Image: Nintendo Life As we approach the end of 2023, naturally, there’s going to be a metaphorical flood of features and lists counting down the very best games of the year. We’ve already presented our picks, and you lovely lot have presented yours, but now it’s time to have a bit of fun with the
The holidays are here and we enter what is usually the quietest two weeks of the game release calendar. Despite the festivities, there are still a handful of new PS5 and PS4 games being released during the week beginning December 25, 2023. The last games to arrive during 2023 are all indie titles, and you
From big-name franchise revivals to small-scale indie productions, horror gaming on PlayStation was in good health in 2023. PlayStation LifeStyle selects 14 of the year’s best horror games on PlayStation consoles. Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom) [embedded content] Few remakes would come with such expectations as Resident Evil 4, and yet Capcom managed to exceed
Summary Director of Player One Trailers Gage Allen shares the level of attention and dedication to authenticity in the news trailer for Ark: Survival Ascended. The trailer not only showcases in-game adventures and triumphs, but the unique stories that have emerged from the community, reinforcing the impact that individuals can have in shaping these virtual
Promise you won’t tell the other children, but the RPS staff are actually complex magical spells cast by the Sugar Plum Fairy, as part of an age old pact with the ents of the forest where the RPS treehouse was built hundreds of years ago. Each year the Sugar Plum Fairy has to collect more
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has won multiple Game of the Year awards and it wouldn’t be proper to neglect to mention the game’s director, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, who is head of Entertainment Planning and Development at Group No.3. Popular entertainment site Variety has produced a feature praising the top five hundred entertainment
Function Unknown, the team behind Alpha Particle, probably didn’t expect their game to be compared with James Joyce’s Ulysses, but we’re going there anyway. Twice we’ve tried to read Ulysses, and twice we’ve bounced off it. It’s clearly stupendously written and has no doubt wooshed right over our heads. But it’s just so dense, so
It’s been confirmed that The Day Before’s servers will be shut down on January 22, 2024, as developer Fntastic has now “officially ceased operations.” In a statement posted on The Day Before Twitter / X account today (December 22), those who supported the game were thanked, but were told: “Unfortunately, without a development team, we
2023 hasn’t just been a banger year for quality video game releases — it’s also been a bloomin’ good year for video game music. At Nintendo Life, we usually give video game soundtracks a little shout-out in our overall lists, but this year, we want to do things a bit differently, because frankly, there’s just
Poor old Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. One of the best games of 2023 — it’s in my personal top 10, for what it’s worth, and has nearly 2,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam if you don’t want to just take my word for it — was never going to get a look-in when
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the RPS Advent Calender 2023! Each day reveals a new favourite game from this year, leading up to our GOTY. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Alright folks, it’s time for our actual Game Of The Year reveal. Do I actually have to
Reasons why Hi-Fi Rush is GOTY by Connor aged 25: Hi Fi Rush has the only good video game cat. Hi Fi Rush somehow has both a good licensed and original soundtrack at the same time. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings I dressed up as Santa to deliver the
Good day, Survivors! I’m Evan Wolbach, co-founder of Dead Drop Studios. We’re elated to tell you all about Railbreak, our aggressively fun on-rails arcade shooter, launching today on Xbox Series X|S! Since we last shared details with you, our first Unreal Engine 5 game has expanded in every way! A “Scream” You’ll Return to Again
Bleeping computer is reporting that Ubisoft had a data breach on 20th December and that the company’s internal software and developer tools were leaked online. The news came about as security research collective VX-Underground shared on social media screenshots of the company’s internal tools. They tweeted that the individual had access for roughly 48 hours until
Railbreak is on Xbox, PlayStation and PC From Dead Drop Studios comes a new on-rails survival horror shooter. Are you ready to blast your way through Railbreak on Xbox, PlayStation and PC? Available on Xbox Series X|S right now, as well as PlayStation 5 and PC is a new on-rails horror experience from the same
New rules have been laid out by regulators in China that aim to reduce the amount of money gamers spend within video games. As reported by Reuters, the rules were announced today (December 22), and will make changes to how games can reward their players for logging in and making purchases, on top of limiting
Image: Nintendo Life Looking back over the last 12 months, it’s been an incredibly fruitful year for gamers, and Switch has enjoyed an excellent seventh year on store shelves. Industry-wide layoffs in the latter half of the year made for a sobering counterpoint to the glut of great games, and at times the pandemic-related backlog
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the RPS Advent Calender 2023! Each day reveals a new favourite game from this year, leading up to our GOTY. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Christmas is a time for joy and togetherness, yes, but also lends itself to strange spirits, sacrifice,