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News How Much Would You Pay for Your PS5 Games? Dev Says Industry Is Waiting for GTA 6 to Hike Prices

The thorny issue of game prices always proves controversial. There are some, raised in the early 90s, who recall the hundred of notes they dropped on Super Nintendo cartridges like Street Fighter 2 Turbo. There are others, raised on a diet of PS2 in the noughties, who remember getting a full physical game for about $50, and it didn’t... Continue reading...

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News This Tiny Piece Of Plastic Could Save Your N64's Analogue Stick

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News AYANEO Pocket Micro - A Truly Portable Android Emulation Handheld

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News "Keep Your Peaks And Valleys!" - Sakurai Explains Fighter Balance In Smash Bros.

The legendary Masahiro Sakurai is back with another look into the intricacies of game development on his YouTube channel and, of course, he's drawing from his wealth of Smash Bros. Ultimate anecdotes to make things clear. Today's lesson is all about character balance and the need to stress their differences to... Continue reading...

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News Guilty Gear Strive Confirmed For Switch In 2025, Includes Rollback Netcode

Update [Fri 30th Aug, 2024 17:30 BST]: It's official — Guilty Gear Strive is coming to Switch on 23rd January 2025. It will also be getting a physical release, Arc System Works has confirmed on its website. The game will launch with all 28 currently Continue reading...

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News The Return Of Lynels And Five Other Exciting Reveals In The Latest Zelda Trailer

A new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is here and we are excited! So excited, in fact, that we have watched it another 20 times to narrow down our top reveals — the things that really got us beaming cheek to cheek. These aren't blink-and-you'll-miss-'em details like those we spotted after... Continue reading...

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News 'Assault Suits Valken Declassified' Is Getting A Limited Switch Physical Release

Limited Run has revealed a physical release of Assault Suits Valken Declassified, the Switch re-release of the 1992 SNES mecha classic (also known as Cybernator). Number 202 in the boutique publisher's Switch series, the release comes in two flavours: the standard version for $34.99 USD, and a Classic... Continue reading...

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News Civilization VII’s Creative Director Talks New Ages, Frenzied Drama & Being On Switch Day One

Out of the Seven Wonders of the World, we can add one more to the list in recent years, a triumph of human engineering achievement almost as jaw-dropping as the Great Pyramids of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Sid Meier's classic 4X Civilization series now operates fine and dandy on Nintendo... Continue reading...

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News Become a Combat Coach, Adopt a Pet, and Win the Wardance in Honkai: Star Rail's Next Huge Update

Unlike Genshin Impact, which just received its massive new sequel-sized update, Honkai: Star Rail is padding time ahead of its next important story update. That’s brought the Trailblazer back to the Xianzhou Luofu, where they’re currently dealing with a prison break involving a particularly problematic enemy. That storyline... Continue reading...

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News Let the Astro Bot PS5 Launch Trailer Tide You Over Until Release

To mark next week's launch, Sony has today published the launch trailer for PS5 exclusive Astro Bot alongside a behind-the-scenes look at the platforming gameplay featured in the experience. Here's the launch trailer: And this is the behind-the-scenes deep dive, featuring commentary from studio director... Continue reading...

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News Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta Is Available Now On Xbox Game Pass (August 30)

The time has come to test out the newest Call of Duty game! Yep, the Black Ops 6 Beta is now live for Xbox Game Pass members and pre-order purchasers - and we've got quite a lot of time to get stuck into this chunk of the game's multiplayer offering. In total, Game Pass players have more than Continue reading...

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News Are You Buying Star Wars Outlaws For Xbox Series X|S?

Star Wars Outlaws is officially out in the wild, with the team over at Massive Entertainment bringing the first-ever open world Star Wars game to Xbox today, August 30. We've already been playing this one in the run up to its public launch - and we've been very impressed with the game so far. Outlaws strips away just... Continue reading...

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News Stalker 2 Hits The Headlines For Apparently Running At '25FPS' On Xbox Series S

Last week, we learnt that Stalker 2 has a 60FPS performance mode on Xbox Series X - but today, the game's Xbox Series S specs are causing some controversy online. According to outlet wccftech, developer GSC Game World only has the Series S version running at "25ish FPS" right now, with more optimisation to be do Continue reading...

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News The MSX Port Of Hydlide Is Coming To Nintendo Switch Next Week

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News Donkey Kong Country's Developers Are Reuniting For An EGX Panel Later This Year

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News A Bunch Of King Of Fighters Games Are Currently 50% Off On Switch, Xbox One, And PS4

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News Banjo-Kazooie Is The Latest N64 Game To Be Fully Decompiled

Fans and coders have been working on decompiling multiple classic Nintendo 64 games over the years, with Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Perfect Dark, and Majora's Mask just being a handful of titles they've managed to revert to source code. Now, a Nintendo Life favourite is joining the roster of decompiled N64 games (thanks to CM30... Continue reading...

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News Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Trailer Introduces Us To The 'Still World' And Dungeons

Nintendo has dropped a brand new trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and we finally know a little bit more about those rifts that cover Hyrule. The Still World is a brand new location that probably reminds you of the Dark World by its name alone, but it's a little bit more than that. In these rifts, Hyrule is... Continue reading...

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News The Plucky Squire Will Be Narrated By Shrek In Brazil (Kind Of)

Gorgeous-looking storybook adventure The Plucky Squire will, rather brilliantly, be localised into 11 different languages with full voice acting. Developer All Possible Futures made this announcement on Twitter yesterday and shared the full localisation credits (again, brilliant), but it was what followed that made us smile the most... Continue reading...

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News Gundam Breaker 4 (Switch) - A Return To Form That Focuses On The Series' Strengths

In many ways, Gundam Breaker 4 represents a fresh start for Bandai Namco’s mecha action series. Not only is this a return to the roots after the divisive New Gundam Breaker didn’t go over so well with the fanbase, but this marks the first time that the mainline series has come to either the Nintendo Switch or Western audiences... Continue reading...

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