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There’s nothing quite like the feeling you get in a puzzle game when you look at the big picture and the solution to the whole stage comes to you all at once. And the clever challenges in The Entropy Centre provided me with a regular supply of those “Eureka!” moments. Its time-bending, first-person brain teasers

Last week, we asked you to share haunted moments from the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s spooky highlights: ForgottenJasmin shares Seline leaning away from a gnarled creature with a gigantic single eye in Returnal. ke_23 shares a series of robed women floating in various positions across a red background

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective was released for Nintendo DS in 2010. It was a linear detective game written and directed by Shu Takumi, the creator of the the Phoenix Wright series, and it has you solving puzzles – and avoiding murders – by possessing objects and corpses. It’s just been rated for a PC release

God of War Ragnarok is out next week and ahead of the game’s release, developer Santa Monica Studio has revealed more than 70 accessibility features in the game.  PlayStation has been pushing the importance of accessibility in gaming more and more with each new release and Ragnarok is no different. The studio has been quite

Frogwares have released the first gameplay trailer for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened, and it’s a bit creepy. The Sherlock meets Cthulhu horror adventure sees a young Sherlock and John Watson undertake a chilling case that will forever “bond and scar the duo.” Sherlock Holmes The Awakened – First Gameplay Trailer What seems like a straightforward

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google has given up on streaming games to you from the cloud, but it’s moving forward with the expansion of Android games for Windows. The previous test of Google Play Games has expanded, giving players in the US and other

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube We have just about gotten over the chills that the cute but particularly creepy Little Inferno gave us when it was released on the Wii U back in 2012 (then the Switch in 2017). Fortunately, or unfortunately if you’re not ready to go back, Tomorrow Corporation has announced

Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring has announced that the Nintendo Switch has accomplished another milestone as it has now surpassed the lifetime sales of Microsoft’s Xbox One console in the United Kingdom. Dring says that Nintendo’s next target is Sony’s PlayStation 3 console. The Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 and the Xbox One launched in

If you were to get us to pick a football sequel, we’re not sure it would be for that of Golazo!. Ask the same question in regards a World Cup love-in and we’d be of similar mind. But Golazo! 2 is here alongside a Super Cup 2022 offering.  The original Golazo! released on Xbox back

You can fight corruption, cover it up, or just get in your car and drive this weekend during Free Play Days. Control, Serial Cleaner, and NHRA Championship Drag Racing: Speed for All are available this weekend for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday, November 3 at 12:01 a.m.

The claustrophobic press of frenzied melee, whistling of missiles, and thunderous charge of cavalry are often represented in games, but rarely so personally as in the Mount & Blade series. It’s not often I get the feeling I’m experiencing what must’ve been the needs of a commander at eye-level on the field trying to maneuver

Fortnite 22.30 update was released for Battle Royale, Saves The Day, and Creative modes, and the most important note for PS5 players is that it fixes trophies so they can finally be earned again. Of course, the patch also brought along a whole host of new content, gameplay improvements, and bug fixes, including heroes, weapons,

Get ready to forge new frontiers and experience Sonic the Hedgehog like never before in Sonic Frontiers! Sonic’s upcoming open-zone, action-adventure platformer is set to launch November 8 and marks a massive leap forward into the future of 3D action Sonic games.  With the return of fan-favorite characters like Sonic, Tails, and Amy, as well

Streaming service Netflix have acquired Spry Fox, the developers of Alphabear and Cozy Grove. Spry Fox say that all their existing games will remain available on their current platforms and the studio are continuing to work on Cozy Grove 2 and “a larger, non-violent MMO.”

