Oh dear. Football Manager 26 has gone down about as convincingly as Luis Suárez in the penalty box. Released yesterday after a year-long delay and the cancellation of FM25, the latest iteration of the world’s most riveting spreadsheet has immediately incurred the ire of players. Within 24 hours, FM26’s Steam rating has plummeted to a…
A Mega Announcement? We’re just shy of three weeks past Pokémon Legends: Z-A‘s release, but tomorrow, The Pokémon Company has some news in store for the upcoming DLC, Mega Dimension. At 6am PST / 9am EST / 2pm GMT (or your local time), we’ll be getting an “update” on the DLC, which will feature two…
Partner up. The original Biped was a charming little co-op adventure that we rather enjoyed here at Nintendo Life, and now its sequel, Biped 2, is out now on Switch. With support for both online and local multiplayer, friends will need to partner up to complete intriguing physics-based puzzles. The game features improved mechanics and…
Hosted by Team17’s Ashley Day. Created by Andy Davidson and launched all the way back in 1995, the Worms series is one of the most recognisable video game brands to emerge from the UK in decades. Now, a new talk in Team17’s native Wakefield aims to shed light on three remarkable decades of Worms, and…
At PlayStation, we’re always working to push the boundaries of how players experience games. Since the PlayStation Portal remote player first launched back in November 2023*, we’ve continued to evolve the device with updates like enhanced public Wi-Fi support and UX improvements. Last year, we also introduced the Cloud Streaming beta, which allowed PlayStation Plus…
Not much of a revival. The beat ‘em up genre has experienced something of a renaissance in the last generation, with original titles like Fight’n Rage (2019) and more recently Absolum (2025) finding new ways to move the genre forward, while releases such as Streets of Rage 4 (2020) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s…
New data centre projects in China must use homegrown AI hardware going forward. According to Reuters, new government guidance will soon be passed down, apparently requiring state-funded data centres to only use AI chips manufactured domestically within China. Though data centre projects have drawn $100 billion in state funding since 2021, it is not yet…
For 60 years, Gordon Moore’s observation that transistor counts in integrated circuits would double roughly every two years has been spookily accurate. Ever-smaller transistors and ever-larger chips have made this possible, but with the physical limits of both impacting the growth of computing, new methods are required to continue the growth. One semiconductor research team…
Late in September, EA committed to two months of maintenance for The Sims 4, as its community reported a growing number of bugs afflicting the 12-year-old life sim. The publisher wants the ageing sequel to continue as the primary platform for virtual soap operas for the foreseeable future, rather than replace it and its many…
If Bethesda has a singular passion, it’s releasing updates that break your mods. Last year, the studio released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 that sent reams of mods to the phantom zone, and that sent a brand-new mod—one that simply rolled back Bethesda’s update—rocketing to the top of the charts. Now, Bethesda would like…