A Surprise Nintendo Pop-Up Store Has Arrived In London

Image: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life After years of feeling left out, it feels like London is being treated to a bit of Nintendo store recognition, of late. First, we had the Westfield pop-up at the end of last year, and now there’s another surprise store in town, taking up floor space in an Argos,…

2026’s Best PS5 Console Exclusive RPG Getting a Free Update

One of PS5‘s biggest console exclusives is getting a free update that will add new challenges, items, and more. What game is getting a free update? Team Ninja’s recently released Nioh 3, which came out in February, is already getting a big update, and all for free. On Team Ninja’s blog, the company thanked fans for their…

Full path tracing might not be such a GPU hog in future, as Nvidia claims over 2x performance improvements in new research

Ray tracing is one of those technologies that’s mighty impressive but also seems to take a mighty amount of time to get right. We saw the first proper go at it with the RTX 20-series, and we’re now three generations on and still relying on workarounds to achieve global illumination. One technique to help make…

The Elden Ring Movie Has A Release Date And Cast, Which Includes Dark Souls II’s Peter Serafinowicz

Back in May of last year, From Software, A24, and Bandai Namco announced its intentions for an Elden Ring movie which would be written and directed by Alex Garland. Garland is known for films like Ex Machina and most recently Civil War, but he is no stranger to the video game world having written Enslaved:…

Forza Horizon 6’s Xbox Controller Is A Hideous Neon Mess And I Love It

Some official video game-themed controllers look amazing. Some look ugly and boring. And then, every once in a while, you get something so garish and neon, like Xbox’s newly revealed Forza Horizon 6 gamepad, that it’s almost hard to look at it. And you know what? I want this damn Forza controller so bad. On…

AMD Zen 6 guide – all the latest on the next generation of Ryzen gaming CPUs

AMD Zen 6 is the codename of the architecture for AMD’s next generation of desktop CPUs, which could arrive as the new Ryzen 10000 series. The follow-up to its current-generation Zen 5/Ryzen 9000 processors, not a lot is yet known about the expected specs and performance of the lineup, but it’s believed the new chips…

Nippon Sangoku is Hideo Kojima’s latest anime recommendation and Prime Video’s most stylish show

In the past few years, Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima has gained renown beyond his “video game auteur” status for his frequent recommendations of movies and TV shows, shared on his social media channels. I have become a bit skeptical of Kojima’s cultural guru status, especially after his recent controversial non-stance…

Crimson Desert’s First Month Fixed Everything Players Hated

Crimson Desert quietly came out of nowhere last year and became one of the most hyped games of 2026. Developed by Pearl Abyss, the massive, open-world, single-player fantasy RPG has been a big hit on Steam and PlayStation 5. Sure, it might have some wonky controls, AI-generated art, and a messy questline that was added…

Pragmata Has Already Shot Past Its First Major Sales Milestone

Image: Capcom Capcom’s latest sci-fi adventure, Pragmata, launched to high praise last week, but as an original IP with no recognisable faces to its name, would audiences be quick to latch onto it? Yes, yes they would. The studio has today announced that Pragmata’s worldwide sales have already surpassed one million units sold — and…

Intel’s new gaming CPU specs have leaked again, and it’s set to be the king of cache

A fresh Intel CPU leak has given us the clearest picture yet of what the company’s next generation of desktop gaming PC processors will deliver in its bid to beat the all-conquering AMD Ryzen X3D range. Like AMD’s X3D chips, cache is king with this new release, but Intel is also bringing loads of CPU…