40 Years Of Zelda’s Legend

Matt Mercer Critical Role, Ganondorf’s voice actor My foray into a lifetime of gaming and storytelling was informed deeply with my childhood acquisition of an original NES, and along with that, The Legend of Zelda absorbed me entirely. I remember following up with the (underrated) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link while chowing on NES…

Starfield’s Terran Armada DLC is here, accompanied by its transformative Free Lanes update

It’s been a rough road for Starfield. Touted as The Elder Scrolls in Space and the next evolution of the Bethesda RPG, it’s struggled to have the same impact as its sister franchise, dwarfed by both Fallout and The Elder Scrolls in terms of both scale and acclaim. Two years and seven months on from…

Kerbal Space Program rockets to its highest concurrent player count on Steam in more than 10 years

Maybe it’s a coincidence and maybe it’s not, but as the Artemis 2 spacecraft comes rolling around the moon like Jimmy Kirk and co. heading off to save the whales, the aging reach-for-the-stars simulator Kerbal Space Program is seeing a major uptick in players on Steam—according to SteamDB, achieving the highest concurrent player count the…

Canceled Game ‘Would Have Been Crimson Desert’ Says Avalanche Head

Avalanche Studios, the Swedish dev team behind the Just Cause series and 2015’s Mad Max, has been forced to cancel almost as many games as it’s actually ended up releasing. However, according to co-founder and former CCO Christofer Sundberg, the studio’s WW1/medieval/fantasy game AionGuard is the cancellation that still stings the most. Sundberg recently sat…

Marathon's Knife Is No Longer A Miniature Halo Energy Sword

Marathon’s latest update brings its mighty knife down a few pegs, with developer Bungie reducing its lunge distance and majorly nerfing the amount of bonus damage granted by the Melee Damage stat. Though it might not seem like it at first glance, Marathon’s knife, a weapon every runner comes equipped with automatically, is among the…

How To Get Your Soulframe Preludes Early Access Code From Game Informer

Soulframe, the fantasy MMO from Warframe developer Digital Extremes, is the latest game to grace the cover of Game Informer! The digital issue is now live, meaning you can pore through all 14 pages of our Soulframe cover story and dive into previews, reviews, and features about The Legend of Zelda’s 40th Anniversary, the failures…

Slay the Spire 2 Necrobinder guide

How do you play The Necrobinder in Slay the Spire 2? In an effort to stop the monsters from emerging from the Spire and spilling into The Capital, 12 explorers set out on an expedition to save their town. Though they never made it home, two of them gave birth to a child inside the…

Super Mario Galaxy Movie Characters Compared, Film Vs. Game Designs – Which Are Best?

Image: Nintendo Life The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been out in the wild for nearly a week now, so we thought it was only right to take a look at its new faces and see how they match up to their game counterparts. Those with a really good memory might remember that we did…

Will Xbox Manage To Create ‘Something Legendary’ With The Next Halo?

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching…

Starfield (PS5) Review: Never Been a Better Time To Jump In

While not a Cyberpunk 2077-style disaster, the launch of Starfield was certainly underwhelming. Rather than having a ton of bugs and glitches, the latest action role-playing game from Bethesda failed to be captivating. Now over two years, many updates, and a duo of expansions later, Starfield arrives on PS5 as the best it has ever…