Before last week’s troubled launch, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection was already making headlines for “mistakenly” featuring footage of a community-made mod in an official trailer. At the time, developer Aspyr said the game did not include “any code or content” from “uncredited sources”, but now traces of the same Asajj Ventress mod by ‘iamshaymin’ … Read more
Image: Konami Contra: Operation Galuga is out on the Nintendo Switch today and as part of this, there will be a patch update released in response to demo feedback. While other versions of this update are locked in for 12th March, for the Switch version, this update will be applied “as soon as preparations have … Read more
What does this tell us? Well, that the game has retained its popularity, and hasn’t tailed off like other titles tend to. This is consistent with what we’ve been hearing from various retail sources, where the Arrowhead shooter’s sales have actually been increasing week-on-week – an extremely unusual trend, as most titles tend to sell … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Blizzard’s free-to-play shooter Overwatch 2 hasn’t exactly blown up like the original game but it has delivered some new ideas (and collabs). The latest one is another anime-inspired crossover and this time it adds new cosmetics based on the legendary ’90s anime Cowboy Bebop. Yes, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, … Read more
The latest patch for Helldivers 2 has just hit PC, and will soon be deployed on PS5 too. It’s making some interesting changes to the popular co-op shooter, including a new feature that’ll make some planets a more dangerous place to inhabit. New planetary hazards are being introduced. These are randomly generated environmental threats you’ll … Read more
Image: Midnight Works YouTuber Luke Wild of channel SwitchStars — which focuses primarily on highlighting low-effort, low-quality games to avoid on Switch eShop — has published a video detailing what he believes to be an attack on his channel orchestrated by the publisher Midnight Works. The Moldovan company is responsible for much of the software … Read more
In fact, such is its success that it’s now gaining on the aforementioned Palworld. Obviously, interest in the Pokémon-inspired survival game has dipped a little bit since its unfathomable highs, but it was doing about 535k users on Steam when Helldivers 2 was hitting the records mentioned above, so the gap is closing between the … Read more
With the industry as volatile as it is, publishers and developers must find new ways to monetise and offer value to their players to keep them coming back. Released on Friday, Helldivers 2 from developer Arrowhead Studios had a massive weekend, doing things slightly differently from its competitors in the service space, which might be … Read more
Sony is launching Helldivers 2 this week on 8th February, 2024, and by the looks of it, the co-op shooter might be more popular than you think. From what can be gleaned from digital storefronts, the sci-fi shoot-’em-up seems to be killing it in terms of pre-orders. As noted by X user KAMI, the game … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTubeWatch on YouTube The shortest month of the year is here… but it also might be one of the most-packed. February 2024 sees Nintendo’s next big remake land on the Switch, but this is the month of the retro throwback, and the eShop (and our shelves) will be bursting with … Read more