I love metropolitan city builders, but once I’m done turning fertile riverside plains into a mess of eight-lane highways and coal plants, I can’t help but wonder if I’ve maybe been a net negative for the world around me. When I saw Life Below on Steam—a city builder all about constructing reefs that opens its…
An original Apple I computer just hit $475,000 in an auction sale (via Tom’s Hardware). The Apple I was conceived as a bare circuit board for which enthusiasts would build their own case, but this unit was one of 50 made for Byte Shop and sold with a natty wooden case. Only nine of the…
“We die alone, but we live among men”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
In Hollow Knight Silksong you’ll eventually meet Sherma, a whimsical pilgrim who loves to belt out a good earworm. While Sherma doesn’t seem very good at the instrument he wields—he basically whacks two nails together towards a discordant “melody”—he’s got a lovely voice on him, especially with an excess of cavernous reverb applied. Tee Lopes,…
I think you know what I’m talking about here: Far Cry 9 comes out on September 7, but if you shell out an extra $15 for the Premium Deluxe Plus Edition, you can get a five-day head start clearing the bases of whatever caricature of a 20th century revolutionary movement Ubisoft’s cooked up this year….
Blizzard has announced that Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Diablo, and Warcraft 2 are now available on Battle.net, though it was news to me that they weren’t on there already. The games have been available on GOG for the last 3-4 years, and it seems that when Blizzard committed to remastering certain of its older titles…
Pre-orders open later this month. Ahead of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie and Knuckles Paramount series, First 4 Figures has shared a “sneak peek” of its new ‘Knuckles Standoff’ figure. This is the second statue in the same series which also features the ‘Sonic Standoff’ figure. As you can see, instead of Knuckle’s look…
Microsoft has said it will provide the authorities with encryption keys for any Windows PC data protected by Bitlocker, where it has received a warrant to do so. The admission comes after the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant in early 2025 (thanks, Forbes) compelling it to provide the keys for data held and…
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave, tweetin’ and mindfreakin’ is all Randy craves. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has evaded the squad of tier-one operators who have presumably been dispatched to confiscate his phone and is merrily posting up a storm on X, “The Everything App,” even after repeatedly making everyone very angry by…
Overwatch 2 Stadium is a pretty impressive break from the norm, with it shrinking down maps and objectives, adding a best-of-seven round format, and, of course, having a third-person option. Though this last feature may seem slightly jarring at first, given that Overwatch has been a staple FPS for so long, it’s not an entirely…