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Intel’s new Lunar Lake mobile CPUs officially launched this week, but they’re only for thin-and-light laptops and folks who want an “AI PC.” Their successor is Panther Lake, which will be built on the Intel 18A process and will include chips for Intel’s entire range of mobile products. Panther Lake won’t arrive until a year

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube777k The Switch already has an extensive library of shoot ’em up games, and it looks like another one could be on its way to the west in the near future. As highlighted by Gematsu, a Switch rating for Raiden NOVA has been spotted on the ESRB. This game was

At a Japanese press event Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo talked about the recently unveiled Trails in the Sky remake which made its debut during the recent Nintendo Partner Direct presentation. He told members of the press that he wasn’t expecting the trailer to be featured at the event, so it came as a pleasant

2025 is a big year for EA Sports FC, but when isn’t it? In the ceaseless annual cycle of football that it tries so hard to replicate, EA Sports FC now has to justify itself on two fronts: not just year-on-year, but as a new franchise with a point to prove. With the inaugural FC

From Google Glass to Magic Leap to Oculus Rift, there have been numerous attempts to get wearable computers in front of your eyes. But none have changed how we interact with technology in the way their promoters imagined. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has hinted that technology heavyweights aren’t done trying, though. Amon says his firm is working

Image: via YouTube / Square Enix Hironobu Sakaguchi needs no introduction. As the father of the Final Fantasy franchise, he’s the mind behind one of the most successful and popular JRPG series of all time. With FANTASIAN Neo Dimension reuniting Sakaguchi-san with Square Enix, he’s spoken about how returning to his former studio — and

Respected video game leaker billbil-kun has posted on X to say that the industry whispers around a Switch 2 reveal this month is actually for a new Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) bundle which features the sublime Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a three month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. It makes sense for Nintendo to

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s uber-beefy Patch 7 has just arrived for PC bringing with it enough changes to match the word count of some University dissertations. However, if you’re hoping to delve into it on console or Mac, you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer – until October to be exact – in order

Bluetooth, the omnipresent and often frustrating wireless standard, is getting a major update to version 6.0. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released details of the update this week, promising better efficiency and security. However, you won’t be able to enjoy all the benefits until hardware with Bluetooth 6.0 support shows up, which could take

Despite the energetic title of this collection, the legendary Japanese development house Sunsoft never really went away. It’s been steadily cranking out original titles, ports, and remasters on arcade and console since 1978, although it will likely never recapture the glory days of the 8- and 16-bit era. So prolific was its output that anyone

This year has seen a steady stream of rumors relating to the next console that Nintendo is releasing. So far, the company has said very little about the Switch successor. However, rumors earlier today are suggesting that that may not be the case for much longer. That said, that’s not the only Switch 2-related thing

WIT Studio is back with another exciting looking project, this time a brand new anime adaptation of Yaiba. While it’s a bit of a newer studio compared to some of the other more established names out there, WIT Studio has certainly proven itself with some bigger projects like Spy x Family and Suicide Squad

AMD has already launched some of its next-generation CPUs for desktop and mobile, so it follows the company will launch its RDNA 4 GPU lineup soon as well. Nobody knows when that will happen, but one of these mysterious GPUs has now appeared in a shipping manifest, indicating they might launch soon. The chip spotted

Where’s the poll option for “I’ll be picking the game up via Steam?” Because that’s what I’m leaning towards doing. The performance on Switch is a bit too rocky for my liking based on my time with the demo.This will, of course, mean that when the Switch successor is formally unveiled later this month, it

Nintendo has released some little snippets of information about the promising Mario & Luigi: Brothership for the Nintendo Switch family of systems on their official website. The game will see the duo adventuring their way through a new set of islands and utilising the awesome Brother Attacks to defeat enemies. New information: Game takes place

Fourteen years ago, Ian Proulx wasn’t happy. He’d just bought Halo Reach and, when confronted with the new spread of abilities available to Spartans, was worried that them sprinting all over the place and evade-rolling was taking away from the spirit of good old fashioned Halo. Fast forward to today, and in a twist of

Nvidia took the bold step of announcing its next-generation Blackwell architecture way back in March at its GTC conference, stating it’d be arriving later this year. Now that later this year has arrived, Nvidia has begun cranking up production via TSMC and is reportedly running into yield issues that could delay its full production just

Image: Innersloth Among Us continues to stack up the crossovers, and in a week’s time, we think one of the funniest ones yet will be dropping in the game for free. On 9th September, the little space beans will be able to dress up as Miles Edgeworth, our favourite prosecutor from Ace Attorney. The outfit

The upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is set to include two different difficulty settings from the start of your adventure. You will be able to change the game’s difficulty at any time in the game settings. The two modes are Normal Mode and Hero Mode. Hero Mode will be for more advanced

Silent Hill 2 is a bit tricky to play these days, but the PC version’s fan-made Enhanced Edition is finally complete. While you’ve been able to play the Enhanced Edition of Silent Hill 2, a to-be-honest half-remaster of the awful PC port of the game, for quite a while now, earlier this week the

At Google I/O this year, nearly every presenter previewed a new way to use the company’s Gemini AI in another Google product. Even Gmail, one of Google’s earliest and most successful products, is getting an infusion of generative AI, and those features are rolling out now on Android phones with a paid Gemini subscription. As

Can you believe it’s September already? Blimey… At least we have plenty – and we mean plenty – of fantastic games headed our way on Nintendo Switch. We’ve been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail over the next few weeks, including some highlights picked by us as well as lots

At Gamescom, Rhiannon Bevan from TheGamer got in some words with none other than Takaya Imamura, a key character designer for Star Fox and F-Zero. In the interview, they went over the two dormant franchises and whether or not a revival for either or both could be on the horizon. Luckily for Star Fox fans,

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom just got a fresh trailer, and it’s offered us our first look at Zelda in her swordfighter form, which sees her turn blue, da ba dee da ba di, and start stabbing away at the baddies, as part of her war on the colour purple. There’s not long

NASA has assembled a collection of six instruments it wants to get to the lunar surface, and it has turned to Texas-based Intuitive Machines to do it. The latest award in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program is valued at a whopping $116.9 million. The mission will aim to land the NASA payloads near

The Castlevania series has a rich history on Nintendo consoles ever since the original game came first to the Japanese Famicom Disk System way back in 1986, and then to the NES a year later. There may be a significant release or two from Konami’s vampire-killing catalogue still missing from Nintendo platforms (we’re looking at

In a new interview with Game Reactor, Yoshi-P, the acclaimed director behind the hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, has said that the development team is working on and making progress on bringing the game to “Nintendo consoles.” This is most likely for the successor to the Nintendo Switch, which is set to be revealed by

Star Wars Outlaws comes out properly today, following an early access period that kicked off earlier this week for folks who’d invested in the special editions of the game. Massive Entertainment’s commemorated the occasion by putting out a hotfix for PC designed to help make your intergalactic adventure run a bit more smoothly. PC stability

Google has announced the rollout of a new version of its Imagen 3 AI image creator in Gemini. In addition to the usual spate of refinements and promises of prettier pictures, Google is once again allowing its model to generate images of people. This comes after it paused human generation in Imagen 3 in February

Image: Humble Games We had a great time with Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus when it landed on Switch last month and now developer Squid Shock Studios has released the first console update to make things that bit smoother. The main focus seems to be on pesky bugs and glitches this time around, with