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There were a host of indie game showcases this week, so we're dig into some of the best announcements from them.

You can play the co-op roguelike ARPG Ravenswatch for free this weekend, and it’s a slick blend of Diablo, Hades, and Elden Ring Nightreign.

Update 1.1 for The Blood of Dawnwalker will add a new Story mode with additional combat assist, a potion that lets you forget your abilities and master new ones, and the ability to pet dogs and cats.

CEO Rui Casais to depart the company at the end of the year.

Valve shows its creativity once again with new Deadlock hero Violet, a painter capable of altering the battlefield with quick brush strokes.

A creepy contortionist clown isn't the only monster in this strange story.

This Garfield Halloween special might never have actually ended

Leon's Roar. We finally made it to the weekend — well done, everyone! After the silence of last week, things started to pick up in Nintendo news this week. The big hitter was previews going live for Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, which seems to be really rather wonderful. We also got a new overview trailer and shared over 20 minutes of gameplay footage from Link's latest.

I'd nearly forgotten Over the Hill's predecessor, Art of Rally, was a racing game. But that's not meant as a slight. It's just that, for all the happy hours I poured into it, I don't recall doing a single race. Instead, it was the aimless meandering, the soothing rhythms of exploration and absent-minded collectible hunting in its free-roam mode that held me transfixed. So the fact Over the Hill completely jettisons the racing stuff and leans entirely into the meditative bit - it even starts with...

26 years ago, Buffy aired an episode that set up season five and launched one of the series' most important dynamics

Join the cult next week. Cult of the Lamb has continued to receive all sorts of updates since it launched on the Switch, and now developer Massive Monster has shared some massive news.

During a trip to Beijing to visit S-Game and play Phantom Blade Zero, I spoke to the game's director about plans for the series beyond the game.

Zero Company recently had a major upgrade, with it crashing on Steam Machine and probably other SteamOS / Linux systems - which Valve have solved

I do love a bit of competition between stores don't you? Valve's latest Steam Client Beta for October 16th brings more speed

Valve released SteamOS 3.9.3 Beta with another set of upgrades, and now the Steam Frame should connect better with the Steam Machine

The Wine 11.20 development release is out now bringing another set of improvements for running Windows apps / games on SteamOS / Linux

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Connor plays a classic, and ticks it off his bucket list; Sherif isn't sure about a first-person shooter foray into Soulslikes; Matt visits a South Pacific island volcano and Jim Henson's Labyrinth, all in one game; and Bertie discovers that playing D&D with kids is enormously entertaining.

[Insert funny Shrek joke here]. Aspyr Media, the team behind the recent Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth ports for Nintendo platforms, has apparently got a remaster of Shrek 2 in the pipeline. This announcement has seemingly been leaked ahead of schedule via an official Xbox Store listing. A GTA 6-style promotional trailer has also surfaced online. This action-adventure game was originally released in 2004 on multiple platforms including the GameCube. The Game Boy Advance also got its own vers...

Releasing alongside a major update. Here on Nintendo Life, we first heard about the laid-back co-op farming sim Coral Island back in 2021, when it successfully hit its Kickstarter goal. Now, after overcoming some roadblocks, it seems it's finally getting a Nintendo release. This announcement was shared this week during The MIX Fall Showcase, with Stairway Games and Balor Games officially confirming a Switch 2 version will release alongside the free "Kids Grow Up" 1.4 Update in winter 2026.

In this guide, you find all the information to complete Pokémon Pokopia's "Pumpkaboo's Sweet Surprises" Halloween event.

These gripping mysteries explore the darkest corners of human nature, where each clue revels in the unexpected.

Now arriving at a "later date". Telltale Games has announced the Nintendo Switch version of The Wolf Among Us Remastered "needs a little bit more time". In an official statement shared on social media, it mentions how this remaster starring Sheriff Bigby Wolf will "launch as planned on October 29 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC", and the "Nintendo Switch version will follow at a later date".

Redwall series announces final book, Orphans of Mossflower, 15 years after the author's death and sets a 2027 release

I drive upside down on the boulevard of broken dreams.

GTA 6's real-world references won't include direct acknowledgement of Donald Trump and the 2020 pandemic, Rockstar Games says.

City residents and leaders denounced the free web game, which was taken down.

Verizon plans to charge customers $10 per month for the iPhone Handoff feature that Apple added in iOS 27. iPhone Handoff allows one phone number to be shared across two separate iPhones. Pricing was included in Verizon's iPhone Duo announcement today, with the carrier confirming iPhone Handoff will work with the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro models. Verizon will support iPhone Handoff, giving customers the flexibility to use a single Verizon phone number seamlessly across two compatible iPho...

Demand for the iPhone Duo has been "nothing short of extraordinary," Apple said in a statement to the Financial Times. The company also said it is "working hard to get this revolutionary new product into customers' hands as quickly as possible." Pre-orders for the ‌iPhone Duo‌ opened this morning at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, and it didn't take long for available stock to dwindle. Within minutes, delivery dates slipped from October 23 to November, and by 5:30 a.m., delivery estimates reached January 2...

Apple today expanded its App Store moderation rules to cover AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery. Sexually explicit content was already banned, but now Apple says app developers must proactively prevent and remove AI-generated deepfakes from their platforms. Apple warns that apps with offending content could be removed from the ‌App Store‌ if developers fail to act. The updated 1.2 rule names AI content creation apps and could be targeting apps like Grok, among others. Users have complai...

The game is great, but CD Projekt wants to tell a new story.

Game Pass has a few excellent Call of Duty games available, but some of the best entries from years past are conspicuously absent.

On this weekend's streaming and VOD movie column, there's the most recent take on Dracula and a horror movie about the plushy star of a kids' TV show.

From a yoyo adventure to a game where you die every minute, these nine overlooked single-player Zelda-likes are ranked by weirdness.

Resident Evil 2 on Switch 2 runs smoothly and looks great, thanks in part to HDR's effects on colors and lighting

Thrusters are as good at flipping cars as they are at hunting ballistic missiles.