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Image: Nintendo Debates over the best Splatoon idol group are dime-a-dozen but never have the stakes been higher than in Splatoon 3‘s upcoming second anniversary celebration: Grand Festival. Starting on September 13th and ending on 16th of the same month (or 12th to 15th, depending on your region), this three-day event is not only a

Japan’s benchmark stock index The Nikkei has seen its biggest fall in four decades this morning amid fears of a looming American recession in the world’s biggest economy. Nintendo, Capcom, SEGA, and more, saw stock fall sharply with Nintendo suffering the most losses with shares down more than 15% this morning. Here’s the damage which

Kai Cenat, one of the fastest rising and biggest streamers on Twitch, has given his home a massive maker to bring attention to the demand for a Bloodborne remaster. Ah, Bloodborne. Requests for a remaster/ remake/ PC port are arguably PlayStation fans’ version of “new Smash character?” in Nintendo Directs, albeit an increasingly

What is wind? Where does it come from, and why does it blow? Why are storm winds so strong? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? Read on for answers to these “blue-sky” questions and more! Earth, Wind, and Water The simplest definition of wind is air in motion. Wind is generated by

Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s check out the box art designs themselves. North America Image: Capcom / Launch Box North America’s design looks like the quintessential Mega Man Zero artwork, huh? It’s a nice composition, and our protagonist is looking suitably badass. The way that his hair

You may recall that, back in March, Inti Creates announced a new game called Card-en-Ciel. The game is a rogue-lite card-based battle RPG, and it is just 1 of 5 games that Inti Creates has on its 2024 game release calendar. If you have been curious to learn more about the game, then there’s some

World of Warcraft: The War Within, is almost here. It’s an ambitious looking expansion, taking players deep underground to lands and cultures unseen up until this point. But according to associate design director Maria Hamilton and lead prop artist Jordan Powers, this new selection of zones was built on the back of one special zone.

After years of setbacks, Boeing finally launched the Starliner crewed demo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in June. This mission was supposed to be a quick jaunt to space and back, taking just eight days. However, glitches in Starliner have extended the mission by months, with astronauts Wilmore and Williams cooling their heels

Image: Nintendo Life Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube773k Masahiro Sakurai is once again delving into his video game knowledge with a video all about the intricacies of NES and Famicom audio. What begins as an introduction to the consoles’ different audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise and DPCM), soon turns into a history lesson

Respected US video gaming publication Game Informer has announced today that they have closed for good, which will come to a blow to the talented journalists working there along with fans of the magazine and the insightful Game Informer website and podcast. Kotaku reports that staff were all brought into a meeting on Friday with

As they do pretty regularly, the Helldivers 2 community’s managed to leave coming out on top in the latest Major Order to a big last minute push – which may or may not succeed in time. In a move that probably hasn’t helped this heroic mass charge come together, Arrowhead’s now finally decided to put

Google has shifted gears after being caught flat-footed by OpenAI and Microsoft. The search giant has integrated its Gemini AI into numerous products, but that’s not the only Google AI. The company also offers a collection of open-source models, and it’s adding some new options today. Google says its latest Gemma models are more efficient

Image: Konami The latest Famitsu charts are in and, as expected, it’s another strong week for the Switch, with only Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 representing a competing console in the software top ten. There are two newcomers this week, too, with One Piece Odyssey entering the charts at in second place – not to be

The Mega Multiplayer Festival features various activities throughout the month of August and until the beginning of September, including discounts on hundreds of multiplayer games for Nintendo Switch, extra benefits for Nintendo Switch Online members and additional ways to earn Gold and Platinum Points. The Multiplayer Festival starts on Thursday, 1st August at 10:00 CEST, and ends on Sunday, 8th September at 23:59 CEST.

