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It’s been a great year for fighting game events. Not only did Evo 2024 — the biggest fighting game tournament in the world — wrap up after breaking records, but we’ve seen growth across the genre, and across the globe. It feels like more attention than ever is on a historically niche style of game,

Daunting enough is the fact that most of our ocean remains unmapped—but what about the mysteries that take place inside that ocean? James Cameron, one of the world’s best-known film directors, has teamed up with BBC Studios and the ocean exploration initiative OceanX to unravel some of the most intriguing head-scratchers swimming around the deep

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube774k In a new accolades trailer for the recent release Darkest Dungeon II, Red Hook Studios and Skybound Games have announced a physical edition of the game will be coming to consoles on 22nd October 2024. The Switch release will come with a physical game card, a stagecoach papercraft with

Eurogamer, which is hit or miss on the rumour front, is backing up the claim by Games Industry journalist Christopher Dring who said yesterday that the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t be out until after April 2025, at the very earliest. It should be noted that both websites are operated by the same company. Nintendo has

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After some leaks and preemptive announcements, Google has revealed the full Pixel 9 lineup, which is more extensive this year than ever before. Google has four new phones, all available for pre-order today. There are a number of important hardware differences, but one thing they all have in common is deep integration with Google Gemini.

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube774k Update [Tue 13th Aug, 2024 19:45 BST]: After last night’s little slip, Spike Chunsoft has now officially confirmed that it’s bringing Good-Feel’s “Japan-esque” platformer Bakeru to the West. Nintendo has even shared the official trailer, which you can watch above. The game will cost USD $39.99 / €39.99 /

Believe it or not, not only is Pokemon GO still alive, but it is still receiving a lot of support and additional content from Niantic. In fact, the mobile Pokemon game has just recently celebrated its 8th anniversary. Celebrations for it have passed, but that doesn’t mean that Niantic is taking a break. The 2024

Fallout: London’s massive, but naturally there’s still some stuff that didn’t quite make it into the Fallout 4 mod. For example, in addition to the whole cut Wild Card questline that’ll be arriving in a future update, the team had a go at making rideable horses and bikes. Yep, if you’ve not run into Fallout:

Intel released its first-generation Arc Alchemist GPUs in late 2022. Since then, we’ve been waiting patiently to hear about its plans for a successor, which it calls Battlemage. We got a tiny glimpse of what’s in store when the company unveiled its upcoming Lunar Lake platform, which uses the Battlemage architecture for the integrated GPU.

Image: Nintendo Update [Mon 12th Aug, 2024 11:45 BST]: The results are in for the “Which could you eat every day?” Splatfest, and it’s ‘Team Rice’ that takes home the trophy, leave the Bread and the Pasta in the dirt. Team Rice took home 460p, while Team Pasta managed 260p, and Team Bread just 150p.

You may recall that, a few months ago, Microsoft‘s Xbox team had announced that they were shutting down multiple studios. One of them was Tango Gameworks, the developer studio behind Hi-Fi Rush. It was the latest in an unfortunate series of layoffs and closures that has been plaguing the video gaming industry this year. Well,

Everyone’s favourite witcher Geralt of Rivia will be in The Witcher 4… it’s just sounding like he won’t be the main character. When The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt first came out… almost 10 years ago (holy moly I’m getting old), it was clear by the end of the game that it was meant

Nintendo had an instant hit when it launched the Nintendo Switch. Gamers took to the hybrid console setup, making the Switch the best-selling console of this generation. Nintendo is now looking to build on that success. The Nintendo Switch 2 could be revealed in just a few months, and the device could have more cooling

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube774k If you’re keen for more arcade-style racing action on the Nintendo Switch, Gameloft has now confirmed Asphalt Legends Unite will arrive on the eShop later this month on 19th August. This new expansion (which will see the free-to-play title Asphalt 9: Legends rebranded) was originally released in July, but

There was a lot of hype when Capcom revealed the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics which is due out on the Nintendo Switch later this year. Shuhei Matsumoto, who is the producer on the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics collection, told IGN recently Capcom would like to reach as many people

Do you remember Thatcher’s Techbase, the Doom mod that lets you kill deceased former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, whose actions while in office rendered her more hated by working class people than even the numerous Tories that’ve followed in her footsteps since the 1980s? Well, it’s now playable on modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

Earlier this week, China successfully deployed the first elements of what could become the second satellite megaconstellation—China’s own version of Starlink. While the 18 communication satellites worked as expected, the same cannot be said for the Long March 6A rocket that delivered them. US Space Command has confirmed that the rocket has broken up into

Image: Ubisoft The excellent Metroidvania Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown blew us away back when it launched i9n January, and Ubisoft has been providing fans with free updates since its release. But now, Sargon will be embarking on a new story chapter when the first piece of DLC lands on 17th September 2024. Titled

SEGA released the second OST video for Sonic X Shadow Generations spotlighting the track from Space Colony ARK: Act 1, originally composed by Jun Senoue and remixed by both Jun Senoue and TeddyLoid. The video also features animated art of Shadow and the level. Source: SEGA Like this: Like Loading… Related View original source here.

Fallout: London, the DLC-sized mod — which is a complete lie given how gargantuan this mod is — from Team FOLON launched on July 25. Now that the team at VG247 has had enough time to wet their appetites and see what this highly-anticipated mod is all about, we decided to discuss and share a

Mars is one giant radioactive desert, but turning it into a lush paradise fit for human habitation has been a science-fiction trope for decades. The technology to make that happen doesn’t exist, but a new study from Northwestern University suggests it might be easier than we thought. It could be a relatively simple operation to

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube774k The live-action Borderlands movie arrives in cinemas this week and the first impressions are now being shared online. We’ve rounded up some of these posts to see how it’s being received so far. Admittedly, it doesn’t seem to be going down very well, with some suggesting it could be

Balatro has been one of the highlights of the year for some gamers. Despite a temporarily hiccup where some regions were not able to purchase the game from the Nintendo Switch eShop, the rogue-like card game has been selling very well. So, it isn’t surprising that the game is getting post-launch support. However, if you

Invincible fans might think they know what’s coming in season 3 based on what happens in the comics, but it’s sounding like they won’t know everything. So far, the animated adaptation of Invincible has been pretty much one-to-one when it comes to what happens in the comics. But according to comic co-creator and show

There are lots of good deals on offer at major retailers right now, but one of the most popular categories for savings is TV sets. We’re seeing pretty solid discounts on sets of all sizes, with sturdy build quality and beautiful pictures. Screens are getting flatter, lighter, and sharper, with non-reflective glass, deep contrast, and

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube774k Nintendo’s F-Zero series has inspired all sorts of futuristic racing games over the years, and the latest one to arrive on the scene is Aero GPX. This Kickstarter project by solo developer Aaron McDevitt has launched today on PC (via Steam Early Access) and is described as an anti-gravity

Manga-themed X account Manga Mogura has posted that a new Sonic-themed manga series based on Shadow the Hedgehog will commence in an upcoming Corocoro Comic issue which is due out this October. Corocoro Comic says that more information on the Shadow the Hedgehog manga will be announced at a later date. This comes as SEGA

Get ready for more John Wick (minus John Wick himself), as a sequel series is apparently in the works. It was reported earlier this year that a John Wick TV show is in the works, though at the time details were slim as to what it would be about. Now, as reported by

Resupply missions for the International Space Station (ISS) launch all the time, but they don’t usually make news. This time, however, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus vehicle is getting the wrong kind of press. The spacecraft reached orbit without incident on Sunday, but NASA now says the vehicle’s engines have failed to fire as scheduled. Cygnus is