The winners (Image credit: Future) 1. Best gaming laptop Lenovo Legion 7i Pro 2. Best gaming monitor Alienware 34 AW3423DWF 3. Best gaming handheld Steam Deck OLED 4. Best CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 5. Best GPU AMD Radeon RX 7800XT 6. Best SSD Lexar NM790 4TB 7. Best motherboard ASRock Z790 Riptide 8. Best…
I and a lot of people who like games tend to break the hobby up into “legendary years.” It’s the ones when so many games come out it’s almost impossible to keep up with them all, and in hindsight you can observe some kind of watershed moment of quality and innovation. 1998 is understandably always…
It’s been a bumper year. It’s no understatement to say that 2023 has been stacked with memorable video gaming moments. Yes, the past 12 months might not have brought us new Nintendo hardware, but many of the games and announcements have been among the Switch’s best — maybe even Nintendo’s best. With three bumper edition…
Tears of life. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Here’s what you need to know about me: I’m not well. I’m a kind of thwarted commissar. In a righteous world I’d have been born in the late 1760s, just in time to become some sort of political adjutant in the French Revolution, weighing the loyalties of deposed members of the nobility before meeting my…
“To this day, every time I see Atari: Game Over, I get emotional”. On Tuesday, July 27th, 1982, the video game designer/programmer Howard Scott Warshaw accepted a call from his bosses at Atari, asking him to put together the video game tie-in to Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. He…
“I didn’t make this game as a joke”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! The year is 1991. ‘Video games’ — plastic, square-shaped cartridges that millions of people blow into every day — grip early-adopting proselytizers. Yet they…
Attaaaaack! Hello everyone, welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get started on this week’s brawl, let’s take a look at how things concluded in last week’s edition. We threw Viewtiful Joe 2 into the ring, with all three major regions battling it out for supremacy. To little surprise, it was the…
You’re looking a bit green. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
3D classics. In many ways, it’s hard to believe the 3DS is a ‘dead’ system, because the gimmick of glasses-free 3D is still amazing, even a decade later. Following in the footsteps of the Nintendo DS – the company’s most successful hardware ever, with 154.02 million units sold – was never going to be easy,…