Nintendo Life eShop Selects (March 2026)

Honourable Mentions March has been surprisingly stacked, and while the months ahead look a little calmer, that just means you have more time to play some of these games that didn’t quite make the cut. As always, some of these are getting physical releases later in the year, but for now, they’re digital-only. We’re missing…

Halo Studios Confirms Major Reveal To Take Place Later This Year

We’ve been waiting a while for Halo Studios to reveal what’s next with the Halo franchise, and now we officially have a month to put in our diaries – the developer says October 2025 is when we’ll be finding out more details. Specifically, it’ll be at the Halo World Championship 2025 between October 24th and…

PS Store Gets Long Overdue Update PS5, PS4 Users Begged For

Just before the weekend, Sony quietly rolled out a new PS Store update that PS5 and PS4 players have been begging for. After years of flying under Sony’s radar, several notorious shovelware publishers have been banned from the storefront, and their games have been nuked. Stealth PS Store update removed hundreds of PS5, PS4 shovelware…

In 2007, two game music GOATs collaborated on the criminally underrated soundtrack to a similarly underrated D&D RPG

Critical Hit Welcome to Critical Hit (formerly known as Soundtrack Sunday), where I celebrate and lament all things videogame music, audio design, and the ways our favourite games make our ears tingle. I love Neverwinter Nights. I would count myself among the top 100, maybe even top 50 fans in the world of this joint…

Realistic FPS Gray Zone Warfare bounces back as a transformative, community-led update boosts players by 1000%

The Gray Zone Warfare Spearhead update has seen a colossal surge in interest around the realistic, tactical FPS game, and I’m glad to see it. I’ve always been impressed by developer Madfinger Games’ commitment to filling a very specific niche, placing much more direct focus on high-stakes PvE in a world increasingly filled with extraction…

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Is No. 9 Highest-Grossing Video Game Movie Of All Time After Just 5 Days

Big business. A Scene From Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2026 kicked off with the next big video game movie–The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it’s already the No. 9 highest-grossing video game film of all time after just five days. It was not the first video game adaptation from Hollywood and won’t be…

Xbox Schedules Summer Showcase And Gears Of War: E-Day Direct For June 7

Just as it’s starting to get warm outside in the United States, the games industry’s biggest players are getting ready for the busiest news season of the year. At the time of writing, Summer Game Fest is 67 days away, and Xbox has decided it’s time to unveil its plans for the month of June….

The Weird Appeal Of The 1993 Mario Movie Forever Endures

My personal stake in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and its predecessor The Super Mario Bros. Movie, are low. They are for children and I am an adult. If I have any devoted stance, it is this. I believe the 1993 film adaptation of Super Mario, a box office disaster starring Bob Hoskins and John…

Your time matters, we don’t want you spending it clicking through menus

Crafting is an essential part of Arc Raiders. Gathering together the resources to make new weapons, more gear, and extra consumables is a rewarding part of the loop, but it can be unwieldy working back and forth through the menus to dismantle old, unwanted loot, then head to the resource trader for any missing pieces….

House Flipper is free to keep on Steam and you should play it

Home renovation game House Flipper for free on Steam right now. You should take advantage of this deal because House Flipper is a great game, and it will net you a discount if you decide to pick up its upcoming remaster. Initially released by developer Empyrean and publishers Frozen District and PlayWay in 2018, House…