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Avalanche Software has some bad news for those who’ve been hoping for Hogwarts Legacy DLC. The studio says it currently has no plans to release additional content, but the good news is, it doesn’t look like DLC is completely out of question. Hogwarts Legacy DLC might eventually be released “We’ve been really heads down bringing

Last week, we asked you share the love, by highlighting romance in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s romantic shares: Comput_ART shares Aloy making a heart with her hands in Horizon Forbidden West ForgottenJasmin shares Cloud and Tifa embracing in Final Fantasy VII Remake. Mur4dQ shares Cody and May

Ultimate Audio Bang is RPS’ fortnightly podcast that looks at everything happening in online shooters. On this week’s episode of the Ultimate Audio Bang, we get an update on Hayden’s knees and the various ways in which he’s attempting to save them. We also take a gander at fantasy FPS Dark And Darker, Steam’s most

Jake Solomon, the director of Marvel’s Midnight Suns and the modern XCOM games, has announced his departure from Firaxis.  Solomon has worked at Firaxis for 23 years and is best known as the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and the director of XCOM 2, including its War of the Chosen expansion. He most recently

Age of Empires 4: Anniversary Edition is free to play on Steam this weekend, and you really should give it a go. You can play it for free until February 20 and experience everything the strategy game has to offer. If you like what you played, you can grab the game for 40% off now

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Conradical Games, the developer behing the Paper Mario-inspired RPG The Outbound Ghost, has escalated its legal battle with the game’s console publisher, Digerati, by issuing a copyright strike on its own game via the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. In a video posted online via YouTube and Twitter (which

Believe it or not, Ninjala has been available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch for almost a couple of years now. Since then, the multiplayer free-to-play action game has been receiving additional content on occasion, including collaborations with other franchises. Well, the latest example of this has been announced. The official Ninjala Twitter account has announced

Remember when big AAA franchises had more than one entry per console generation? A time when gameplay and UI’s weren’t polished to the nth degree? Games were a bit more rough and ready but arguably more enjoyable compared to the live-service-always-online-updates-every-two-weeks-with-time-limited-events-free-to-play-battle-pass-season-pass we seem to have nowadays? I certainly do, and it seems the developers of

Summary Six years of work come to fruition in a new genre of adventure I call “Punch & Click” Brok is inspired by early ’90s cartoons, but with deep characters and an emotional plot How do you stand out in such an overcrowded indie market? Such is the question I asked myself when I left

The Legend of Dragoon and Wild Arms 2 are coming to PS Classics later this month. These two classic RPGs launched toward the end of the PS1’s lifespan and represent a culmination of that generation’s game design. It’s been over a decade since the two received a re-release on PSN (which isn’t easy to access

2022’s God of War Ragnarök hosted some of the year’s most thrilling fights and emotional peaks in gaming. While the main story had its own highs, its Favors (a.k.a. side quests) contained some of its most memorable character moments. Implementing these optional adventures, however, invited challenges to the game’s development. Developer Santa Monica Studio set

2021’s Before We Leave was a chill, planet-hopping city builder with the occasional space whale who might hoover up your world’s hexagonal tiles. Now developer Balancing Monkey is back for another go at spacefaring management, but this time your city is built on top of a space whale, rather than being terrorised by one. Their

Illumination has taken its promotion of The Super Mario Bros. Movie to the next level by launching a website and commercial promoting the brothers’ New York City plumbing business, and it’s actually pretty cool.  You can visit the website here, which features a commercial promoting the Mario Bros. business. Older fans will likely recognize the

Dambuster Studios has announced its long-awaited zombie slaying sequel, Dead Island 2, will be released one week earlier than previously announced. The game will now be released on Friday, April 21 after originally set for February before it was delayed to April 28. Dead Island gameplay trailer Announced last year, the game is set in

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Looking back on Wales Interactive’s Five Dates in 2023, more than two years after its debut, reveals a fascinating glimpse into what life was like during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a game that leans heavily into the idea that the dating world has migrated online, forcing singletons

You may recall that, last week, Nintendo had confirmed in their latest Nintendo Direct that there would be a Collector’s Edition of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Collector’s Edition contains the game, an art book, a pin set and much more. Well, Nintendo may have unintentionally confirmed something else. It wasn’t

What’s the collective noun for escape rooms? A lock-in of escape rooms? A Hellraiser? Whatever it is, we’ve been getting them on the Xbox Store recently. And that’s been down to one developer: OnSkull Development IKE have been porting their long list of PC escape rooms to the black box, and they’ve got yet more

Forspoken sales don’t appear to be off to a great start. The game is already being outpaced by Dead Space remake at retail and Hi-Fi Rush on Steam. Now, Sony has revealed that it didn’t really do well in January 2023’s PS Store download charts either. Forspoken sales outpaced by older games With just four

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