57 games with big birthdays this year. Throughout 2025, many of gaming’s most treasured gems will be celebrating a significant birthday and to remind you of some of the biggest (and of just how old you are!), we’ve compiled this list of nearly 60 gaming dates for your calendars. What do we mean by ‘significant’…
Goemon’s first adventure on the N64 originally launched in August 1997. Don’t worry – you’re not suffering from déjà vu. If you feel like you’ve read this before, it’s because we’re republishing some of our favourite features from the past year as part of our Best of 2024 celebrations. If this is new to you,…
“I feel like I could work on it for the rest of my life”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing some of the best articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2024 series. This article was originally published in November. Enjoy! Back at the end of August we travelled…
Happy New Year! Kick off your 2025 gaming sessions by taking on (and taking out) a league of corrupted super heroes, race on both sides of the law and escape office life with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for January. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and The Stanley Parable:…
DLSS has been mentioned in past reports. Nintendo has just filed a patent which confirms previous reports that its Switch successor will use AI upscaling. The patent mentions Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling (Deep Learning Super Sampling), which allows the hardware to run games at a higher resolution using AI techniques. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the past year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I’m not usually one for all this New Year malarkey—time ticks over at the same rate as it ever did, and I’m no big believer in astrology, so what does the…
The third week of November 2024 was a rough one. I was alternating between playing two different games that came out that week: Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Neither was going well. When I say “playing” I mostly mean “staring at loading screens.” Between Stalker 2’s endlessly compiling shaders and…
Two years ago, I wrote about the fact that I had major Steam Deck FOMO but still wouldn’t cough up a few hundred bones for one. That changed last year, after a few too many festive beers led to an impulse purchase and an OLED model arriving at my door a few days later. I…
A “total conversion” is one of the most coveted and difficult modding projects one could undertake: Making a new, bespoke campaign using the mod tools of a pre-existing game, with the end result unable to be monetized due to copyright (unless you’re working with the beautifully open source Doom engine). At a certain point, you’d…
Earlier this year researchers at Japan’s National Institutde of Information and Communications Technology (NIICT) hit a record-breaking speed for internet over a standard fibre optic cable: 402 Tbps. With a T. That’s 402,000,000 Mbps, to put it in the speed measurement you’re probably more familiar with. No, I’m not going to try and put it…