Give it up, everyone, for the first laptop based on Intel’s portentous Panther Lake CPU, the Acer Swift 16 AI. Acer has been showing off the new portable at the IFA 2025 show despite the fact that the new laptop isn’t due to go on sale until early next year. Panther Lake, of course, is…
The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s more-anti-corporate-than-anti-capitalist RPG, is set for a sequel. To hear our own Ted Litchfield tell it, that sequel might even be quite good. But there’s an irony here, isn’t there? The Outer Worlds 1 was conceived of in a whole other era, before Obsidian was snapped up by Microsoft (though it did…
When I reviewed The Edge of Fate, I had plenty of issues with the new direction Destiny 2 was taking. The expansion itself was… fine—a few highlights, but mostly unremarkable. The more pressing issue was the Portal, the new hub for Destiny 2’s seasonal power grind. Still, I figured I’d give it a chance. Maybe…
According to the eShop. Did you know that Yuzo Koshiro, legendary video game composer, has made a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis shmup? It was released on Steam back in July, with our friends over at Time Extension giving it a glowing review. It was due to launch on consoles, including Switch, at the same…
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who said in April that he’s “committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier,” announced last week that he’s working on Stardew Valley again. Well, hey, these things happen. But the good news (aside from more Stardew Valley) is that while Haunted Chocolatier might take…
Category: Announcements September 3, 2025 Xbox and 5-hour Energy Team Up to Launch Limited-Edition Purpleberry Punch for The Outer Worlds 2 Marcos WaltenbergGM, Xbox Partnerships In a galactic collaboration that’s sure to energize fans, Xbox and Obsidian Entertainment have partnered with 5-hour Energy to celebrate the upcoming release of The Outer Worlds 2 with a limited-edition flavor inspired…
Mega-mod Skyblivion—the one that remakes The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion in the swish new Skyrim: Special Edition engine—is set to release in a matter of months after over a decade of work. The news around this has been, on the whole, quite positive. The trailers look good, its dungeons are meant to be better, and…
I didn’t expect the sparkle to last quite so long with this desk, but it has. I’m not talking about a physical sparkle, of course, I mean that ‘freshly impressed with new furniture’ feeling. I’ve been using the Grovemade standing desk system—AKA the Grovemade desk—for a few months now, and I’m still a little in…
Borderlands introduced Shift codes to the series formula ages ago, and we’ve seen no indication from Gearbox that it plans to end the tradition. Historically, vault hunters found new additions on official X accounts, but with a new game just around the corner we’re already speculating on where (and how) we’ll find Shift codes in…
It’s getting Hutt in here. We are just one day away from the arrival of Star Wars Outlaws on Switch 2, and while we at Nintendo Life are still hard at work in the Jedi Temple, getting our review in order, we do have some gameplay footage for you to feast your eyes on in…