Nintendo Life eShop Selects (January 2026)
Honourable mentions It’s been a surprisingly busy January in terms of news and releases — Animal Crossing, Final Fantasy VII, two whole Directs on the Super Mario Galaxy Movie and…
Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts
If you’ve ever intrepidly looked up a Paradox game, seen a million DLC expansions on the Steam page, and fled screaming into the woods, rest assured that Paradox have…
21 years after release, Guild Wars 1 just got an ‘Ironman’ mode inspired by a venerable community-driven challenge
Guild Wars might look indistinct among the many MMOs that arrived in the wake of World of Warcraft’s genre-defining heyday, but it has relatively little in common with WoW or…
Ashes of Creation’s leadership team quits “in protest” as director accuses board of decisions he could “not ethically agree with or carry out”
The director and creator of Ashes of Creation, the MMORPG brought to life via the $3.2 million donated by almost 20,000 backers in 2017, has quit “in protest” against decisions…
Independence Day is still the ultimate alien invasion movie — and it’s streaming on Netflix
Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time.…
Gaming Stocks Get Hammered After Google Reveals New AI Vibe Coding Technology
Google has rolled out a new AI technology, Project Genie, that claims to allow users to create interactive worlds “generated in real time.” Apparently some video game investors are spooked,…
Everything Coming to Disney+ in February 2026
For better or worse, 2026 just keeps chugging along. The one benefit of that, to me at least, is getting closer to some pretty exciting streaming releases. Next month, Disney+…
Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped The World Have Fun
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life In the introduction to Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, Keza MacDonald makes a simple promise: over the course…
World of Warcraft’s getting a prop hunt mode, so you can pretend to be a chair during breaks from Midnight’s voidpocalypse
Well, World of Warcraft developers Blizzard have decided to have a bit of extra fun with all the junk that’ll fill up the new player houses rolling out in full…
‘Anyone mad is a cheater:’ Players are divided as Rust beefs up anti-cheat with more effective—and invasive—upgrades
Unfortunately, you can’t tell the story of Rust without including its “cheat community,” which Facepunch COO Alistair McFarlane once said routinely harasses and threatens the game’s developers when it’s not,…
















