I’m surprised to tell you that Mouse: PI For Hire is the best shooter I’ve played in ages. Not because I’m especially down on rubberhose animation, or rodents, or monochrome Unity engine environments, but because I hugely underestimated how well those disparate elements could be combined. This is a luxurious, maximalist game that commits equally…
Slimes to the left of me, zombies to the right. Canadian developer Brace Yourself Games first hit the spotlight with Crypt of the NecroDancer, a rhythm-based roguelike, all the way back in 2015. Dungeon crawling to a relentless beat became the new dance craze sweeping the nation, and it was warmly welcomed into the Switch…
Rewind the clock to 2006, and PC gaming was witnessing the launch of one of the most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS games ever—one that had been in development for a whopping 11 years. No, we’re not talking about Duke Nukem Forever, the game that would eventually launch after 14 years of development in…
Generative AI is no longer a novelty; it’s part of everyday writing. Yet teachers, editors, and even students themselves still need a reliable way to tell whether a piece of text was produced by a human mind or by a language model. In this guide, I’ll walk you through practical, up-to-date techniques I use when…
You only have to take a mere glance at the lowest prices around for gaming SSDs to realise that someone is making a small fortune during the RAMpocalypse. It is, of course, the companies that make the NAND flash memory chips, and the latest research suggests that, altogether, they accrued $46 billion in Q1 2026…
Microsoft’s way or the highway Microsoft this week made public the changes it’s rolling out to the Windows Store app certification policies in an effort to clean up the clutter and improve the overall experience for customers. As part of that process, Microsoft will keep a closer eye on app pricing to make sure that…
Issue #32 – January 2026. Welcome back, lovely people, to the Nintendo Life Mailbox! We’re still in the first weeks of a new year, and we can all now officially confirm that it’s…another year. Hmm. Enough dwelling – there’s more than enough of that to do when you click elsewhere on the web. Let’s talk…
Mario Kart cleans up (again) while Metroid drops. The last full week of 2025 UK charts data is in, and for the most part, it’s a minor reshuffle of the usual suspects, with EA SPORTS FC 26 sitting pretty at #1 and Mario Kart cleaning up twice over and first-party Nintendo (published) games taking up…
Category: Games Sea of Thieves is Handing Players the Keys to the Seas Adam ParkHead of Brand & Licencing, Rare Published June 19, 2026 Sea of Thieves: Season 20 is here, and with it arrives Custom Seas – a new way to play that hands you (and your friends) ultimate control of Rare’s pirate paradise!…
Ever since we revealed Star Wars Battlefront at Star Wars Celebration, you’ve been asking us if there would be a Beta. Today, we are thrilled to finally be able to answer that question, and the answer is yes! Coming in early October to PS4, the Star Wars Battlefront Beta is a technical test and will…