“That’s the beauty of video games, it’s our way of life”. While there are often discussions around the merits of gaming as an artform, we perhaps talk less about examples of games helping to inspire other contemporary art. Yet as years pass it’s an inevitability, as the role of games in the lives of millions […]
This Star Fox member is going on a new adventure. A modder known as Gagnetar previously released a Half-Life 2 mod that replaced Alyx Vance with Krystal from the Star Fox series. Now, in an update, the same individual has taken this mod to the next level – by getting the original VA of Krystal, […]
Could there be new info? Trainers got a lot of details about Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet when the new generation was first revealed in February. So when is the next update? Well, there might be something planned for next week – with claims a Japanese Pokémon Variety show called ‘PokéDoko 4’ could possibly have […]
See for yourself. In case you missed it, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will be getting some additional DLC in the near future. While The Mandalorian Season 1 DLC is already available, The Mandalorian Season 2 icons have now been leaked (via Reddit). It gives LEGO Star Wars fans a first look at the […]
What a wicked game to play. There was a time before I knew about killing games. Before Hunger Games, before Danganronpa, before Squid Game. And then, I played 999. On the face of it, killing games seem sociopathic: We tend to follow a single “player” who is unwittingly enrolled in a game where only the […]
Time to hit the deck. This article is part of our new experimental series, Backlog Club, where we (Nintendo Life!) pick a game that’s likely to be on our list of “games we should get around to playing”, and then we (NL + you!) spend the next month playing that game. This is the halfway […]
Will be a ‘G-Mode Archives+’ release. G-Mode has announced it will release the Atlus-made RPG Megami Tensei Gaiden: Shinyaku Last Bible as a ‘G-MODE Archives+’ title for Switch eShop. As you might already know, this is a spin-off of the Megami Tensei series, and was originally released on mobile devices in Japan in 2007. Read […]
A long weekend? More time for video games. If you celebrate it, Happy Easter! If not, we hope you at least have a nice, long weekend, or perhaps you’re just going to relax more than normal. Whatever you’re doing, we hope video games factor into your plans. This week, we got a new Fire Emblem […]
“We’ve had setbacks”. Remember Mineko’s Night Market? It was originally announced in August 2018 by Meowza games, and is a narrative-driven lifestyle game about a girl named Mineko who has just arrived at her new home on an island. While it was due to arrive some time ago, it seems the developer has had some […]
Director took inspiration from Pokémon, EarthBound and Zelda. Disney and Pixar have just released their latest animated movie Turning Red. It’s about a 13-year-old girl named Mei Lee who becomes a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited or feels a certain way. It turns out the “chunky cute aesthetic” throughout the movie was […]