iPhone users are experiencing a surge in so-called “smishing” attacks that encourage them to disable basic iMessage protections, according to the cybersecurity news site BleepingComputer. Once Apple’s scam guardrails are removed, users are more susceptible to suspicious links that extract personal information from their phones. Smishing—short for SMS phishing—involves text messages that appear to be
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Image: Maksym Vysochanskyy trading as IndieGames3000 This year marks five years since the last mainline Animal Crossing game launched. Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out at the perfect time and made an absolutely huge splash worldwide. But with its fifth anniversary fast approaching, we’re sure lots of fans are champing at the bit for a
Nintendo recently did a Nintendo Switch Online Playtest Program. It has been done for a few months now, but despite the company not wanting anything from the program being leaked, it has been the exact opposite. Not only did people talk about what it was that they were testing, the Playtest Program was ultimately datamined.
If you need a video game pick-me-up that will cure you of any ailment, then you absolutely need to watch this Crazy Taxi speedrun.
I would argue that Crazy Taxi is one of the most video games to ever video game – it is ridiculous, loud, it’s a game many people have played
Frontier, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Credit: ORNL What do fusion research, weather forecasting, epidemiology, and population dynamics have in common? They’re all fields of study loaded with problems so big that they’re delegated to supercomputers. A supercomputer is a computer of such implausible size and power that it’s in a whole different league.
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s check out the box art designs themselves. North America Image: Namco / Launchbox Uhh… Okay, this is a bit boring. Ethereal, maybe, but certainly boring. Lots of white space, while the character models are quite small and insignificant. We’re certain this one
For once, there has been a leak or rumor that has absolutely nothing to do with Nintendo’s next video gaming console. In fact, it is related to their current video gaming console and something that Nintendo had planned to have on the Switch when the console was still in active development and hadn’t been revealed
I told myself I’d work through my hefty backlog over the Christmas break. That was a lie. While I did finish a few short video games, most of my gaming time was spent on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Diablo 4, and Marvel Rivals. All three were riddled with the traditional microtransactions, but only
Microsoft is set to release several updates for Windows 11 in the early months of 2025, aka, ‘The Year of the Windows 11 PC Refresh’. These updates are based on Windows 11 beta channel release notes and are expected to roll out as an optional update in January and a mandatory update in February 2025,
Image: Nintendo If you pre-ordered Metroid Prime 4 on Amazon multiple years ago, you might want to check the status of your order. Amazon customers have been receiving emails recently, confirming the cancellation of this item “due to a lack of availability” and providing refunds. A user on the Metroid subreddit, who ordered the title
SEGA and Forever Entertainment have announced a spring release window for the long-awaited remake of the classic arcade game The House of the Dead 2 on the Nintendo Switch family of systems. To celebrate the announcement, Forever Entertainment has put together an action-packed announcement trailer with plenty of zombies and gore which you can check
Dang it. Sleeping Dogs – a very good game about an undercover cop infitrating Hong Kong’s triads by lying and backing that lying up by kicking half the population of the special administrative region right in the face – is no longer set to be getting a film adaptation starring Donnie Yen. I know, fellow
Concept image of Panoramic iDrive. Credit: BMW BMW is waving goodbye to tactile controls with its new Panoramic iDrive system, which features a head-up display, AI assistant, and haptic controls. The automaker unveiled its screen-filled setup this week at CES 2025, noting that the configuration would debut with the Neue Klasse X electric SUV later
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube791k Ever one to snatch up a DLC crossover, Square Enix has today announced that PowerWash Simulator will be getting taken on a Grand Day Out later this year with the arrival of the ‘Wallace & Gromit Special Pack‘. We still don’t have a precise release date for this one
