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…
True 3D movement in 16-bit games? It almost happened… If you’re old enough to remember the crazy video game accessories we were exposed to in the early ’90s, then you might just recall a curious controller by the name of the Triax Turbo Touch 360. This groundbreaking controller didn’t use a traditional D-pad – which…
It’s a funny old business, the PC hardware game. Amongst the near constant stream of product announcements, releases and reviews, we happy few in the PC Gamer hardware team keep our noses to the ground all year long sniffing out the latest and greatest tech of all, and goodness there’s a lot of it. In…
In a new blog post, Microsoft says its, “commitment is to make Windows the best place to game—no matter where you play.” The company lays out a detailed checklist of all the measures it has taken to make gaming better on the PC in 2025 and name checks a few ideas for the future. It’s…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox: New Games for July 21 to 25 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published July 18, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
CES 2024 is nearly upon us and the raft of long awaited products are starting to be teased at a considerable rate. Amongst the expected laptop refreshes and big screen bonanzas, however, there are always some more, shall we say, unusual products that steal the show for many. LG may have set the bar pretty…
You know those clunky old dialogue boxes that get exposed if you click a few too many layers deep into the Windows 11 UI? The ones that make you think, sheesh this thing is ancient underneath? Well, a senior Microsoft executive has just confirmed that Windows 11’s antediluvian innards are indeed far more extensive than…
Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. Consoles can keep their pomp and highfalutin talk of “convenience,” whatever that is, I’m busy turning The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion into a six-way gang war, vaporising myself in the prologue of Fallout 4, and turning Skyrim into a boundless playground of fetishes so hyper-specific they’d give the…
I’m your fire, at your desire. Ahoy folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at the Wii classic Okami in light of the recent sequel announcement from The Game Awards (woohoo!). Honestly, it wasn’t a particularly close battle: Japan, with its beautiful use of colour and composition,…
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Vampire Survivors (Image credit: Poncle) Developer: Poncle Year: 2022 For most of a run in Vampire Survivors, you’re scrambling. Grabbing XP gems wherever you can, praying for the weapons you need, ducking and weaving around just-slightly-too-big-to-handle hordes. A lot of…