Month: July 2022

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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