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Gaze ye upon the latest edition of our best Anti-Prime Day deals guide: RPS’ annual attempt to make Amazon Prime Day a little less, uhhh, Amazony, while keeping to the theme of highlighting choice savings on PC gaming hardware. Fancy a bargain SSD, gaming monitor or graphics card, but are steadfast in your refusal to

Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka has been given a suspended prison sentence for insider trading. News of this sentencing comes from IGN (via IGN Japan), which reports that the 57-year-old was “found guilty of violating Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act” for insider trading after a July 7 court appearance at the Tokyo District Court. The judge

I won’t lie. I’ve slept a little on PS VR2 since the initial hype around launch. I had a great time testing out Sony’s new VR hardware, but well, aside from a few thrills in GT7, the headset has been gathering dust. Until this last week. It’s not that there haven’t been new releases coming

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Black Salt’s “sinister fishing adventure” game Dredge has just received its second major update on the Nintendo Switch. This latest one adds new wildlife events, a “passive mode” – allowing you to swim about the sea in peace, a photo mode, a new character, and new aberrations. Update

Capcom’s had a big year so far, due in large part to the releases of Resident Evil 4 Remake and Street Fighter VI. Meanwhile, the company has Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice Trilogy releasing early next year. Of course, Capcom is more than just those 3 franchises, and that topic was brought up in a recent

DREDGE has a new Passive mode and new Photo mode One of our favourite games of 2023 so far is that of DREDGE; Team17 and Black Salt Games’ sinister fishing adventure. Already a stunner to play through DREDGE today gets updated – with new game modes front and centre.  What is DREDGE? If you have

Naraka: Bladepoint has been on Xbox consoles and PC and is now coming to PlayStation. 24 Entertainment announced a Naraka: Bladepoint PS5 release date, as well as revealing that the melee-focused battle royale would be going free-to-play across all platforms. When is Naraka: Bladepoint coming to PS5 and going free-to-play? As 24 Entertainment announced at

Prepare for the incoming storm, World Warriors. Rashid of the Turbulent Wind makes his Street Fighter 6 debut in Fighting Ground and the single-player World Tour mode starting on July 24. With a whirlwind of moves that will send him flying through each fight, Rashid leaves all opponents in the dust – unless they decide

Sweltering summer heats are alright and all, but subscription service Game Pass is still adding new games for those of us who would rather stay inside. Microsoft have announced the next batch of games coming to the service in July, headlined by the likes of dino-shooter Exoprimal and other-player-shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm.

If Ubisoft’s summer showcase was any indication, it’s going all-in on Assassin’s Creed. But a recent report from Kotaku suggests that the company’s commitment to the franchise might be going even deeper than we thought; Ubisoft has recently begun the process of remaking Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.  The remake is currently in “its earliest stages,”

You know the worst thing about E3, towards the end? It felt so false. It was the event equivalent of that Steve Buscemi ‘how do you do, fellow kids?’ meme – corporations rocking up and asking you to ‘hang out’, watch some ‘rad gameplay trailers’, and engage with its ‘poggers’ branding. Opening up to the

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube In his latest video in the ‘Game Concepts’ series, Masahiro Sakurai once again goes back to Kid Icarus: Uprising. This time, the legendary game designer breaks down the game’s “unique” control scheme and explains the difficulties that the team had in developing the title. Part on-rails shooter, part

The Tetris 99 34th MAXIMUS CUP event runs from 12 a.m. PT on July 7 to 11:59 p.m. PT on July 10. To participate, any Nintendo Switch Online member* just needs to play the Tetris 99 online mode during the event period. Players will earn event points based on their placement in each match. Once

In a sea of roguelite games, its becoming increasingly hard to find games that truly differentiate themselves. Shared mechanics are common within the genre and even when new subgenres appear, such as deck-building roguelites, they are often quick to be copied. It comes down to how well a game manages to adopt and implement these

Following rumors and leaks, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has confirmed that he’s working on having Roblox release on the PS5 in the near future. While Ryan didn’t mention a specific platform, we can safely assume that PS5 is a lock. Whether the game releases on the PS4 or not remains to be seen.

