranged panellists, who were asked to pick their nod for next year’s GOTY based on the scraps of info we know about 2023’s game releases and, somehow, none of them

Image: Nintendo Life/ConcernedApe/Marvelous XSEED Over the holidays we’re republishing some choice features from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from NL staff and contributors, you’ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and — of course — enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy holidays!

SEGA has published a new Japanese job listing for a title which will seemingly tie into The Olympic Games, the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and will also feature an online multiplayer mode. SEGA previously developed the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game which ended up taking place in 2021 as The Olympic Games

It’s hard to get too excited about a power bank, after all, it’s very much a case of plug, play and enjoy the charge that they offer up. But the excitement with Excitrus products is pretty much built into the name. That’s the case for the Excitrus 105w Power Bank Ultimate.  We use power banks

Kick off the new year with two great January Games with Gold! On Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, adventure through light and shadow in Iris Fall, and then set worlds in motion in Autonauts. Xbox Live Gold members will have exclusive access to these games for a limited time as part of Games with

The claim-by dates for several Destiny 2 Bungie Rewards have been extended following several days of downtime for the Destiny API. The Destiny API was disabled on December 28 and has been down ever since with Bungie investigating numerous error codes, leaving players unable to redeem their Bungie Rewards before their previous expiry date. Why

Photo Mode is now officially in God of War Ragnarök, and we’ve loved what the community has shared so far. To help you create even more perfect in-game shots, we’ve asked two of our most active community photographers to give you the advice you need to take your photo to the next level.  Hosts of

It’s been a weird year at RPS for me. After eight years as news editor, I started the nebulous new role of associate editor. This brought a broad mandate to cover indie games and PC Game Pass and to do, like, whatever else I think might be fun or good. It has been weird to

Metal Gear Solid creator and Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami parted ways with each other back in 2015 and since then, there hasn’t been a mainline entry in the famed MGS series (although there was the not-so-great Metal Gear Survive in 2018).  While there’s no reason to believe Kojima

In a recent article with The New Yorker, Naughty Dog’s co-president, Neil Druckmann, and The Last of Us’ HBO series showrunner, Craig Mazin, discuss the evolution of video games. Particularly, they talk about how The Last of Us came to be adapted into a TV show, and what’s next for Naughty Dog.Check out The Last

Image: Devolver Digital / Disney Over the holidays we’re republishing some choice features from the last 12 months. A mix of talking points, interviews, opinion pieces and more from NL staff and contributors, you’ll find our usual blend of thoughtfulness, expertise, frivolity, retro nostalgia, and — of course — enthusiasm for all things Nintendo. Happy

The team at THQ Nordic have had to conceded that the Fatesworn expansion for the riveting Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning on Nintendo Switch won’t be released this year and will instead be delayed until 2023. The team says that despite their best efforts, the expansion just isn’t ready yet on the Nintendo Switch system and

We’ve played plenty of games that are in love with hulking great kaiju. Rampage, Dawn of the Monsters and War of the Monsters spring immediately to mind. But Godzilla, Kong, Ultraman and the rest – at least to our memory – have never been airlifted into a turn-based strategy game. Which is a wonder, because

Details on Dragon’s Dogma 2 have been unfortunately thin. Luckily, the game’s director, Hideaki Itsuno, has a status update in a statement to Japanese magazine Famitsu, stating that development is “moving along well.” The last time we heard anything substantial about the sequel to Capcom’s open-world fantasy adventure was in June, when Itsuno and other

The year 2022 is almost over, but it feels like just yesterday that we were hyping our most-anticipated games, most of which are now in the rearview mirror. While 2023 is sure to deliver even more incredible experiences, we can’t move on before looking back at what defined this last year in gaming. From in-game

Back in 2017, Rakuen was a pixel art, combat-free RPG which mixed serious themes with cute, fantasy characters and songs. We adored it. Now its developer Laura Shigihara has announced a new game, Mr. Saitou, which she describes as “the next installment in the Rakuen universe.” You can find the announcement trailer below.

Microsoft’s road to acquire Activision Blizzard has been a rocky one, to say the least. The most recent (and significant) roadblock comes from the American Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which filed a lawsuit a few weeks ago to prevent the deal from going through. Now, Microsoft has fired back with a response, saying the FTC

We’ve seen our PlayStation 2022 Wrap-Up, and our Nintendo Year-in-Reviews. Now, it’s time for PC gamers and Steam Deck aficionados to take to the stage with their gaming feats and achievements, as the Steam Replay 2022 has now finally arrived.Valve made another daft trailer to accompany the Steam Replay 2022 announcement. Watch it here.As you