Grabbed on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Ask anyone who’s clocked shifts behind a till and they’ll tell you retail feels anything but cosy. I still wake up haunted by late-night inventory discrepancies and queues of furious shoppers who seemed committed to ruining whatever remained of my evening. Danish studio Crinkle Cut Games, however, believes running a
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Greetings, crew, as we pull up a chair and leaf through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It’s been a handful of months since Switch 2 arrived – honestly, time has flown. This marks the third monthly mailbag since launch, and the takes are bubbling over like neon margaritas at a LAN party. Something on
Read More“From substance to a brand-new kind of strength.” penned by Fraser Gilbert Fri, 22:30 We’re already aware that ASUS and Microsoft will share far more details about the ROG Xbox Ally handheld during next week’s Gamescom celebrations, yet now we’re promised another big Xbox unveiling courtesy of ASUS! This latest tease arrived via a brief
Read MoreAdditional Battlefield 6? by Ben Kerry Yesterday, midday Welcome to one more weekend on Xbox! There’s a stack to dive into over the coming days, including another round of the Battlefield 6 Beta – completely open to everyone on the console. This is what’s spinning in our drives this weekend: Ben Kerry, Staff Writer As
Read MoreGreetings to your Xbox game harvest for August 18-22! As the teaser says, next week brings a pair of colossal debuts: the eagerly awaited Black Myth: Wukong and the no-cost tactical shooter Delta Force. Dig a little deeper and you’ll spot more treats on the horizon—think Shantae Advance or the featured survival-RPG Sengoku Dynasty—and Game
Read MoreThe complete low-down by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 2:30pm Today’s squad-based FPS Delta Force lands on consoles mere days from now – bringing a narrative campaign, an extraction offering and a complete PvP multiplayer package to Xbox Series X|S. Because of that, we’re rounding up every crucial bit of intel in advance of the shooter’s imminent
Read MoreChat Corner: How Will You Spend Gamescom 2025? Stream squad, anyone? by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 4pm Photo: Gamescom In seven days, the continent’s largest games expo—Gamescom 2025—touches down, and the organizers promise its most sprawling edition yet. Scores of publishers have locked in their attendance, mixing hands-on demos on the show floor with a torrent
Read MoreWill lightning strike twice? Marcel Zurawka—the mind behind the viral Steam hit Bongo Cat—is packing a brand-new idle typing project for Gamescom as he hunts for a publishing deal. He won’t unveil the game in our Discord chat just yet; the demo build is purposely petite, reserved for eyes-only publisher meetings…Read More
Read MoreIt would be downright foolish for Wizards of the Coast—creators with the perfect moniker for stewarding Dungeons & Dragons—to forgo a sequel to Baldur’s Gate 3 after that title’s record-shattering triumph and the spotlight it’s thrown on the D&D label. Naturally, parent-company Hasbro…Continue Reading
Read MorePearl Abyss’ striking action title Crimson Desert is set to appear at next week’s Gamescom in Cologne, and if you won’t be attending, you can still get a sense of its progress by watching a fresh gameplay trailer. Explore additional details…Read More
Read MoreShould the hype somehow have passed you by, the latest Battlefield entry is presently stealing every headline. EA’s soon-to-release shooter is deep into its second closed-beta wave, and only a handful of days ago it was managing simultaneous Steam player numbers north of 400,000. Read more…Read More
Read MoreWhen skateboarding titles cross my mind, the very first association is the soundtrack—hearing Josh Freese’s faultless drum fills in The Vandals’ “Euro-Barge” during Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 was my earliest wake-up call, while later I strained to match the falsetto warfare of 3 Inches of Blood’s front-man howling “Deadly Sinners” in Tony Hawk’s Underground
Read MoreYour definitive Donkey Kong Bananza hub penned by Jim Norman Yesterday, 6:01pm Image: Nintendo Life Donkey Kong Bananza overflows with activities to tackle and sights to see. Lucky for you, the Nintendo Life crew has assembled the definitive Donkey Kong Bananza Guide. Below, we’re covering every angle of DKB — grab-lists for collectibles like Every
Read MoreImage: Nintendo We’d all swear that we’ve scribbled some clandestine catalogues—one for every machine we’ve ever hooked to a television—listing oddball or boundary-pushing titles we keep meaning to try. Occasionally you tick one off, more often you don’t. You get the idea. On the GameCube, my private picks start with Cubivore, extend to Eternal Darkness,
Read MoreAccessible on-site at the World Championships Pokémon Legends: Z-A has an October street date, yet attendees of the 2025 Pokémon World Championships can sample a Switch 2 demo this very weekend. First-hand accounts are beginning to surface, so we’ve collected the highlights so far — kicking off with our senior video producer Zion Grassl’s ‘hands-on’.
