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Today’s Xbox Partner Preview showcased 14 games across 30 minutes, some brand new, some long lost, and others newly christened with release dates. Here’s a quick rundown of everything announced. Unknown 9: Awakening – Summer 2024 First announced at Gamescom 2020, this supernatural third-person action game showed its first signs of life in over three

Today, during the Xbox Partner Preview, Capcom presented new gameplay footage of the Japanese-inspired world of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. Announced during last year’s Xbox Games Showcase, in this single-player action game, you play as protagonist Soh, whose sworn duty is to rescue villagers and restore peace along with the Maiden of the Mountain,

Just as most of us predicted, many of today’s AI image generators are primed to mislead voters ahead of major elections. Researchers at the Center of Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that fights online hate speech and disinformation, shared in a report Wednesday that common AI tools can produce false yet convincing election “photographs”

Image: Outright Games You wait for news of a new Turtles game and then two come along in the space of a week. Yes, after being revealed last year, Outright Games and Paramount Games Studios have now announced that its upcoming Mutant Mayhem-based game will be called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed and it

Game Informer has revealed a first look at a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and it is coming to the Nintendo Switch and other platforms towards the end of the year. The 3D brawler/platformer will take place after the events of the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja

If you subscribe to the digital edition of Game Informer, you can now learn all about our trip to Vienna, Austria for No Rest for the Wicked! Following the cover reveal our digital issue is now live on web browsers, iPad/iPhone, and Android devices. Alongside the cover story, you will also find big features on

Capcom is hosting a double-duty livestream event called Capcom Highlights this month, in which some of its biggest games like Dragon’s Dogma 2, Street Fighter 6, Monster Hunter Now, and Monster Hunter Stories will feature. With broadcasts set on to take place on both March 7 and March 11, each game will get 15-20

A close-up of a rock target photographed by Perseverance’s WATSON on July 11, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Which direction a rock faces matters more than you’d think. Researchers at MIT have spent the last several months working to understand the original orientations of rocks on Mars, starting with bedrock samples collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover. Their

Image: Nintendo Life The latest UK charts are in and it is no surprise who’s sitting at the top spot this week. We predicted it, you predicted it, of course, this week’s champ is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the PS5. Square Enix’s latest managed to beat both EA Sports FC 24 and Hogwarts Legacy

It seems as though two popular free-to-play games are both getting collaborations with Netflix’s recently released live action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The first of these is Rocket League and the second is Fortnite. The source of the Rocket League collaboration is known leaker SamLeakss and the Fortnite news was discovered via datamining

HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2 has found its Manny, Mel, Nora, and Owen, all key characters in the story that unfolds in The Last of Us Part II. Announced today, Danny Ramirez (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Top Gun: Maverick) will play Manny, Ariela Barer (Runaways) as Mel, Tati Gabrielle (Chilling Adventures

Wish you could play Super Mario 64, but you’re bored of the same old levels? A fan-made mod that randomly generates levels might be what you’re looking for. Super Mario 64 isn’t quite a timeless game, given its occasionally clunky controls and funky level design, but it was one that I imagine many

The SpaceX Falcon 9 has changed the way we go to space. This highly reliable rocket has now completed numerous launches to the International Space Station, usually returning safely to Earth to be launched again. NASA has even authorized the Falcon 9 and its Dragon capsule to transport astronauts, a first for private aerospace. The

A new Good Smile Company release. Last month, Good Smile Company teased new figma including a Pop Up Parade version of Kirby car, based on a transformation in Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Pre-orders for this item will set you back USD $25.99 (or the regional equivalent). It’s estimated to ship in Q4 2024 and

Polygon has published an insightful interview with Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe touching on the live concert series and of course the Version 1.6 update, which is launching first on PC this month, with console and mobile versions to follow. ConcernedApe says that what’s publicly known about the update is only scratching the surface, so it

Moon Studios, makers of the acclaimed Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, is tackling a dramatically different project in its first action RPG, No Rest for the Wicked. First revealed during last year’s Game Awards, the studio held a special livestream presentation where it revealed the game’s early access release date: April 18.

The trailer for the next big update that’s coming to GTA Online has just dropped, and what’s Rockstar got in store for us this time? Well, it’s helping out non-corrupt law enforcement and seeing how chicken burgers get made. Yup, if you’re looking for something GTA-ish to do while you wait for more news on

NASA has spent years working on the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule that will return humanity to the Moon in the coming years, but it will take more than one spacecraft to take “one small step.” SpaceX is building the initial lander for Artemis as a special variant of the Starship rocket. Among

Image: Nintendo Life Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out this week and while many PlayStation 5 owners will be likely diving into the highly anticipated release, the game’s producer Yoshinori Kitase is actually planning to return to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Speaking to BAFTA, Kitase mentioned how he had been a

It is not uncommon for various media outlets to release some lists that reveal their most favorite or least favorite gaming-related things. Sometimes these lists include Nintendo games, and sometimes they don’t. The latest list of note, however, may be interesting to fans of the Final Fantasy games. The other day, GameSpot released a list

Electronic Arts is laying off 5 percent of its workforce, which accounts for roughly 670 employees. CEO Andrew Wilson issued a company-wide letter informing staff of the publisher’s restructuring, which will mean sunsetting some live service titles and ceasing the development of certain projects. In his letter, Wilson states that EA is restructuring to become

Like Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith or not, it’s perhaps the boldest episode of the Skywalker Saga, a tragedy of epic proportions with some surprising swings, such as the slaughter of a bunch of kids at the hands of the protagonist, Anakin Skywalker. Now, actor Hayden Christensen has elaborated on how

Elon Musk is breathing new life into Tesla’s second-generation Roadster. Though the electric sports car has encountered delay after delay since its late-2010s announcement, a “radical” overhaul to the vehicle’s design goals has the CEO eager to revive the Roadster’s dwindling public hype. “Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster,”

Image: WB Games It’s time for the next DLC fighter to join Mortal Kombat 1 and with that comes another update. DC’s Peacemaker (sharing the likeness and voice talents of John Cena) enters “early access” in the game today before his full release on 6th March. Janet Cage’s Kameo fighter also enters the fray with

It is no secret that Nintendo has been very strict on fan content. It is also no secret that Nintendo is not a fan of any kind of piracy or emulation whatsoever. The company has a record going back for many years of trying to put a stop to both. So, it isn’t surprising that

A massive sweep of layoffs has rocked various Sony first-party studios today, including Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, and Insomniac. Another victim is Firesprite Games, the UK studio behind The Playroom games and The Persistence, and an additional casualty from that studio is reportedly a new Twisted Metal title. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Firesprite had

Twin Peaks has long been touted as an influence on The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, and now the show’s co-creator has spoken about how direct that is. Back when it was airing, Twin Peaks was incredibly popular in Japan – so much so there was a whole series of trailers advertising Georgia coffee

Today at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Xiaomi pulled the wraps off an audacious smartphone designed with professional photographers in mind. The company’s Xiaomi 14 Ultra smartphone blurs the line between camera and phone by adding many features photographers will appreciate. Those features include a giant 1-inch sensor, variable aperture on one

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube During last week’s Partner Showcase, Devolver Digital provided an update for game Pepper Grinder, revealing the action-packed platformer would be released for Nintendo Switch on 28th March 2024. Apart from a demo, which you can download now from the Switch eShop, Devolver Digital has now also shared a cool

The Pokemon Company are busy preparing for Pokemon Day tomorrow which will see the company share news on the various games in the Pokemon franchise and one of those games will be the iOS and Android game, Pokemon Masters EX. A Twitter account has managed to leak information on that specific game which will see