Poll: So, How Many Hours Have You Spent In Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave?

Image: Nintendo RPGs often require players to invest a lot of their time, and the Switch 2 exclusive Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is no different. In fact, the newest chapter in Intelligent Systems’ tactical turn-based series is apparently so big that even a week after this title’s release, the website ‘How Long To Beat‘ still…

Tom Holland’s 133-Minute Action Movie Masterpiece Is About to Leave Netflix

There are plenty of reasonable places to begin a Spider-Man marathon. You could go back to the early 2000s era with Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, or revisit Andrew Garfield’s surprisingly underrated take from 2012. You could even web-sling straight into the animated brilliance of Into the Spider-Verse, which should be getting its third film within the…

Celebrate Castlevania’s 40th Anniversary With Free Game and PlayStation Discounts

Konami is celebrating Castlevania‘s 40th anniversary with a free game and special PlayStation discounts. The action-platformer was first released in Japan on September 26, 1986, for the Family Computer Disk System. Then went on to become one of the foundational games in Metroidvania history. In celebration of its legacy, Konami has released the original Castlevania…

Between 70 and 80% of Blood Bowl 3 games were solo

You’ll know this frustration if you’ve ever been part of the community around a game that has both singleplayer and multiplayer modes. People who prefer one to the other are always convinced the other cohort doesn’t exist. “Nobody plays this game in a different way to me and my friends, and anyone who says they…

John Wilson Finds Foundational Metaphor In History Of Concrete

My local bartender knew how they did it. With a very particular limestone heating process, the concrete used in ancient Rome is not just sturdy but self-repairing, and why so many of their mega-structures continue to tower. In his first feature film, John Wilson traveled to Italy to find this same information, but unable to…

Minecraft is adding a whole new dimension for the first time since 1.0, and it’s magical

Ever since Minecraft hit full 1.0 release in 2011, there have been just three dimensions to explore – the Overworld, the Nether, and the End. That’s finally about to change, because Mojang has just revealed during its September Minecraft Live broadcast that the sandbox game will be expanding into a fourth dimension in 2027 –…

Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Dungeon Crawl #2 – A Sophomore Slump?

Image: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life We are one week closer to the 5th November launch of Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, so that means it’s time for my second replay catch-up. For those who missed my adventures Inside the Great Deku Tree last week, I’m replaying the original OoT, one dungeon each week,…

PS5 Update Adds Cool New Theme The Last of Us Fans Will Love

Sony Interactive Entertainment has rolled out a new PS5 feature update for September 2026 that brings a new animated theme for the Welcome Hub. The background celebrates Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us franchise with a pretty nifty animation. PS5 Welcome Hub update adds animated background featuring The Last of Us Part 1 & 2…

UK’s Largest Tabletop Convention Bans AI

This week, UK Games Expo, the largest tabletop convention in the United Kingdom, unveiled a new set of policies regarding AI-made games at the event. Following backlash in previous years from the expo’s cozying relationship with AI, organizers have decided to reverse course, banning AI made games from participating with minimal exceptions. “The organisers at…

Minecraft Dungeons 2 will give the ARPG a proper endgame, but its Director knows “there’s always a desire for more”

Minecraft Dungeons 2 is taking a bolder step forward, inspired by the positive response to its predecessor to springboard ahead with a more well-rounded take on the action RPG formula. For the team at Mojang, that involved building on the first game’s established strengths while also introducing new features such as an actual endgame. Ahead…