Read More“The project that never came to be” Picture: courtesy of Christian Whitehead on Bluesky Sonic Mania ranks among the finest entries in the franchise, and although fans crossed their fingers for a direct follow-up, it emerged a while back that SEGA aimed to leave pixel art behind, so the sequel was shelved. Back then, SEGA
Read MoreTo the stars! Image: Capcom The long-awaited freakin’ break has arrived, and our backlog awaits! Before we load up save files, though, here’s a swift recap of the week. Things were surprisingly hushed in Nintendo Land—no hint of a Direct, which feels odd after the trio of presentations we just saw. The big N quietly
Read MoreThis week on the Game Developer Podcast, Soft Rains imaginative director Joel Burgess and narrative lead Kait Tremblay dive into the creation of Ambrosia Sky, the most captivating release you’re going to learn about in 2025…Read More
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Read MoreSend us your bid by Robert Ramsey Yesterday, 5pm It’s felt like an eternity since Mafia 3 split the fan base; the wait for another entry has been painfully long. So does Mafia: The Old Country bring the widely adored series back on course? That verdict is yours to deliver. The Old Country flaunts a
Read MoreYesss by Sammy Barker Yesterday, 6pm It’s fantastic to witness a fresh wave of narrative-heavy, single-player experiences heading to PS5, and Woochi the Wayfarer is the most recent standout. The Joseon-era fantasy tale by Nexon and LoreVault surfaced via a concept teaser earlier in August, instantly turning heads thanks to its meticulously authentic period recreation.
Read MoreSkate, the free-to-play rebirth of EA’s iconic skateboarding franchise, is sliding ever closer to an imminent early-access debut. Ahead of that watershed moment, Full Circle has pushed out another behind-the-scenes blog to keep the hype rolling. The Grind Vol. 5 is now live for all to read, zooming in this time on player customisation, the
Read MoreFeast your eyes on a fresh 13-minute slice of gameplay by Sammy Barker Yesterday, 7pm A sprawling 13-minute gameplay reel for Crimson Desert has surfaced in the wake of the title’s recent slip to 2026. Although the news of yet another delay stings, this brand-new PS5 showcase should lessen the blow. It’s apparent that Korean
Read MoreSony might pocket only a $20 million return from the Netflix smash-hit by Sammy Barker Yesterday, 8pm Image: Netflix Chances are you’ve already come across K-Pop Demon Hunters. The picture has sat at the top of the Netflix film chart for an astonishing seven consecutive weeks, smashing platform records. If current momentum holds, it’s about
Read MoreCan a video game make you cry? That’s probably a silly question to ask anyone who’s sampled some of the best JRPGs the genre has to offer, so perhaps the better question is this: which games made you cry the most? That’s the question that was recently posed to Japanese RPG fans, and the responses
Read More(Image credit: HBO Max / DC Studios) Peacemaker season 2 reviews have begun to surface, but there are still three episodes that critics haven’t seen, and the show’s creator James Gunn says that’s very much on purpose. Only Peacemaker episodes 1-5 have been screened for critics – a “select few,” as Gunn tells entertainment journalist
Read MoreWe may never fully understand why Ubisoft decided to turn Assassin’s Creed into an open-world RPG series starting with Origins, but we can try to understand it from the perspective of the developers who were with the studio at the time. I had the chance to sit down with Alex Hutchinson, a Ubisoft veteran who
Read MoreYou’ve likely heard it once after French phenomenon Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 took over the world with baguettes and berets, or you could have heard it twice, but former Sony CEO Shawn Layden is here to tell you again: AA games are the promised land. “I think we’ve plateaued on the tech, frankly,” Layden says
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