Now that the excitement of the new PS Plus launch has subsided, players may be looking at new games to get their next fix. The good news is that there are plenty of PS5 and PS4 games on their way throughout July 2022, with new games arriving as early as July 5. Here is a
Month: July 2022
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube SGDQ, or Summer Games Done Quick, is a speedrunning charity fundraising marathon that wrapped up last weekend with a total of over $3 million raised for Doctors Without Borders. It included a run of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, a tense relay race in Super Mario Maker
Mary DeMarle, narrative designer and lead writer on Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, and on the more recent Guardians Of The Galaxy, is now senior narrative director at BioWare. The switch comes just a couple of months after Embracer Group bought Eidos Montreal and said they saw potential for Deus Ex spin-offs, sequels
The Street Fighter 6 modern controls setting “is not an easy mode,” says the game’s director, Takayuki Nakayama. Some fans in the fighting game community are concerned that the SF6 Modern Control Type setting, which simplifies inputs for special moves in similar fashion to Smash Bros. controls, will make official competitions too easy or break
After initially releasing in Japan a literal decade ago, Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally making its way to PS4 in the west. Phantasy Star Online 2 first released on PC in Japan exactly a year ago today (July 4), but didn’t see any kind of western release until 2020. And while its first home
Why couldn’t this be a real sport? This was the question at the very forefront of our thoughts during our time with Roller Champions, as an actual real life sport like this could be absolutely amazing. Roller skating/blading meets basketball in a skatepark? Sign us up today! Roller Champions is the latest free to play
News has emerged that Nintendo has updated their trademark for the Donkey Kong franchise. You might not find that all too surprising as that’s what companies do with their IP, however, the new trademark has updated language which applies specifically to Donkey Kong video games, stating that the trademark is for “downloadable programs for portable
Rabbids: Party of Legends is out now on Xbox One (and Xbox Series X|S through backward compatibility), delivering a brand-new multiplayer Rabbid party-game adventure packed with wacky games and chaotic fun. After a trip in their washing machine goes awry, the Rabbids find themselves in a mythological world inspired by the classic Chinese novel, “Journey
Image: Nintendo Try not to go bananas over this, but Nintendo has filed a “new” trademark for the Donkey Kong series. This one is seemingly a little different from the usual ones. Instead of another stock-standard renewal, it actually seems to have been updated to mention “downloadable programs for portable and electronic consoles”. It’s already
Last month 343 Industries confirmed that a playtest would take place for Halo Infinite’s campaign co-op, and now a date is set in stone. Those that are lucky enough to take part in the playtest will be able to drop in with their friends starting the week of July 11, as announced in a Halo
Looking for new PS5 and PS4 games to play? You’ve come to the right place! Those who’ve been with PlayStation LifeStyle since its early years will remember our weekly new games and monthly new games lists. Seeing a strong demand for PlayStation only-release lists, we’ve decided to resurrect them. So what’s in store for the
Are you unable to play PS Plus Extra, Premium DLC content because it appears locked? Fret not, you’re not the only one and there’s nothing wrong with your account or licenses. Following the worldwide rollout of the revamped service, subscribers to the new tiers have reported that they can’t play DLC content in games like
When Rogue Lords became available to review, we were feeling roguelike fatigue. Our calendar on the wall with ‘Days since the last roguelike’ was only showing a week or so, and we were hankering for something with a beginning, middle and end. Perhaps a story to lead us by the hand. But for all our
Spike Chunsoft has revealed a number of Nintendo Switch game projects during the company showcase at this weekend’s Anime Expo 2022. The studio gave fans a look at the latest game in their science adventure series, Anonymous;Code, which is coming to the Nintendo Switch family of systems in the west next year and promises to be another
Ubisoft are switching off online services for several older singleplayer games, including Anno 2070, Far Cry 3, Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. For several of those games, that means that as of September 1st, “the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable,” according to an Ubisoft support page.
