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Paramount has canceled Halo, the live-action TV adaptation of Xbox’s flagship franchise, after two seasons. The show’s second season premiered on Paramount+ earlier this year.  According to The Hollywood Reporter’s sources, Halo showrunners Amblin, Xbox, and 343 Industries are seeking a new outlet for a potential third season, with Paramount reportedly supporting the move.  “Paramount+

Games industry veteran Hideki Kamiya has shared that he still wants to make sequels to PS2 classics Okami and Viewtiful Joe. These days, Kamiya is probably best known as the creator of Bayonetta, though throughout his year he’s created a big range of titles. You obviously can’t forget Devil May Cry, but there’s

Google has never had good luck keeping unreleased smartphones under wraps. Just this week, Taiwanese regulators accidentally published images of all of Google’s 2024 Pixel phones, which will be announced next month. Google seems to have tired of being undercut and has taken the wraps off two of its devices early. The new teaser videos

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube772k At EVO 2024 SNK shared announced SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms. It’s available now on Steam and will be released on 22nd July 2024 for the Switch. Here are the full details about this title (via Steam): SNK and

The team behind the nostalgic JRPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has announced that fans can expect to hear details about a major incoming patch along with exciting new story DLC next week. the news will presumably be announced on their social media account which you can view here. Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is available now

Last week, Xbox announced it was introducing new Game Pass tiers and raising its subscription prices for existing members on September 12. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took issue with these changes in a filing yesterday to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In case you missed it, Microsoft revealed a new

The live-service bubble has been bursting for a while. That much is clear. But with how long most triple-A (and even double-AA) video games take to make nowadays and how absurdly huge the possible wins are, it comes as no surprise it’s taking a bit of time to partially retreat from a model that’s grown

Today has not been a good day to update your Windows machine (ugh), but Windows 11 home users should be able to confidently download and install the latest version of the operating system. The big annual update for Windows 11, 23H2, came out last year but is now available for all users for the first

Image: Warner Bros. Games NetherRealm Studios, the developer behind the Mortal Kombat series, is reportedly facing multiple layoffs after select staff members from the studios’ mobile team shared posts on LinkedIn announcing that they have been put out of work (thanks, Eurogamer). The NetherRealm mobile team seems to be the most affected by the layoffs,

Nintendo is sponsoring a tournament for Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition that will feature several prominent virtual YouTubers, or VTubers, from Japanese VTuber agency Hololive. Usada Pekora, Nekomata Okayu, Inugami Korone, and Himemori Luna will participate as contestants, while Shirakami Fubuki will be the host. It is scheduled to air on July 29th at 8pm

Splitgate’s combination of Halo-esque first-person shooter with Portal-inspired portal jumping mechanics made it quite the sensation when it launched in open beta in 2021. With its servers regularly buckling under the weight of its players, the game caught lightning in a bottle but petered out when the game finally went 1.0 and simultaneously ceased receiving

It looks to have taken a lot longer than we all might have initially expected, but there’s finally a Starfield mod that adds Star Wars’ Mos Eisley Cantina to the game as a fully-fledged location you can hang out in between those new-ish bounty missions. While modders had to spend a lot of time

It’s the most important shopping week of the summer, as Amazon tempts server stability by dropping prices on zillions of items. Navigating the typhoon of deals can be overwhelming, so we spent the last few days doing it. We’ve hunted down high-performing laptops in different price brackets from some of our favorite manufacturers, including Razer,

Image: Nintendo Life After decades of patiently explaining to elderly relatives, “No, Zelda is the princess”, 2024 is going to be the year that Grandma is finally right. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is boldly going where no mainline series entry has gone before by putting the titular princess in the driver’s seat.

Splatoon 3 continues to get a lot of support from Nintendo, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. The game has received DLC support courtesy of an Expansion Pass, and the game is getting updated very regularly with new updates that adds more things, re-balances the game and fixes bugs. Well, the

The Xbox 360 digital store shuts down later this month on July 26. Amid a wave of price reductions and other end-of-life updates, nostalgic fans can relive the console’s earliest days via a new dynamic background modeled after the old “Blades” interface. For those too young to remember or didn’t get an Xbox 360 until

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The Penguin and the Egg as seen via Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Thursday marked two years since the James Webb Space Telescope began full scientific operations. NASA released the observatory’s latest image to celebrate the occasion: a whimsical depiction of two interacting galaxies dubbed “the Penguin and the Egg.”  At

Image: NetherRealm Studios NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat 1 has already added all sorts of DLC fighters to the game as part of the first Kombat Pack and now to bring things to a close it’s locked in a date for the final fighter Takeda Takahashi. He’ll be made available in-game later this month on 23rd July

Although the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie is not due for a theatrical release until this December, the movie appears to have been fully completed. The news comes from composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) who says that he saw the film for the first time yesterday and said that it was an “exciting” experience. “Actually,

The Double Dragon series has been around since the arcades in 1987 and has managed to maintain a surprisingly consistent release cadence in those more than 35 years. It was only last year that we played Double Dragon Gaiden, a pixelated throwback brawler (or belt-scroll action game, per its official YouTube description) take on the

Do you remember when Elden Ring was first announced? That beautiful moment back during E3 2019, when FromSoftware — at that point riding the high of Dark Souls‘ and Bloodborne‘s acclaim — presented a fresh spin on its signature hardcore fantasy RPG formula. It was like Dark Souls, but not quite. A new world, with

Apple’s virtual reality headset was rumored for years before it finally made an appearance last year, and it is, in many ways, the quintessential Apple product. The Vision Pro is wildly expensive, with a curated but limited feature set and deep integrations with other Apple products. It is beginning to look like Apple’s standard approach

Image: Bloober Team Update [Sun 14th Jul, 2024 09:00 BST]: IGN has chimed in on speculation linking Bloober Team to Nintendo’s new reveal ‘Emio‘ and it seems this developer is “probably not” involved in this project (thanks, GoNintendo). Here’s exactly what was mentioned during episode 718 of the Nintendo Voice Chat podcast: IGN: “We have

Nintendo’s cryptic announcement of the Emio game earlier this week surprised many fans. Since then, there has been lots of speculation in regards to the game. There has also been some discussion involving who is developing the game. One theory that has been going around is that the game is being developed by Bloober Team,

Nintendo added three new games to its Game Boy Advance Nintendo Switch Online library, and though none of the them are Mother 3 (or a Pokémon game or Astro Boy or Drill Dozer or any other GBA game we’ve been clamoring for) they are none-the-less interesting and completely unexpected. Starfy isn’t a particularly familiar franchise

Look, it’s ok to feel sad about a proper Bloodborne PC port being a thing we may well never get, even if some folks who aren’t Sony keep trying to do a thing. However, if you want to take that energy and channel it into something positive once you’ve learned a bit about modding, the

SpaceX has increased the cadence of Falcon 9 launches over the past several years to such a degree that we’ve started to take them for granted. However, space is still as dangerous and unpredictable as always. The latest Falcon 9 flight was supposed to deploy a new batch of Starlink internet satellites, but the second

What order should I play the Persona games in? It doesn’t matter, at least if you consider the mainline games. While every single Persona game takes place in the same world, there are very few connections — and even those are just easter eggs or character references. What might tip the scales is what kind

Ever since the game was officially released following Nintendo‘s September 2023 Direct, F-Zero 99 has been receiving updates with additional content and various bug fixes. It has been a slow and gradual feed of updates, but thanks to all the post-launch support, the game now has a lot of content that it didn’t have when