Issue #31 – December 2025. Welcome, one and all. We’re back for another festive rifle through the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Yes, it’s time for our monthly letters page feature. Got something you want to get off your chest? We’re ready and waiting to read about your game-related ponderings. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. It’s Christmas, and as custom dictates, I’ve got a present for you! Once you’re done singing carols, roasting chestnuts, kissing…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. It’s Christmas, and as custom dictates, I’ve got a present for you! Once you’re done singing carols, roasting chestnuts, kissing…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. I’ve spent an awful lot of time testing, using, and benchmarking gaming laptops this year, and we’ve had a bumper crop, too. With Nvidia releasing a whole new generation of graphics chips…
Please help me. It was the Christmas of 1992. Mr Blobby was the funniest thing on television (according to your parents), and Whitney Houston had been tricked into singing a love song about everyone’s favourite sentient cardigan, Kevin Costner (I feel like I’m having a war flashback now). And me? Well, I was having a…
SimCity fans likely had a slightly better Christmas this week. An unreleased NES version has finally been unleashed onto the city-building enthusiast crowd. Many will be aware of the SNES SimCity variant, but did you know a similar NES version was also in the works? From what we know now, it was mostly complete too….
Ahh, new hardware smell. If you’ve recently come into possession of a new Nintendo Switch 2, first of all, congratulations! You’re in for a treat, since the Switch 2 not only has a rapidly growing library of games, but you can also play almost every game from the original Switch, too. But what the heck…
So here it is… And here we are once more! It’s Yule! Navidad! Xmas! Chrimbo! Rudolphtide! Grinchtingle! Erm… Richard Curtistime? Hmm. Merry Christmas, everyone. It’s been a big year for Nintendo fans and the wider gaming industry, with new hardware, a load of new games, even more new versions of old games, plus plenty of…
I CAN let you do that, Star Fox! Remember the Star Fox 64 recompilation project Starship? It launched at the close of 2024 and was developed by Sonic Dreamcaster / Alejandro Javier Asenjo Nitti and Lywx, and brought the classic N64 title to PC and beyond. Sonic Dreamcaster is back with a second recompilation project…
Original story: It’s the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down. It’s unclear what’s going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we’re guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The…