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Did you catch the 3rd Annual Impy Awards streaming live last night? If you did: thanks for tuning in! And our sincere apologies for subjecting you to The Connie Hat. You know the one. Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it, though – we’ve popped a video of the show onto our YouTube channel for
“There’s been a… murder”. Four little words that have reverberated around literature, films, TV and games for as long I can remember. Whether it’s Sherlock Holmes solving a crime, or Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on the case, a good murder mystery never gets old. Now we have the game Paradise Killer coming over to console
Image: Nintendo Life Back in early February we pointed you towards the 2022 State of Switch Survey, an annual process run by Switch Weekly that polls thousands of people on a broad range of topics. The results from those entries have now been published and are well worth a read; there were some interesting –
It’s Monday, which means it’s the start of a brand new week full of PS5 restock opportunities. For those in the US and UK, there will be multiple opportunities to buy the next-gen Sony system. Get the latest information in this PSLS PS5 Restock Update for March 28, 2022. Which US stores have PS5 stock
Summary Turbo Golf Racing is an arcade-style sports racing game for up to eight players online Racers compete by smashing oversized golf balls down sprawling, twisting fairways to the finish Sign-ups for the beta, which is coming to the Xbox Insider Program this April, are now open All of us here at Hugecalf Studios are
It may be an understatement to say that, out of all of the IPs that Nintendo is known for, the Pokemon franchise gets the most attention. There is not a week that goes by where you don’t hear about something about an upcoming game, the anime cartoon, an upcoming movie, or even some merchandise. This
Audio player loading… Xbox Game Pass is the best deal in gaming. You’ve probably heard that statement ad nauseam by now but it’s honestly worth repeating. No other service offers anything close to the sheer value that Microsoft’s gaming extravaganza provides, and its success is fundamentally why Sony is reportedly preparing its own answer to
Rumor has it that a Skate 4 reveal is coming soon as the game has been in playtesting for months. That’s according to reliable EA insider Tom Henderson, who reported for Exputer that Skate 4 is “well into” the quality assurance phase and can be found in Origin’s API under the code name “Project Dingo.”
Gem Wizards Tactics is a tactical strategy title for Xbox and Steam, released in February of 2021. Reminiscent of games like Final Fantasy Tactics, Pit People, Advance Wars, WarGroove, and many more, Gem Wizards Tactics is another notch in a list of cartoonish strategy games. Gem Wizards Tactics battles take place on a large hexagon
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Subscription services have become increasingly popular over the past few years, and leading the charge on the gaming front is Microsoft’s Game Pass service. It’s become an incredibly huge success for the company – with new games added on a weekly basis, and major titles arriving day one
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Honestly, given Rocket League’s prodigious success, it’s a surprise more games haven’t attempted to follow in its car tracks. Announced this week, Turbo Golf Racing looks to change that. It’s a multiplayer game about driving a car into a ball, but as the name suggests it’s drawing inspiration from those ruined good walks rather than
The excellent Kirby and the Forgotten Land launched yesterday for the Nintendo Switch family of system and our reviewer awarded the game a stunning 9.5/10. The Washington Post were given the chance to speak to Kei Ninomiya of Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning and Development Department (EPD) Production Group Two, Shinya Kumazaki, general director at HAL Laboratory,
Audio player loading… To say I was skeptical of the Baldur’s Gate Nintendo Switch port would be to sell my cynicism short. The idea of using an analog stick to play a crunchy, isometric RPG didn’t sit right with me. With so many objects to interact with, enemies to bash, spells to select, and party
To my mind the original PlayStation never had a good kart racer, but that might change sometime in the future – sort of. The developer of the recent Bloodborne PSX demake has announced their next project and yep, it’s Bloodborne Kart. There’s a teaser trailer below.
Netflix has acquired its third game development studio, Boss Fight Entertainment. Since the firm made mobile games available to its members around four months ago, Netflix has been building its in-house creative development team bit by bit. Its first acquisition was Oxenfree developer Night School Studio followed by Finnihs studio Next Games. “Boss Fight’s mission
Valve has announced its next Steam Fest will take place in June. Steam Next Fest: June 2022 Edition will start on June 13 and end the following week on June 20. As usual, you can expect tons of free demos from all sorts of upcoming games on Steam. This incentive gives developers a chance to