One of the fairly surprising new announcements for this week’s The Game Awards was the announcement from SEGA to say that the enjoyable Sonic Racing franchise is making a return with Sonic Racing Cross Worlds. While all we received was a teaser video, with no specified release date or window, more information has emerged about
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Elden Ring Nightreign was one of the big healines at The Game Awards yesterday, as you’d expect from anything with FromSoftware’s critically-acclaimed fingertips. Now, Bandai Namco has revealed that it’ll be getting a network test early next year, with sign-ups starting in January. If you somehow missed Nightreign being announced, it’s a co-op focussed title
Nvidia is giving gamers plenty to think about as we head into the weekend. The graphics card maker teased its upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs on X with the tagline: “GeForce at CES 2025. Celebrate. Play. Watch.” The image includes the number 50 in Nvidia’s trademark green, and the post links to a page
Image: Nintendo Nintendo may not have really been present at this year’s Game Awards, but there was one brief Switch trailer featured during the event. While the company is in the process of signing off from the current Switch generation, this trailer was still busy hyping up the many third-party releases coming to the hybrid
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII shared its opening cutscene, titled “Rediscover Hope,” at The Game Awards 2024. With narration from Game of Thrones actor Gwendoline Christie and music by grammy-winning composer Christopher TIn, the cinematic peels back the layers of history to inspire you to “build something you believe in.” Sid Meier’s Civilization VII launches for
EA Sports has just released the early access for FC Empires, a new football 4X Strategy game that’s kind of like Football Manager meets Clash of Clans. It’s available on iOS and Android in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand right now, with a global release scheduled at some point in the near
While the world’s richest man is going all in with a robotaxi, General Motors has decided to pull the plug on its embryonic autonomous taxis. GM has announced that it will stop shoveling money into Cruise, the robotaxi subsidiary that never managed to make a dime. Instead of taxis, GM plans to focus on autonomous
Ok. I don’t know if I was expecting something along with Nintendo’s NES Tetris, but it wasn’t Tetris DX. Not that I’m complaining, that’s a Tetris I have never played. EDIT: I already love the music box rendition of the Tetris Records theme in Tetris DX. View original source here.
The Pokemon Company has announced that it has teamed up with Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman to produce a Pokemon-themed animation project. The project will be arriving in 2027, so we have got a while to wait, however, it is bound to be turn out to be something special. Here’s what both companies had to
Great news, Castlevania fans, Nocturne season 2 has a new trailer, and aside from just showing some pretty pictures, it also has a release date.
Back in September Netflix offered up a slightly vague January 2025 release window, and with that being right around the corner now, the streaming service has been courteous
A Reddit user, anh0l, has reported successfully installing Windows 11 on Arm on his Xiaomi Poco X3. The device can run both Android and Windows 11. It has a split partition that allows for this dual-boot setup. The system also supports the phone’s 120Hz display and works with a Bluetooth mouse. But the Reddit user
Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked) Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop is a roguelite fix-’em-up that combines the frantic buttons-and-levers work of Space Team and the chaotic manual-flipping of Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes with the repetitive, greasy work of car mechanics. You are the sole useful employee of the titular Rocket Shop, a podunk space garage
It has been a surprisingly interesting year for Donkey Kong Country fans. An HD remaster of Donkey Kong Country Returns will be releasing next year, and Super Nintendo World is in the process of rolling out an area for Donkey Kong Country. It is opening to the public in Osaka, Japan this week, and Americans
From Sony, to Netflix, and back to Sony again, the art director of God of War: Ragnarok has shared he’s joining Naughty Dog.
