Mailbox: The Future Of Smash, Mouse Mode Upgrades, Revolutions – Nintendo Life Letters

The skills needed to keep that palm reflection tested my Photoshop expertise to the max — Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life “spit out my coffee” I would like to propose a new feature for Nintendo Life, where, each Sunday you collect all the best comments of the week.I can’t recount how many times I’ve…

Todd Howard Addresses “Fan Chatter” About Bethesda-Obsidian Rivalry Conspiracies

Bethesda boss Todd Howard has addressed rumors of a rivalry between Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian, saying the online discourse does not reflect reality. He told Windows Central, “I appreciate some of the fan chatter, but behind the scenes, there’s a huge amount of mutual respect [between Bethesda and Obsidian].” Obsidian developed 2010’s Fallout: New…

Xbox Champions Exclusives As It Explains Confusing Reversal

A couple of years ago, Microsoft started making most of its first-party games multiplatform. Now it’s taking some of those games and making them Xbox exclusives again. The whiplash between those two moves in only 24 months has left many fans confused and skeptical about just how committed the tech giant will stay to this…

Night at the Infirmary codes (July 2026)

Fancy yourself a fantastic physician? Willing to work on friends, fiends, and everything in between? Then do we have the new Night at the Infirmary codes to help you get through another shift. Night at the Infirmary leans a lot on the teachings of the many other “survive the night” games on Roblox in recent…

Gears of War’s creator is considering returning to game development, but whatever he makes won’t be PvP like his last efforts: “Good luck to anyone in that space.”

Eight years after leaving the games industry, Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski is considering a full-time return to game development. Bleszinski left the games industry in 2018 after the closure of his studio Boss Key Productions, caused by the commercial failure of its two games—the multiplayer arena shooter LawBreakers, and the ’80s themed Battle…

The Odyssey is great, but Christopher Nolan is the best IP in movies

Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of Polygon, sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here. You can set your watch by Christopher Nolan. Every three years, in the summer, he delivers a new movie. He’s kept this metronomic pace up since 2014’s Interstellar, a…

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Developer Ubisoft Barcelona Goes On Strike To Protest Layoffs

Update, 7/15/26: Following the publication of the original story yesterday, a Ubisoft Barcelona employee set to be affected by proposed layoffs there reached out to Game Informer to provide additional details surrounding the strike, the studio’s work on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, and more. They say that there were about 90 people at the…

Valve Says RAM Prices Are ‘Lagging’ And Will Only Get ‘Worse’

If you were hoping that the AI-pocalypse-fueled RAM shortage might show any signs of slowing down soon, then I have some horrible news for you. Valve’s Steam Machine engineers have recently claimed that the shortages are “getting worse” and that currently retail stock supplies are “lagging” by about “three to six months.” If you think…

Minecraft and Hytale’s devs agreed their games needed to feel “more different.” Now it’s finally happening.

Hytale just gave us a comprehensive look at its future, and one thing is clear: we’re not in Minecraft territory anymore. The game Hypixel Studios is making bears its roots in Mojang’s sandbox game – the team itself originally came about through the Minecraft modding scene, after all. Comparisons will never truly go away, but…

Round Up: The Previews Are In For Lies Of P On Switch 2

Ahead of the release of Lies of P: Complete Edition on the Switch 2 eShop next month, multiple previews have now gone live. According to the details so far, there’ll be a day one patch at launch to address some performance issues. The previews have also highlighted some issues with the quality mode. Fortunately, it’s…