Of All Things, Animal Crossing (And ‘FOPI’) Has Made Me A Switch 2 Evangelist

Image: Nintendo Life When the 3.0 update arrived for Animal Crossing: New Horizons in January, covering it for this here website returned me to a place I thought I’d left behind. Playing for guide purposes brought me back to my island, Twin Peaks, to my half-finished house and haphazard landscaping. I tend to start Animal…

Major 2021 PS5 Game Loses Multiplayer Feature, Trophies Safe

2021’s best-selling PS5 and PS4 game has retired a multiplayer feature, but in a rare move, its developer has changed its trophy requirement. It’s pretty common for players to be locked out of trophies once studios shut down online features, but in Call of Duty: Vanguard‘s case, Sledgehammer Games made sure that players could still…

Prove You’re Human, A New Game From The 1000xResist Team, Combines AI Anxiety, Severance, And CAPTCHA Tests

Ever since I played 1000xResist (and gave it a glowing review upon Game Informer’s relaunch), I have been eager to see what its developer, Sunset Visitor, would do next. Today, the indie studio finally pulled the curtain back on its next project, Prove You’re Human, a dark sci-fi narrative adventure game where you interact with the…

Roblox Plus is replacing the current Premium subscription, and it sounds like a big upgrade

Goodbye to Roblox Premium, hello to Roblox Plus. The way you pay for the creation sandbox game‘s bonus subscription model is changing at the end of April, and while you can stay on the old system if you want, you’ll be losing benefits including bonus Robux. The good news is that the incoming Roblox Plus…

This ‘highly realistic’ city-builder could be the first real competition Cities: Skylines has seen in over a decade

Steam is flooded with all manner of weird and wonderful city-builders these days. Yet few of these newer games have laid their foundations in the true heartland of the genre. If you want to build a vast, modern cityscape with intensely simulated traffic and three types of zoning, you’re pretty much stuck with Cities: Skylines…

Trump’s FAA Now Targeting Gamers To Become Air Traffic Controllers

President Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and the Federal Aviation Administration have a plan to help solve the ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers across many of America’s airports. The solution? Gamers, baby. On Friday, the FAA announced a new recruitment campaign that will target the “next generation of air traffic controllers,” which will include…

Fortnite maker Epic Games working on a Disney extraction shooter

Epic Games is developing a new extraction shooter for Disney and plans to launch it in November, according to a new report from Bloomberg. It will be the first game released as part of Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic, which is best known for Fortnite and the Unreal Engine. According to Bloomberg, the extraction…

Pokémon Champions And 40 Years Of Zelda | The Game Informer Show

This week on The Game Informer Show, the crew gets together to discuss their favorite games from the long-running The Legend of Zelda series, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary! Be sure to check out our upcoming magazine feature on reactions from around the industry, too. Before we get to the green caps and tunics, though,…

If you are planning to get the new Starfield Terran Armada DLC, here’s how to get 15% off

It’s been a bit of a journey for Starfield. Bethesda’s massive space RPG launched with huge expectations, a slightly wobbly landing for some players, and then… a slow but steady evolution. Updates, tweaks, and expansions have been gradually reshaping it into something much closer to fans’ initial high expectations. Now, with the arrival of Terran…

Super Battle Golf Brings Absolute Chaos To The Switch 2 In Summer 2026

If you enjoy golf video games but would like them to be a bit more chaotic, Super Battle Golf by Brimstone Games might be worth checking out when it launches for the Switch 2 and multiple other consoles. It will hit the green in “Summer 2026” and offers up 1-8 player online multiplayer action, where…