Think of a game in which you control a character (so no Tetris or anything) — go ahead, any game! Now, chances are, whichever game you’ve picked, its protagonist is either young or, at the most, middle-aged. You’ve got the likes of Link, Mario, Samus, Cloud, Joker, Neku, Scott Pilgrim… We could go on, but
YouTuber Bryan Paul of channel PSVR Without Parole, who’s got a pretty good track record when it comes to PSVR news and leaks, has claimed to have heard that the PSVR 2 cable can be detached and replaced. As we’ve previously learned, the end of the cable that goes into the PS5 console is USB-C while
Sony’s free six-month PS5 Apple TV + offer is due to end on July 22nd, exactly a year after it was first announced. So if you haven’t already, right now is the time to claim the free trial, at the end of which you can choose to continue your subscription for $4.99/month until cancellation. PS4 users
Greetings Travelers! This is your Genshin Impact dev team, inviting you into the summertime of Teyvat with Genshin Impact’s Version 2.8, Summer Fantasia, coming on July 13! The Golden Apple Archipelago is once again open with a different look, bringing a variety of plots, stories, challenges, and rewards. Get ready to delve into realms you’ve
Dungeon crawling is by no means a new experience, with folks hacking and slashing their way through deadly caverns for as long as I can remember. Occasionally though, it can pay off to breathe fresh life into the legendary sub-genre; just take a look at the success of Moonlighter, which has you running a shop
The approval ratings for the various Nintendo directors has been revealed for 2022 and most of them have slightly declined over last year, especially those for Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa, who had a 96.86% approval rating in 2021 which has slipped to 88.32% in 2022. The votes were cast during Nintendo’s 82nd Annual General Meeting
Final Fantasy 14 got a Letter from the Producer LIVE broadcast today that introduced the upcoming Patch 6.2 – Buried Memory and its island sanctuaries update. The patch will also bring a plethora of other content including new quests, a dungeon, trials, 8-player raid, and a variety of balances and gameplay improvements. Final Fantasy 14
The Xbox’s love for Outrun continues with Pure Chase 80’s. Like Horizon Chase Turbo, Slipstream and Hotshot Racing before it, Pure Chase 80’s is nostalgic for a time when shiny red sports cars accelerated towards a pixelated horizon; where the only means of cornering was a drift; and straights were spent pumping your fists to
Image: Nintendo Life With long-running rumours of a GoldenEye 007 re-release coming soon (pah, ‘soon’ my Aston!), we’ve once again been thinking about Rare’s seminal N64 shooter. Mention ‘James Bond’ and ‘games’ in the same sentence and gamers of a certain age will get a faraway look in their (golden)eye as they recall crawling through
Starting a cult isn’t easy work, but somebody’s got to do it in Massive Monster’s Cult of the Lamb, which hits consoles and PC next month. Fortunately, the team behind the devilishly cute game has released a new trailer with tips and tricks to start, and maintain, the best cult. The first step is simple:
The Tour De France, the grandest race in professional cycling, started today. Across three weeks, 176 cyclists will ride 3328 kilometres (2068 miles) winding through France, Denmark, Belgium, and Switzerland, including the Alps and Pyrenees. As a keen cyclist and avid Tour watcher myself, I’m excited. So in celebration, over the coming weeks I’ll be
Microsoft, the company that brought us furry Sonic controllers and a Far Cry 6 console that resembled a bomb, has unveiled its latest kooky Xbox Series X sweepstakes, and it may be the coolest/dumbest one yet. Hot on the heels of the premier of Thor: Love and Thunder on July 8, the company is giving
The new PS5 controller might be a cool bit of kit, incorporating some impressive features that help to enhance next-gen games, but it has one weakness: battery life. Thankfully, for those that know how to stop PS5 controller battery drain issues, you can buy hours of extra time without the need to charge. Here’s a
Sucker Punch Productions, the studio behind 2020’s hit new IP Ghost of Tsushima, has revealed it is not working on anything related to its previous Infamous and Sly Cooper franchises. The studio also says that no other developer is working on projects related to the franchises. This news comes from a new blog post highlighting Sucker Punch’s 25th