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@Otoemetry I don’t think they were meaning TTYD was the first Paper Mario. They were specifically talking about the style of Paper Mario that 64 and TTYD had, cos after TTYD the RPG elements are pretty much non existent. Think they were just meaning they wanted to go back to the template that 64 set

The latest edition of premier Japanese gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has arrived and Issue 1842 contains the first review of the intriguing Princess Peach: Showtime!. The four reviewers at Famitsu each gave the game 8/8/9/8 giving Princess Peach: Showtime! an overall score of 33/40. Here’s all the review scores from Weekly Famitsu Issue 1842: Outcast:

Valve has announced Steam Families, a revamped program that allows players to create a group to share and play games with close family members. The program launches today in the Steam Beta Client and it replaces the Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View features.  Steam Families can have up to six members, and joining

If you’re a Fallout fan and you would like a custom Xbox Series X, then you might want to check out the giveaway Xbox is currently holding. Prime Video’s Fallout TV show is basically right around the corner, and as part of building hyper for the upcoming series, Xbox has teamed up with

Microsoft and Google have been busy over the past year announcing new generative AI models for use in their latest products, while Apple has remained on the sidelines. It’s been reported that Apple would eventually wade into the fray in 2024 when it launches iOS 18 along with new iPhones in September. Still, it was

Image: Nintendo Life Welcome back as we rifle, once again, through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. It’s March, and around these parts we’re wading through a deluge of fantastic games (and the weekly eShop cack) while we await Princess Peach‘s upcoming solo Switch performance with great anticipation. Let’s put our Switches down for a moment, though,

Believe it or not, Super Mario Run is still receiving support from Nintendo. The mobile game may have launched almost a decade ago, but Nintendo has still been giving the game some updates. There has even been new content added to the game as recently as last year. This is no exception. A brand new

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is right around the corner, launching on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC next week on March 22. Ahead of the game’s launch, Capcom has released a new gameplay overview trailer with more than seven minutes of new footage; and perhaps strangely, it’s narrated by actor Ian McShane (Deadwood, John Wick, Pirates of

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 isn’t too far off from release, and to help the time go a bit quicker, Ninja Theory has shared four new screens from the game. The released screenshots were captured using Photo Mode, which returns for Hellblade 2. That’s great news for players who love taking artistic in-game photographs. Senua’s Saga:

The JWST’s first deep-field image, depicting galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, is among the deepest and sharpest images of the night sky ever captured. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the

Gavin Lane, editor Image: Nintendo Mario Bros. 3 was my first. Actually, I don’t remember if it was 3 or Super Mario Bros. that was actually my first — my brother had both carts — but it was 3 that really captured my imagination. The dancing objects on the World Map screen, Mario’s rotund, waddling

It seems as though one of the next Fortnite collaborations could well be with The Binding of Isaac franchise. Fortnite developer Epic Games has reportedly contacted Edmund McMillen, the creator of the franchise, to ask whether he would be interested in collaborating with the popular free-to-play game. Fortnite has had a range of successful collaborations

The Among Us animated series being developed at CBS Studios has found its Purple, Green, Red, and Orange crewmembers in Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us), Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Randall Park (Ant-Man, Always Be My Maybe), and Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Drake & Josh).  The official Among Us X account (formerly Twitter) announced

Good news, people who distinctly remember having had at least one football-shaped birthday cake as a child – EA Sports FC 24’s getting a bunch of new cards in celebration of the series Ultimate Team mode having been a thing for 15 whole years. Yes, after blessing us with the return of its freaky red

It’s no secret that Microsoft has been trying to get hundreds of millions of customers to try out its new AI-powered assistant, Copilot, for the past year. It’s added it to its Bing search engine, Edge browser, and even Windows 11, and it’s also free to use. The company also offers a “Pro” version for

