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Gamescom will be starting tomorrow, where many video gaming companies will have upcoming releases available to play at the show floor. However, one company that has had a history of having a very small presence at the event, if any at all, is Nintendo. This year is no exception, with the company announcing back in

The upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 isn’t all that far away, with its release date set for October 8. As such, previews have been well underway as the game goes through the final stages of development and receives a final layer of polish. While I talk about this at length in my preview, I

High Numerical Aperture (NA) lithography machines just became available earlier this year. Intel was the first global foundry to purchase one in an attempt to one-up its rivals in the race to ever-shrinking nodes. Now, Samsung foundry has reportedly jumped on board the High-NA train; a new report states the company is joining Intel in

And in this corner, you can play Gyromite. Over here Kung-Fu… and the museum will be the only place where you can play these for the next 35 years. Please release for 40th anniversary old game collection that has working light gun games Duck Hunt, Hogan’s Alley and Gyromite, Kung-Fu, Popeye! View original source here.

We haven’t got long now until the intriguing The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom launches on the Nintendo Switch family of systems as it is due to be released next month. Today, it has emerged which amiibo will be compatible with the game. Players who tap in an amiibo figure will be able to

Nintendo’s first new Famicom Detective Club in over 30 years is getting three whole demos, and you’ll be able to carry over your save data too. About a third of the way through July, Nintendo started teasing something just a little bit scary. It was out of step with Nintendo’s usual family friendly image,

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature. Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small

Nintendo Life’s resident horror fanatic, when he’s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry. View original source here.

The 2024 Pokémon World Championships are being held this weekend, and to celebrate, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet players can redeem a special Sylveon that matches the one used by Tomoya Ogawa during his win at the 2023 Pokémon World Championships. Tomoya’s Sylveon comes with the Pixilate ability and Choice Specs item- with Hyper Voice, Tera

Genshin Impact version 5.0 – the next major update set to bring a new region to the game – will release worldwide on August 29. In addition, new characters as well as an archon quest, events, and slick new traversal abilities are coming too for players who jump into the new content. Genshin Impact players

The Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) standard was originally designed by Dell to replace SO-DIMM memory in laptops. Despite its humble origins, it’s now being prepped to replace DIMMs made for desktop PCs. But so far, we have yet to fully understand what those would look like and whether they would improve on DDR or

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube774k Publisher Hyper Real has revealed Telebbit, an intriguing 2D platformer that utilises teleportation as its main gameplay hook. Launching on the Switch eShop on 24th October 2024 and developed by IKINAGAMES, it’s currently giving off heavy Celeste vibes, albeit with a more cyberpunk-esque aesthetic with a hefty dollop of

For many years now, fans have been wanting to see Banjo-Kazooie return. The duo did make an appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a playable character, but other than that, Microsoft and Rare have continued to let the franchise stay dormant ever since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts released in 2008. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem

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.