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…
The MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi has been on the market for 12 months, as it was one of the first motherboards to be released alongside Intel’s Core Ultra 200S range of desktop CPUs, aka Arrow Lake, in October 2024. At the time, there were few other models to choose from, but that’s considerably changed…
When is a gaming handheld not a gaming handheld? Well, I’d argue it’s when you need to strap a bunch of external devices to it in order to get the most out of it, which is exactly what’s happened to the Strix Halo-powered OneXPlayer OneXFly Apex. It’s a seriously impressive-looking device on paper, with what…
WIP demo shows how Felipe 64 speeds up N64 development. A new tool has emerged that could help usher in a flood of homebrew releases for the Nintendo 64. According to N64GameBuilder, Felipe 64 “allows us to easily export data, create hitboxes, and configure state machines using a visual interface.” The developer has posted a…
Justice is dealt. PEGI (Pan European Game Information) has announced that it has lowered the age rating for the smash-hit poker roguelike Balatro (thanks, Eurogamer). The game drew plenty of attention when PEGI rated it 18+ in Europe, citing its resemblance to the real-world game of poker as the main catalyst. It reasoned that players…
Ray Reconstruction is the latest shiny ray tracing feature Nvidia, it’s come along as part of DLSS 3.5 and it’s made the Cyperpunk 2077 2.0 update look absolutely gorgeous. On Nvidia graphics cards only, of course. And only for Nvidia graphics cards that are capable of delivering a decent frame rate in the incredibly demanding…
As reported by The Guardian, author, lawyer, and former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams is “on the verge of bankruptcy” after the publication of Careless People, her controversial memoir on her time working for Facebook. Since its publication in March, Meta has pushed back on the claims of misconduct in the book, resulting in a $50,000…
When Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square Enix in the early 2000s, he started a new studio, Mistwalker, to keep making RPGs. For the last 20 years, every single one of his games with the exception of Fantasian has been stuck on one defunct console or another, never ported or re-released. And that’s a…
I admire its purity. It’s easy to forget just how many Aliens games have been made over the years. You’d be forgiven for wondering whether there are actually enough to warrant an entire book, but at 176 pages, Mike Diver’s Aliens: The Video Games covers just about everything, from an unlicensed 1981 Commodore PET title…
If you own either Pokemon Sword or Shield then you will most likely appreciate these codes for the latest Pokemon games given out on Reddit. There’s codes for 10 Premier Balls, if you’ve run out, and there’s also a code for 10 heal balls and more. There are also active gift codes for storage option…