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A new adventure blossoms as Pikmin 4 launches for Nintendo Switch today on My Nintendo Store and throughout selected retailers. On a peculiar far away planet, a group of space travellers are stranded and awaiting rescue. As the newest recruit of the Rescue Corps, players pick up the travellers’ SOS signals and explore an uncharted world inhabited by a curious crop

[embedded content] TheXboxHub Official Podcast rolls on for another week and in Episode 171 the team get together to chat about all the latest gaming news of the week. This time around, there’s huge focus on Exoprimal and that Microsoft – Activision Blizzard merger (again!). It’s all about the games Join Gareth, Darren, Paul and

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Perks continues to enhance the experience for our members by offering a continually expanding selection of complimentary in-game content, entertainment, and other benefits. In the past, we have collaborated with esteemed companies such as 2K, Ubisoft, EA, and Discord.  In celebration of Anime Month and to help elevate your anime experience,

Blizzard Entertainment plans to address the negative player feedback it has been receiving since the Diablo 4 Season 1 update that introduced class nerfs for the Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, and Sorceror. Players have also been unhappy about changes to the endgame, item drops, and level requirements, although today’s update has updated one aspect of

EA Sports FC 24 launches September 29 on PS4 and PS5 and is focused on delivering an authentic football experience and gameplay innovations to usher in a new era of virtual football. Behind this are three key technological advancements: HyperMotion V, enhanced PlayStyles and a radically overhauled Frostbite engine. But the exciting new features certainly

With your help, I’m trying to answer the biggest question: what’s the best thing in video games? With a new wholly sensical face-off each week, we’ll surely soon discover the single absolute best thing. Last time, you decided that breech-loading grenade launchers are better than creating construction blueprints. Ruination over creation. Mayhem over order. Destruction

Activision Blizzard has laid off around 50 employees, according to a new report from The Verge.  This news arrives the same day Activision Blizzard released its Fiscal Year 2023 Q2 results, which highlights a murky future for the company’s esports efforts despite an otherwise financially successful quarter for the Overwatch 2 maker. Activision Blizzard’s results show

Activision Blizzard and Microsoft have agreed to extend the acquisition deadline into the fall to work on final regulatory issues. The original deadline to close the deal was set for yesterday, July 18, but it was changed after meetings between the companies occurred. Activision Blizzard stated in its Q2 2023 financial report that on July

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Toree 3D developer Siactro is currently hard at work on a new update for the classic-inspired 3D platformer Super Kiwi 64. Unfortunately, it is taking a bit longer than expected, due to the scope of it, but should be ready to reveal in the near future. That’s all,

IGN has recently chatted with John Shepherd, VP, Executive Producer at Electronic Arts, about the company’s next instalment of the incredibly popular FIFA franchise on Nintendo Switch. The name has been changed to EA Sports FC 24 after EA refused to pay the ridiculously high price for the FIFA brand name and they have put

The MMORPG is quite the sub-culture in the world of gaming, one which takes serious commitment and can swallow up days, weeks and even months of your time. I dabbled many years ago with the likes of World of Warcraft and Guild Wars, picking up enough of the lingo to get by and not look

Here are this week’s games and add-on deals available from the Microsoft Games Store. Discounts are valid now through July 24, 2023 (actual end date varies by sale). The Ultimate Game Sale runs until 31 July. Read more about it over at Xbox Wire. Starting September 14, Xbox Live Gold members will automatically become Game

The Last of Us Part II writer Neil Druckmann is already heavily involved with the Emmy-nominated HBO series. And now its other writer, Halley Gross, is joining the show, too, meaning she will be part of the team responsible for adapting the game she helped write. The Last of Us Season 2 might still hit

This is your early heads-up to set an alert for July 19. Because in just under a week, the Summer Sale lights up PlayStation Store, bringing with it blazingly hot discounts on thousands of games across PS5 and PS4.   Game discounts will be offered for a limited time, and some titles will leave the sale

Dominions 6 is in development and is expected to release “at the end of the year.” The low-key announcement was made on Steam’s Dominions 5 discussion forum, with designer Kristoffer Osterman saying that the next iteration of the fantasy 4X would have “more changes than any previous version, both mechanics-wise and UI/QoL-wise.”

Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical has been delayed by one week.  Initially due out on August 3, the musical RPG will now hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on August 10. As for why, publisher Humble Games and developer Summerfall Studios says it is taking the extra week

Anna Megill, the narrative lead on the upcoming Fable game, has announced that she’ll be stepping down from her role in August. The developer shared the news on her personal Twitter account, where she spoke about the pleasure of working on the project. “Friends, I have news,” reads Megill’s tweet. “In August, I’m stepping away

Neon White might not necessarily be widely known, but the first-person action platform card shooter where you must exterminate demons from Heaven is well worth your time. If you have been holding out for a physical release, since it arrived on the Switch eShop in June last year, we’ve got some good news. Physical distributor

The individual who leaked that Atlus was working on a Persona 3 remake has stated on Twitter that the company is not working on any other reworks of their classic games series. The leaker claims that the majority of staff are working on the upcoming Persona 6. The individual went on to say that there

Games are leaving the Game Pass service Any and all Game Pass subscribers will know all about the frequency of games that drop in – and out – of the service. With the likes of Exoprimal, Common’Hood and more having joined the subscription fun in recent days, it’s only right then that we find a

The Last of Us got a big upgrade for the PlayStation 5, and it seems like its sequel might be getting a similar treatment. Series composer Gustavo Santaolalla appeared to have implied that a Last of Us Part II PS5 upgrade is in the works. Santaolalla claimed there is an “improved version” of The Last

Last week, we asked you to share your favorite gaming heroes using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s heroic highlights:  wingsforsmiles shares Cal from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sorathluna shares Rivet from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart cold_desktop_4k shares Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West ScudmanVP shares Sam from Death Stranding Comput_ART shares Selene from Returnal

Dragon Age writer David Gaider’s next game Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical has been delayed a week to August 10th. Developers Summerfall Studios say the move gives them breathing room away from the “hotly anticipated” Baldur’s Gate 3, which is launching on Stray God’s old release date – August 3rd.

During today’s official reveal livestream, EA Sports revealed EA Sports FC 24, the replacement for its overwhelmingly popular FIFA franchise. The move away from the FIFA license was announced last year, and today, we got our first look at this year’s EA Sports soccer title. The big pitch this year from EA Sports is around

Roblox, one of the largest 3D immersive platforms, will soon be available on Meta Quest for any user 13 and older. This opens up another opportunity for you to create and share your experiences with millions in VR, and you can even bring your existing experiences to the headset. Meta Quest Pro To create a

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s sometimes easy to forget just how far The Legend of Zelda franchise has come over the years and how much we’ve all collectively experienced as fans. From the humble 3D beginnings of Ocarina of Time to the bonafide masterpiece that is Tears of the Kingdom, the franchise

You may recall that, earlier today, WayForward and Limited Run Games had officially announced that Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, the lost sequel to the original Shantae game, was resuming development and would be getting a physical release on the Game Boy Advance. Following the announcement, there was some curiosity from fans on whether the game

Can you survive in Dead Man’s Diary on Xbox? If you are prepared to jump back into the first-person survival genre – following encounters with the extra-terrestrial in Greyhill Incident, and countless scares in Resident Evil’s world – then do we have the game for you! Dead Man’s Diary on Xbox puts a post-apocalyptic twist

The first-ever IGN x [email protected] Digital Showcase just wrapped up, and we had a lot of news about our upcoming indie games to share with you. With games coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, and Cloud Gaming – not to mention classic RPGs, Silent Hill-inspired horror, party games, and even groundbreaking interactive

There are winners and losers in every case, and the recent trial between Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission is no different. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley’s ruling in favor of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard states that, while Microsoft’s future plans for the Call of Duty franchise may be bad for Sony, they’re good for