Games

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension, the network’s newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming’s past glories. View original source here.

There was a fair amount of hype around Penny’s Big Breakaway before it launched as it was by the team behind the beloved Sonic Mania video game. However, it doesn’t seem as though the hype necessarily translated into sales, as the company Evening Star has said it has had to part with six team members

Absurd Ventures, the company formed by longtime Rockstar mainstay Dan Houser a few years ago, has announced that it’s formed a fresh studio under its umbrella. The studio, called Absurd Marin, comes with a starting staff of several former developers of Ascendant Studios’ ill-fated Immortals of Aveum. Yep, that’s the Immortals of Aveum that came

Since the pandemic, the US government has attempted to make America more self-sufficient in producing advanced semiconductors. A big part of this effort is the CHIPS and Science Act, which will lavish billions of dollars on companies making semiconductors in the US, with Intel being the biggest beneficiary of that largesse. There’s only one problem:

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube777k If you’re fond of old-school RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, you might want to keep an eye out for 8-Bit Adventures 2, launching on the Nintendo Switch next month on 16th October 2024. Built by Australian developer Critical Games, 8-Bit Adventures 2 takes everything you love from

Grab your bug spray and set up your tents because it’s camping season in Anthos. On October 3rd, Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos players will be able to camp and explore the wilderness through a new DLC pack titled The Great Outdoors. Here are some of the DLC’s features being touted by Natsume: Camp,

Space Marine 2 appears to be the current hotness. It’s popped off on Steam, hitting an impressive player count entirely with early adopters before smashing that figure once again as soon as the gates were thrown open by the game’s public release. The result is multifaceted. Not only do 40K fans get a loving send-up

Japan has announced the successor to its legendary Fugaku supercomputer, which is currently ranked the fourth fastest computer system in the world by Top500.org. The Arm-based system is a half-exabyte scale computer, as it can churn out 442 petaFLOPS in Linpack. Its successor will offer far more performance and go beyond even exascale (1,000 petaFLOPS)

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube777k The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is just weeks out from launching on the Switch and Nintendo isn’t holding back with its marketing campaign. Apart from some lifestyle ads here in the West, in Japan it’s also releasing some new commercials. The latest ones give fans a closer

Level-5 has announced what it plans to show to the general public at this year’s Tokyo Game Show which kicks off this month at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. There’s some heavy hitters that will be showcased by the company including Professor Layton and The New World of Steam and the intriguing Decapolice. Level-5 will

Warning, spoilers for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree lie ahead. Hello. There’s a fresh patch just dropped for Elden Ring, and it’s full of balancing changes that’ll no doubt effect your highly sophisticated build that relies on waiting for the enemy to attack, then dodging and shouting ‘Boo!’ at the top of your lungs.

TSMC first announced plans to build a new semiconductor fab in Arizona in 2020, and ever since then, it’s reportedly been beset by multiple delays, labor shortages, and culture clashes. Now, things appear to be looking up for TSMC, as Bloomberg reports the company performed a successful yield test in April, and the results matched

There was a time when the yearly NBA 2K Switch entry was something to look forward to. Each year was a step back from the next-gen counterpart, of course, but the Nintendo port offered a near-full-fat experience with the added bonus of portability. Those were the days, eh? Anyone who picked up NBA 2K24 will

Toree Saturn, the latest game in speed-based platforming series Toree, will speed onto Switch before the end of the year- as confirmed by a post on X from its developer, Siactro. Readers can, of course, check out the latest trailer above, but they can also look below for a description of the game from Steam,

Kylian Mbappe, Rodri, Erling Haaland and Aitana Bonmati share the coveted title of being the highest rated players in EA Sports FC 25. There were also big upgrades for new cover star Jude Bellingham, as well as Vini Jr and Sophia Smith. Many of these players have been at the top of the game for

There was a time when Apple only announced a single phone per year, but those days are long over. In the latest Apple product unveiling, the company has shown off four new iPhone 16 models. The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus offer most of Apple’s latest features and a much better processor, but the iPhone

Image: Nintendo Life Remember the annoying Talking Flowers from Super Mario Bros. Wonder? The ones that would shower you with helpful advice like “onwards and upwards,” “Hey!,” and “WoOoAAhh” as you ran past? Well, you’ll soon be able to have one of your own as toy manufacturer San-ei Boeki has revealed an all-new talking plushie

There has been all sorts of information about the development behind The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, even though the game has been available to play on the Nintendo Switch for nearly a year and a half now. Nevertheless, Eiji Aonuma still has some interesting things to share about the sequel to The

Oh dear, players have been continuing to give the devs behind Once Human their feedback for season 2, and apparently it’s been “quite demoralising.” Once Human hasn’t exactly had the smoothest of starts for a live-service game, with players not being the happiest about those seasonal resets, as well as some frustrating server

Intel’s new Lunar Lake mobile CPUs officially launched this week, but they’re only for thin-and-light laptops and folks who want an “AI PC.” Their successor is Panther Lake, which will be built on the Intel 18A process and will include chips for Intel’s entire range of mobile products. Panther Lake won’t arrive until a year

Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube777k The Switch already has an extensive library of shoot ’em up games, and it looks like another one could be on its way to the west in the near future. As highlighted by Gematsu, a Switch rating for Raiden NOVA has been spotted on the ESRB. This game was

At a Japanese press event Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo talked about the recently unveiled Trails in the Sky remake which made its debut during the recent Nintendo Partner Direct presentation. He told members of the press that he wasn’t expecting the trailer to be featured at the event, so it came as a pleasant

2025 is a big year for EA Sports FC, but when isn’t it? In the ceaseless annual cycle of football that it tries so hard to replicate, EA Sports FC now has to justify itself on two fronts: not just year-on-year, but as a new franchise with a point to prove. With the inaugural FC

From Google Glass to Magic Leap to Oculus Rift, there have been numerous attempts to get wearable computers in front of your eyes. But none have changed how we interact with technology in the way their promoters imagined. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has hinted that technology heavyweights aren’t done trying, though. Amon says his firm is working

Image: via YouTube / Square Enix Hironobu Sakaguchi needs no introduction. As the father of the Final Fantasy franchise, he’s the mind behind one of the most successful and popular JRPG series of all time. With FANTASIAN Neo Dimension reuniting Sakaguchi-san with Square Enix, he’s spoken about how returning to his former studio — and

Respected video game leaker billbil-kun has posted on X to say that the industry whispers around a Switch 2 reveal this month is actually for a new Nintendo Switch (OLED Model) bundle which features the sublime Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a three month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. It makes sense for Nintendo to

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s uber-beefy Patch 7 has just arrived for PC bringing with it enough changes to match the word count of some University dissertations. However, if you’re hoping to delve into it on console or Mac, you’ll have to wait just a little bit longer – until October to be exact – in order

Bluetooth, the omnipresent and often frustrating wireless standard, is getting a major update to version 6.0. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released details of the update this week, promising better efficiency and security. However, you won’t be able to enjoy all the benefits until hardware with Bluetooth 6.0 support shows up, which could take

Despite the energetic title of this collection, the legendary Japanese development house Sunsoft never really went away. It’s been steadily cranking out original titles, ports, and remasters on arcade and console since 1978, although it will likely never recapture the glory days of the 8- and 16-bit era. So prolific was its output that anyone

This year has seen a steady stream of rumors relating to the next console that Nintendo is releasing. So far, the company has said very little about the Switch successor. However, rumors earlier today are suggesting that that may not be the case for much longer. That said, that’s not the only Switch 2-related thing