Does anybody really need a 27-inch, 4K esports gaming monitor? 1080p and 1440p are the preferred resolutions for pros, and for good reason. For starters, it’s relatively inexpensive to drive games at those resolutions at framerates exceeding 240 fps which is needed to successfully compete. But for some reason, the illustrious council of elders at…
A time of big ideas (and even bigger phones). There is a lot of retro goodness to be found in looking back on classic Nintendo coverage, and the above 1980s behind-the-scenes peek at Nintendo’s Famicom development has it all. Recently featured in a report by the Yomiuro Telecasting Corporation News Channel, this classic coverage has…
Serial and somewhat hit-and-miss YouTube ‘leak’ channel, Moore’s Law is Dead, has unloaded some technical details and performance expectations for AMD’s upcoming Zen 5 and 6 CPU architectures. The headline takeaway is arguably that it involves more modest performance gains than previous rumours. Just in case you’ve forgotten, AMD’s current Ryzen 7000 CPUs use the…
Lots of Pokémon references. The first ‘Pokémon X Hatsune Miku’ crossover song has been released on YouTube in its entirety, and if you’re a fan of either IP, then you’ll probably want to check it out. The song is the first in a wider collaboration between the pair known as ‘Project Voltage’, which will eventually…
And a young Miyamoto! Nintendo has historically been rather secretive about the development of its games, which has led fans and video game preservationists to jump on any new information they can find to uncover more about the legendary company. Case in point, earlier this month some rare footage of Nintendo of Japan’s HQ in…
Games use all sorts of tricks to ease performance load, and while Starfield has had its fair share of optimisation woes (though Todd Howard sees things differently) it’s not an exception to that rule. One such trick was discovered in all its soggy glory on the Starfield subreddit earlier this week, as thelastfastbender points out…
October is here, and with it comes new PlayStation Stars campaigns. Get ready to uncover new challenges, earn some rewards, and refresh your digital collectible display case. Let’s jump right into some of the offerings in October. Genshin Impact 4.1 update Starting October 1 Version 4.1 has arrived! Dive in and explore the update which…
Oh, Kirby, you blowhard… This review, penned by Philip J Reed — our much-missed friend and Nintendo Life contributor — was originally published in January 2012. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library. We have to hand this much to Kirby &…
Friends, I’m beginning to worry that we might not ever see the Knights of the Old Republic remake at all. It may have made a splash at its announcement during a 2021 PlayStation showcase, but it’s been hanging on by a thread ever since a vertical slice demo—meant to show off all the game’s features…
If you’re in the business of creating large language models you might already think Nvidia’s pricing for its H100 super-duper data center GPU, which sells for upwards of $30,000 a pop, is criminally expensive. Now Nvidia’s broader cloud computing operations in France are under actual legal investigation. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia’s French…