Bungie has announced layoffs affecting 220 employees. In a blog post, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons cites “rising costs of development and industry shifts as well as enduring economic conditions” as the primary factor while revealing some dramatic changes for the company going forward.  These layoffs represent 17 percent of the studio’s workforce and affect every

Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced plans to lay off 220 staff, integrate 155 of its remaining job roles into Sony Interactive entertainment, and pass work on one of its “incubation projects” to a freshly formed PlayStation Studio. This shift is laid out in a new blog post penned by Bungie CEO Pete Parsons, who

Have you ever wished you could clone yourself and delegate your job’s most repetitive tasks to that clone? Beginning this week, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp users in the United States can create “AI characters” that mimic their own personalities and interests. While Meta says anyone can create an AI character aimed at making people

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube773k The famous Pokémon developer Game Freak is gearing up for a new era with titles like Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and with this in mind, it appears to be on a recruitment drive. As highlighted by DenFamiNico Gamer (thanks, Siliconera), the developer is holding a new recruitment campaign on 30th

Today, SEGA released a special video showcasing music and animated concept art from SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS that fans can look forward to when the game launches on October 25. The track is a remix of Kingdom Valley Act 1 from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), composed by Mariko Nanba and remixed by Audissi Studios. If you want to

Tony Pankhurst, the UK actor who served as the face for The Curator in Supermassive Games’ The Dark Pictures Anthology, has passed away. He was 67. Supermassive announced Pankhurst’s passing on Twitter. A tribute page from Pankhurst’s family (spotted by GameSpot) reveals that he died on May 9 and his funeral was held on June

I would say a pretty defining sentiment of the 2010s when it comes to work is this idea of hustle culture. You should always have something going on, always be working, always have a little side thing bringing in some money. This definitely manifested into encouraging people to start their own businesses, which worked

AMD has announced that the second generation of its frame-generation technology is now available via a new preview version of its Adrenalin software. The company says the latest version contains many improvements and is a “significant upgrade” over the first version. The biggest changes include more fine-grain controls for those who want to tweak their

Image: SEGA We’re still months out from Sonic X Shadow Generations, but it seems the estimated file size has already been revealed by Nintendo. According to official listings via the eShop and Nintendo website, the digital version of this revamped release (featuring brand new levels starring Shadow the Hedgehog) will require around 13.1GB of free

The Nintendo eShop listing for Sonic X Shadow Generations is now up and running. Digital pre-orders are open, with the standard version priced at £44.99 / $49.99 and the Digital Deluxe edition coming in at £54.99 / $59.99. Details on the Digital Deluxe Edition from the eShop listing: “Purchase the SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS Digital

Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation of Bioshock is still happening, but it won’t be as grand as originally planned. During a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, the film’s director and producer revealed the movie now has a reduced scope due to budget cuts. As reported by Variety, producer Roy Lee (Godzilla x Kong: The

Marvel revealed another new name for its Fantastic Four film during its Hall H Comic-Con panel, as it showed off some test footage for the upcoming movie. Back in February, Marvel finally gave its Fantastic Four film a proper name, The Fantastic Four, at the time also confirming who will be playing said quad

What’s at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and how do we know? How deep does the ocean go? We’ll answer these questions and more in this deep dive into the world’s oceans. Come on in: The water’s fine! How Deep Is the Ocean? The short answer is that it depends on where you look.

Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Unless you’re a dedicated Famicom collector, it’s unlikely that you’ve heard of Metal Slader Glory. Released right at the tail end of the Famicom’s life in 1991, the year after the release of the Super Famicom, Metal Slader Glory never made it out of Japan, and it proved to

A thorough investigation by 404 Media revealed that Runway’s Gen-3 artificial intelligence model may have scraped thousands of YouTube videos without permission, including from official Nintendo channels. The news outlet obtained a spreadsheet listing channels that were targeted- and Nintendo was not the only big name to be on there, with Disney, Rockstar Games, Netflix,

Mortal Kombat 1’s much-anticipated story expansion has been revealed, and it’s called Khaos Reigns. It unfolds after the events of the story campaign and centers on the invasion of Titan Havik from an alternate reality, who seeks to spread anarchy across all timelines. The expansion’s cinematic story introduces new playable characters, Noob Saibot and the