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[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube The recent gameplay showcase for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom teased some of the possibilities of the new Fuse ability — which will allow us to combine items and weapons to various effects. You might have noticed that in this demonstration it was suggested that

Believe it or not, Gamescom is just 4 and a half months away. That also means that Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live is getting closer, which has been just as much of a annual occurrence on as Summer Game Fest in June and The Game Awards in December. As for the exact date of

The Outer Worlds was tied with Fire Emblem: Three Houses for my game of the year in 2019. A delightful, whimsical adventure that felt like a culmination of Obsidian’s work to date, it was hard to resist. Two brilliant expansions later, I simply cannot recommend the game enough. So, when Private Division and Virtuous announced

Spring is a time of awakenings and new opportunities. In celebration of the season, Wild Hearts is adding new content all month, from new Kemono and Karakuri, to new quest types. If you’ve yearned to join the hunt, Xbox players can now try Wild Hearts for 10 full hours. Explore the beautiful but dangerous land

Google Stadia closed its servers just under three months ago, and it seems like former Google vice president and head of Stadia, Phil Harrison left the company at the same time. Harrison’s departure has not been officially announced by Google or Harrison himself. Phil Harrison’s future plans after he left Google There is no inkling

We saw some big releases in the indie and AAA space with Tchia and Resident Evil 4 this month, with a host of sports titles in between. Which game will have luck on their side and reign supreme for March?  Cast your vote below! How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog

Nvidia have previewed the upcoming Overdrive Mode for Cyberpunk 2077, showcasing how it replaces the game’s already extensive ray tracing effects with full path tracing. Why Nvidia and not the developers, CD Projekt Red? Well, that might have something to do with Overdrive Mode being such a graphics card shatterer that it will supposedly take

In 1993, the Super Mario Bros. made their big-screen debut through a live-action adventure starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper. While that film has garnered a cult following in the decades since its theatrical release, it does little to truly pay homage to Nintendo’s flagship franchise in the ways all the best film

Nintendo has said it doesn’t plan to make Mario games on mobile the “primary path” of future games starring the company mascot. This is according to what Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto told Variety. Mario Kart Tour gameplay video “First and foremost, Nintendo’s core strategy is a hardware and software integrated gaming experience,” said Miyamoto. “The intuitiveness

Image: Nintendo We’ve got a couple of new things going on over on our lovely YouTube channel at the moment. And in one of our new series, Felix is tackling older games that he’s never played before, yet among our community, are highly beloved. First Bytes has been kicking around as an idea for a

E3 2023 has been canceled, IGN reports. The news comes after major publishers pulled out of the event in recent weeks. IGN reported on Tuesday that major publishers had either declined to attend or had little to no idea if the event would even take place due to a lack of communication with organizer ReedPop

It turns out that Cal Kestis will get to keep all of his powers from the first game in the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The problem with video game sequels that follow on from games where you end up quite powerful is that they have to figure out how to nerf the player character

Image: Nintendo This week’s UK charts are now in and this one is once again a slightly quieter affair for Nintendo titles in the top ten, with only three Switch games making the cut. As is to be expected, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Minecraft appear in the ten best-selling games of this week in

IGN’s recently released Game Developers Conference interview with Kirby director Shinya Kumazaki wasn’t just focused on the topic of Kirby’s future. You see, there was also some discussion about Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s impact on the series as a whole. IGN asked Kumazaki if they felt that Kirby and the Forgotten Land had been

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! Great New Games Spotlight has officially

Naughty Dog penned another mea culpa on Twitter over the weekend, apologizing for The Last of Us Part 1‘s numerous PC issues. The game’s state at launch took everyone by surprise, including the studio itself which admitted that The Last of Us PC port isn’t “Naughty Dog quality.” The Last of Us PC hotfixes and

Last week, we asked you to set sail and explore the soulful world of Tchia using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares Tchia wearing casual clothes and a baseball cap sitting by a fire asensualmanatee shares Tchia sitting on a hill with the sky red with the sunset photo_station5 shares Tchia on

The first chapter of Videoverse took me right back to the early 00s last night. I can still remember sitting at the family PC in our living room, begging my parents for more internet time because I wanted chat to my friend on MSN Messenger. We had to buy hours of internet in those days,

Vampire Survivors is getting another big DLC drop next month in the form of Tides of the Foscari. New characters, weapons, and more await those who step into this high-fantasy-themed adventure. [embedded content] Tides of Foscari takes on a decidedly more whimsical tone and introduces eight new heroes. Three of them include the mage Eleanor,

Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 44: The best game where you’d swap places with the main character. Video games are very long-form pieces of entertainment, and as such, they have to work hard to hold our attention. Statistically, most single-player games are left unfinished by a staggering majority of the people who

Image: LucasArts It’s 2023 and there’s a brand-new Indiana Jones film coming out in a matter of months. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, really. Is there a cinematic or televisual icon that hasn’t returned in a surprise sequel, multiverse cameo, or limited streaming series in the last few years? Not all of them have

The Bafta Game Awards took place last night and there were plenty of interesting nominees for the various categories. The game which walked away with the coveted Best Game Award wasn’t Elden Ring or God of War Ragnarok, but instead it was the fiendishly addictive Vampire Survivors for PC and Xbox Series X|S consoles, which

You’ve found all the roads in Mexico, you’ve taken to the skies with Hot Wheels, but now Forza Horizon 5 is looking to take you on a Rally Adventure. Yep, it’s time to get behind the wheel once more.  Available as the latest expansion for Forza Horizon 5 on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and

Summary Expand your park with beautifully feathered dinosaurs and reptiles Read our deep dive into four awe-inspiring new prehistoric species Pack launches March 30 on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S The park of your dreams is about to get even bigger and more diverse with the Jurassic World Evolution 2: Feathered Species Pack. Containing

Developer Arvore recently announced its upcoming virtual reality game Pixel Ripped 1978 at GDC 2023. I was given a sneak peek, and got some hands-on time, with the team’s first fully licensed addition to its line of Pixel Ripped games. Both of the studio’s previous releases, Pixel Ripped 1989 and Pixel Ripped 1995, were loosely

Hello everyone! My name is Stephanie, and I am the community manager at Amplitude Studios, and I am here to tell you a little more about our latest game, Endless Dungeon. Endless Dungeon is a genre-blending roguelite developed by Amplitude Studios and published by Sega – equal parts top-down tactical action & twin-stick shooter with

The Razer Naga Trinity is the RPS MMO mouse of choice, or at least it was the highest-ranking MMO option the last time we did some Reader’s Choice polls, so I thought you might like to know that this popular rodent is more than half-off on Amazon at present as part of the firm’s Spring

A new character trailer for Tekken 8 showcases the action of the returning Jun Kazama. Jin’s long-lost mother is making her first playable appearance in a mainline entry since Tekken 2, and based on a new gameplay trailer, she hasn’t lost a step. A gameplay trailer shows off Jun’s expert use of Kazama-style martial arts to cleanse

Ubisoft has announced it will skip E3 this year and host its own presentation. The company today revealed it will host one of its Ubisoft Forward streams on June 12 live from Los Angeles. More information on the showcase is expected at a later date. Ubisoft had originally planned to attend E3, but told VGC

Image: Nintendo Life With so many exciting releases taking place throughout early 2023, including the likes of Metroid Prime Remastered and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it’s important to remember that Pikmin 4 is also just around the corner! This long-awaited sequel to Pikmin 3 launches on Nintendo Switch on 21st July