Compared to yesterday, things are a little more quiet with Switch 2 rumors and leaks. However, it is increasingly becoming clear that the dam is beginning to break, if it hasn’t already. The vast majority of all the rumors and leaks have been coming from accessory manufacturers, but for the first time, a major retailer
“I’ve had a lot of experience in these gallery spaces and it always felt like this vague form of superficial hell to me,” Filippo Meozzi, director and producer of Doom: The Gallery Experience, tells me. “I work in the art industry as an artist’s assistant, I produce sculptures and other things like that. So, I’m
Dell took the opportunity at CES to announce a major branding refresh. The Inspiron, Latitude, and XPS lines are out, and Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max lines are in. On the other hand, Alienware, Dell’s high-end gaming brand, survived the changes. In fact, Dell breathed new life into Alienware, reviving the Area-51 brand
Image: Nintendo Life The Pokémon Europe International Championships return to London next month (20th-23rd Feb), and while we are, of course, very excited to see the cream of the competitive crop go head to head across a range of disciplines, the big selling point for many will be the pop-up Pokémon Center. Reservations for this
This busy day of Switch 2 rumors and leaks isn’t over yet. Despite all the things we’ve seen and heard from CES 2025, there is yet more that we have to share with you. Remember that Nintendo has stated that they will be revealing the console by the end of this fiscal year. That means
I love it when a video game makes me say ‘wow’ out loud. It’s even better when it can happen often – and such was the case in an one-hour hands-on session with Split Fiction, the new game from Hazelight Studios that’s set to once again be published by EA. As a co-op game, my
Analyst Ben Bajarin is estimating that TSMC’s 3nm wafers are running Apple about $18,000 a pop. Apple uses the 3nm process for its A17 and A18 smartphone chips. That’s a hefty price tag, considering that, back in the days of the 28nm A7 processor, wafers went for about $5,000. During the gradual move from 28nm
Image: PlatinumGames The Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames reportedly said goodbye to multiple veterans (including Hideki Kamiya) last year. Now, in another studio update, it’s been confirmed the Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon director Adebe Tinari has also left. According to his LinkedIn, he’s moved on to PlayStation’s Housemarque (Returnal) as a lead game designer.
The long-awaited remaster of the classic PlayStation Vita Monster Hunter-style game Freedom Wars is coming to the Nintendo Switch family of systems on Friday. To celebrate the impending release of the game Bandai Namco and Sony have put together a special overview trailer showcasing what to expect from the remastered version of the game. Be
Do you enjoy taking in some high culture, ruminating on the messaging of art, chatting to fellow brain-havers about the nature of humanity and its history? Do you like classic Doom? Well, good news, there’s now a game called Doom: The Gallery Experience, and it lets you wander around exhibits as a wine-sipping version of
When the major PC game distributors offer roughly 100,000 titles, it can be tricky to figure out what to play next. To help you find your next favorite Windows game, we highlight 16 titles that let your hardware shine, tell a memorable story, or offer engaging gameplay—and even a few with all three. Call of
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Fresh images of what looks to be the left Joy-Con controller from the upcoming ‘Switch 2’ hardware have been posted online, supposedly originating from China. Hosted over on Reddit by ‘thisSubIsAtrocious‘ and subsequently shared all over social media, the Joy-Con sports the new magnetic rail with which to attach
Pikmin Bloom is similar to Pokemon GO in multiple ways. Just like Pokemon GO, the game tracks players as they travel to places in real life and earn rewards. Of course, a big reason for that is that Pikmin Bloom and Pokemon GO are both developed by Niantic. Another thing that makes the game similar
Who doesn’t love a battle pass? Well, hopefully you if you’re planning on hopping into Call of Duty Black Ops 6‘s Squid Game crossover event, which kicks off today, January 3, and will run until January 24. You see, it technically comes with not one, but two battle passes, a regular one and a premium
Artist’s depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the accumulation of space junk even a problem?
I don’t watch sonic 3 movie after I overheard something inside the movie, added with my bad reception from the first sonic movie in year 2020. Even I suddenly stopped watching the sonic 3 movie trailer from YouTube after 20 seconds. I already felt something not quite right and I don’t want to regret like