a haunting in venice film review Every time Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot leaves the house, someone dies. In 2017 he hopped aboard the Orient Express and someone died. In 2022, he took a trip down the Nile, and someone died. He should probably only go places by bicycle. Agatha Christie wasn’t going to write Murder
Image: Nintendo Life Hello everybody, and welcome to the latest edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we took a look at Kirby Mass Attack for the Nintendo DS. It wasn’t quite as close as we were admittedly expecting, with the North American version easily beating the competition with 65% of the vote. This week,
It appears that the reason the computer-generated cutscenes and movies in the Smash Bros franchise stopped is because the team feared leaks. The news was revealed by series creator Masahiro Sakurai in a new episode of his YouTube show, which gives gamers a glimpse behind the scenes of game development. Sakurai says he was all
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 left its early campaign access period and officially launched today (November 10). However, players diving in should make sure that they also get this vital day-one patch downloaded. Outlined on the Call of Duty blog, the patch offers fixes and changes to the campaign, multiplayer UI, weapons, maps, and
I enjoy games where enemies are a resource as much as a hazard. It’s not enough that you can farm them for XP by killing them while they respawn, though. I also want to make the monsters appear myself. So it is in Mob Factory, a blend of tower defense and factory management in which
Dungeon Keeper is a stone cold, never-bettered classic of the management genre, no matter how many other games try to mimic its devilish setting and moreish progression. The only issue is that the 1997 original is a little ugly and constrained by modern standards. Enter KeeperFx, a long-running open source project to make the original
As a way of addressing fervent feedback from the Mortal Kombat 1 community, Warner Bros. has reacted to the backlash over the pricing of fatalities by handing out two free fatalities to those who dished out $10 at Halloween. The fatalities are part of the Seasonal Fatalities Bundle, slated for release next week, and it
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has said regarding the upcoming live-action movie of The Legend of Zelda, that Nintendo will “face an extremely high hurdle” in order not to disappoint fans of the video game series. In a recent investor’s presentation, Miyamoto said he’s discussed the project with Arad Productions chairman Avi Arad for “about ten years.”
Yong Yea, the voice actor and YouTuber who will be portraying the English version of Kiryu in Sega’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, showed off some of the work he’d done on the character and faced some criticism online in the process. Yea recently took to Twitter to share a brief comparison video of the
The main character of Swapshot has an ability that might seem like it’s something you’d want in real life. With a single bullet-like shot, you can swap places with whatever you’re firing at. It sounds powerful, but the more we think about it – and the more we play Swapshot – we realise that it
Image: Nintendo Life Ready for a spot of weekend gaming? Us too. Welcome back to another edition of What Are You Playing! Before we dive into our screen plans, let’s have a look back at what happened this week in the world of news. This week has been all about da movies as Nintendo announced
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Beta 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
The development studio behind the forthcoming Super Mario RPG remake for the Nintendo Switch family of systems is ArtePiazza. The news was discovered in the Intellectual Property Notices for the game which is now available for pre-load. If you are unfamiliar with the studio, they are the team who worked on a number of Dragon
The results are in, and all the winners of this year’s Golden Joystick Awards have been confirmed. The 41st annual awards were hosted today in the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK, with awards handed out for a total of 23 categories. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 has walked away with the most
The next update to Call of Duty’s Ricochet anti-cheat system comes with a unique feature that could see Call of Duty: Warzone cheaters plummeting from the skies as their parachute suddenly stops working. This amusing spin on traditional anti-cheat features represents Activision’s latest step to combat the rampant cheating that has become a nearly inescapable
The rumored Lego 2K Goal video game recently popped up on the PlayStation Store briefly before being taken down. The premature listing saw the game and its box art appear on PlayStation Store website overnight, before being quickly pulled down. The Take-Two Interactive published title was listed as featuring 1-4 player support, while nothing else
What is a birthday but a celebration that, despite all your struggles, you survived? It has been almost a year since the release of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, meaning it’s been now a full year of apologies, paused expansions, and transformative patches. And yet it lives. The co-op shooter now seems on firmer ground, and to