Dave Pottinger has programming credits on all three Age of Empires games, was director of technology on Age of Mythology, and was lead designer on Halo Wars. He probably knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the RTS genre. Speaking to Videogamer to promote his new studio Last Keep’s upcoming RTS, Project Citadel,…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with BOKURA: planet developer Tokoronyori to find out all about the fun adventure/puzzle game with retro visuals. About: BOKURA: planet: BOKURA: planet, the sequel to the reality-bending co-op-only adventure with more than half a million downloads, BOKURA, crash-lands onto PC via Steam in early 2025. Developer tokoronyori and publisher Kodansha Game Creators’ Lab invite pairs…
Including what it’s making for Nintendo’s new hardware. Ahead of the Switch “successor” reveal, a bunch of video game accessory companies have reportedly been sharing all sorts of details about this next-generation hardware. With this in mind, accessory maker Genki (which has released multiple products during the Switch generation) has announced it’s apparently happy to…
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…