Nintendo Shares 13-Step Procedure Detailing How To Replace Your Switch Joy-Con Battery

Image: Nintendo Life Earlier this month, Nintendo officially confirmed it would release hardware revisions in Europe featuring replaceable batteries. The procedure to replace the battery in the Switch Joy-Con controller has now gone live on Nintendo’s support page. Keep in mind this will only work with certain models of Joy-Con. It’s a 13-step process intended…

One Of Last Year’s Best Horror Games, Total Chaos, Is Getting A Low-Poly Retro Mode And It Looks Awesome

Developer Trigger Happy Interactive released its first-person horror game Total Chaos last year on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, and it became one of my favorite horror games of 2025. The game was great at launch, made even better with a New Game+ update that arrived earlier this year with a brand-new finale…

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is like playing classic ‘Vania on fast forward, with a whip to die for

Aaand relax. Having fought the first three bosses, slain a familiar parade of public domain monsters, and enjoyed many a crack of Castlevania’s new whip, I can confirm that Evil Empire hasn’t followed up The Rogue Prince of Persia with its first bad game. If you’ve been longing for this series to confidently get back…

Acclaimed 2024 PS5 RPG 60% Off on PlayStation Store

One of 2024’s best RPGs is over half off right now. The hit game from Sega can be picked up for a great price now on PS5. The hit Atlus RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is now available on the PS Store for a massive discount. The game is available now for $27.99, a whopping 60% off…

Doom Director Addresses The State Of id After Xbox Bloodbath

Doom: The Dark Ages maker id Software is one of the most storied game studios in Xbox’s portfolio and also one of the teams hit hardest in the latest round of 1,600 layoffs. Creative director Hugo Martin recently appeared on Twitch alongside community lead Joshua Boyle to stream the 2025 game’s new Revelations DLC and…

“Our job is to listen, learn, and improve”: Andreas Thorstensson on Goals’ future and the importance of player feedback

Tom is an expert in all things Fortnite or the latest RPG release, but is probably spending too much time on the latest EA FC game. Published: July 16, 2026 Multiple brand-new soccer games have come and gone in recent years, attempting to bring disenchanted players over from the likes of EA Sports FC, but…

GoldenEye 007 gets its best replacement in less than 1 month

If you’re a gamer of a certain age, you almost certainly recall hours spent sprawled across a bean bag chair, or on the lower bunk of a dorm room bed, or wherever else. You recall gripping the three-pronged Nintendo 64 controller in your sweaty hands, and maybe the smells that wafted your way from your…

Lady Deathstrike Faces Logan In New Marvel’s Wolverine Cinematic Trailer

A new cinematic trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine trades gameplay for an action-packed look at another villain closely tied to the titular mutant: Lady Deathstrike. The deadly assassin is the latest villain confirmed for Insomniac’s next Marvel action game. The video is a cinematic montage of Wolverine taking on enemies across rainy city streets, atop a…

Donkey Kong Bananza’s Soundtrack Has Been Added To Nintendo Music This Week

Image: Nintendo Nintendo Music has delivered a huge update this week, adding the Donkey Kong Bananza Switch 2 soundtrack. This latest update for the Switch Online app comes loaded with a whopping 229 tracks, with a runtime of 8 hours and 36 minutes. Nintendo further notes how this features “tracks for all of the Bananza…

Matt Damon Is In Fortnite Now, But He Was Almost In His Own Game Way Earlier

This week, Fortnite is adding multiple skins based on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey film, including one of Matt Damon as Odysseus. While this is the first time the actor’s likeness has been in a video game, that was nearly not the case. Way back in 2008, a little game called The Bourne Conspiracy released, and…