Do you ever think about hand-drawn animation? Like really, really think about it? And the absolutely massive amount of artwork that goes into even making a single short walk cycle? StudioMDHR certainly thought about it a lot during the development of Cuphead. Then the studio turned right around for Delicious Last Course and decided to … Read more
Image: Capcom The growth and mainstreaming of esports has helped shine a spotlight on an important but often overshadowed corner of gaming culture. But it’s also occasionally led some developers to focus on the high-end competitive side of their games while the casual audience at home languishes. street fighter 6 feels in some ways like … Read more
It’s not E3 week — it’s better. It’s fake E3. Although the Electronic Entertainment Experience (what E3 stands for, as of 2021) didn’t formally happen this year, indie games still found their way to shine this week. There were so many directs we could have done a direct of directs. But enough of repeating that … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on Youtube Mario Strikers: Battle League is the first entry in Next Level Games’ Mario Strikers series for a long time, and while it’s a familiar (and excellent) romp, this new match brings a few new tricks up its sleeves — we mean, football socks. Battle League introduces Gear which you … Read more
Image: Activision Blizzard / Kotaku Nearly year after an explosive lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing kicked off a firestorm of sexual harassment and discrimination allegations at Activision Blizzard, a Board of Directors working group investigating the company has released its findings. Led by a 25-year veteran of the call of … Read more
Attention all heroes of Overwatch! Overwatch 2 is coming October 4 on PS4 and PS5 as an always on, free-to-play experience. Team up with friends on PlayStation and enjoy the reimagined 5v5 gameplay featuring all new content rolling out on a seasonal basis. Daily challenges and frequent updates means there is always something new to … Read more
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) A couple years ago, a small Croatian development team called Room-C set out to create a new game set in Arthurian mythology called The Hand of Merlin. Following a roguelite structure and based around high-difficulty, tactical gameplay, the release quickly gained a passionate fanbase that eagerly awaited each new iteration … Read more
Developer Spiders is best known as something of a BioWare tribute studio. Its most successful game, GreedFall, is the latest in a modest line of RPGs that draw heavily upon the likes of Mass Effect and Dragon Age. But Spiders’ next game, Steelrising, is nothing like a BioWare game at all. Instead, it’s an ode … Read more
Destiny 2 Bungie If I could pick only one word to describe the loot/crafting chase in Destiny 2’s Season of the Haunted it would be… Incandescent. That’s the name of a new perk that launched this season alongside Solar 3.0, to synergize with ones of its keywords, Scorch, which burns targets and when stacks of … Read more