A new hotfix for The Finals has been released, which aims to improve the game’s skill-based matchmaking. The free-to-play first-person shooter (FPS) got a surprise launch during The Game Awards 2023 on December 7, and has already reached an all-time peak of 242,619 players according to SteamDB. It’s also in the top 10 most played
Image: Nintendo It’s that time — the annual tradition of seeing just how much time you’ve spent playing your Nintendo Switch! That’s right, Nintendo has dropped its Nintendo Switch 2023 Year In Review. This year’s edition breaks things down by how many games you’ve played this year, how many hours in total, what your top
Sony has revealed the full list of PS Plus Extra and Premium games for December 2023. Headlining PlayStation Plus Extra are games like Grand Theft Auto V and Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, which managed to leak earlier today. Meanwhile, PlayStation Plus Premium gets Mega Man and Thrillville. There will be 14 new games added to PS Plus
According to leaked documents from a ransomware attack against Insomniac Games, the studio may be working on a Spider-Verse video game. Earlier this week, hackers announced that they had obtained employee data as well as information about various projects (via Cyber Daily). Since then, the group has released an image of some of its collected
Update, 12/13/23: Bethesda announced last year that Fallout 4 would be receiving a free new-gen update for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2023. However, as the year comes to a close, Bethesda has delayed the update to next year. “Than you for your patience with us as we work on the Fallout 4
Voting for the PS Blog Game of the Year Awards 2023 is now open. All 18 categories reflect the best of PlayStation through this past year, which not only celebrate captivating new characters, sublime soundtracks, fantastic art direction, and much more, but also allow us a chance to acknowledge and thank creatives worldwide whose exceptional
Amid continuing issues that’ve been causing Baldur’s Gate 3 players on Xbox to lose their saves, Xbox Support has provided some steps you can take in order to avoid the issue until a proper fix arrives. As Larian acknowledged in a tweet earlier this week, the issue has been seeing some saves just flat out
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Omega ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the
Believe it or not, this coming Sunday will mark exactly one month since Nintendo officially released Super Mario RPG on the Nintendo Switch. Since then, Nintendo has marketed the game somewhat, but the company hasn’t released a single update for Super Mario RPG. Well, as of tonight, that has now changed. A brand new update
Bandai Namco has officially announced the Tekken 8 demo release date. It confirmed that players will be able to jump back into the game beginning later this week. According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, the Tekken 8 demo is set to arrive on PlayStation 5 on December 14, 2023. Following that, a demo
I’m not normally in a rush to post marketing videos in which developers talk about how great their new game is, but I need all the help I can get in understanding Metaphor: ReFantazio. The new RPG from the makers of Persona looks stylish, dense, exciting, and almost entirely baffling in its trailers, so 14
They may not admit it themselves, but Zen Studios needs to get back into the pinball good books. Their recent Pinball FX reboot left fans disappointed when it turned out they would need to re-purchase the tables they ‘owned’ from Pinball FX3. I, and many others, simply didn’t see the necessity and stuck with the
Fortnite developer Epic Games has taken to social media to reassure fans that the newly added Lego, Rocket Racing, and Festival modes are not limited-time events, but will be sticking around for the foreseeable future. In a post on Twitter, the official Fortnite page confirmed that these new games wouldn’t be going anywhere. “Howdy, friends,”
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube You know that the holiday season is well and truly upon us when publisher No Gravity Games rolls out its annual free game giveaway, and 2023 is no exception. The ‘Switchmas Wonderland’ Christmas giveaway begins today (11th December) and will run through until 21st December with one game
You won’t believe it, but GTA Online’s latest update revolves around you getting into the business of actually stealing cars. Don’t panic, it also includes some you can buy legally, like the upstanding citizen you’ve become. Yup, if you’ve been looking for an excuse to hop back into the large amorphous online blob that was
After years of attempted revivals, E3 is officially dead. The ESA has announced that the iconic gaming show will not be returning. In a brief tweet sent out on Tuesday, the ESA confirmed that it was time to say goodbye to E3. “After more than two decades of E3, each one bigger than the last,
Update, 12/12/23: After reports in November indicated that Free Radical Design, the team behind the TimeSplitters franchise that had been reformed in 2021 to create a new entry in the series, was facing a complete shutdown, the studio closure happened yesterday. Game Informer reached out to Free Radical Design parent company Embracer Group for a comment on
The Iron First tournament is coming to PS5. To prepare my mind, body, and soul for the occasion, I spent a few hours training with the latest build of Tekken 8. After trading blows with some of the world’s best across a variety of new modes, I can’t wait to earn my spot among the