Mailbox: Metroid Excitement Levels, Game Clubs, “The Galaxy Strategy” – Nintendo Life Letters
Issue #29 - October 2025.We're deep into October now, which means it's time to open up the Nintendo Life Mailbox and see what word-based packages you've been sending our way this month.Got something you want to get off your chest? We're ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings ...
The 10 Best Survival Horror Games
Ever since Resident Evil exploded onto the scene in 1996 and made inventory reshuffling in the face of a zombie outbreak popular, players have been regularly fighting down to their very last bullet. 30 years later, survival horror is the dominant format for those seeking video game scares, as popular ...
Poll: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Hey You, Pikachu!
Pika-who?Welcome back, one and all, to this week's edition of Box Art Brawl!It was the NSO newbie Fatal Fury Special that got put under the microscope last time, as we matched up two covers for this SNES brawler. Overall, it was a pretty one-sided fight. The colourful Japanese variant walked ...
Sonic Team’s Boss Wants To Put More Sonic Characters In The Spotlight
Sega celebrated the 'Year of Shadow' in 2024.Last year, Sega ran a year-long campaign for Shadow the Hedgehog that lined up with the release of Sonic X Shadow Generations and the introduction of the "Ultimate Lifeform" in the live-action Sonic movies.This was generally well-received by Sonic fans, and it's now ...
Football Manager Signs With FIFA In New “Multi-Year Partnership”
"Elevating authenticity to truly global heights".The Football Manager series has signed a "multi-year partnership" with the global football governing body FIFA.This deal will bring official licenses from FIFA's competitions to the long-running football management series by Sports Interactive. This will include the upcoming FIFA World Cup 26, which will be ...
New Dragon Ball Game Project To Be Revealed Early Next Year
Don't miss it.Last week, Dragon Ball fans got quite a shock when it was announced Bandai Namco would be rolling out a new update for Dragon Ball FighterZ, with an additional DLC character scheduled to follow this in Spring 2026.If this wasn't already enough excitement, the official Dragon Ball Games ...
Even more Blizzard workers have voted to unionise, this time around 100 devs who work on Hearthstone
It's a busy week for union organisers at Activision Blizzard. Yesterday, in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a group of over 100 developers that work on Hearthstone and the mobile only strategy game Warcraft Rumble voted "strongly in favor of wall-to-wall union representation." This comes after around ...
Hell Maiden makes a compelling case for mixing Hades, Vampire Survivors, anime and, uh, Dante’s Divine Comedy
I think if you were to travel back in time to around the 14th century to wherever Dante Alighieri was at the time, and showed him Hell Maiden, a roguelike, bullet hell, deckbuilding, '90s anime-esque, essentially fan fiction sequel to his Divine Comedy, he'd probably say something like "Mama mia" ...
FIFA finds its way back to video games through a “multi-year partnership” with Football Manager
It's been a while since we've last seen anything FIFA in the world of video games, namely because EA took a gamble on saying goodbye to the sports association's official licence back in 2022. Whether that has paid off, literally, is neither here nor there right now though, as FIFA ...
Modern classic momentum platformer N++ gets a 10th anniversary update as its devs tease what’s next for them
Like whatever genres you like, but for me personally, I find platformers to be the quintessential video game genre. Even with the most challenging entries, there are very few other genres that (when done well) are as easy and quick to pick up, play, and have fun with. I think ...