Last week, we continued celebrating ten years of The Last of Us by asking for memorable moments with Joel and Ellie using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s #TLOU10 highlights:  Photoingame shares Joel and Ellie posing in a field. RevolutionAndre shares Joel and Ellie laughing around a campfire. MSTakesPictures shares Joel and Ellie running from

Homeworld and its sequel were real-time strategy games that stuck in the memory mainly due to the atmosphere they managed to create via dialogue, music choices and striking ship designs. I had mentally labelled coming sequel Homeworld 3 as “more of the same, but better looking”, without thinking much more about it. A new development

Scorn was one of the most enigmatic and polarizing games when it crept to Xbox and PC last fall. Some love it, some despise it, and PlayStation fans will get to see which side of the fence they fall on when it hits PlayStation 5 this fall. Despite appearing like a shooter on its surface,

Capcom has announced sales figures for Monster Hunter Rise and its large expansion, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. The company reports that shipments and digital sales for Rise surpassed 13 million units, and Sunbreak has surpassed 6 million worldwide. The final update to Sunbreak was released on June 8, and it featured the final monster, Primordial

Image: Nintendo Life In case you missed it, we’re already in July, and that means it’s time to reflect on the first half of the year and talk about the best games of 2023 so far. Now, dear readers, you might be thinking “but wait, isn’t it Zelda?” and to that we say “we’re not

The 3D Banjo-Kazooie games were two of the best video game platformers to grace the Nintendo 64 and really any other console since, rivalling Nintendo’s very own Super Mario 64 at the time. VGC has gathered together a number of key developers behind the two hit N64 games and asked them whether or not they

Doom and Destiny Worlds on Xbox When the world is threatened by farting stone giants, cursed genies and cosplaying goblins, it is up to a merry band of four spotty nerds to save the day, in Doom & Destiny Worlds on Xbox. The Next in the Series Doom & Destiny Worlds on Xbox is the

Sifu was originally supposed to get one batch of arena combat trials until developer Sloclap revealed that more were on the way. The studio has now given a release date window for these final trials, noting that they would come to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC sometime in September.

Gran Turismo players! The 1.35 update for Gran Turismo 7 arrives today June 28 at 11pm PDT* / June 29 at 7am BST / 3pm JST. Play Video Introduction of 3 New Cars Aston Martin Valkyrie ’21 A uniquely shaped hypercar with F1 derived aerodynamics. Aston Martin is one of Britain’s most beloved luxury sports car

During tonight’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, we got another lovely look at Flock, the latest game from Wilmot’s Warehouse and I Am Dead devs Hollow Ponds and Richard Hogg. In it, we get to see exactly how its adorable creature herding works in co-op, which you’d probably hope to see, given its own Steam page also

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced a massive restructuring, where it will be closing its Los Angeles office, terminating over 200 employees, and scaling back development on a few titles as it narrows its focus towards supporting current titles while increasing its commitment to mixed and augmented reality development. In an email sent to staff by

The Purveyor of Curiosities is a rarely-visited vendor in Diablo 4, mainly because a lot of what they sell won’t matter to most players for several hours into the game. The Purveyor only accepts a single currency: Obols, which is awarded from the chests that pop up after event completions. Most of your early visits

Image: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company and Nintendo have released a new update for the Switch titles Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, bumping both games up to Version 1.3.2. This patch appears to be the smallest one yet, referencing some adjustments to upcoming tournaments. Dataminers may be able to shed some more light on this

Activision-Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has spilled the beans about the graphical fidelity of the next Nintendo console during the Activision-Blizzard deal FTC hearing. Speaking to the court about Call of Duty and other topics he revealed that the successor to the incredibly popular Nintendo Switch system is close to Generation 8 in terms of power.

V-Bucks and goodies galore Even five years since it first blew up, Fortnite: Battle Royale is still going strong. For those of you wanting to pick up some more V-Bucks to spend on cosmetic items, as well as gain access to Fortnite’s secondary mode – Save the World – then the Fortnite: Full Clip Pack