For my money, one of the most interesting aspects of a game’s creation is the composition and orchestration of its music. With Final Fantasy, that’s doubly the case because for me, and I imagine for so many others, its soundtrack is one of its best parts. Be it lo-fi channels, new arrangements, compilations, piano versions,
Month: June 2023
Summer Game Fest organiser and journalist, Geoff Keighley, has spoken about the ill-fated E3, which used to take place each June in Los Angeles and held presentations from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Asked whether he thought Summer Game Fest had anything to do with the collapse of E3 he said that “E3 sort of killed
If you’ve been popping your head around the horror space for the last decade you’ve likely heard something about the System Shock remake. It’s been through a long a bumby ride, through Kickstarter, a total restart of development, and Covid-19 delays. After all these hurdles, Shodan is back and – by all accounts – she’s
If you’ve already seen Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, you might have noticed a small gameplay cameo from Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2. It was only a bit over a week ago that we got our first look at gameplay in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which finally confirmed that Peter will don the symbiote suit, and we’ll also be
God of War franchise is the most profitable merchandise brand for PlayStation, according to a former Sony employee. Aaron Kaufman, who spent nearly 8 years leading marketing activities at Santa Monica Studio, claims that God of War products are the most popular gaming products among PlayStation fans. God of War franchise licensing strategy working wonders
Diablo IV’s potential for adventure knows no bounds. With its remarkable replayability and highly customisable gameplay, delving into the depths of diverse builds is an integral part of the excitement. Today, we present three favorite builds personally chosen by the developers themselves. With the official launch just around the corner, why not try one of
People might have been sleeping on Swordship, which is as unfortunate as it sounds. It’s a dodge ‘em up about luring enemies into attacking each other while swooshing down waterways. Clean, is the word that comes to mind: a purity of purpose. Everything looks and sounds exactly like it should, while making little metal chumps
Image: Nintendo Life The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is pretty darn scary. I don’t mean in the same sense that Majora’s Mask is unsettling for its whole run-time, and there certainly isn’t a moment like that cutscene in Twilight Princess. But even now with my ridiculously overpowered, full hearts Link, Tears of
Ah, Katamari, our dearest chickadee, we love you. There can’t be many games that have created their own genre, and done it so definitively and eccentrically that nobody else has dared to produce a copycat. There’d be a riot if they did. People would probably picket their offices while wearing King of the Cosmos cosplay.
Good news, citizens of Los Santos – you can now press a button to run in GTA 5 rather than spam the action button until your thumb turns blue. That’s right; a full decade after we were first introduced to the carnage that is Grand Theft Auto 5, developer Rockstar has added a simple little
Despite what fans might want, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre game director has had to remind fans that Hollywood can’t add in everything from the series. Hollywood is annoying. Bigwigs like to get bogged down in licensing stuff that no one really cares about and is just a way to protect IP that most people
The excellent video game composer Grant Kirkhope who helped create the music for the latest Mario + Rabbids game has seemingly completed his work on the franchise. Mr. Kirkhope took to Twitter to say that his eight years of writing music for a Mario game has come to an end, adding that “it’s been absolutely
If you’re a moogle lover, you got lucky, because the loveable creatures almost didn’t make it into Final Fantasy 16. Moogles have fairly consistently appeared in the Final Fantasy series over the years, though were noticeably absent from the most recent numbered entry, Final Fantasy 15. They’re also easily the best creatures in the entire
You may be aware of the EpiXR games that appear on the Xbox Store every month. Sometimes called Paper Flight, other times Murder Diaries or Life of Fly, and very, very often Aery, these are all variations on the same theme. You slowly – ever so slowly – fly around 3D environments hunting for feathers,
One of the major releases out on the Nintendo Switch this week is the Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection – offering up not one or two, but the first three games in the series, remastered in HD. If you have been enjoying this new collection, feel free to share your thoughts, because apparently, the Atlus development
Synced is an upcoming third-person rogue-looter shooter where nanotechnology has become the backbone of civilization. In the wake of a cataclysm known as the Collapse, the nanomachines have turned against their creators, consuming humans to propagate themselves and transforming into the deadly Nanos. Players will team up in squads of three to encounter intense PvE
If you reside anywhere in the Venn Diagram of ‘people who love cats’ and ‘people who like hidden object games’ then A Building Full of Cats is a no brainer. Not only are you getting a polished little puzzler for £2.49, but you are supporting a charity that encourages people to adopt cats rather than