Ben Holcroft

Image: Nintendo Back in June, Nintendo and Koei Tecmo released the first wave of DLC content for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – bumping the game up to version 1.2.0. It’s now sent version 1.3.0 live ahead of the Expansion Pass ‘Wave 2’ DLC, which officially arrives later this week on 29th October. It makes … Read more

Image: Tolkien Enterprises, Inc. / New Line Cinema Corporation Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has had its final hurrah, and will now gracefully ride off into a sunset of acclaim, arguments about Sora and competitive tournaments. Nintendo’s platform fighter (for that’s the genre name) leads the way in that particular kingdom, but it has had to … Read more

Tomorrow, the 26th October, pre-orders for the physical edition of #DRIVE go live. The low-poly endless driving game is all about enjoying the ride, letting players pick a car and just go, down a bunch of different roads that each have their own obstacles and challenges. The physical edition will come with a game box … Read more

Image: Nintendo Life When it comes to modern video games, there are few more polarising terms than ‘roguelike’. That divisive descriptor draws some players like moths to a flame, while others run a mile at the mere whisper of it. These days, it often feels like ‘roguelike’–which refers to dungeon crawler Rogue from 1980–is attached … Read more

No More Heroes III for Nintendo Switch – Grasshopper’s latest release Just a day after we heard how the famous video game creator Suda51 would love to reboot or remake older Nintendo IP, he’s now announced his development studio will be working under Chinese video game giant NetEase. Yes, that’s right – Grasshopper Manufacturer is … Read more

The Pokémon Sword and Shield distribution allowing fans to pick up Shiny versions of both Zacian and Zamazenta is now live across Europe, the US, Canada, and select parts of Asia. We have all the currently-known details for you below, with thanks to Serebii for compiling parts of the list, and will make sure to … Read more

Crytek’s Crysis Remastered Trilogy arrived on the Nintendo Switch recently and while we thought it was pretty impressive, there’s definitely some issues present. Fortunately, the developer has heard players’ feedback and has now resolved a lot of the reported problems (specifically tied to the remastered version of Crysis 2 and Crysis 3) in the latest … Read more

Chris Pratt might have been cast as the voice of Super Mario in Illumination’s upcoming animated movie – due out next year, but for the good majority of Nintendo fans around the world, the original voice of Mario will always be Charles Martinet. Although he voiced Nintendo’s mascot before the N64 era, his voice was … Read more

Image: Nintendo Life When it comes to modern video games, there are few more polarising terms than ‘roguelike’. That divisive descriptor draws some players like moths to a flame, while others run a mile at the mere whisper of it. These days, it often feels like ‘roguelike’–which refers to dungeon crawler Rogue from 1980–is attached … Read more

Image: ZA/UM We made it through another week, well done everyone! There was a varied slate of news this week, with one of the slightly disappointing stories being allegations of poor management practices at Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam, but in happier news we also had the arrival of Sora in Smash, we confirmed that Crysis … Read more