According to a Bloomberg report, video game publisher Embracer has shut down Onoma, the studio formerly known as Square Enix Montreal, just months after its acquisition. Some staff will be transferred to Eidos Montreal, another studio owned by Embracer. This news comes just a few weeks after Onoma underwent a rebranding process where it adopted

Every once in a while, the video game industry provides an opportunity for a damn good hustle. A chance to make some cash through legitimate, albeit unintended, means. Moose runs in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, the party hat barons of RuneScape who trade colourful cosmetics for Scrooge McDuck levels of in-game gold, and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a time of glorious bounty in the PC hardware universe unlike any other. We’ve seen powerful new CPU architectures from both Intel and AMD launched within weeks of each other. We also witnessed the unabashedly potent RTX 40-series

Image: Kate Gray / Nintendo Life Disney Dreamlight Valley is a life sim game featuring a large number of characters from across the Disney universe. It launched in 2022 and has received regular updates ever since, with new characters, quests, and mechanics being added to the game. In this Disney Dreamlight Valley walkthrough, which includes

Koei Tecmo has finally nailed down a release date for their upcoming remake of Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse which has been confirmed to arrive on Nintendo Switch and other platforms on the 9th March. It would appear that Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse will be a digital only release by

Are you or any of your friends suffering from the fear of missing out at not being able to play the latest Call of Duty when so many others are? Well fear no more, as now everyone has access! Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is out now on Xbox, PlayStation and PC. Not to

Paris needs a hero… or two! Miraculous: Rise of the Sphinx, inspired by the beloved animated television series, “ZAG Heroez Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir”, lets you play as the titular heroes Ladybug and Cat Noir. As the game opens you must stop Pigeon Man from causing chaos in the streets of

Ever since I was a child rushing over to the VHS rewinder to queue up another showing of Ghostbusters, I’ve dreamt of a multiplayer game in its unflinchingly silly universe. Whether it’s the over-the-top spectral miscreants or the ridiculous ghost-sucking vacuums carried by phantom-catching vigilantes in janitor’s outfits, it’s hard to imagine a world more

The revenue generated from Square Enix games in Japan is no longer enough to recoup development costs and investment. The publisher said as much in its financial report for the year 2022, arguing that it had to sell its Western studios to Embracer because they were only focused on the development of “major” games, which

Ahhh, November. A month associated with cooling temperatures, warm family gatherings, and red-hot doorbuster deals. This month’s indie lineup features a variety of unique concepts: overconfident adventurers on a big boat, self-discovery through mask collecting, and lo-fi bleats to cause chaos to. And since they’re all available to download at PlayStation Store, you don’t have

Overwatch 2 developers Blizzard previously said that players would need to wait until season two for balance changes, but they’ve now changed their minds. “There are some Hero balance adjustments we’d like to make sooner,” and it includes tweaks to heroes D.va, Zarya, Genji, and Sombra.

Remember Mewgenics? The wacky cat-breeding roguelike is the brainchild of Super Meat Boy co-creator and The Binding of Isaac mastermind Edmund McMillen and has been in and out of the works for a decade. After being announced, put on hold, and restarted, it appears to have a new release window.  McMillen tweeted a gif of two

Microsoft has announced November’s Xbox Games With Gold offerings. Next month you will be able to download and play Praetorians – HD Remaster and Dead End Job. Dead End Job Launch Trailer Praetorians – HD Remaster is a real-time strategy game set during the era of the Roman Empire where your goal is to become

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Call of Duty is one of the most popular video game franchises in history — Sony has pointed out, as it tries to keep Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard. CoD could almost be considered a genre all by itself. Naturally,

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Update: Above is the new teaser trailer for Sonic Prime. It features plenty of familiar faces including Rouge the Bat. Enjoy! Original story [Thu 27th Oct, 2022 17:15 BST]: After months of speculation, we finally have a date for Netflix’s Sonic Prime. In a Twitter post from IGN,

The latest Japanese boxed software and hardware sales figures have come through for the week of 17th October, 2022 to 23rd October, 2022. The long-awaited debut of Persona 5 Royal on the Nintendo Switch proved to be a relative success as the game shifted 45,998 physical copies entering the charts at No.2, but it couldn’t