A look back at a glittering catalogue. 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. Enjoy! Takashi Tezuka seems like a good laugh, the kind of chap who knows how to have fun. Read the full article on…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I may not have mentioned this yet (I’m pretty sure I mentioned it in one of my first PC Gamer articles) but I have a law degree. That has made me love…
If you’ve played the 1980’s hit game of Tetris then you’ll be pleased to know that as of this morning, we have been informed that you can now download Wei-ju Wu’s WIP Commodore Amiga game of Tetra Zone. As in the words of the creator “a modern take on the best known arcade puzzle game of…
As we all frantically get ready to celebrate, it’s difficult to avoid the seasonal bombardment of the usual yuletide media: Christmas music, Christmas films, Christmas-themed episodes of TV shows, and Christmas books to a much lesser extent. But what about Christmas-themed video games? They do exist, believe it or not. There are quite a few…
We’ve just received word from our good friend Richard of Langford Productions, of a new PC game that has been released called ‘A Very Hairy Christmas’. A game which doesn’t just have nods to other classic games from the 80’s such as Pac-Man and PSSST, but it’s a rather lovely game for the upcoming festive…
This afternoon at its booth at this week’s IAAPA amusement industry show in Orlando, Jersey Jack Pinball revealed its new “Pinball XP” ticket system for redemption arcades. According to the Company’s founder Jack Guarnieri, “Redemption pinball was a dream of mine when I first started the company and now with Pinball XP it’s come…
I have a couple of pinball odds and ends for everyone this afternoon. Let’s start in the world of digital pinball. First off, I had no idea that Netflix includes 112 free phone apps with subscriptions to its video service. Apparently, one of these subscriptions is an app by Zen Studios called “Pinball Masters.”…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2024 coverage. I think it’s fair to say that we’ve been spoilt for choice when it comes to PC hardware in 2024. Processors, graphics cards, RAM, motherboards, cases, laptops, monitors, handhelds—the list is huge…
Tea leaf! Strolling down the road in a brand new, unfamiliar town, taking in the sights, you stop in front of a pleasant-looking house. Lovely big oak door, ruby red slate tiles, stone brickwork stained by sunlight and mud. It’s quaint and cosy, the idyllic village house, perhaps home to a young mother who’s just…
Videogames produce a lot of guns every year. Most of them fly under the radar, fulfilling their roles as one of dozens of options on a loadout screen or meeting a quota of archetypes that we reckon shooters ought to have. It takes a lot for a gun to stand out in 2024. Most of…