Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has imposed another round of layoffs, putting an undisclosed number of people out of work in the face of “evolving business conditions.” “Today we made the very difficult decision to part ways with a number of our talented colleagues as the result of evolving business conditions,” the studio announced in…
The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they’re now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so. Game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff all “voted strongly in favor…
Punched-out. Nintendo has announced that Fitness Boxing 2 will be taken off of the eShop later this year. On 23rd November 2025 at 23:59, it will no longer be possible to buy the Nintendo-published game from the digital storefront. If you already own the game digitally, you’ll be able to redownload it. Read the full…
The Battlefield 6 server browser had my curiosity, but now it has my attention: Battlefield Studios just confirmed that servers spun up in its “Portal browser” can be made persistent. Theoretically, that means the Portal browser will behave like a classic FPS browser, allowing someone to host a “24/7 CAIRO ONLY” server that won’t disappear…
Category: Playtests August 28, 2025 Project Evilbane Pre-Alpha Playtest Will Begin Tomorrow! Tim, Xbox Program Manager The first pre-alpha playtest of Project Evilbane will begin tomorrow in the Xbox Insider Hub! During this 3-day test, we hope to gather your valuable feedback and further refine the game into a more polished experience. Gather around if…
“I’m trying to make my personal dreams come true”. We were pleased to see Bloober Team pop up at last month’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase with the announcement that its upcoming sci-fi survival horror Cronos: The New Dawn will also be arriving on Switch 2 on 5th September. It’s nice to see a Nintendo system…
We both feel it. You want to escape. I want to escape. Microsoft’s usurpations have grown too many and too frequent: useless AI in every wazoo, constant upselling on Office 365, the feeling of a gradually tightening noose as more and more apps try to corral you into this or that walled garden—the Microsoft Store,…
Bounty hunting for a date. Over the last week or so, we here at Nintendo Life have been having a few spirited debates about when Metroid Prime 4: Beyond might actually launch. By all accounts, it’s still scheduled for 2025, but time’s ticking by quickly, and we’re still very much in the dark. Frankly, after…
“At some point though people got cold feet about it being free-to-play”. When looking back at the history of video games based on the world of The Dark Knight, Gotham City Impostors is undoubtedly one of the weirder examples from the list of titles that immediately spring to mind. Released in 2012 for PC, Xbox…
Ready for another bleak application of generative AI? I’m not sure I am, but here we are with Gemini’s ‘Nano Banana’. Alright, alright, get it out of your system and let me explain. The aforementioned fun-size fruit is in fact the name of a major update to Gemini’s AI image generation capabilities. The update is…