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The cat is out of the bag. Doom: The Dark Ages will launch on May 15, 2025, and it’ll be the third ‘nu-Doom’ game from esteemed developer id Software. But this game, which is confusingly a prequel to the instant classic Doom (2016), will eschew a trend established both by the first game in the

Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing. Although the new card will pull close to 30% more power than its predecessor and cool it in a much-more compact

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube794k Update [Thu 23rd Jan 2025, 4:05am]: Arc System Works has officially confirmed a worldwide release for this game will be taking place on 24th April 2025. The official title is Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics, and once again it includes 12 titles. You can check

Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was presenting at this year’s New York Game Awards. Sony’s platforming darling Astro Bot was awarded the coveted Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year. Speaking to the audience, Fils-Aime said “I have to admit it, Astro Bot almost outdid Nintendo at its own game.” Former

Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers, the anime adaptation of the popular fighting game, finally has a release date. Are you more of a heaven or a hell person? As long as you’re one or the other, you’re probably a Guilty Gear fan, and if that is you, then you’ll be happy to hear that

Taiwan experienced a 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday. The quake struck near the city of Chiayi in Taiwan’s south, according to Reuters, and it shook buildings in Taipei. TSMC said it evacuated personnel from some buildings and the science park in Tainan, Taiwan. TSMC said that buildings there started evacuations when the quake first hit.

Original Story: We’re just one day away from the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie — which introduces Shadow the Hedgehog to the blockbuster franchise — hitting cinemas worldwide. But Variety is reporting that Paramount Pictures has already greenlighted a fourth film. Shocked? Nope, not us. According to the report, the movie is aiming for a

By now, you’re more than likely aware of the Nintendo Music app. The app, which was randomly announced on social media around Halloween of last year, is a new method for fans to be able to listen to various soundtracks that Nintendo has released over the decades. Nintendo confirmed that more soundtracks would be added

February 2025, a month that’s famously not going to feature many big video game releases (to be fair, one of those has since been delayed), has just been revealed as the arrival point for another cool thing you might want to play. It’s Keep Driving, the driving RPG thingy that has you fight stuff in

Over the last few years, there’s been an increasing amount of talk around the neural processing unit, or NPU. While NPUs have shipped in smartphones for a few years, Intel, AMD, and most recently Microsoft have fielded AI-enabled consumer laptops and PCs featuring NPUs. NPUs are closely tied to the related concept of an AI

Image: Electronic Arts Last year, EA dropped the MySims Cozy Bundle on Switch and it was… fine. But, as anyone familiar with the Sims spin-off series will likely know, there’s more to MySims than the original and its Kingdom sequel. Might these receive a revival one day, too? Uhh, maybe? Over the weekend, Reddit user

38 years ago, a game called Final Fantasy released on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the very first game in a series that still continues to this day. Back then, the programming and coding for the first 3 games was done by Nasir Gebelli. It is rare for Gebelli to participate in an interview,

It’s been a year since Palworld launched into early access, and today a roadmap showing off plans for future updates has been revealed. Sorry, it’s already been a year since Palworld came out? Holy mackerel, that passed by quickly. The Pokemon-with-guns game obviously doesn’t have quite as much buzz surrounding it as it

AI-powered systems have swept through business, surfing a rising wave of occasionally justified hype. When they’re good, they’re really good—take, for example, a neural net designed to help Japanese bakery customers get through the checkout faster, which ended up being fabulous for detecting skin cancer. The ability to use image recognition to distinguish the unique

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube793k After an overload of rumours and leaks, Nintendo this week released its first trailer for the Switch 2. For anyone worried about the company’s lack of marketing or promotion in the leadup to this big announcement, it doesn’t appear to have impacted the reveal – with the trailer still

Official Japanese video game sales tracker Famitsu has revealed the top ten best-selling physical game releases of 2024. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake leads the charge, if you count both PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch versions, which when combined amount to 1.161 million units sold. Super Mario Party Jamboree leads the individual sales charts selling a

UPDATE (17/01/25, 4:20 PM GMT): Corinne Busche has now confirmed to Eurogamer her departure from BioWare and EA via a statement, in which she wrote: “My departure was voluntary, as I have been presented with an opportunity I couldn’t turn down. I don’t want to say much more right now, but you can count on

Apple was slower than most big tech companies to embrace generative AI, but it finally got on the hype train with the release of Apple Intelligence last year. Apple’s AI system has numerous features, but many aren’t ready for release yet, and now one of the released features is going back to the drawing board.

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube792k You probably already know this, but the Nintendo Switch 2 was officially unveiled to the world yesterday. And you’ve also likely noticed that we haven’t stopped thinking about it since. The brief trailer — coming in at two minutes and twenty-one seconds — seemingly hinted at a few features

Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier says that one of the reasons Nintendo likely decided on a Nintendo Switch 2 teaser before the full reveal on 2nd April is to allow third party developers the chance to announce their games for the platform. Previously third party developers weren’t allowed to say that they were developing for the

A fresh update for EA Sports FC 25 has dropped today, January 16, along with the reveal of the game’s Team of the Year squads and absolutely no other news in the world of gaming whatsoever. Voting opened up on this year’s UT Teams of the Year last week, so here’s hoping you got your

When Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K arrived and hit the benchmarks this fall, reviewers noticed that the Arrow Lake flagship CPU put up mixed results. It handled certain compute workloads with ease but didn’t allow for the gaming performance we expected. It performed worse than Raptor Lake in some game benchmarks. Intel investigated its Core

Image: Revolution Software Last year, we had a great time with Revolution Software’s ‘Reforged’ remaster of the classic point-and-click adventure Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars. “It sure would be neat if the rest of the series received such a treatment,” we thought to ourselves, “if only Revolution had something up its sleeve…” As it

Nintendo fans have been waiting all day today with lots of anticipation at the possibility that the company may announce the reveal of the Switch 2 tomorrow. Many insiders, as well as multiple video gaming media outlets, have been saying it. However, the day has come and gone and Nintendo has not mentioned anything. Despite

I play Monster Hunter Now quite frequently. In fact, I’d say it’s probably the game I consistently spend time with more than any other, phone or otherwise. I may not have a gigantic hour count to prove it – it’s a mobile game designed for short sessions, after all – but I can tell you

Stanford Medicine has developed an artificial intelligence model that can accurately predict cancer patients’ prognoses and responses to treatment. The first of its kind to leverage multiple types of imaging and language-based data, the model has already shown promise with several forms of cancer, including lung cancer, gastroesophageal cancer, and melanoma. Over the last few

Image: Capcom Update [Wed 15th Jan 2025, 3:30am]: EVO’s 2025 lineup has now been officially confirmed by the event’s organisers and it is exactly what was leaked. Once again, the full roster includes Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear -Strive-, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes, Mortal Kombat 1, Fatal Fury:

Nintendo has removed individual Retro Studios employee names in the end credits in the soon-to-be-released Nintendo Switch version of Donkey Kong Country Returns. The end credits for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD now simply say “Based on the work of the original development staff” and credit the current team at Forever Entertainment. A similar thing happened

The Russo brothers coming back to the MCU is obviously a big thing, but it turns out for them and their writing partner it wasn’t an immediate yes. Last year, Marvel clearly made the call that it needed some familiar hands on deck to steer its slightly sinking ship. So, it brought back

iPhone users are experiencing a surge in so-called “smishing” attacks that encourage them to disable basic iMessage protections, according to the cybersecurity news site BleepingComputer. Once Apple’s scam guardrails are removed, users are more susceptible to suspicious links that extract personal information from their phones. Smishing—short for SMS phishing—involves text messages that appear to be