Back in May of last year, Rafael Grassetti announced that he would be leaving Santa Monica Studio after 10 years at the studio and shipping both God of War and
Lenovo launched its new ThinkPad X1 Carbon Aura AI laptop in China, giving us a preview of tech we’ll likely see in Lenovo’s upcoming products for the U.S. The laptop’s most noteworthy new hardware includes its CPU, which is an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, and a PCI-E 5.0 solid-state drive (SSD). With the new
Update [Sun 8th Dec 2024, 10am]: The Sonic X Transformers collaboration has been officially announced. It’s a two-in-one pack and will be available in the US for $49.99, with pre-orders going live at Target on 10th December 2024 and a release in 2025 (via Sonic Stadium). BREAKING: The Sonic the Hedgehog Transformers toys will release
The official Pokemon Unite X account has revealed that fans can get hands on with the latest addition to the growing roster Tinkaton very soon. Tinkaton will be unleashed in-game on Thursday, 12 December. That’s the same day as The Game Awards and the Sonic x Shadow Generations downloadable content. You can take a look
The 2005 original version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted is easily one of the most popular in the series, and it turns out a remake of it isn’t entirely impossible.
Over the course of the thirty years the series has been around for now, there’s definitely a case to be made that
To many, AI is just a horrible Steven Spielberg movie. To others, it’s the next generation of learning computers—or a source of endless empty hype. What is artificial intelligence, exactly? The answer depends on who you ask. Broadly, artificial intelligence (AI) is the combination of computer software, hardware, and robust datasets deployed to solve some
Image: Nintendo Life It’s that time of year for reflection, to sit down and take stock of all the wonderful games that released in 2024. A time to stare into the middle distance with a despairing expression wondering how you managed to not play so many great new games this year because the Vampire Survivors
Playtonic has given fans a closer look at gameplay of their reworked version of Yooka-Laylee which is titled Yooka-Replaylee and is destined to arrive on the next Nintendo system, which is thought to be the Switch 2. The gameplay video for Glitterglaze Glacier contains developer commentary from Steve James and Gavin Price and gives a
There is definitely, absolutely, 100% a new trailer for Borderlands 4 on the way, we’re just not meant to know about it technically.
Look, we all make mistakes, but when you’re the CEO of a company you’d think that you’d be more cautious about making them. Then again, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has
Google just improved Quick Share on Android by adding QR code support for easier file transfers. Quick Share’s new QR code feature makes file sharing comparatively easier (as if it wasn’t easy already). Just pick a file, hit the QR code option, and let the other person scan it for an easy and secure transfer,
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life Back in October, it was rumoured that Ubisoft was considering going private after a rough year of releases. Two months on and it appears that the negotiations are still ongoing, with Ubisoft and Tencent apparently engaged in talks about buyout terms. That is according to the latest report from
Marvel Rivals has launched today to great fanfare on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, though it would seem as though there’s absolutely no plans to bring the game to the Nintendo Switch family of systems. Marvel Rivals has been ruled out for a Switch port by the game’s director, Thaddeus Sasser, who
A new holiday-themed Monopoly Go season is upon us, as the Monopoly Man swaps his stovepipe top hat for a fluffy red cap and (presumably) turns to giving presents instead of hoarding infinite wealth for himself. Well, maybe not, but they’re still releasing the Jingle Joy sticker album anyway. Taking over from the long-serving Marvel
Expecting mothers typically opt for prenatal genetic testing during their first and third trimesters. Performed with a sample of the mother’s blood, this test looks for fetal aneuploidy, an abnormal number of chromosomes. Though the test is already valuable for its ability to predict nonviable pregnancies and developmental disorders, it’s accidentally become useful for another
Image: Arc System Works The upcoming fighting game adaptation of the manga and anime series ‘Hunter x Hunter’ is due out on the Switch and other platforms in 2025, but it seems it’s been refused classification in one particular country ahead of release. The country (and classification board) that’s knocked back Hunter x Hunter: Nen
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy will bring the fight to the Nintendo Switch on April 24, 2025. Developed by Too Kyo Games and Media.Vision, the tactical RPG & visual novel hybrid comes from the creators of Danganronpa and Zero Escape. XSEED Games and Aniplex will be bringing it to the west on the same
It sounds like Warner Bros. is trying to bring back as much of the original cast as it can for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, as now they’re after Viggo Mortensen.
Back in September, it was reported that Warner Bros. was looking to get Ian McKellen to return to his