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube761k Ready for some good ol’ relaxation? Well good news, because it looks like Coatsink’s upcoming Moonglow Bay has it in spades. Launching on the Switch on 11th April, 2024, the game looks like a cosy amalgamation of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Dredge, and The Touryst, The game is basically

The latest Japanese boxed video game software and hardware sales have come through from the team at Weekly Famitsu. The best-selling game this week in The Land of the Rising Sun is Vanillaware’s epic tactical strategy RPG, Unicorn Overlord, which shifted the most amount of units on the Nintendo Switch. Talking of the Nintendo Switch,

No Rest for the Wicked hits Early Access on PC on April 18, but ahead of that release, the upcoming action RPG from Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps developer Moon Studios is gracing the latest cover of Game Informer. After checking the game out for a few hours alongside some of the leads

Mark your calendars for June 7 because that’s the date scheduled for the Summer Game Fest 2024 showcase. The Geoff Keighley-hosted event will be broadcast live from the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, with in-person tickets to the show purchasable through Ticketmaster starting May 7. You can expect two hours of announcements, special guests, trailers,

By now, we’ve all heard the term “AI PC.” This new breed of computer is reportedly coming to market soon to allow AI performance far beyond what our current computers are capable of. But what exactly constitutes an actual AI PC? Is it the presence of a specific CPU, GPU, or a combination of the

Evening Star’s new 3D platformer Penny’s Big Breakaway got off to a solid start when it arrived last month, but notably was capped at 30FPS. Fortunately, this is set to change in the next update, with developer Christian Whitehead confirming the upcoming console update will unlock the Switch frame rate. This will allow players to

The Pokemon Company are seemingly getting a support studio to provide additional personnel to mainline Pokemon studio, Game Freak. The news comes as The Pokemon Company has registered a brand new subsidiary called Pokemon Works. Pokemon Works is located in the same building as ILCA, who are best known as the development company behind Pokemon

MultiVersus, the Warner Bros. free-to-play crossover platform fighter, makes its big comeback on May 28. The game has been rebuilt and returns almost a year after its open beta was taken offline. Player First Games game director Tony Huynh explains in a developer diary that MultiVersus has been remade from the ground up in Unreal

Stalking aboard an American ship and assassinating a small army’s worth of the foreign navy is a strong way to start any game. You’re a mix of ninja and samurai, trained and honed into a deadly weapon, pointed at an interfering force set on undermining your country’s autonomy. Switching between your custom-made main character and

It has been more than 50 years since humans set foot on the Moon, but we’re going back. The upcoming Artemis Program landings might not happen as soon as NASA initially hoped, but you might be able to tide yourself over by reliving the past. A film archivist has gotten his hands on something special—a

Image: Nintendo Life Following the sad passing of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama at the age of 68, tributes have been pouring in left, right, and centre from numerous notable figures in the entertainment industry and beyond. One such tribute that caught our eye was a beautiful crossover drawing from none other than Yasushi Yamaguchi

Moon Studios and Microsoft‘s Ori and the Blind Forest, as well as Ori and the Will of the Wisps, have been available on Xbox consoles and on PC for years now. The former game released on the Nintendo Switch in September of 2019, and the latter game officially released on Nintendo’s hybrid console in September

To close out its Mario Day announcements video, where we learned about a new movie set in the world of Super Mario Bros, as well as the release dates of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, Nintendo revealed that three classic Mario spin-offs are arriving on Nintendo Switch Online this week.

It’s Mario Day today, and as part of the celebrations, Lego and Nintendo revealed their latest collab yesterday: Lego Mario Kart. For those that don’t know, March 10 is officially Mario day, because when you abbreviate it – Mar10 – it looks like the iconic plumber’s name! Typically Nintendo reveals something for the

How do you use ChatGPT? What can it do? We explain what ChatGPT is, how it works, and how to make it work for you. Let’s start with the basics and go deeper from there. What Is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot based on OpenAI’s foundational GPT-4 large language model. It parses natural-language