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Nintendo Suggests Metroid Prime 4’s Tortured Development Meant It Was “Divorced From The Changing Of Times”

"We resolved to move forward with our original vision".As you'll know if you've read our review, we adored Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, and consider it to be one of the highlights of the Switch 2's library.However, with a Metacritic rating of 79 at the time of writing, it's clear that ...
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Mini Review: Layers Of Fear: Final Masterpiece Edition (Switch 2) – Handsome But Humdrum Horror

Tormented souls.Switch owners already have access to Layers of Fear: Legacy and its sequel, but Bloober Team is back with a new port for Switch 2. Utilising Unreal Engine 5 to achieve some truly impressive visuals, Layers of Fear: The Final Masterpiece Edition is neither a sequel nor a remake, ...
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The sixth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025

We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. O, reader of wonder, loved the most, Why not subscribe to Supporters posts? January leading, still proceeding, See you once we’ve munched our roasts. But first, time ...
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Feature: Nintendo Life’s Alternative Awards 2025

Best 'squirrel with a gun' game, most 'Huh?' Nintendo moment, and more!Hello, well met stranger, and welcome to Jurassic Park! Nintendo Life's Alternative Awards 2025!It's been...well...it's been a year in which we have all existed, that's for sure, and as a result games happened. Loads of them, in fact. Of ...
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Mark’s most anticipated PC games for 2026

2025 had video games. 2026 will have video games. GTA 6 might be one of those video games. However, it’s currently only pencilled in for console next year. Not that I considered writing about it in this sort of article two years running, just for a laugh. That’d be hackish ...
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The RPS 100: Reader Edition (2025) – your favourite games of all time

Welcome to the third ever RPS 100: Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual tradition of trying to fit all of our favourite games into a list of the 100 best PC games of all time ...
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Feature: But The Future Can Change – Chrono Trigger And Learning To Love The World

The Corridors of Time.Over the holiday season, we're republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors from . This article was originally published in March. Enjoy!Note: If you haven't played Chrono Trigger to completion...what are you playing at? If you're sensitive to spoilers, come back when ...
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Review: Stray Children (Switch) – A Surreal, Captivating, Undertale-Inspired RPG

Don’t talk to strangers.Stray Children launched on the Japanese eShop on 26th December 2024. We weren't able to review it back in October when it arrived in the West, but we've now managed to catch up with Onion Games' latest...Your dad’s missing and some weird “uncle” is at the door, ...
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The fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025

We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. O, reader of wonder, loved the most, Why not subscribe to Supporters posts? January leading, still proceeding, See you once we’ve munched our roasts. But first, time ...
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